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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Fokeman 16th Oct 2022		Vinyl Album Various Artists - English Country Music (1977)	Part of a very short-lived and short run series to transfer important traditional material to tape and then vinyl. Only the SP 104 was ever available for a (albeit very limited) general sale.
Fokeman 16th Oct 2022		Vinyl Album Bessie Brown, Ida G. Brown, Clarence Williams Orchestra - Bessie Brown, Ida G. And Clarence (1970)	There are a number of different errors that occurred at this time when the wrong number was written on the back of the sleeve which doesn't coincide with the number given on the label. Hugely confusing when writing the discography of the label!
Fokeman 27th Sep 2022		Vinyl Album John Renbourn - Faro Annie (1972)	This is completely wrong! This never came out on Belter (who were the distributors) and the catalogue number is for a single released by Transatlantic in Spain... Credits given as Tradirional...
Fokeman 16th Sep 2022		Vinyl Album Alex Campbell - The Alex Campbell Sampler (1969)	Certainly 1969 as with the other TRA SAM samplers from this era.
Fokeman 1st Sep 2022		Vinyl Album John Bowe And Mary Conroy - Celtic Folk Music (1977)	I need to have a look at this again... sorry. Some but not all of the Inchecronin labels had these unusual white yellow labels. I suspect that they were due to the link in the North/South of Ireland between Outlook and Homespun and these are distinctly Homespun labels for my money. Compare many of the Homespun LPs and singles elsewhere on the site.
Fokeman 31st Aug 2022		Vinyl Album Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra - Cugat Plays Continental Hits (1962)	I think the same record in the USA was on Gold labels. With exclusively English text.
Fokeman 31st Aug 2022		Vinyl Album Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra - Cugat Plays Continental Hits (1962)	Is this American or French? French language text around label. BIEM rights organisation on label too. Different catalogue number series? CF. French issue here... (Now moved from USA to France)
Fokeman 27th Aug 2022		Vinyl Album The Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra - The Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra Presents (1970)	Really? How so? Date given by (fastidious) owner of the label as compared with the date of a newspaper which says that there's a new record out, without stating any date at all. Where is the suggestion that the date is wrong? This advert probably ran for four weeks in a row to promote the record which was issued 2 weeks earlier...
Fokeman 17th Aug 2022		Vinyl Album Scorpions - Rock Galaxy (1980)	Rock Galaxy was a series, much like "Two Originals Of". David Bowie and Styx both had double compilation albums in this series. It's not really the title of the record but more a group of albums created under the banner "Rock Galaxy" to give people some of the best tracks from the respective artists. However, the titles of the records in the series of "Two Originals Of" are Two Originals Of Neil Young etc. The same can not be done in the same way in this series.
Fokeman 2nd Aug 2022		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Where Would You Rather Be Tonight? (1986)	A single was also issued with Fairport and Jon Benns with Wurzel (from Motorhead). An unlikely connection.
Fokeman 4th Jul 2022		Vinyl Album Robbie Doherty - Fare Thee Well, Donegal (1984)	I've just listened to this the whole way through. I don't think I'd do it again if you paid me. The only track I actually enjoyed was Peggy Gordon but that might have just been because I was joyfully anticipating the end of the record. Truly awful!
Fokeman 2nd Jul 2022		Vinyl Album The Wicked Lady - Psychotic Overkill (2012)	On both albums by "The Wicked Lady" with the logo in Copperplate font "Wicked Lady", it states at the bottom of the label "All tracks written by The Wicked Lady" so either we agree that it's "Wicked Lady" or it's "The Wicked Lady" but there's no point in having one of them one thing and the other record with a different name.
Fokeman 26th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Guy Carawan And Peggy Seeger - We Sing America (1958)	It's odd that the track "Ain't No Mo Cane On Dis Brazos" was credited to Alan Lomax and Huddie Leadbetter. I don't think anyone else credited it to them and even Guy Carawan called it Traditional with an arrangement by Lomax. It was collected as a prison work song but even though Leadbelly was in prison for a time, I don't think we can assume it was his work.
Fokeman 26th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Murray Head - How Many Ways (1981)	It would be possible to make an augmented Fairport Convention from this album with Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Dave Mattacks and guest performance by Jeff Beck and string arrangements by Robert Kirby. What a prospect!
Fokeman 20th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Cosmotheka - A Little Bit Off The Top (1974)	This is an oddity. The previous number - 6001 was the 7" issued by Dave Cartwright in 1965. This is the end of the 6000 series and the next series is the 7000 series, by far the most successful. What is doubly odd, is that having issued this as part of the 6000 series, Highway promptly issued it as part of the 7000 series too...
Fokeman 19th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Ewan MacColl And Peggy Seeger - The Long Harvest Record 7 (1968)	I believe that for this series DA was the Mono version and ZDA was the Stereo version - see notes for (Z)DA to demonstrate this since the same notes would be used for both versions.
Fokeman 18th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Jimmy Shand And His Band - A Jimmy Shand Selection (1955)	My guess is that the plain red came first. In the history of the singles, the plain blue came before the tartan pattern and the crest matches the earlier singles labels.
Fokeman 18th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger And The Trinity - The Best Of Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger And The Trinity (1970)	I'm trying to spot the difference between the B side and the B side variant. Can anyone help me? Apart from the obvious difference in colour which probably is just a function of different light or treatment...
Fokeman 3rd Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Marmalade 100° Proof (1969)	The Promo cover rotates in the same way as the Open LP with both sides having a right side entrance, it therefore being impossible to say which is the front cover and which is the back. The same trick was carried out on the front/rear of Minstrel in the Gallery by Jethro Tull.
Fokeman 30th May 2022		Vinyl Album Archie MacTaggart - Ciamar A Tha Sibh (1966)	I don't think this says that the record is from 1966 as it seems that it is saying that 1966 is a long way in the past when he won the National Mod Gold Medal prize.
Fokeman 21st May 2022		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup (1973)	Note to self. Some of these photos can be improved...
Fokeman 21st May 2022		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)	My copy of this has the Y price code dating it to about 1974 when the price was 36,5 francs. On my cover the Y is in a circle probably making it a little later than the date of the sleeve shown, which has the Y price code without the circle.
Fokeman 20th May 2022		Vinyl Album Ottilie Patterson - Spring Song (1971)	Photo used is from the same photo-shoot but not the same photo. In this one she looks straight at the camera whereas on 3,000 years with Ottilie, she looks down in front of her.
Fokeman 16th May 2022		Vinyl Album Ann Mulqueen - Kerry's 25th (1981)	My copy is extremely flimsy vinyl with such a light feel it's like the RCA flex vinyls of the 1980s
Fokeman 8th May 2022		Vinyl Album Leadbelly - Take This Hammer Leadbelly Legacy Number One (1953)	Previous catalogue number was FP 4 which coincides with the 1950 date. This is probably 1953 as given.
Fokeman 8th May 2022		Vinyl Album Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll And The Trinity - Open (1967)	The orange Auge side is clearly the back of the cover in this instance because of the construction of the sleeve.
Fokeman 6th May 2022		Vinyl Album Will Holt - A Will Holt Concert	This was the standard edition LP. Most contemporary Stinson LPs were pressed on Red Vinyl. There was a large supply of red plastic available at the time and it must have been cheap. What we see here is the red supply being mixed whether by accident or design (I suspect the former) with the standard black vinyl. It was neither a special edition nor deliberately marbleised.
Fokeman 6th May 2022		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Kerrville Folk Festival: Live 1974 (1974)	Public Domain is not a composer but a Publishing statement that says that dues are not payable. Public Domain is not relevant to the Composer field. [Mod: correct!]
Fokeman 6th May 2022		Vinyl Album U2 - In Concert (1983)	This looks like a bootleg to me. All BBC Transcription Service Records had green ink labels and only the centre information in black ink. I've seen other bootleg records using the same images but exclusively black ink like this one. The information on the sleeve should be printed in green ink too. For comparison compare the Marillion bootleg in black ink. There is also a Whitesnake bootleg and others.
Fokeman 30th Apr 2022		Vinyl Album Charlie Dore - Listen (1981)	[YouTube Video]

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