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Member	Item		Review/Comment
PhilMH SUBS 2nd Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Jean Ritchie - Songs From Kentucky	I agree with annaloog, Westminster should be the primary label here. It's not that unusual for US releases of UK Decca recordings to not be on London, who would have had the right of first refusal, and anything they didn't want they licensed out via their Declon division to whoever did want it.
PhilMH SUBS 1st Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Paul Robeson - The Incomparable Voice Of Paul Robeson	Most likely imported into the USA by Capitol - I have a 70s Capitol catalogue somewhere which shows some HMV Greensleeves releases from the UK which were stickered as Odeon because RCA owned the HMV Nipper trademark for USA and Canada.
PhilMH SUBS 31st Jul 2024		Vinyl Album Henry Mancini - The Big Latin Band Of Henry Mancini	No, because Cash Box reviewed it on page 38 of their issue of 14th September!
PhilMH SUBS 29th Jul 2024		Vinyl Album Deep Purple - Shades Of Deep Purple	Polydor and Warner aren't related; this album's initial US release was on Tetragrammaton, which was licensed to Polydor in Canada. Warners subsequently got Purple's contract for the US, Canada and Japan when Tetragrammaton went bankrupt.
PhilMH SUBS 27th Jul 2024		Vinyl Album The Who - Tommy	The correct catalogue number for this set is 2612 006, as shown on the back cover under the Polydor logo, and this is the only number that would have been used for ordering purposes. Polydor and Phonogram's seven-digit catalogue numbers had been established in April 1970. Correction requested.
PhilMH SUBS 24th Jul 2024		Vinyl Album John Inman - Are You Being Served Sir?	Yes, I can see now that the placing of the 28th November is a bit ambiguous, so maybe make this just November for now.
PhilMH SUBS 23rd Jul 2024		Vinyl Album John Inman - Are You Being Served Sir?	DJM's double-page spread in MUSIC WEEK dated 15th November 1975 suggests that it was one of the albums in a "special release" for 28th November.
PhilMH SUBS 19th Jul 2024		Vinyl Album The Gun [England] - Gun	Ditto for Record Mirror in the same week, page 9.
PhilMH SUBS 17th Jul 2024		Classical Item Géza Anda, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay - Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 And 3	Also the Label Code (LC 0173 on the labels here) is a late 1970s invention, see Wikipedia.
PhilMH SUBS 17th Jul 2024		Classical Item Géza Anda, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay - Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 And 3	This is a 1970s reissue, as Polydor and Phonogram's 7-digit catalogue numbers only came into use in 1970. 1960 is just the phonographic copyright year, and the original catalogue number was 138 111.
PhilMH SUBS 15th Jul 2024		CD Album Various Artists - The London American Label Year By Year: 1962	Looking at Danny Williams' releases in Discogs, it looks like he didn't even record the song as an album track. It was Andy Williams who had the hit (# 30) vocal version of the tune in the UK. Perhaps Tony Rounce got his waterways mixed up and was thinking of Danny's UK # 1 with "Moon River" in late 1961?
PhilMH SUBS 13th Jul 2024		8-Track Olivia Newton-John - Olivia Newton-John	Label is actually Pye International - see the logo at bottom right of the front. Festival Records International existed as a UK-based company, but didn't actually have a label there. Correction requested.
PhilMH SUBS 13th Jul 2024		Cassette Album Olivia Newton-John - If Not For You	Label is actually Pye International - correction requested.
PhilMH SUBS 13th Jul 2024		Cassette Album Marlene Dietrich - Dietrich In London	1972 is too late for a Reprise recording distributed by Pye, as the label moved to Kinney (later WEA) in 1971. BUT, I think the Reprise on the J-card might be a mistake anyway, because no other release of this album was on Reprise as far as I can see, so 1972 might be right after all!
PhilMH SUBS 13th Jul 2024		Cassette Album Marlene Dietrich - The Legendary, Lovely Marlene	Release year would have been 1984 at the earliest, as this is distributed by WEA - MCA was still distributed by PolyGram in Australia and New Zealand up to the end of 1983. Correction requested.
PhilMH SUBS 10th Jul 2024		Vinyl Album Gene Pitney - It Hurts To Be In Love And Eleven More Hit Songs	That song isn't on this album, though!
PhilMH SUBS 8th Jul 2024		Vinyl Album Booker T. And The M.G.'s - The Booker T. Set	That "one original track" is a cover too - "I've Never Found A Girl' was a single for Eddie Floyd the previous year.
PhilMH SUBS 8th Jul 2024		Vinyl Album Jacy Parker - Spotlight On Jacy Parker	Cash Box of 16th June 1962 lists this as a June release (in both an article about MGM's June releases, and in a list of that month's releases elsewhere in the issue), so Canadian release might have been the same month.
PhilMH SUBS 4th Jul 2024		Classical Item Henryk Szeryng, LSO, Alexander Gibson - Paganini: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 4	Discogs has a UK entry where the disc is made in England, so I suspect that this Netherlands pressing wasn't made for the UK; the "Imported From Europe" sticker on the cover makes me think that this was intended for the USA (and Canada?), as the PolyGram companies there typically imported European pressings for North American release, and trumpeted that fact in their ads in the Schwann catalog, this one being listed in Philips/Phonogram's ad in Schwann's September 1976 issue.
PhilMH SUBS 30th Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Incredible Medleys	This European Motown/Tamla Motown 72000 series via RCA started in 1984; the October 1983 UK issue of this was STMS 5106. I think Motown was still licensed to companies other than RCA on the Continent in 1983 - Vogue in France and Benelux, Bellaphon in Germany, etc.
PhilMH SUBS 29th Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Ruby Murray - Your Favourite Colleen	1966 sounds right; Music For Pleasure was founded in 1965, so the catalogue numbers were most probably up to 1094 by 1966.
PhilMH SUBS 22nd Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Styx - Cornerstone	US Copyright Office registration says September 17th, viz: Cornerstone / [performed by] Styx. Relevance: Type of Work: Sound Recording Registration Number / Date: SR0000012849 / 1979-10-15 Title: Cornerstone / [performed by] Styx. Imprint: c1979. Publisher Number: A&M Records SP-3711 Description: 1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in. Notes: Lyrics on container. Copyright Claimant: © ℗ A & M Records, Inc. Date of Creation: 1979 Date of Publication: 1979-09-17 Authorship on Application: sound recording & artwork: A & M Records, Inc., employer for hire. Contents: Lights -- Why me? -- Babe -- Never say never -- Boat on the river -- Borrowed time -- First time -- Eddie -- Love in the midnight. Names: Styx A&M Records, Inc.
PhilMH SUBS 22nd Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Carly Simon - No Secrets	P.S. later pressings after Elektra returned to WEA for distribution in late 1975/early 1976 have the Warner Communications text and logo at the label circumference, as in this example.
PhilMH SUBS 22nd Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Carly Simon - No Secrets	The one with the EKS matrices is the earlier, as it doesn't have "EMI RECORDS LTD." on the label circumference; the back cover for the earlier issue shows "DISTRIBUTED BY WEA RECORDS LTD" (image 1353536); images 863864-863866 are for the October 1973 or later EMI issue.
PhilMH SUBS 22nd Jun 2024		Vinyl Album John Fogerty - John Fogerty	Not an "Export Issue" - this was made for Ace Records Limited in London, who usually had their vinyl product manufactured in Germany or France. I think Fantasy's German licensee in this period (late 80s) was Bernhard Mikulsi, which later became ZYX Music. 1988 Music Master catalogue gives September 1987 as the release date, which I think is about the time that Ace acquired the Fantasy license.
PhilMH SUBS 19th Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees	Apple Music/itunes and Amazon both have 18th February 1976 (a Wednesday) as the original release date; that date was presumably supplied to the sites by Columbia/Sony. However, the US Copyright office registration shows 20th February 1976 (Friday), and that date would also have been originally supplied by Columbia to the Copyright Office. I'm inclined to go with the Copyright Office, as it is a contemporaneous source.
PhilMH SUBS 18th Jun 2024		CD Album Kevin Ayers - John Cale	I suspect that the reason for separating them is because the UK one below shows MCPS as the rights society, whereas this one shows STEMRA (Dutch society). However, looking at the eight releases in Discogs with this barcode, I don't know that we can necessarily go by the rights society to determine the release market, because some of them showing the UK society MCPS were manufactured on the Continent, and others manufactured in the UK show STEMRA! All of them seem to show the German label code and the French distribution code on the back cover. It might be better to show them all under Europe, as any store ordering this from within UK and Europe would have been supplied by whichever PolyGram warehouse had stock; the linked Italian entry should remain separate, though, as it doesn't have the barcode, nor the 842 552-2 catalogue number, as it was distributed by Dischi Ricordi rather than PolyGram.
PhilMH SUBS 12th Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Dean Martin - Swingin' Down Yonder	Another reason for it not being 1955 is because E.M.I. didn't get the rights to Capitol until the start of 1956, Australian Record Company had the rights to the end of 1955.
PhilMH SUBS 12th Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Dean Martin - Swingin' Down Yonder	Michael de Looper's list of the EMI budget series' doesn't give a date for this one, the nearest dated entry in the Encore series being HMV OELP-9014, FRENCH HOLIDAY, by Various artists, so this is probably 1964 or 1965; the 1956 Australian original had catalogue number T-003.
PhilMH SUBS 9th Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Lena Horne - Lena Sings Your Requests	Added year 1963; this is a "Pop Special Merit" album in Billboard's issue dated 6th April 1963, so it could be either a March or an April release.

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