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Member	Item		Review/Comment
PhilMH 17th Aug 2024		Cassette Album Engelbert Humperdinck - Engelbert (1970)	Actual release date was October 1970, according to Decca 1974 main catalogue in my possession. Decca UK didn't introduce cassettes and cartridges until October 1970, as reported in Billboard dated 26 September 1970.
PhilMH 17th Aug 2024		Cassette Album Frank Chacksfield And His Orchestra - The World Of Frank Chacksfield (1971)	Actual release date was March 1971, according to Decca 1974 main catalogue in my possession. Decca UK didn't introduce cassettes and cartridges until October 1970, as reported in Billboard dated 26 September 1970.
PhilMH 17th Aug 2024		Cassette Album Various Artists - The World Of Military Bands (1971)	Actual release date was May 1971, according to Decca 1974 main catalogue in my possession. Decca UK didn't introduce cassettes and cartridges until October 1970, as reported in Billboard dated 26 September 1970.
PhilMH 17th Aug 2024		8-Track David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (1970)	Is the November 1970 release date correct? The package shows the Vertigo logo, and that label wasn't to be launched in the US until February 1971, as reported in Billboard's issue dated 30th January 1971.
PhilMH 5th Aug 2024		Cassette Album Neil Diamond - Gold Diamond Volume 2 (1974)	The catalogue number index in the back of Decca's 1976 main catalogue gives the release date as September 1974, for both this and the LP version on ZG-M 134; the 1972 copyright date probably comes from the Netherlands issue with a different cover.
PhilMH 13th Jul 2024		8-Track Olivia Newton-John - Olivia Newton-John (1971)	Label is actually Pye International - see the logo at bottom right of the front. Festival Records International existed as a UK-based company, but didn't actually have a label there. Correction requested.
PhilMH 13th Jul 2024		Cassette Album Olivia Newton-John - If Not For You (1971)	Label is actually Pye International - correction requested.
PhilMH 13th Jul 2024		Cassette Album Marlene Dietrich - Dietrich In London (1972)	1972 is too late for a Reprise recording distributed by Pye, as the label moved to Kinney (later WEA) in 1971. BUT, I think the Reprise on the J-card might be a mistake anyway, because no other release of this album was on Reprise as far as I can see, so 1972 might be right after all!
PhilMH 13th Jul 2024		Cassette Album Marlene Dietrich - The Legendary, Lovely Marlene (1984)	Release year would have been 1984 at the earliest, as this is distributed by WEA - MCA was still distributed by PolyGram in Australia and New Zealand up to the end of 1983. Correction requested.
PhilMH 8th May 2024		8-Track The Electric Light Orchestra - The Electric Light Orchestra [Quadraphonic] (1974)	Probably June 1974; the Discogs entry has 7406 EJD printer date added, but it doesn't appear on any of the images shown there, it might be on the back of the slipcase.
PhilMH 8th Apr 2024		Cassette Single Boyzone - Love Me For A Reason / Daydream Believer (1994)	It's most probably UK and Ireland and the rest of Europe - and the correct label is Polydor (logo on the back of the insert).
PhilMH 20th Feb 2024		8-Track Deep Purple - 24 Carat Purple (1975)	As with MADE IN JAPAN, Purple is the label here, with EMI just being the corporate brand (and I don't actually see its logo here!)
PhilMH 20th Feb 2024		8-Track Deep Purple - Made In Japan (1972)	EMI didn't become a label until mid-1973, with the merger of the pop rosters of Columbia, Parlophone, and HMV. An EMI logo in conjunction with another logo (e.g. the three just named, or Capitol, Stateside, etc.) is just a corporate logo indicating that the other label was part of the EMI group.
PhilMH 30th Nov 2023		Cassette Album The Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971 (1976)	WE 451 isn't a catalogue number, it's the price code for France, apparently introduced in 1979. Both copies shown here would be from between 1979 and May 1985, as they both refer to WEA Filipacchi Music in France, a name that was shortened to just WEA Music in May 1985 after Daniel Filipacchi resigned his presidential post the previous month, but the catalogue number dates from 1976.
PhilMH 12th May 2023		Cassette Album Diana Ross - Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1981)	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 5th Mar 2023		Cassette Album Dusty Springfield - Love Songs	This was released as a 2-cassette pack with this,so the two entries should be merged.
PhilMH 20th Jun 2022		Cassette Album Gregorian - Sadisfaction (1991)	The back insert says "Distribution Barclay"; Barclay was a French company, and there is also a French price code BA 581 shown, so both of those plus the French copyright text would suggest just a French release to me.
PhilMH 16th Jul 2021		Cassette Album Louis Armstrong - Armstrong Chante The Good Book Vol. 21	Looking at the actual tape, the label should be MCA, as it was on the LP equivalent which Discogs dates as 1978; the (P) 1971 on the tape and the J-card appears to come from a previous reissue which was distributed by C.E.D. rather than C.P.F. Barclay.
PhilMH 2nd Jun 2021		Cassette Album Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You (1982)	The cassette shell shows catalogue number 5284 MC and company name Motown Record Corporation, and dates from the first issue of this version in October 1982; the insert with number MOTC-5284 and company name Motown Record Company, L.P. is from after the label's sale to MCA and Boston Ventures in June 1988.
PhilMH 26th Dec 2020		Cassette Album Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin	The list of albums on the inlay suggests that this catalogue number was first used in 1971, but this actual tape may have been made much later, I think Australian cassettes would still have been using paper labels in 1971.
PhilMH 18th Dec 2020		Cassette Album Shirley Bassey - Live At Talk Of The Town (1970)	The 1970 release most likely was on Liberty, but the tape here shows United Artists, with the new logo adopted by that label after Liberty was merged into it in 1971.
PhilMH 31st Jul 2020		Cassette Album Crosby, Stills And Nash - Crosby, Stills And Nash	Most likely a 1972 release; the catalogue number is fairly low in the new Kinney sequence, Atlantic having moved to Kinney from Polydor in March, and then Kinney Music Group Limited became WEA Records Limited in May. Discogs has another issue with a ZCK prefix, suggesting Pye/Precision distribution, but Kinney's M&D deal with Pye supposedly ended the previous year, according to Billboard and Discogs, and the company moved to CBS.
PhilMH 31st Jul 2020		Cassette Album Stephen Stills - Stephen Stills (1970)	I've made this 1970, as THE COMPLETE BOOK OF THE BRITISH CHARTS shows that this charted for one week in the chart dated 19th December; I imagine that LP and cassette would have been released simultaneously. And the first track is "Love The One You're With".
PhilMH 11th Jul 2020		Cassette Album Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake (1976)	1976 release according to catalogue number and LP matrix number sequences.
PhilMH 19th May 2020		Cassette Album Chicago - Chicago's Greatest Hits (1975)	There are earlier versions of this release with this same catalogue number but without the barcode; as the catalogue number originated in 1975, then that's the year we use. The US CBS labels started using barcodes in 1979, BTW, but I don't know about Canada.
PhilMH 11th May 2020		Cassette Album Genesis - From Genesis To Revelation (1973)	It looks like it is after September 1974; Decca's 1975 main catalogue, which lists releases up to and including 1974, doesn't list this, nor does the 1974 catalogue with releases to September 1973. BTW, the prefix is KSKC, not KSTC.
PhilMH 16th Apr 2020		Cassette Album Dionne Warwick - Soulful (1969)	Yep, it's a Hanimex logo all right, I found a couple of images on Google images, including one at 45spaces. Looking through Billboard, Festival first contracted with Hanimex in 1966 for reel-to-reel tapes, then adopted the Playtape system in 1967: I can't find anything to say when they switched to Philips' compact cassette system, but it was probably very soon after. Thanks Michael!
PhilMH 6th Feb 2020		Cassette Album The Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream (1970)	Correct release month is October 1970, as stated in Decca catalogues in my possession, and Billboard, September 27, 1970.
PhilMH 16th Nov 2019		Cassette Album Dionne Warwick - Soulful (1969)	Hmmm - very odd of Festival to do that, and also to show their company name as just "Festival Pty. Ltd." when they used "Festival Records Pty. Ltd." on everything else! Makes me wonder if this is some sort of pirate release, and that other logo still isn't explained.
PhilMH 15th Nov 2019		Cassette Album Dionne Warwick - Soulful (1969)	Hi Jasper, you've entered the US catalogue number; the original Australian LP number was SJL-933,258, in Festival's numeric sequence, so the cassette number should probably be SJC-933,258 or some other derivative of the LP number - although the H logo on the front makes me wonder if the label is actually something else (Horizon?) with an entirely different catalogue number style? And I can't help with dates for the cassette case.

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