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Member	Item		Review/Comment
PhilMH SUBS 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 SUBS 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 SUBS 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 SUBS 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 SUBS 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 SUBS 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 SUBS 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 SUBS 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 SUBS 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 SUBS 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 SUBS 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 SUBS 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 SUBS 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 SUBS 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 SUBS 11th Sep 2023		CD Album The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request	The 1986 release, linked below, had catalogue number 820 129-2.
PhilMH SUBS 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 SUBS 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 SUBS 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!
PhilMH SUBS 4th Jun 2023		Vinyl Album Miriam Makeba - The World Of Miriam Makeba	The 1963 stereo release was LSP 2750, same catalogue number as the US release, and both the German and US 1963 releases have the same matrix numbers as this one. Discogs doesn't appear to have a US Camden pressing - the one that is marked as US is actually a German pressing with the later block logo and label design. Anyway, this one isn't a 1963 issue.
PhilMH SUBS 3rd Jun 2023		Vinyl Album Ella Fitzgerald - The Rodgers And Hart Songbook	VE-2-2519 was the original 1977 catalogue number, and that release showed distribution by Polydor Incorporated, and no barcode; 821 693-1 is a reissue from 1983 or later, with distribution by PolyGram Records, Inc., which came into being in 1981. The two catalogue numbers should have separate entries - this entry will be correct if VE-2-2519 is removed and the year corrected to 1983.
PhilMH SUBS 23rd May 2023		CD Album Joe Cocker - Across From Midnight	According to the Platterlog catalogue, this wasn't released until 10 November 1997, and the label is actually Liberation, though owned by Mushroom Records Pty. Ltd. [Mod: changed accordingly]
PhilMH SUBS 23rd May 2023		Classical Item Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman, English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard - Vivaldi	Released sometime between 1988 and April 1989, as this is copyrighted 1988 on the back insert (from the US issue), and was included in a Tandy's Records ad in the April 1989 issue of Gramophone.
PhilMH SUBS 22nd May 2023		Vinyl Album The Partridge Family - The World Of The Partridge Family	Oddly, the only Arista copy that Discogs has is a Canadian one, showing only the front cover image, which does have the Arista logo and catalogue number at top left, so I imagine that Capitol-EMI of Canada would have been sent film for it, increasing the likelihood that there was a US printing of the new cover at some point. No copies of this for sale on ebay, surprisingly.
PhilMH SUBS 22nd May 2023		CD Album Iron Maiden - Flight 666	Image 2276882 shows the company name Parlophone Records Ltd., which makes it a release after the sale of some of EMI to Universal in 2013 - PRL is EMI Records Ltd. renamed. And for once Discogs is correct - if an EMI logo appears above, below, or beside another logo, that other logo is the only label, and the EMI logo just indicates that the other label is part of the EMI group; even Capitol releases in the USA showed either the EMI box logo or the earlier record-and-globe logo on the covers (and in some countries, like Australia for instance, the local EMI company even sometimes slapped the logo on Tamla Motown releases, a catalogue that EMI only licensed and didn't own).
PhilMH SUBS 21st May 2023		Vinyl Album The Partridge Family - The World Of The Partridge Family	The Arista images need their own entry - different label, and different catalogue number.
PhilMH SUBS 20th May 2023		Vinyl Album Duane Eddy - Movin' 'N' Groovin'	P.S. added release month as stated in the catalogue.
PhilMH SUBS 20th May 2023		Vinyl Album Duane Eddy - Movin' 'N' Groovin'	Hi ppint, Decca's 70s catalogues have a symbol next to this catalogue number indicating that one or more tracks are reprocessed stereo, with the others (if any) being true stereo. Not having the album, and not being familiar with Jamie's release practices, I can't say whether or not there are true stereo versions of any of these tracks. Also, the third letter in the prefix is a variable export availability code, as per Decca's usual practice with London and other labels. Other letters used in the ZG series (which ran up to at least 136 in 1975) were E (from Hickory), J (from Steady in Jamaica), L (from GNP Crescendo), M (Bang, for two Neil Diamond comps), P (Laurie, a Chiffons reissue) and U (various sources, including Hi, which was the source of the aforementioned 136, CHARLIE RICH SINGS THE SONGS OF HANK WILLIAMS AND OTHERS).
PhilMH SUBS 18th May 2023		Vinyl Album The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Starring Warren Covington - Tea For Two Cha Chas	P.S. ebay has a black/rainbow label US copy for sale, so it is highly probable that there would have been a similar Canadian issue in 1974 or so.
PhilMH SUBS 18th May 2023		Vinyl Album The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Starring Warren Covington - Tea For Two Cha Chas	This is already in the site as a 1977 release with the same catalogue number, so the two entries can be merged; unlike Discogs, we don't create separate entries for different pressings with the same label name and catalogue number. (Plus, it's probably earlier than 1977, as this catalogue number from MCA's reissue series started in 1973 is quite low, so it may also exist with black rainbow labels in both the US and Canada, but Discogs doesn't have them; it could only be 1974 at the earliest, because MCA's January 1974 catalogue lists this under its original Decca number).
PhilMH SUBS 12th May 2023		Vinyl Album Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker	Added release date of January 1972, based on full-page ad for the first 11 releases in this series in Billboard issue date 22nd January 1972.

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