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Member	Item		Review/Comment
PhilMH ● 8th Dec 2023		Classical Item The Choir Of King's College, Cambridge - Gibbons: Tudor Church Music	Should be Australia rather than Europe (unless Universal in Europe imported this for regional distribution, in which case it should be made International), and 2002 rather than 2000, per the copyright date on the back of the booklet.
PhilMH ● 6th Dec 2023		Vinyl Album Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra - With A Sound In My Heart	Well, export issue might work if this weren't a Columbia Record Club exclusive, but being a mail-order club issue would have restricted it to residents of the USA and/or Canada.
PhilMH ● 4th Dec 2023		Vinyl Album Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra - With A Sound In My Heart	Discogs has this as a US edition from 1967, though their copy is on the later red Polydor label. However, being on any Polydor label in the US or Canada is a problem, as Bert Kaempfert was with Decca (later MCA) for the US and Canada until at least the mid 70s, and this album had previously been released by Decca in both countries. Makes me wonder if there was some quirk in Kaempfert's Decca contract which allowed record club releases to be on Polydor, which otherwise wasn't established in the US until 1969 (though 1966 in Canada)?
PhilMH ● 30th Nov 2023		Cassette Album The Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971	WE 451 isn't a catalogue number, it's the price code for France, apparently introduced in 1979. Both copies shown here would be from between 1979 and May 1985, as they both refer to WEA Filipacchi Music in France, a name that was shortened to just WEA Music in May 1985 after Daniel Filipacchi resigned his presidential post the previous month, but the catalogue number dates from 1976.
PhilMH ● 25th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Joe Cocker - Cocker Happy	P.S. Cube was only launched in 1972 in its home country of the UK too.
PhilMH ● 25th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Joe Cocker - Cocker Happy	Not a 1970 release - the first Australian release of this album was on Interfusion (distributed by Festival Records) in 1971, and the Cube label wasn't launched in Australia until 1972, with distribution through Phonogram, moving to RCA in 1976. Michael de Looper's Australian EMI listing has this as a March 1979 release, and I think that would be right.
PhilMH ● 24th Nov 2023		CD Album Janis Joplin - Farewell Song	Not a 1988 release, as this is on Columbia, and distributed by Sony Music, a name that didn't come into use until January 1991 - before that, the label was called CBS in most of the world, and the Columbia name was mostly owned by EMI outside of the USA and Canada. Looking through my Platterlog catalogues, the US version (CK 37569) shows up as a Sony Music import from 1993, and then this catalogue number doesn't turn up in the main catalogue until February 2002, but it doesn't seem to be in the weekly new release listings for the previous year, and other Sony releases from 2001 have a completely different style of catalogue number, so I suspect that this might have been released a few years before 2002 and Platterlog had just picked up a release that they missed earlier. So, until I can go back through all the weekly new release listings, I can only say that this was released sometime between 1993 and 2002. EDIT: changed the last bit from "1991 to 2002" to "1993 to 2002", due to the US release having been imported in 1993, though I imagine that the domestic pressing would probably have been 1994 at the earliest. Still, I will use 1993 as my starting point for the weekly new release sheets.
PhilMH ● 22nd Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Buddy Holly - The Buddy Holly Story	Further confirmation that this is at least 1965 comes from the albums illustrated on the back cover, SHOWCASE being a 1964 release, and HOLLY IN THE HILLS being 1965.
PhilMH ● 22nd Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Buddy Holly - The Buddy Holly Story	Revisiting this one because of the comments on the US issue; the matrix numbers on the labels here are way higher than on the 1961 mono release, and comparison of the numbers to Aussie Coral and Festival 45's at 45cat suggests that this would be a late 1965 or early 1966 release, and that would tie in with the US stereo version apparently being a 1965 release.
PhilMH ● 17th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Various Artists - This Is Sue	MS, "Treat Her Right" had previously been released on the Island comp THE DUKE AND THE PEACOCK the previous year; a few singles from Duke/Peacock had been issued on Sue in 1968, before the label was folded into Action (with more D/P recordings issued there) but that track wasn't one of them. Anyway, I wonder why the track was included on another comp a year later; maybe there was continuing demand for it, and the previous comp had already been deleted?
PhilMH ● 16th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Joe Simon - The Best Of Joe Simon	Leonard, I don't see any actual Sound Stage 7 label branding here, so I don't think it should have been added as a second label; there is only a text mention of Sound Stage 7 above the album thumbnails on the back of the back cover, which just appears to have been copied from the US release, US catalogue numbers and all.
PhilMH ● 16th Nov 2023		CD Album Steve Cropper, Pop Staples And Albert King - Jammed Together	This can't be a 1988 release, because the back insert says that the digital remastering was done in 1990; the 1988 date applies to the previous LP reissue. Correction will be submitted.
PhilMH ● 13th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - This Is Soul	Re the note: Wilson Pickett and Steve Cropper were the writers of "In The Midnight Hour", with Jim Stewart and Steve Cropper being the producers of Pickett's recording. Plus, A4, whose correct title is "Ole Man Trouble", was written by Otis Redding, not O.C. Smith, and Deke Richards was the fourth writer of B3 "Love Child", alongside Pam Sawyer, R. Dean Taylor and Frank Wilson.
PhilMH ● 12th Nov 2023		CD Album Van Morrison - Accentuate The Positive	The Europe entry at Discogs has the same catalogue number and barcode, and shows "Made in EU" on the back cover (towards the bottom of the red circle), plus a "Made in Germany" sticker on the shrink wrap, so I would say that this is at least Europe, probably even International - the only other country with a Discogs entry is Japan, but as this has only been out for a week, more countries could still turn up.
PhilMH ● 12th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Little Anthony And The Imperials - The Best Of Little Anthony And The Imperials	Label images at Discogs show that the actual branded label was Roulette; EMI United Kingdom was just a business name of the company EMI Records Limited. Correction will be requested.
PhilMH ● 6th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Shel Silverstein - Songs And Stories	I think you might be right, BIM - the Copyright Office filing shows the date of publication (i.e. release date) as July 10th, and it was reviewed in Cashbox's issue of July 22nd (and again in the August 12th issue, for some reason). Mod Edit: Date Fixed.
PhilMH ● 3rd Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Leiber & Stoller	Gaby Rodgers was the first wife of Jerry Leiber; he co-wrote "Jackson" using her name as a pseudonym.
PhilMH ● 31st Oct 2023		CD Album Big Bill Broonzy - Whiskey And Good Time Blues	It's a mistake, as this was also issued with Broonzy's photos, see Discogs. That's the version I have, bought in Australia in November 1995.
PhilMH ● 22nd Oct 2023		Vinyl Album Michael Jackson - Looking Back To Yesterday	Not just Germany, but Europe - back cover shows price/distribution codes for three countries in the top right-hand corner, and a distribution statement for Europe at the bottom. RCA/Ariola/BMG/whatever had centralized their production for several European countries at Sonopress in Germany a few years earlier.
PhilMH ● 16th Oct 2023		Vinyl Album Booker T. And The M.G.s - Green Onions	Hi JJ, I would add your version to this entry and add S 701 as a second catalogue number; the S on some of the Stax/Volt albums actually indicated stereo, the original mono catalogue number was just 701, without an alpha prefix. And the release year of this version would have been 1968 at the earliest, as indicated by the label matrix numbers which start with 68, as per Atlantic's usual practice of the first two digits signifying the year of mastering; only the mono version was reviewed by Billboard in October 1962.
PhilMH ● 13th Oct 2023		Vinyl Album Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks	Despite the copyright date, this wasn't a 1974 release anywhere in the world; in the US, the sleeves and labels had already gone to the printers when Dylan decided to re-record 5 songs, and those re-recordings weren't completed until 30 December 1974, with original US release of the album being on 20 January 1975. Australian release was probably the same week or the following week, as the album entered the album chart for the week of 10 February 1975. And PC 33235 in brackets is just a reference to the US catalogue number, it wasn't an Australian catalogue number at all - that's Discogs-think which is spreading a little too much for my liking!
PhilMH ● 10th Oct 2023		Vinyl Album Jerry Lee Lewis / Roger Miller - Hats Off To Country & Western	1972 at the earliest, as a couple of those Tom T. Hall albums are from that year, Discogs shows me that the plaque illustrated on the cover of GREATEST HITS bears the legend, "ERECTED JULY 4, 1972".
PhilMH ● 2nd Oct 2023		Vinyl Album Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything's Alright)	A5 writer credit "Nalvand" is a corruption of (Michael) Valvano; it probably came about from someone misinterpreting someone else's handwriting!
PhilMH ● 28th Sep 2023		Vinyl Album Lazar Berman - The Legendary Lazar Berman Plays Liszt	Hi Greg, I would make it International; I thought it might be UK, as that's where you are, but I have just looked in the online Gramophone archives, and it seems that the UK release of this album was via EMI, on HMV/Melodiya ASD 3228 (per an ad in Gramophone's August 1976 issue), so it looks like CBS didn't have the UK rights for Melodiya.
PhilMH ● 26th Sep 2023		Vinyl Album Lazar Berman - The Legendary Lazar Berman Plays Liszt	Hi Greg, the stickers and the black marker would have been added when this album was exported to other countries, as the Columbia name and trademark were owned by EMI in most of the world outside the US and Canada at the time. As the stickers have CBS printed on them, I think that they would have been added by the record company, either prior to export or on receipt of the records by the CBS affiliate in the destination country, so this would then qualify as an international CBS release, rather than an import by a record shop from a US one stop, who in my experience here in Australia would have used black marker on the labels as well. It's probably safe to leave this with three labels as it is now.
PhilMH ● 20th Sep 2023		Vinyl Album The Mamas And The Papas - 16 Of Their Greatest Hits	All MCA reissues of ABC, etc. recordings are 1979 and later, following MCA's purchase of ABC Records at the end of January 1979. This version is 1980 at the earliest, as MCA changed their licensee in Germany and elsewhere to Ariola as of 1st January 1980 (Metronome had the German license up to the end of 1979, and C.P.F. Barclay had the French license in the same period).
PhilMH ● 11th Sep 2023		CD Album The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request	The 1986 release, linked below, had catalogue number 820 129-2.
PhilMH ● 8th Sep 2023		Vinyl Album The Contours - Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)	Not a 1962 release - that's the copyright date of the original US LP with this title and cover. This is actually a new compilation of the group's singles (several later than 1962) originated by US Motown in 1981, and that copyright year appears on the back cover. This French release is from late 1981 or early 1982.
PhilMH ● 7th Aug 2023		Vinyl Album George Strait - Strait Country	Please see the notes; the 1981 original issue had catalogue number MCA-5248. This version is MCA-27092, and is 1982 at the earliest because MCA didn't introduce barcodes until January 1982. The copyright dates remain 1981, though, because that's when the album was first issued; a new copyright date would only be assigned to a reissue if there is new audio, pictorial or textual material.
PhilMH ● 4th Jul 2023		CD Album Various Artists - James Brown's Funky People	CD copyright date is probably 1988 because of track 13 being a bonus track. My imperfect memory tells me that this CD was released and/or bought by me in 1988 (I didn't have any CDs before 1987), but as I'm travelling at the moment, I can't check my Schwann catalogues to see what the US release date was - ask me again in September!

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