plerner SUBS 31st Jan 2018 | | CD AlbumJune Tabor - Always | A few missing songwriter credits as my 48-page booklet included 2 blank pages!
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plerner SUBS 26th Jan 2018 | | CD AlbumVarious Artists - Motown Girls Sing The Hits | Just seen your query RogerFoster - the information with the CD set says the track is copyright 1964 AVI Record Productions Ltd. It doesn't quite answer your question as to how Gloria got herself into this collection but it's an early recording. (All other tracks are copyright to Motown Record Corporation, as you would expect).
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plerner SUBS 12th Nov 2017 | | CD AlbumKitty Wells - The Queen Of Honky Tonk Angels | According to the liner notes by Bob Fisher, Kitty not only recorded the first #1 on the Billboard country chart to be performed by a woman, she also released the first country LP ever released by a female performer (Country Hit Parade).
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plerner SUBS 18th Jun 2017 | | CD AlbumDee Dee Sharp - The Best Of Dee Dee Sharp | This compilation is a delight to listen to. Dee performs in an impressive variety of musical and vocal styles and sounds as if she's loving every minute.
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plerner SUBS 26th May 2017 | | Vinyl AlbumVarious Artists - All Good Folk | A compendium of Embassy label artistes.
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plerner SUBS 26th May 2017 | | Vinyl AlbumThe Blue Sky Boys - A Treasury Of Rare Song Gems From The Past | My copy (sealed when I bought it a couple of weeks ago), has a Gusto label but the cover states Starday, with the same cat. no.
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plerner SUBS 10th May 2017 | | Vinyl AlbumNoël Coward - I'll See You Again | 1954 looks like the best guess for this album's date.
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plerner SUBS 20th Jan 2017 | | CD AlbumLeonard Cohen - You Want It Darker | An amazing and moving final album; indescribably beautiful music.
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plerner SUBS 18th Jan 2017 | | CD AlbumAshley Hutchings - By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down And Wept | A positively superb album; a concept album which is an emotional roller coaster.
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plerner SUBS 5th Dec 2016 | | CD AlbumThe Albion Christmas Band - Magic Touch | A lovely album; Track 10 is outstanding.
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plerner SUBS 5th Nov 2016 | | CD AlbumTrees - On The Shore | The composer of track 4 is Cyril Tawney.
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plerner SUBS 14th Mar 2016 | | Vinyl AlbumVarious Artists - Playing The Halls | Recordings from 1902 to 1915.
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plerner SUBS 27th Jan 2016 | | Vinyl AlbumThe Beatles - Beatles For Sale | And also my first album!
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plerner SUBS 21st Jan 2016 | | Vinyl AlbumSandy Denny - Who Knows Where The Time Goes | This same box set was also issued in the UK in 1985 as Island SDSP 100.
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plerner SUBS 6th Jan 2016 | | CD AlbumElvis Presley With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - If I Can Dream | UK front cover added.
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plerner SUBS 2nd Jan 2016 | | 78 RPMJackie DeShannon - Baby Bye-O | This song was first published in 1963. Versions of it were released in the USA by The Fleetwoods and Bernie Schwartz, in the UK by Bernie Balentine (exactly the same recording and same catalogue number as Bernie Schwartz in the US), in Germany by Draga Baleno, and in France, under the title of "Allo", by Arielle. There is an incomplete recording of the song by The Everly Brothers which has been released in recent years. The singer on this demo is definitely the co-writer, Jackie DeShannon.
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plerner SUBS 18th Jan 2015 | | CD AlbumVarious Artists - All American Rock 'N' Roll | My copy has the songwriter info in the booklet (page 2) and I have added it.
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plerner SUBS 6th Jan 2015 | | CD AlbumBrian Kennedy - Interpretations | Although there is a 12 page booklet, within which Brian offers his "sincere respect to all the writers of these extraordinary songs", the songwriters are nowhere credited.
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plerner SUBS 4th Jan 2015 | | 78 RPMTommy Reilly - Barnacle Bill's Hornpipe / Count Five And Die | Sadly a broken 78, from the collection of my friend Roger.
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plerner SUBS 8th Dec 2014 | | CD AlbumVarious Artists - True Country | The person who attributed Leroy Van Dyke's "Walk on by" to Bacharach and David is not the first to make this mistake.
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plerner SUBS 6th Nov 2014 | | Vinyl AlbumThe Halliard - It's The Irish In Me | The Halliard are Dave Moran, Nick Jones and Nigel Pattison. Nic(k) Jones later enjoyed an illustrious solo career.
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plerner SUBS 30th Oct 2014 | | CD AlbumVarious Artists - Eight Miles High | You wonder how it can be said that The Searchers' "When you walk in the room", which was recorded in 1963, was "inspired by The Byrds".......
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plerner SUBS 11th Oct 2014 | | CD AlbumScott Walker And The Walker Brothers - No Regrets: The Best Of Scott Walker And The Walker Brothers 1965-1976 | Reissued in 2000 with different front to booklet (uploaded).
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plerner SUBS 8th Oct 2014 | | CD AlbumBilly Ray Cyrus - Home At Last | Produced by Fred Mollin
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plerner SUBS 28th Aug 2014 | | Vinyl AlbumVarious Artists - We Sing The Blues | The date on the record and the sleeve is 1960, but that is not the date of release of the album as Liberty was distributed by London-American in the UK during that year. I paid 14/11 for it (that's 14 shillings and 11 pence).
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plerner SUBS 9th Aug 2014 | | Vinyl AlbumVarious Artists - The Original Golden Greats | Some big names on the credits: productions by Sonny Bono, Burt Bacharach, Nick De Caro, Jack Nitzsche, George Martin, Lou Adler. Arrangers also include Leon Russell, Harold Battiste, Ernie Freeman.
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plerner SUBS 31st Jul 2014 | | Vinyl AlbumVito And The Salutations - An Extraordinary Group | This is a reissue.
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plerner SUBS 14th Jul 2014 | | Vinyl AlbumSweeney's Men - 1968 | Bought from Stevenage Record Centre, long since closed.
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plerner SUBS 10th Jul 2014 | | Vinyl AlbumSimon And Garfunkel - Simon And Garfunkel's Greatest Hits II | I have basically the same album but with a more yellow cover, no reference to Italy, and the label is "4 Channel Sound", cat no. 3007.
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plerner SUBS 10th Jul 2014 | | Vinyl AlbumMartha Sharp - Anywoman | Martha became a Vice President at Warner Bros and discovered Randy Travis.
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