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Member	Item		Review/Comment
PhilMH SUBS 22nd Aug 2024		Vinyl Album The Mills Brothers - The Golden Years Of The Mills Brothers	Actual release date is 18 July 1975, from Pye Records ad in Music Week for 19 July, page 54.
PhilMH SUBS 22nd Aug 2024		Vinyl Album The New Birth - Blind Baby	Release date 18 July 1975, from Pye Records ad in Music Week for 19 July, page 54.
PhilMH SUBS 22nd Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Carla Thomas - Memphis Queen	Actual release date is 18 July 1975, from Pye Records ad in Music Week for 19 July, page 54.
PhilMH SUBS 22nd Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Johnnie Taylor - Taylored In Silk	Actual release date is 18 July 1975, from Pye Records ad in Music Week for 19 July, page 54.
PhilMH SUBS 20th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Hank Williams - Greatest Hits	Both Sides Now also has 1963 as the release year for the stereo version, and states that the tracks had extra instrumentation to make them stereo.
PhilMH SUBS 20th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Hank Williams - Greatest Hits	Cash Box dated 25th February 1961 reviews this album, but only gives the mono catalogue number. Stereo editions listed in Discogs have master numbers starting with 63, and looking at MGM singles in 45cat, the last two digits of the mastering year seem to be the start of each master number, so I would say that the stereo version was mastered in 1963, and so most probably released that year (only one of the mono editions in Discogs appears to list the master numbers, which start with 60, suggesting that the album was mastered late that year).
PhilMH SUBS 18th Aug 2024		CD Album The Mamas And The Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears / People Like Us	I would say so, as Universal Music Group owns the copyrights on The M&Ps' catalogue; I suspect the barcode starting with 93 (usually, this would indicate Australia) is as phony as the address, which doesn't list any Australian state or valid postcode.
PhilMH SUBS 17th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Ravi Shankar - Sitar Recital	The Odeon stickers were likely added by US Capitol for distribution there, so that RCA wouldn't kick up a fuss; I've got a late 70s Capitol catalogue lying around somewhere, and if I find it I'll check to see whether this is listed (I know it listed some UK HMV Greensleeves issues as Odeon, but I'm not sure about any others).
PhilMH SUBS 17th Aug 2024		Cassette Album Engelbert Humperdinck - Engelbert	Actual release date was October 1970, according to Decca 1974 main catalogue in my possession. Decca UK didn't introduce cassettes and cartridges until October 1970, as reported in Billboard dated 26 September 1970.
PhilMH SUBS 17th Aug 2024		Cassette Album Frank Chacksfield And His Orchestra - The World Of Frank Chacksfield	Actual release date was March 1971, according to Decca 1974 main catalogue in my possession. Decca UK didn't introduce cassettes and cartridges until October 1970, as reported in Billboard dated 26 September 1970.
PhilMH SUBS 17th Aug 2024		Cassette Album Various Artists - The World Of Military Bands	Actual release date was May 1971, according to Decca 1974 main catalogue in my possession. Decca UK didn't introduce cassettes and cartridges until October 1970, as reported in Billboard dated 26 September 1970.
PhilMH SUBS 17th Aug 2024		8-Track David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World	Is the November 1970 release date correct? The package shows the Vertigo logo, and that label wasn't to be launched in the US until February 1971, as reported in Billboard's issue dated 30th January 1971.
PhilMH SUBS 17th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Joe Simon - The Best Of Joe Simon	Alternatively, the publisher Cape Ann Music, Inc., that Al Reed assigned the rights of the song to, and its administrator Combine Music Corporation and international representatives, DID authorize all issues of the song, but perhaps the documentation has been lost amongst changes of ownership and bankruptcies over the years? Whatever the circumstances, some actual proof to back up your assertions would be nice.
PhilMH SUBS 17th Aug 2024		CD Album David Ruffin - The Great David Ruffin	This could be quite complicated - checking out the online US Copyright Office registrations, I found a "Termination Of Grant" notice filed by Al Reed's daughters in May 2013, terminating Cape Ann Music, Inc.'s grant of rights to "Message From Maria" and another song "How Sweet It Is", both supposedly copyrighted in 1964. However, searching the 1964 registrations using the registration numbers shown on the termination notice brought up completely unrelated compositions; I did eventually find "Message From Maria" in the 1968 registrations, showing that it was copyrighted by Cape Ann Music, Inc. (publisher related to the Sound Stage 7 label, and I think it was owned by John Richbourg, who produced most, if not all, of the Sound Stage 7 recordings) on 30 August 1968, registration number EP251369; Joe Simon's recording of the song was released on a single by Sound Stage 7 that same month, showing the publisher as "Cape Ann Music BMI". (I had no luck with "How Sweet It Is", in either 1964 or 1968). I believe that Cape Ann was originally administered by Monument's publishing company Combine Music Corporation, and they contracted with their various overseas representatives, including Albert Music here in Australia, for international publication of "Message From Maria". Monument was purchased by CBS Records in the 1980s, and their successor Sony Music has reissued Joe Simon's Sound Stage 7 recordings, including "Message From Maria" digitally. John Richbourg died in the 1980s, and I think this is where Marshall Sehorn came in, licensing out Sound Stage 7 recordings, including Joe Simon, for issue on Charly Records and other labels. Sehorn was declared bankrupt at some later date, and it's my understanding that Gulf Coast Music was the company set up to handle his bankruptcy estate, and eventually his deceased estate after his death in 2006. Gulf Coast Music has licensed out Sound Stage 7 Recordings, including Joe Simon's, to other labels. Now, it's entirely possible that Sehorn owned Cape Ann Music legitimately, if he bought it from John Richbourg's estate, and so the grant of Al Reed's rights to Cape Ann would then have been transferred to Sehorn, and thence to Gulf Coast. I'm less sure about his rights to the actual recordings, however, because Sound Stage 7 records always said "A Division of Monument Record Corporation" on the labels, but perhaps John Richbourg had actually bought at least some of the masters from CBS, with that company perhaps keeping Joe Simon, and also Ella Washington's album (also released digitally by Sony). Sehorn's issue of Joe Simon's tracks is troubling, but he also figured in Charly Records' unauthorized use of Chess Records' recordings and trademarks, so where there's smoke... So, in 2005, when Marshall Sehorn was still alive, Al Reed's grant of rights to Cape Ann Music was likely still in effect one way or another, so Motown/Universal's use of "Message From Maria" on this collection was probably legitimate, notwithstanding Sehorn's history with Chess and Charly. More to the point, most or all other uses of "Message From Maria" prior to the 2013 termination, particularly those contemporaneous with the 1968 original (like David Ruffin's LP from 1969) would have been authorized via Cape Ann, Combine, or their overseas licensees, so I think that slapping infringement notices on every record to contain that song (which appears to have happened at Discogs) is questionable. However, there are gaps in my knowledge here, so I would be grateful to anyone who can provide more details. And there's probably a similar story regarding Al Reed's other hit composition, "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" as recorded by Danny White, and covered by Ernie K-Doe, Johnny Winter, and others.
PhilMH SUBS 15th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album David Cassidy - Rock Me Baby	Possibly not released until February 1973 - it was reviewed by Val Mabbs in the 10th February 1973 issue of Record Mirror, and charted the week of 24th February according to The Complete Book Of The British Charts (even Australia, where Bell was distributed by Phonogram and not EMI, released it around the previous December).
PhilMH SUBS 13th Aug 2024		Classical Item L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande - Symphony No. 101 In D Major (The Clock)	Another US London release, as shown by the credit to The London Gramophone Corporation on the back cover, which also says "Printed in USA". UK release was on Decca LX 3009 in 1950
PhilMH SUBS 13th Aug 2024		Classical Item London Symphony Orchestra, Pierino Gamba - Rossini Overtures	Although made in England, this and other releases in the London CS series were US releases, as shown by the "Trademark Reg. U.S. Pat. Off." above the logo on the labels. The UK releases were on Decca, LXT 5626 (mono) and SXL 2266 (stereo).
PhilMH SUBS 12th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Ella Fitzgerald - Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!	Recorded 22 and 23 June 1961, according to the 1989 CD issue; Phil Schaap's discography in Stuart Nicholson's Ella biography has these sessions as being on June 23rd and 24th, but some of the tracks are missing! (That's the same in both editions of the Nicholson book that I have). See jazzdisco.org for the complete sessions for the 22nd, 23rd and 24th.
PhilMH SUBS 12th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Jean Ritchie - Songs From Kentucky	See wikipedia for the Westminster Records history, which I believe to be correct; Deutsche Grammophon now look after the catalogue within Universal, as well as the US Decca classical catalogue (basically returning to the 1950s arrangement). Chess is also now part of Universal: Joe and Sylvia Robinson's All Platinum Records bought the catalogue from GRT in 1975, but AP went bankrupt circa 1978, and was resurrected as Sugar Hill Records in 1979 (with financial help from the notorious Morris Levy of Roulette Records); SH signed a distribution deal with MCA in 1984, but then sold the catalogue to that company in 1985. Subsequent Chess issues since 1986 have variously been logo'd as Chess, Chess/MCA, MCA/Chess, just MCA, then from 2002 (when Universal dropped the main MCA Records brand, keeping just MCA Nashville) Geffen/Chess or just Geffen. Concurrently with the MCA issues were the unauthorized Chess releases via Charly in the UK and Europe; numerous lawsuits between MCA and Charly were resolved in MCA's favour in October 2001, see here for the final judgment in Jean-Luc Young's unsuccessful appeal against the ruling that he was personally liable for Charly's infringements of sound recording copyrights and trademarks.
PhilMH SUBS 10th Aug 2024		CD Album Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster - Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster	Also released in Australia 7 July 1997, along with several other Verve Master Editions. To my knowledge, none of the VME's were manufactured in Australia, PolyGram (as was) preferring to import European stock for most of their jazz product (their local classics and jazz label manager did originate some compilations and other reissues, e.g. the Eloquence classical series, that were pressed here), so this is another one that should be made International. I suspect that this same remastering was used for the 2005 Verve Originals reissue, linked below, that has the same two alternate takes. I now have my late father's copy of the original CD issue 823 120-2 (which should also be International, but I don't have an Aussie release date for it, as it was issued before I started getting Platterlog), but I haven't done a sound comparison with the Verve Originals issue yet. And a polite request - please don't use original LP catalogue numbers as second catalogue numbers for CD reissues. The original LP number's appearance here on the disc face is just a facsimile of the original LP label, as are the "Long Playing Microgroove" (which a CD isn't) and "Verve Records, Inc." (a company that ceased to exist in 1961 following its purchase by MGM Records); issues in different formats would not share the exact same catalogue number.
PhilMH SUBS 10th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Jean Ritchie - Songs From Kentucky	Ah! I thought that Argo had always been part of Decca, so thanks for putting me straight. Anyway, I think the RG-17 catalogue number is just a careless leftover from the UK cover, which Westminster copied blindly, UK printer credit and all, and so isn't a valid catalogue number for US release purposes.
PhilMH SUBS 10th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Burl Ives - Sunshine In My Soul, Songs Of Joy	More likely a 1963 release, as the UK release on the same label and number was in January of that year. [Mod: changed]
PhilMH SUBS 10th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Burl Ives - Sunshine In My Soul	Reviewed in Record Mirror, January 26 1963, page ten, though they gave the title as "Songs of Joy". By the way, the catalogue number is LAT.8517, not 8514. [Mod: thanks and changed]
PhilMH SUBS 9th Aug 2024		CD Album Albert King - The Best Of Albert King	Someone at Fantasy should have had their backside kicked for printing the cover photo the wrong way around! If they didn't know that Albert was left-handed, they could have noticed the way his shirt is buttoned!
PhilMH SUBS 9th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Earl Grant - Nothin' But The Blues	Catalogue number KL 743 should not be entered as a second number on this issue (mod edit: removed), as that number was for a South African reissue from 1975; even though the label has a 1966 phonographic copyright date (which probably relates to the first US stereo issue) at the bottom, further up on the right hand side of the label you will see "(P) 1-4-75". Plus, the MCA Records Inc. corporate name didn't come into use until 1970, and the label design shown on that S.A. release didn't come into use until 1973.
PhilMH SUBS 8th Aug 2024		CD Album The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers	Release date added from Platterlog new release listing of that date; all the band's albums from 1971 through to STEEL WHEELS (excluding compilations) were released that week.
PhilMH SUBS 5th Aug 2024		Classical Item Alexis Weissenberg - Bach ∙ Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue ∙ Partita Nos. 5 & 6	Added release date of October 1967, as this was listed as a new release in Billboard's issue dated 21 October 1967, and reviewed in the following issue, 28 October. The catalogue number should also be S.36437 as this is the stereo edition, only the mono edition had the number without the alpha prefix, so I will request a correction.
PhilMH SUBS 5th Aug 2024		Cassette Album Neil Diamond - Gold Diamond Volume 2	The catalogue number index in the back of Decca's 1976 main catalogue gives the release date as September 1974, for both this and the LP version on ZG-M 134; the 1972 copyright date probably comes from the Netherlands issue with a different cover.
PhilMH SUBS 5th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Werner Müller And His Orchestra - Great Strauss Waltzes	This was made in England for US release; the UK release was on Decca PFS 4040. Correction requested.
PhilMH SUBS 5th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Oklahoma! Motion Picture Sound Track	Release year is incorrect, because E.M.I. didn't start distributing Capitol until the beginning of 1956, and the online archives of GRAMOPHONE show this was reviewed in their April 1956 issue, though it is not clear whether the reference to "this month" actually means April, or March (when the issue probably came out) or even February (when the review might have been written). Decca had Capitol up until the end of 1955, and there doesn't seem to be any evidence of a release via Decca, or any UK release in 1955.

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