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Member	Item		Review/Comment
PhilMH SUBS 22nd Mar 2022		Vinyl Album Brenda Lee - Emotions	Coral distributed by Teldec is 1966 at the earliest, and the THIS IS BRENDA lp shown on the back cover uses a cropped version of the photo from her JOHNNY ONE TIME album, which was a 1969 release, so this is 1969 at the absolute earliest.
PhilMH SUBS 20th Mar 2022		Vinyl Album Jerry Lee Lewis - Original Golden Hits	Both volumes were advertised in Billboard's issues dated August 23rd and August 30th 1969, so it would seem that August is the correct month for both.
PhilMH SUBS 20th Mar 2022		Vinyl Album Jerry Lee Lewis - Original Golden Hits	Both volumes were advertised in Billboard's issues dated August 23rd and August 30th 1969, so it would seem that August is the correct month for both.
PhilMH SUBS 19th Mar 2022		Vinyl Album Gene Pitney - Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen	Yes, different label and/or different catalogue number needs a separate listing.
PhilMH SUBS 17th Mar 2022		Vinyl Album Delaney And Bonnie - Country Life	Probably not really unreleased, because Discogs has this, as well as the French release. Jerry Wexler's autobiography suggested that it was unreleased, but maybe he misremembered and the album was actually out for a very short time before he gave the album to Columbia when he sold them D & B's contract. Wexler described the album as "dogmeat" and "unreleasable"; I wonder whether Tom Dowd might have tidied things up a bit? Anyway, the album, retitled "D. & B. Together" and not crediting Mr. Dowd, bombed for Columbia, and the Bramletts split soon afterwards.
PhilMH SUBS 10th Mar 2022		Vinyl Album Hank Williams - Wanderin' Around	Schwann catalogue gives a date of August 1987; it's not clear whether that is the actual release month, or just the issue where it was first listed. Go with just 1987 for now.
PhilMH SUBS 26th Feb 2022		Vinyl Album Lena Horne - The One & Only Lena Horne	Also exists with Polydor labels (my copy); it's a bit odd that this (and others, like the Connie Francis in the "see also" section below) came out on MGM at all, because the use of that label name and trademark was time-limited when Polydor bought MGM Records in 1972, and the entire remaining MGM roster and back catalogue was transferred to the Polydor label in 1976. Maybe someone at what-was-by-then PolyGram Records, Inc. forgot about the time limitation, and the then-current owners of the MGM name gave PolyGram a friendly reminder!
PhilMH SUBS 12th Feb 2022		CD Album k.d. lang And The Reclines - A Truly Western Experience	1990s would be right; according to Discogs, the Warner Music Canada Ltd. name came into use in 1990, and that fits my recollection of when WEA became Warner Music worldwide.
PhilMH SUBS 8th Feb 2022		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Vol. 3	This album already exists here; unlike Discogs, we don't consider a later pressing of an existing in-catalogue label/catalogue number combination to be a "reissue".
PhilMH SUBS 6th Feb 2022		Vinyl Album Three Dog Night - Seven Separate Fools	Label should be ABC/Dunhill, which was specifically created in Canada for releases from both the US ABC and Dunhill labels.
PhilMH SUBS 1st Feb 2022		Vinyl Album Billie Holiday - All Or Nothing At All	Definitely 1978, reviewed in Billboard's issue dated 16th December 1978, and I bought my own copy shortly after release (either late December or early January 1979).
PhilMH SUBS 11th Jan 2022		CD Album Zoot Sims - A Summer Thing	Hi Greg, looking at the spines, the label name appears to be just LaserLight, and the Digital is just a notation to indicate that the release is a digital recording, or digital master (which all CDs are, by default).
PhilMH SUBS 5th Jan 2022		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Cabaret	Is this on just Dunhill, or the ochre-coloured ABC/Dunhill label, which was used in Canada at that time?
PhilMH SUBS 4th Jan 2022		Vinyl Album The Universal-International Studio Orchestra - The Glenn Miller Story	As this is on Decca rather than Brunswick (which had the proper UK issue with catalogue number LA 8647, linked below), I think that this was pressed in the UK for export to another country which had the rights to US Decca's recordings, but not the Brunswick name - perhaps France or Spain?
PhilMH SUBS 2nd Jan 2022		Vinyl Album The Universal-International Orchestra - The Glenn Miller Story	Hi Lee, this seems to be a 1959 issue, per Michael de Looper's 1952-1961 Festival Listing (page 54).
PhilMH SUBS 31st Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Little Richard - Little Richard And His Band	May 1980 was the release date given in the Music Master catalogue, but this album is listed as a New Release in Music Week dated April 26th, 1980.
PhilMH SUBS 14th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Yes - Close To The Edge	Different catalogue number. US Atlantic introduced the SD 19*** series in 1977 for their new topline price code of $7.98.
PhilMH SUBS 1st Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Alex North - Spartacus (The Sound Track Album)	1980 is the copyright date for the label design, not the release date. MCA didn't start using barcodes until January 1982, so that is the earliest possible date for this release. Looking in Discogs, there don't seem to be any versions of this catalogue number without the barcode (and they all show the wrong year, too!).
PhilMH SUBS 1st Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Alex North - Spartacus	Billboard ad in 7th November 1960 issue shows both the mono and stereo catalogue numbers for this album.
PhilMH SUBS 1st Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Alex North - Spartacus	Album was included in a Decca-Coral-Brunswick ad in Billboard dated 7th November 1960, showing both the mono and stereo catalogue numbers.
PhilMH SUBS 27th Nov 2021		Classical Item Luciano Pavarotti - Ave Maria	A note on Discogs says this is a mid-80's version because Direct Metal Mastering was introduced in 1981, and Teldec Schallplaten GmbH was founded in 1983. Another clue is the label design here, which is post PolyGram's purchase of Decca in January 1980 (though Teldec continued to have German rights to the label for most of the decade). 1976 applies to the original UK release on Decca SXL 6781.
PhilMH SUBS 26th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Dorothy Love Coates And The Gospel Harmonettes - 'Till My Change Comes	The April 1968 release date on this entry looks like a typo for April 1969, as the latter is written on the cover, but even that appears to be wrong, as this was reviewed in Record World dated 10th December 1968, and got a 4-star rating in Billboard dated 25th January 1969, so this looks like being a December 1968 release (or maybe even late November). Unfortunately, Eyeball Productions' gospel discography doesn't have a date for the album sessions.
PhilMH SUBS 22nd Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Nelson Riddle - Batman	Discogs has a Casablanca CD, as well as several later LP, cassette and CD issues on Mercury; I don't know if there was a Casablanca LP pressing.
PhilMH SUBS 20th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Gerry Mulligan, Ben Webster - Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster	Looking at copies in Discogs, the 8343 number seems to have originated sometime during 1960 - at least 3 label styles were used during that year - and the V6 prefix after the MGM takeover in 1961.
PhilMH SUBS 19th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Singin' And Swingin'	"You Don't Say" was recorded in February 1958, but didn't appear on a Platters release until 1961, as the B-side of Mercury 71847 It was also going to be on a Platters album MG-20541 that ultimately was cancelled, that catalogue number being reassigned to the various artists album ANOTHER COLLECTION OF GOLDEN HITS (which includes three Platters tracks, but not that one).
PhilMH SUBS 18th Nov 2021		CD Album Roy Orbison - The MGM Years (1965-1973)	A couple of things, everyone: Firstly, I don't see the B.... catalogue number on here, only the international one 60254723302; the B number is Universal's US and Canadian format, and Discogs has a US edition with that catalogue number, so this one needs to be changed to the 006... number; Secondly, and once again, being made in Europe does not necessarily equate to "released only in Europe", and this is another one that shows Universal International Music B.V., so was intended for the world outside of the US and Canada and therefore should be made International. I have the equivalent LP edition (a/k/a "bloody great doorstop") purchased from Amazon US, but also made in Europe, and I remember that it was also available via the Roy's Boy's website for worldwide sale.
PhilMH SUBS 16th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Nana Mouskouri - British Concert	Probably just a printing/pressing plant screw-up, ppint - the worker concerned most likely reached for the wrong pile of mostly-blue labels.
PhilMH SUBS 13th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Nana Mouskouri - British Concert	PolyGram Inc. in Canada apparently came into being in 1978, so this pressing would date from about then, however this album and catalogue number were first issued in 1972, distributed by London Records Of Canada (1967) Ltd. EDIT: Of course, I only noticed after I clicked Enter that the 1972 London-distributed copy is already linked below. These two entries can probably be merged if the PolyGram one is simply a later pressing of an already in-catalogue item, rather than a "reissue" as Discogs calls it (not necessarily correctly).
PhilMH SUBS 10th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome	US release of this album was in December 1963, so I wonder whether UK CBS had enough time to release this in that year? For what it's worth, this was reviewed in Gramophone's September 1964 issue, perhaps pointing towards a release earlier in 1964.
PhilMH SUBS 9th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Delbert McClinton - Second Wind	As for KEEPER OF THE FLAME, a 1981 release at the earliest, because the company name PolyGram Records, Inc. shown on the back cover and the labels didn't come into use until that year.

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