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Member	Item		Review/Comment
EMB2014 24th Sep 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 15 Golden Hits	Well, it was just hyperbole; of course this wasn't the first 'oldies' comp though it was apparently UA's first, taken from its own masters. Someone just wanted us to think it was something unique and a big deal.
EMB2014 2nd Apr 2017		Vinyl Album David And Anthony - Walnut St.	Review Fascinating local pressing out of Pittsburgh PA, USA. These fellas were a pair of acoustic guitarists very smitten with Simon & Garfunkel (seven tracks covered) and, to a lesser degree, Peter, Paul and Mary (they must have loved the ALBUM 1700 track "Weep for Jamie," but why not the equally downbeat "The House Song" from the same album?) And curiously, although the back cover claims that this was recorded live at two locations, as I remember, there were no audience sounds at all; in fact, if memory serves, this album (which sounds good if not great, and is in true stereo) could have been used as a demo sent to indie or major labels as an audition. But as this was most likely issued regionally in early or Spring 1969 (the most recent track, the Bee Gees' "I Started a Joke," which charted in late '68, suggests this), two guys and guitars (and nothing else) probably wouldn't have impressed execs and A&R guys at the time. Well worth hearing, however! 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
EMB2014 30th Aug 2016		Vinyl Album Vaughn Meader - The First Family	The ratio of stereo FIRST FAMILY's to mono must have been worse than 80/20, given the handful I've seen relative to the zillions of mono copies you can still find everywhere there are used records. As for the 'stereo' edition, I have a copy, and while it can't really be deemed 'rechanneled' in the normal way we associate that word to Lp sonics, it's not true stereo, either. Sound effects are sometimes panned left-to-right-and-back-again, and voices do move around on occasion, but it seems manipulated and contrived, rather than even an ambient, 'in the studio' sound from a few microphones. One can guess that the unexpected phenomenon that was the album's success may have forced Cadence into asking for a stereo edition; or, having one planned but not expecting much in sales, pressed it in very limited numbers.
EMB2014 26th Jun 2016		Vinyl Album Donna Rhodes - I See Love	Like the Discogs entry, this one's erroneously listed as being a 1969 release. Its catalog number, however, puts it late in 1970 or sometime (probably Jan or Feb) 1971. Very good and very forgotten album.
EMB2014 21st May 2016		Vinyl Album The O'Jays - In Philadelphia	Yet another reason never to trust liner notes, since this was indeed a 1970 release, as were two of its four A-sides. On the other hand, the recordings might all have been recorded in 1969. Don't remember that this one made the national charts, but its 1973 repackage on PIR (KZ 32120) did hit Billboard's Top Lp's at #156. The same situation also may apply to Neptune 201, Billy Paul's EBONY WOMAN. I've often seen it listed as a 1969 release, but like the O'Jays platter, seems to have been released in the summer of '70, and this one did make the soul chart beginning with the 8/1/70 issue (and a reissue also charted in 1973 on PIR KZ 32118).