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Member	Item		Review/Comment
PhilMH 19th Apr 2024		CD Album Nana Mouskouri - Song For Liberty	1982 was the phonographic copyright year for the original LP; there were no CDs outside of Japan until March 1983.
PhilMH 17th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Isley Brothers - Doin’ Their Thing	"Latin"??? Very odd! And, re pudgym's comment from 2016, that 23-CD set didn't have any licensed material, so nothing from Teenage, Mark-X, Gone, Cindy, Atlantic, Wand or United Artists either, all of which plus the Motown tracks would have added at least another five CDs to the set, so Sony quite reasonably decided to restrict the box to the recordings that they own; they probably should have included the two Isley-Jasper-Isley albums though, as they were issued via CBS.
PhilMH 12th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Musik Till Pensionärsgymnastik LP-3	It's not hard for me to understand at all, but it appears to be hard for you - regardless of which company or organization put out the record, it was on the Philips label, as clearly shown on the label images here. The Discogs entry isn't helpful because it only shows images of the front cover and not the record, so we can't tell what actual label brand is used, but I have seen many discussions at that site over the years where it has been repeatedly emphasised that the label name to be used is the branded one. As far as I'm concerned, the label here should be Philips only, nothing else, so could whoever changed it please change it back? Ditto for the other Philips-branded releases on the Kooperativa Förbundet page at this site - label is defined by the label brand, not by the releasing company or the catalogue number.
PhilMH 12th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Musik Till Pensionärsgymnastik LP-3	Yes, Philips - that's what the labels (that YOU uploaded) on both sides of the record show; that's why the Label field is called "Label".
PhilMH 10th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Wilson Pickett - Hey Jude	I don't know how Atlantic managed to get "David" from Duane Allman, unless someone misread someone else's dodgy handwriting; this seems to be the only album where it happened. And the bass player's surname was actually Jemmott!
PhilMH 8th Apr 2024		Cassette Single Boyzone - Love Me For A Reason / Daydream Believer	It's most probably UK and Ireland and the rest of Europe - and the correct label is Polydor (logo on the back of the insert).
PhilMH 8th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Neil Sedaka - The Hungry Years	He was given credit...sort of; "Ann Orson" in the credits was an alias for Elton.
PhilMH 7th Apr 2024		CD Album Various Artists - Back To The River : More Southern Soul Stories 1961-1978	Yes, most of us here realise that songs are copyrighted by their writers, and that in the USA ASCAP, BMI and SESAC collect broadcasting royalties on behalf of the writers, but that has nothing to do with this site, which doesn't broadcast or sell recordings, or use the copyrighted music and lyrics in any way. Any royalties due from this compilation would be paid by Ace Records Limited, who I expect would have obtained the necessary licences in the UK from PRS For Music; the UK system might be different from how licensing works in the USA, but I'm not really sure.
PhilMH 5th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Souled Out	Another wrong writing credit is for A4 "Patches", should be Dunbar & Johnson, i.e. General Johnson of Chairmen Of The Board.
PhilMH 4th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Jackson Five - Anthology	Double CD Anthology in 1986, with a few extra tracks including "Let's Get Serious" and "Let Me Tickle Your Fancy", though Motown somehow managed to credit Jackie's "Love Don't Want To Leave" to Jermaine - it was the first track on Jackie's one and only Motown LP. Most of the Anthologies were converted to CD in 1986, with extra tracks, and Michael J. got an Anthology of his own, but Martha & The Vandellas, The Marvelettes, and Jr. Walker missed out at that time, they wouldn't get 2CD sets until the early 90s, along with Mary Wells.
PhilMH 3rd Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Jackson Five - Anthology	Actually, "That's How Love Goes" was one of Jermaine's solo records too, and he contributed odd lines to some of the group hits, most obviously the bridge on "I'll Be There". Also, I just checked the track listing in Discogs, and there are actually six Michael solos, and one by Jackie Jackson, "Love Don't Want To Leave".
PhilMH 3rd Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Jackson Five - Anthology	And E6 "Daddy's Home" was by Jermaine.
PhilMH 31st Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Roy Harper - One Of Those Days In England (Bullinamingvase)	Agree with Hawkmarty; all UK releases of this album were as BULLINAMINGVASE on Harvest, with Chrysalis and title ONE OF THOSE DAYS IN ENGLAND only being for US & Canada releases.
PhilMH 28th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Walt Disney Presents The Original Soundtrack Of "Mary Poppins"	Steaming pile of turd or not, it's a bit odd that this seems to have been released in the US by both Buena Vista and RCA at the same time, and I can't find any explanation for it, the closest reference in Billboard being that RCA Limited in Canada had obtained the distribution rights to Buena Vista. It may or may not be coincidental that the soundtrack for Ms. Andrews' next cinematic effort, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, was also released by RCA; she had three EPs released by them in 1957, but subsequent 45s were on other labels, so I don't know whether she signed a new deal with RCA, or the film studio just shopped the TSOM soundtrack around and RCA took the bait. (THE SOUND OF MUSIC has recently been re-released in a deluxe edition, not by RCA but by Concord Music Group, who acquired the publishing interests of Rodgers & Hart and Rodgers & Hammerstein a few years ago, so whether the soundtrack recording was part of that acquisition, or Concord picked it up later because RCA's rights had expired, I don't know).
PhilMH 27th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Freddie And The Dreamers - Do The Freddie	"Right of first refusal" again, Neil. Maybe Capitol/Tower didn't get enough sales from the previous album, so they passed on this one. The parent company were known to pass on things too - some of Glen Campbell's Capitol recordings between 1967 and 1969 were issued on the independent Ember and Speciality labels (the latter a subsidiary of Ember, and not to be confused with Art Rupe's Specialty).
PhilMH 25th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Lorraine Ellison - Stay With Me	Possibly an early 1970 release, as this was reviewed in GRAMOPHONE's April 1970 issue, which likely came out early March, so review might have been written in February. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any mention of this album in the UK music weeklies found on the World Radio History site.
PhilMH 24th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Marvin Gaye - The Hits Of Marvin Gaye	Aussie EMI probably didn't bother with this one because they had already issued the US compilation SUPER HITS a year or so before - that one didn't get a UK issue!
PhilMH 24th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album The Regimental Band Of The Scots Guards - Songs From The Shows	Not a 1960 release, that's just the phonographic copyright year. Music For Pleasure was first launched in the UK in 1965, and looking at the other Australian releases, this one would have been released in 1966.
PhilMH 24th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - Smash Hits	Neil, it's country of release we go by, not country of manufacture; this is pretty obviously made for the Australian market, what with Australian address and company names everywhere, and the catalogue number is completely different to the UK MFP releases; take a look at the other releases on the MFP Australia page, and a good number of them have MFP-A as the catalogue number prefix - what do you suppose the A stands for? As for the UK inner sleeve, I wonder if that was swapped in at a later date - did you buy this new, or used?
PhilMH 23rd Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Booker T. And The MGs - Get Ready	HI, this is the HIP HUG-HER album from 1967 (Stax 717) retitled; definitely 1969 for this UK Atco version (the rights to the Stax trademark having gone to EMI the previous year, coinciding with the US label's move to Paramount).
PhilMH 22nd Mar 2024		Vinyl Album The Supremes - More Hits By The Supremes	Hi Helen, it seems that RCA retained the previous STML and STMS catalogue number series for UK distribution for a little while after adopting the ZL/WL 72000 series for some European countries, as I have a couple of similarly stickered albums, but they must have eventually got their cataloguing system sorted out so that they didn't need to do that any more!
PhilMH 22nd Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Chartbusters Volume 2	Track A1 - the group's name is correctly shown on the cover and labels as just "Four Tops" - no definite article, though most of the group's labels after Motown had trouble grasping that fact (and Motown got it wrong at least once themselves, on their first "Greatest Hits" collection).
PhilMH 21st Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Gene Vincent And His Blue Caps - The Bop That Just Won't Stop (1956)	I agree that this should be 1982, not 1974. Correction request has been submitted.
PhilMH 21st Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Gene Vincent And His Blue Caps - The Bop That Just Won't Stop	I only just noticed today - after having had this LP for 40+ years! - that the back cover still mentions "Five Feet of Lovin" at the top, even though that was one of the tracks chopped out for this abridged version! And to answer Record Dragon's question from 2016 - the ST prefix in the catalogue number on the 1974 single and LP was most likely just a common-or-garden mistake, other companies have done that sort of thing too (e.g. Atlantic - I'm pretty sure I have a couple of mono reissues on that label from the 70s or 80s which bear the SD - "Stereo Disc" - prefix).
PhilMH 16th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Bessie Smith - The World's Greatest Blues Singer	Discogs has a couple of Canadian copies with the 2-eye label, but no US ones, so there probably weren't any pressed.
PhilMH 15th Mar 2024		CD Album Hank Williams - The Original Singles Collection...Plus	To be precise (or pedantic, if you prefer!), the label name is actually Mercury Nashville, though the "Nashville" is quite small in the logo.
PhilMH 13th Mar 2024		CD Album Teenage Head - Some Kinda Fun	Only Japan (the country, not the band) issued CDs in 1982. Launch date for UK and Europe was March 1983, I think US & Canada might have been then too, or only a short time after.
PhilMH 11th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album The Robert Shaw Chorale - On Stage With Robert Shaw	The point you're missing is, if there was already a licence agreement - a legal contract, binding on all parties - for Victor and its successors or assignees (fairly standard language in this kind of situation, I think) to use the trademark for an already agreed period, then EMI could not have unilaterally "stepped in to reclaim their trademark" without incurring some sort of legal and/or financial consequence; that would surely have been the case then, as well as now.
PhilMH 11th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album The Robert Shaw Chorale - On Stage With Robert Shaw	I doubt that your argument would stand up in court, Neil. Whenever a company buys another company's assets (which can include licences), those assets automatically become the property of the buyer, so unless there was a provision in the licence agreement to state that the licence would be terminated if the licensee (in this case, Victor) was sold, then the buyer (RCA) is absolutely within its rights to continue using the trademark.
PhilMH 11th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon	Image 3205873, the front-page ad from Billboard dated February 24th 1973, actually says "Album available March 1", which was a Thursday; both March 3 and March 10 were Saturdays, and nothing was ever released on that day of the week. Billboard's cover date was always a Saturday, and Billboard's date doesn't correlate to a release date.

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