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Member	Item		Review/Comment
PhilMH SUBS 12th May 2023		Cassette Album Diana Ross - Why Do Fools Fall In Love	Label should be Capitol; a good rule of thumb is - if there is another logo as well as EMI present, that other logo is the proper label to use.
PhilMH SUBS 8th May 2023		Vinyl Album William Bell - A Tribute To A King	Not a 1967 release - the bulk of the album is the 1967 US album THE SOUL OF A BELL on Stax, but the new title track here, "A Tribute To A King", a memorial to Otis Redding who died in December 1967, wasn't released in the States until March 1968, and entered Melody Maker's top 30 in the week of 8th June 1968. Also, the fact that this is on Atco rather than Stax indicates that this is a post-May 1968 release, after Stax had moved to Paramount/Dot (represented by EMI in the UK), whilst Atlantic/Atco retained the back catalogue. I'm having trouble finding an exact date for this, but I'm inclined to think 1968, as the previous number, 228002 THE BEST OF KING CURTIS, is in this site as a 1968 release.
PhilMH SUBS 4th May 2023		Vinyl Album Millie Jackson - E.S.P.	Is this really just Germany, or should it be Europe, as the list of countries (NOT including Germany!) at the bottom-left of the back cover suggests? Having said that, my copy, which was bought for me in England, has the same cover, and is also made by Record Service in Alsdorf, but has a different label layout with no GEMA box and the LC number reduced in size and moved to the bottom of the label just above the 33; it also has an inner sleeve made in England and a "copyright exists on all records issued by W.E.A. Records Limited" warning (sic - that company name shouldn't have had periods in it). So would there have been separate pressings for different countries, or groups of countries? I personally doubt that Ireland would have had a separate pressing, and most likely would have had whatever was available in the UK. Ditto for Belgium, they would most likely have got whatever The Netherlands had, so making this entry just Europe and adding all the pressing variations to it would be a lot easier all round. And as for the cover - the US issue has a back cover photo of Millie in her underwear! I'm sure WEA must have put out covers more graphic than that before!
PhilMH SUBS 3rd May 2023		Vinyl Album Patsy Cline - Sentimentally Yours	Since my last comment, I've obtained MCA's January 1974 catalogue, where this album is still listed under its old Decca catalogue numbers, so it was probably later in 1974 that this catalogue number came into use; where does the May 1973 date come from?
PhilMH SUBS 27th Apr 2023		CD Album Various Artists - Can I Be A Witness · Stax Southern Groove	The booklet note re track 11 reads : " 'Ain't Enough Hours' has never been released before, probably because it isn't quite finished": what might, just might, have also played a part is that the lead singer (Jeanette Hutchinson, I think) says "Oh, that's just terrible!" right at the end! I'm not sure whether she was referring to the song or to her performance of it, but her assessment applies equally to both, anyway!
PhilMH SUBS 27th Apr 2023		Vinyl Album Ahmad Jamal - Chamber Music Of The New Jazz	UR4S-4811 isn't a catalogue number, it's the side 1 matrix number.
PhilMH SUBS 27th Apr 2023		Vinyl Album The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk	I think this would have been released before 6 June 1981, as it was reviewed in Music Week's issue of 23 May.
PhilMH SUBS 25th Apr 2023		12" Single Various Artists - Pye Big Deal 4 Tracks 4 Hits	Added full release date of May 6, taken from Music Week article in issue dated 23 April 1977.
PhilMH SUBS 22nd Apr 2023		Vinyl Album Dusty Springfield - A Brand New Me	Also released on Atlantic in Canada, which appears to have been a mistake, as all the accounts of Dusty's signing to Atlantic in June 1968 (as reported in Billboard, Cash Box and Record World in their issues of 29th June, and all likely re-writing the same press release) suggest that her Atlantic deal was for the US only (though no account actually used the word "only"), with "other countries" remaining on Philips. Certainly all of Dusty's Canadian singles from this album and DUSTY IN MEMPHIS were on Philips, though WEA Canada did release the latter album on Atlantic in the mid-80s, and a late 90s CD reissue of DIM on Rhino in Australia had to be hurriedly withdrawn because PolyGram held the rights.
PhilMH SUBS 21st Apr 2023		Vinyl Album Isaac Hayes - Light My Fire	The Discogs entry for this album shows that it has the date code 8002, for February 1980; the 1973 date comes from the LIVE AT THE SAHARA TAHOE double album, from which this is extracted. Correction is being requested.
PhilMH SUBS 20th Apr 2023		Vinyl Album Booker T. And The M.G.'s - The Booker T. Set	Not a 1986 release as this was distributed by Ace Records Ltd. who didn't get the rights to the Fantasy group of labels, including Stax, until the following year. The 1986 date appears to have come from an old Music Master catalogue, and where they got the date from, God knows! Music Week of 9th June 1990 lists this and the CD version as new releases, so I will ask for a correction.
PhilMH SUBS 20th Apr 2023		Vinyl Album Isaac Hayes - ...To Be Continued	Added release month of February 1971, based on review in Record Mirror issue dated 6th February 1971; it could conceivably be a late January release, depending on whether RM were reviewing it after release, or a pre-release advance copy, but February will do for now.
PhilMH SUBS 18th Apr 2023		Vinyl Album Booker T. And The MG's - Time Is Tight	Correct release date is February 1979; this is listed as a new release in the 24th February 1979 issue of Music Week, and there is a 7902 date code on the back cover. Correction is being requested.
PhilMH SUBS 18th Apr 2023		Vinyl Album Big Star - #1 Record / Radio City	The correct catalogue number for this set is SXSP 302; EMI UK's convention for double albums at that time was to allocate a catalogue number to the set (and that number would be used for ordering), and individual numbers for each record. Correction is being requested.
PhilMH SUBS 17th Apr 2023		CD Album Bill Haley And His Comets - From The Original Master Tapes	DIDY is a matrix number prefix indicating that the disc was glass mastered by DADC for Columbia House, see this page at Discogs.
PhilMH SUBS 14th Apr 2023		Vinyl Album Anita O'Day - Waiter, Make Mine Blues	MGM's purchase of Verve was announced in Cash Box of 3rd December 1960, and the issue of 25th February 1961 announced the formation of an MGM/Verve sales department earlier that month. This must have been one of the first releases via MGM, but labels still showing "Verve Records, Inc." suggest that there were still some label blanks to be used up before new ones showing "MGM Records - A Division Of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc." were printed.
PhilMH SUBS 9th Apr 2023		CD Album Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get	This CD was issued before 1990, because it is listed in a MCA Compact Disc Catalog published in June 1988. Further, Schwann Catalogs apparently first listed this in January 1988, so it might even be a late 1987 release.
PhilMH SUBS 9th Apr 2023		Vinyl Album Supertramp - Crime Of The Century	Hi all, this is listed as a May release in the June 1975 issue of Australian Record & Cassette Monthly, and it entered the national album chart in the chart dated 12 May 1975, so it would have been released the first week of May at the latest; it could have been mastered earlier as T-V-J says, but perhaps release was delayed for some reason.
PhilMH SUBS 5th Apr 2023		Vinyl Album Rufus Thomas - If There Were No Music	Typo by Pye on the producers' credit - the US issue on AVI correctly shows Rufus' co-producer as Tom Nixon, who fulfilled that same role during Rufus' final years at Stax.
PhilMH SUBS 5th Apr 2023		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Gold Soul	Also reviewed in Record Mirror, 22 December 1973 (page 17, bottom left-hand corner).
PhilMH SUBS 4th Apr 2023		Classical Item Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky's Two Most Memorable Ballet Waltzes	Where did the "pressed for The Decca Record Company Limited" notation on the bottom left of the back cover come from? 1959 was well past the period that UK Decca had any involvement with Capitol, as the label moved to E.M.I. worldwide, including New Zealand, in 1956 (and before 1956, Radio Corporation of New Zealand handled the label in NZ). There's no mention of Decca on the labels, unlike other Decca-owned or distributed labels that were handled by HMV NZ. Did whoever prepared the cover have one too many at lunch that day?
PhilMH SUBS 31st Mar 2023		Vinyl Album Bobby Bland - Two Steps From The Blues	Later issued on Vocalion with the same catalogue number, after Decca lost the rights to use the Vogue label name (though they continued using the Vogue Records Limited company name until 1968).
PhilMH SUBS 31st Mar 2023		CD Album Albert King - I Wanna Get Funky	OK, this was released in Australia, and the copy at Discogs includes a sticker showing the Australian classification for the video content. I'm not sure of the exact release date, because it doesn't show up in Platterlog's weekly new release sheets (it is annoying how much that happens!), but does appear in the February 2002 catalogue; in fact, the title also appears in the February 2001 catalogue, but without the 24 in the catalogue number, so that might be the US pressing, but Festival usually allocated their own catalogue numbers to US imports. Anyway, no appearance of either catalogue number in the 2000 or 2001 weekly sheets, but as it does appear in 2002, and has an Australian video classification, I'll ask for this to be made International again.
PhilMH SUBS 30th Mar 2023		CD Album Albert King - I Wanna Get Funky	The comment below indicates that this was made International, but it seems that someone changed it back to Europe. I believe that this disc was domestically released in Australia (and not just imported by an importer), but I will need to investigate that further tomorrow, as it is almost midnight now and I am ready to drop!
PhilMH SUBS 30th Mar 2023		CD Album Booker T. And The M.G.'s - The Booker T. Set	Released early 2001, I think: this appears in the Platterlog catalogue in Australia weekly update for 19 February 2001, but showing as distributed by Shock rather than Stax/Fantasy's Australian licensee Festival, whose logo appears on the back cover. However, the Platterlog main catalogue for February 2003 shows this as being distributed by both Shock and Festival, so because Festival was the label's local licensee, and Australia is not part of Europe, the country should be changed to International, and I will request a correction.
PhilMH SUBS 30th Mar 2023		Vinyl Album Neil Diamond - Hot August Night	I have entered 1984 as the release year, being the first year that WEA had the Australian and international rights to MCA, and the CBS matrix numbers on the labels are lower than the earliest 1984 Australian MCA singles at 45cat. I suspect that this was the first album that WEA had pressed as soon as they got the rights, in view of its massive success here over the years.
PhilMH SUBS 27th Mar 2023		Vinyl Album Judas Priest - Hero, Hero	Pye Records became PRT Records at the end of 1980. The first issue of this collection had "Distributed by PRT" inside the gatefold like this one does, but the labels were the standard Gull labels with the seagulls design, but saying "Distributed by Pye Records (Sales) Ltd." at the bottom, so it looks like PRT were just using up old label stock (and neglected to black out the Pye reference, which they did on some other releases).
PhilMH SUBS 25th Mar 2023		Classical Item London Symphony Orchestra - Scheherazade	Decca were a bit inconsistent with the label names in their catalogues; in all the ones with numerical indexes that I have (1974, 1975, and 1976), all the PFS prefixed releases show the label name as just "Decca", whereas the WA, WAP, and WAPS are all shown as "West African", and I don't think that branding was ever shown on the record labels, only on the 45 sleeves. They were inconsistent with the CD releases later on as well - the mid-price Ovation range only showed that series name on the covers, not on the discs, whereas the budget Weekend Classics series had that name on discs as well as covers.
PhilMH SUBS 22nd Mar 2023		CD Album Various Artists - Dreamboats & Petticoats Presents Dusty Springfield / Sandie Shaw / Lulu	UMC = Universal Music Catalogue, so is the catalogue division of Universal Music Group in the UK, and is usually used (or so I thought) in conjunction with Universal's other labels like Spectrum, Mercury, Polydor, etc. I was surprised to see Sandie Shaw's Pye recordings on this, but wikipedia tells me that Sandie licensed her catalogue to EMI back in 2003, after "embark[ing] on a successful legal battle to establish ownership of her entire recording catalogue", but doesn't say how the deal with Universal came about, unless it was due to Universal's purchase of some parts of EMI - it all seems to be separate from Universal's prior purchase of Sanctuary (which generally owns the Pye catalogue), and the subsequent divestment of that to BMG Rights Management.
PhilMH SUBS 18th Mar 2023		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Blues Selection, Vol. 2	A2 and D3 - images at Discogs show that the artist's name is correctly spelled Johnnie Taylor. [Mod: thanks and changed]

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