Vinyl Albums - Comments by Ade Macrow

Vinyl Albums - Comments by Ade Macrow

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Ade Macrow 25th Sep 2019		Vinyl Album Donovan - Essence To Essence (1973)	Added white labels only used for first pressings.
Ade Macrow 28th Aug 2019		Vinyl Album Donovan - Radio Sessions 1965 (2019)	Exactamundo, ppint!
Ade Macrow 26th Aug 2019		Vinyl Album Donovan - Radio Sessions 1965 (2019)	Though it's part of a long series of similar albums, I suspect it's perhaps 'semi-legit', rather like those releases on the Italian Joker label in the mid-70s.
Ade Macrow 14th Aug 2019		Vinyl Album Donovan - Open Road (1970)	Still trying to get green inner gatefold with lyrics to scan.
Ade Macrow 14th Aug 2019		Vinyl Album Donovan - Radio Sessions 1965 (2019)	Note pastiches of Pye 'ball' logo (on labels); Pye International and the Marble Arch 'house style' front cover..
Ade Macrow 19th Jun 2019		Vinyl Album Manuel And The Music Of The Mountains - More Manuel (1973)	There is another version of this LP, issued for the Open Day(s), presumably at Feltham on 28th and 29th May 1977. This has a silver jacket, with a full colour picture of the Queen on the front and Prince Philip on the back. The spine is entitled 'A Souvenir Of Your Visit To EMI Records Production And Distribution Division in red capitals. Label is the standard tan-and-red EMI design, which I've added here. Don't have a scanner large enough to add cover though unfortunately and haven't yet sourced the images anywhere on the internet. The full title of the record is A Souvenir Of Your Visit To EMI Records Production And Distribution Division Open Day (sic) 28th - 29th May 1977 In The Queen's Silver Jubilee Year. There is another catalogue number - OD 2 - at top right-hand corner on back and the usual EMI blurb at centre bottom (all titling in black on a red strip above and below the two portraits. Given the extra OD 2 number, should this be accorded a separate entry? If so, the labels can be shifted by a mod and the EMSS1/OD 2 number be assigned elsewhere. The label has 'Studio 2 Stereo' added along the centre line as well. No mention of Manuel and The Music Of The Mountains anywhere on sleeve. Plain white standard paper EMI inner sleeve. Akin to the similar gatefold STWO 8 promo release issue by EMI on Columbia/Studio Two. Wonder if there was an OD 1?
Ade Macrow 3rd May 2019		Vinyl Album Procol Harum - Rock Roots (1976)	Though part of the 6 album 'Rock Roots' series by Decca, this was the only one to appear with a Cube Records label and the company should thus be given as Cube, perhaps with a link to the other five Decca-labelled LPs in the sequence. Also the 'ROOTS 4' catalogue number reads, in full, 'ROOTS 4 (HIFLY 22)' as this was in lieu of the never-issued HIFLY album of that number.
Ade Macrow 1st Nov 2018		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - Parade Of Pops Volume 8 (1973)	Only cover in series to have two models on front,
Ade Macrow 22nd Aug 2018		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - Original Masters (1977)	Some copies came with an oversticker (see added image) on back, acknowledging non-Chrysalis sourced material.
Ade Macrow 10th Jul 2018		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Brazil Classics 1 Beleza Tropical (1989)	This is not the same as the David Platz headed Fly Records.
Ade Macrow 4th Jul 2018		Vinyl Album Marc Bolan And T. Rex - Zinc Alloy And The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow (1983)	The only good thing about this, as Randybullcow points out, was the (unannounced) much longer version of Teenage Dream with the extended Lonnie Jordan piano outro that was edited out of all other releases. This made it worth braving the execrable, wrong period 'artwork', though, of course, nobody knew that at the time. And yes, I duly purchased all the other five gatefold reissue albums in the series as well. The cut must surely have been included in error, as John & Shan Bramley would otherwise have pointed it out on the packaging and label.
Ade Macrow 4th Jun 2018		Vinyl Album The Alexander Brothers - Tunes Of Glory (1971)	Hallmark also issued this album with same catalogue number but reversed front cover photo and song titles on right, not left, side, for some reason.
Ade Macrow 25th May 2018		Vinyl Album The Top Of The Poppers - The Top Of The Poppers Sing And Play T.Rex's Greatest Hits (1973)	And WHY did Hallmark erroneously entitle 'The Groover' as just 'Groover'?
Ade Macrow 11th Apr 2018		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Most Collection (Volume 2) (1973)	Volume 1 was obviously the 'heavy artists' and this last volume featured the lighter 'pop' end of the spectrum.
Ade Macrow 6th Apr 2018		Vinyl Album Donovan - Donovan's Greatest Hits (1969)	I've yet to find a copy without the 'Stereo NSPL' oversticker on the back cover, masking the original 'Mono NPL' printed there - suggesting that issuing this album in stereophonic (albeit 'fake stereo') rather than the monaural format was a last-minute decision. Unless it was a printing error and all jackets were always intended to be stereo. No mono copies of this disc have ever been listed in Pye's trade catalogue(s) for the year.
Ade Macrow 5th Apr 2018		Vinyl Album Donovan - Donovan's Greatest Hits (1969)	So instead of it being called, Donovan's Greatest Hits, it should've been titled The compiler's Greatest Favourites from the Donovan Canon. Indeed so - or "Donovan's US Hits (Plus Two New Re-Recordings)". Ironically, the new versions of Catch The Wind and Colours would, in a later era, undoubtedly be used as a 'selling point'!.
Ade Macrow 17th Mar 2018		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - Ten Man Mop Or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again (1991)	Note misspelling on label and back cover of Willie Clancy's Fancy as Willie Clancey's Fancy.
Ade Macrow 15th Mar 2018		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - Hark! The Village Wait (1971)	No insert with this version of the album.
Ade Macrow 9th Mar 2018		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - Please To See The King (1991)	With additional "winding-up-Tyger-Hutchings" cover of Rave On (originally from 1971 B&C maxi-single CB-164, as final track.
Ade Macrow 9th Mar 2018		Vinyl Album Maddy Prior - Woman In The Wings (1978)	Rollercoaster is accidentally referred to by its original title of Supper Song, when listed against the musicians playing on it in the credits on the lyric inner sleeve. This was either the card inner itself or a paper lyric insert. My copy came with both!
Ade Macrow 9th Mar 2018		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Flash Fearless Versus The Zorg Women Parts 5 & 6 (1975)	Maddy Prior and Georgia Syncopator (UK edition) replaced here by Frankie Miller and Supersnatch. Full composer names given too, as against initial-and-surname of British pressing. A 'g' added to Country Cookin' and various '??' and '!' omitted from this version.
Ade Macrow 2nd Mar 2018		Vinyl Album Tim Hart - Tim Hart (1979)	Back cover lists As I Go My Way as As I Go On My Way.
Ade Macrow 19th Feb 2018		Vinyl Album Tim Hart And Friends - Drunken Sailor And Other Kids Songs (1983)	Front of cover has (presumably originally assigned, before re-numbering) catalogue number MFP 5635, as does spine. Back cover and labels use the new, elongated MFP 41 5635 1 number. Run-out area has the latter machine-stamped.
Ade Macrow 19th Feb 2018		Vinyl Album Shusha • Maddy Prior • Melanie Harrold • John Kirkpatrick • Robert Johnson • Sydney Carter - Lovely In The Dances (1981)	Some copies came with pale tangerine-coloured lyric insert, rather than off-white/grey.
Ade Macrow 17th Feb 2018		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - That's Steeleye Span (1982)	Spine has 296064-425 as number. Note also that all songs on Side One label have a single 'Trad' to cover 'em all, whereas Side Two appends {trad.) after each applicable song.
Ade Macrow 15th Feb 2018		Vinyl Album Shusha • Maddy Prior • Melanie Harrold • John Kirkpatrick • Robert Johnson • Sydney Carter - Lovely In The Dances (1981)	Juke - scans now added, as per your wishes!
Ade Macrow 15th Feb 2018		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - Steeleye Span (1980)	Note additional credit for drummer Nigel Pegrum on some songs. Royal Forester misspelt as Royal Forrester on back cover but correct on label.
Ade Macrow 13th Feb 2018		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - All Around My Hat (1985)	Some copies had a white bar code background on the back cover, rather than gold..
Ade Macrow 9th Feb 2018		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - Sails Of Silver (1980)	Produced by Gus Dudgeon
Ade Macrow 4th Feb 2018		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - Live At Last! (1978)	Some labels misprint the band's name as 'Steeley Span'.

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