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Member	Item		Review/Comment
ZebedyZak 12th Jan 2025		78 RPM Winifred Atwell - "Let's Have Another Party"-1 / "Let's Have Another Party"-2	@mister_tmg: It was listed as May 1954 presumably because PB 267 is also listed as May 1954. Note that PB 336 was at number one just before PB 268, so there must have been a delay in the release of PB 268.
ZebedyZak 12th Jan 2025		Vinyl Album David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars	Keith West had his hit from the Teenage Opera five years before this Bowie album came out. I think the Bowie album was more futuristic.
ZebedyZak 9th Jan 2025		Vinyl Album David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars	Did David Bowie predict the birth of Kanye West? On the front cover of the "Ziggy Stardust" album we see aa sign saying "K. West" and the first track on the album is called "Five Years". Bowie released "Ziggy Stardust" in June 1972 and Kanye West was born in June 1977.
ZebedyZak 14th Aug 2021		78 RPM Perry Como And Betty Hutton - A Bushel And A Peck / She's A Lady	United States or anywhere else, how many people are going to believe that a record was released on a Sunday? It seems even less believable for a 1950s release than it does for something more recent. Why are some people so obsessed with saying everything is released on a Sunday? If they'd put Monday, October 2nd I'd have accepted it and not commented.
ZebedyZak 13th Aug 2021		78 RPM Perry Como And Betty Hutton - A Bushel And A Peck / She's A Lady	I don't believe it. Another record claiming to be released on a Sunday? And in 1950? How many shops were open on a Sunday in 1950?
ZebedyZak 20th Nov 2020		Vinyl Album Don McLean - American Pie	October the what 1971? Exact date, please. And please do not copy Wikipedia's obviously incorrect October 24 because I still don't believe records are released on Sundays. Was it Monday, October 25th? That's my guess but I'll accept if I'm wrong (I just know it wasn't released on a Sunday).
ZebedyZak 11th Jun 2020		Vinyl Album Duane Eddy - Twistin' 'N' Twangin'	Does anyone here know anything about the track "Moanin' 'N' Twistin'"? According to Wikipedia it was a single that got to number 18 in the US charts in 1962 but I can't find it on 45cat. If it was a single I want to know all the details about it, and if it wasn't a single I would be interested to know why it's listed on Wikipedia as a US chart single. It's not listed in my book of Billboard Top 40 hits, which does include all the 1960s. Does anyone here know anything about this?
ZebedyZak 22nd Jan 2020		Vinyl Album Supertramp - Crime Of The Century	Why is "Dreamer" only 3:19 on the album when it's longer on the single? Why wasn't it the other way round?
ZebedyZak 3rd Dec 2019		Vinyl Album Black Sabbath - Vol 4	Why did the vinyl version of this album claim the track "Cornucopia" to have a timing of 4:48 when it's only 3:55 on CD?
ZebedyZak 3rd Dec 2019		Vinyl Album Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin	January 20th was a Monday in 1969, the day I'd have expected the album to be released. It was a Tuesday in 1970, but that's another story and not really relevant to this one.
ZebedyZak 18th Aug 2019		Vinyl Album Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River	What date in August 1969 was this album released? Please don't say the 3rd or any other Sunday. Wikipedia claims that was the date for this one but I still don't believe records were released on Sundays.
ZebedyZak 16th Apr 2019		78 RPM Al Martino - Here In My Heart / I Cried Myself To Sleep	Why was this famous single not on Capitol in the USA?
ZebedyZak 28th Mar 2019		Vinyl Album Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin	So, it was January 20th, was it? Why has the Internet been claiming for all these years it was January 12th (knowing full well that was a Sunday in 1969)? What possesses people to play these sort of mind games? Thanks for saying it was January 20th. I am now accepting that as absolutely correct.
ZebedyZak 23rd Jan 2018		Vinyl Album T. Rex - Ride A White Swan	This was the first LP I bought, at the age of 11 in 1973. I got it from Woolies in Chester for just 49 pence. I quickly discovered that, apart from the opening track "Ride A White Swan" (which I already had on a single), the rest of the album was remarkably different from the band's hit singles like "20th Century Boy", but no less enjoyable. After a few years, I discovered that most of the tracks dated back to the Tyrannosaurus Rex days, and only "Ride A White Swan" had been previously released in their second incarnation as T. Rex. I continued to play the album regularly before I bought other T. Rex albums and I always enjoyed listening to it. Out of the older tracks, the album closer "Elemental Child" is the most electric and decidedly different from the rest of the Tyrannosaurus Rex material, yet it is still different from the hit singles. But being different doesn't make it worse, and it is easily as good as the more commercial T. Rex releases. In short, I made a good choice when I bought this LP.
ZebedyZak 9th Aug 2017		12" Single Steely Dan - Do It Again	I have reason to believe there was a 12" EP of Steely Dan called "Reelin' In The Years" released some time around 1983 with the number MCAT 852. Was this ever released? I can't find it on this site. The number MSAMT 21 suggests a promo release, while the number MCAT 852 suggests a commercial release. Assuming it was released, did it have the same four tracks as this one? I don't have any vinyl singles by Steely Dan because I bought their albums instead.
ZebedyZak 28th Jul 2017		Vinyl Album Santana - Festivál	The UK single "Revelations" was issued on Jan. 7th 1977 but I think the album came out before that particular single. Records always enter the charts at least a week after the release date, and in the case of records released around the Christmas/New Year period, they often enter the charts a couple of weeks after the release date.
ZebedyZak 25th Jul 2017		Vinyl Album Santana - Festivál	Does anybody know the exact release date of the "Festival" album? It entered the UK charts on 8 January 1977 (or so it says in the Guinness Book of Hit Albums). To enter the charts that early it surely must have been released in late December 1976. The label on the vinyl issue does indeed say 1976, but the CD version (which I am listening to as I type this) dates it as 1977. Can anybody say for sure?
ZebedyZak 16th Dec 2016		Vinyl Album Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life	My copy of "Frampton Comes Alive" was a "changer order" issue. I have seen other double albums released that way as well.
ZebedyZak 19th Nov 2016		Vinyl Album Gillan - Future Shock	Unusually, the track "New Orleans" at 2:37 is shorter than the single release which times at 2:55. Why do you think that is? Why couldn't an extra 18 seconds be added to the album? Very strange. Some fans thought that "New Orleans" should have been omitted from this album and replaced by "Mutually Assured Destruction", which seems to fit the theme suggested by the album title far more than a cover of an early 60s rock 'n' roll hit.
ZebedyZak 19th Nov 2016		Vinyl Album Whitesnake - Lovehunter	I notice that this re-issue duplicates the error from the original issue (which I bought in 1980). The track "Medicine Man" doesn't run to 4:57. It's more like 3:57. I wonder how come they didn't notice that?
ZebedyZak 7th Jul 2016		Vinyl Album Mott The Hoople Featuring Ian Hunter - The Collection	Review Let me take this "Golden Opportunity" to say this: the tracks "Stiff Upper Lip" and "It Takes One To Know One" do NOT feature Ian Hunter, they were recorded months after he left the band. They were featured on the album "Drive On", on which the band was known simply as "Mott". I have known that since 1975, the year "Drive On" was released (guess what album I had for Christmas that year?). Ian Hunter had already quit the band just before Christmas 1974. Just in case there is any misconception surrounding "Ready For Love", Ian Hunter does play on it but he isn't the lead singer on that track, it's Mick Ralphs. It's the same song as the one on Bad Company's debut album (Mick Ralphs's next band). All in all this is not a bad collection, but it could have done with one or two other non-album singles such as "Foxy Foxy" and Ian's solo single "England Rocks". Maybe those two should have been included instead of the tracks from "Drive On" which do not feature Ian Hunter at all. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
ZebedyZak 7th Jul 2016		Vinyl Album Mott The Hoople - All The Way From Memphis	I don't ever remember seeing this album in the shops. Not that I needed it, since I already had all the tracks on the original albums. This is a good collection of Mott songs but I must say the tracks are in an odd order. "The Ballad Of Mott The Hoople" would have made a better closing track than an opener. I would have chosen to open it with "The Golden Age Of Rock 'n' Roll".
ZebedyZak 7th Jul 2016		Vinyl Album Mott The Hoople - Brain Capers	My copy didn't have a mask in it because it wasn't a new album when I bought it. I didn't buy this one until January 1976. Even then (two months before I turned 14) I noticed that the track timings were all to cock. Only "Death May Be Your Santa Claus", "Your Own Back Yard" and "Second Love" were correct or within 5 seconds of it. The rest of the timings were out by anywhere from 12 to 46 seconds. It makes me wonder what dodgy watch they used to time the tracks with. Lol:) That said, this is an utterly brilliant album and everyone should have it in their collection. The only thing wrong with it as an album is that the second side is too short and could do with another track or two of this standard to balance it out with the length of the first side. They could have included the single "Midnight Lady" which had already been released before this album. That wouldn't have sounded out of place on this album. It is now included as a bonus track on the CD reissue.
ZebedyZak 7th Jul 2016		Vinyl Album Mott The Hoople - Mad Shadows	"You Are One Of Us" isn't anywhere near 3:22, it's only about two and a half minutes. If it had said 2:22 or 2:32 I would have accepted it.
ZebedyZak 30th Mar 2016		78 RPM Vera Lynn - I Had The Craziest Dream / Really And Truly	No release date given for this one but from the catalogue number alone it would have to be some time in 1943. [Mod Edit: Year entered as 1943.]
ZebedyZak 29th Mar 2016		78 RPM Winifred Atwell - "Let's Have Another Party"-1 / "Let's Have Another Party"-2	Why did this one take 6 months to become a hit, and what made it such a big hit after all that time? I did notice from the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles that this single, on Philips PB 268, overtook Rosemary Clooney's "This Ole House" (also on Philips, number PB 336) at the top. What took this Winifred Atwell medley so long to be a smash?
ZebedyZak 29th Mar 2016		78 RPM Guy Mitchell - She Wears Red Feathers / Why Should I Go Home	Actually, it reached Number 1 in the NME charts on 13 Mar 1953. It entered the charts on 13 Feb 1953 but it did not go straight in at Number 1, it took another month to go all the way. That release date of March 1953 is wrong, however. The latest it could have been released was 6 February 1953, but since the chart was only a Top 12 in those days it was probably released in January 1953. I heard this song in a movie soundtrack once (I can't remember which movie it was). The song was released some nine years before I was born. Oddly enough, Guy Mitchell's two British chart-toppers in 1953 were not his biggest successes in the States. This one only got to number 19 in the USA, while his other UK smash in 1953, "Look At That Girl", did nothing at all over there. His only transatlantic chart-topper was "Singing The Blues", although he did hit the top in both countries with different singles.
ZebedyZak 4th Feb 2016		Vinyl Album Bad Company - Bad Company	As you can see from the labels, "Little Miss Fortune" is not on this LP. I commented on 45cat about that, because some issues of the "Can't Get Enough" single erroneously claimed that the B-side was also on this album, but it isn't. "Don't Let Me Down" bears more than a passing resemblance to the Beatles song of the same title, although it is not the same song. On the other hand, "Ready For Love" IS the same song as the one on Mott The Hoople's "All The Young Dudes" album, it was written by Ralphs while he still guitared for MTH, some time before Bad Company came into existence. In the USA, "Movin' On" was released as a follow-up single to "Can't Get Enough", but not in the UK. At least one music paper in August 1974 announced that there was to be another single from this album, but it didn't say the title. Since then I have discovered that the number WIP 6204 appears to be missing from Island's catalogue, and I have long wondered if that number was originally allocated to "Movin' On" in the UK but the single never saw the light of day here. It sounds like the same situation as with the Yardbirds single-that-never-was ("Goodnight Sweet Josephine") six years earlier. It certainly sounds feasible that WIP 6204 could have been intended to be a second Bad Company single, I remember the numbers 6203, 6205 and 6206 in that sequence all charted at that time. Can anybody confirm that my guess is correct? Was WIP 6204 originally intended to be "Movin' On" by Bad Company? All in all, this is an impressive debut album, as one might expect from such a fine collection of musicians.
ZebedyZak 26th Jan 2016		Vinyl Album Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies	It's my favourite Alice album as well, but I still don't believe its release date was 25 Feb 1973. As with other records, I am simply not convinced it was released on a Sunday. I would have thought Monday 26 Feb 1973 would be more likely.
ZebedyZak 20th Jan 2016		Vinyl Album Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin	Are you absolutely sure the mighty Led Zeppelin's debut album was released on 12 Jan 1969? This isn't the only site which claims it was released on that particular Sunday. I am still not convinced that records are released on Sundays, in the US, UK or anywhere else. Is there any particular reason why I keep seeing Sundays as the given release dates for records? I would have thought it more likely that this album was released on Monday, 13 Jan 1969. Does anyone have any documentation to prove that it was released on Sunday 12 Jan 1969?

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