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Fokeman 31st Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970)	Apparently the plan was to call this LP "Walpurgis" - The Witches' Sabbath. But the obsession with evil magic and satanism was beginning to cause problems for the group who were just about to tour in the US. Therfore the track Walpurgis was changed to become War Pigs and the lyrics rewritten to reflect the change in title. Then, in a hurry to get the the album released, they organised a hurried photo shoot with a man in a pig mask. All of this was much against the will and taste of the band members. The final insult, was to change the name from War Pigs to Paranoid, again against the band's wishes with no coherence between the blurry picture of a man in a pig's head mask and the title Paranoid. Having said all that, this album is universally considered a classic, so I don't think the story of the cover really detracts from what a stupendous record Black Sabbath produced for their second LP release.
Fokeman 31st Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Lord Sutch And Heavy Friends - Hands Of Jack The Ripper (1972)	Sadly, my copy is cover only. Wrong LP inside the sleeve.
Fokeman 31st Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Status Quo - Hello! (1973)	I have the black and white poster but without any catalogue number to be found on the poster. It is definitely original and came with the first issue Spaceship label UK release.
Fokeman 29th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Judas Priest - Turbo (1986)	You're right. If this were just STEMRA it would be Benelux countries but BIEM/STEMRA means that it was also sold in France and other European countries. BIEM operates/operated through all Europe.
Fokeman 29th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Nic Jones - Nic Jones	The problem is that the Highway label clearly shows on the discs and it's the same picture. But we could consider that. They're not technically different labels. I'll discuss it with the Mods.
Fokeman 28th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Nic Jones - Nic Jones	Yes, I can answer that last question, belatedly. The Trailer/Leader catalogue was bought wholesale at the point of bankruptcy of the Leader company. The Zollman family who owned Highway and who operated out of Redditch, Worcestershire used the back catalogue, as best they could and reissued Nic Jones, Dick Gaughan and many other of the excellent recordings that came with the label. They also continued to sell existing stock but put a Highway sticker on the back of sleeve. Sadly, they went the same way only about 6 years later, whereupon they were, themselves, bought out, lock stock and barrel, by Celtic Music, owned at the time by Dave Bulmer. Bulmer had been a northern musician who played accordion and accompanied a wonderful flute and piccolo player, John Doonan, touring the festivals with him in the 1970s.
Fokeman 27th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Linda Hoyle - Pieces Of Me (1971)	Exactly! And that is probably less than 10% of the actual owners.
Fokeman 27th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album The Chantels - We Are The Chantels (1958)	Front cover image deleted. We can't accept watermarked images from the web. It damages the site.
Fokeman 27th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Linda Hoyle - Pieces Of Me (1971)	I suppose the problem is that one person creating "truth" is then perpetuated by people who quote the "truth" from what they have read or heard elsewhere. I doubt very much that there is anywhere, evidence that the 300 records pressed fact is true. Wikipedia is using another source which is doubtful, in my humble opinion.
Fokeman 26th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album The Humblebums - The Humblebums (1969)	They were The New Humblebums because prior to Rafferty's arrival, The Humblebums were Billy Connolly and Tam Harvey. Note Billy Connolly was spelled Connelly throughout by the early label printers!
Fokeman 26th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Plasmatics - New Hope For The Wretched (1980)	You've added two B sides @Jo Altmon
Fokeman 22nd Oct 2024		Vinyl Album La Chorale De Saint-Martin De Dunkerque - Chorale Saint-Martin (1973)	Date is 1973 as is given in the catalogue number 1973 30cm 16
Fokeman 19th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Émile Joulain - Cause Toujôus, Gâs Mile	I have the following, companion volume by the same artist and there is nothing in the run out grooves which indicates a date. The usual Pathé-Marconi numbers would have been very useful, but they are entirely absent from both of these records, I suspect. Probably from round about 1964/5
Fokeman 10th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys - For The Last Time (1974)	I would class this more like a box set, albeit with only two records but it includes a large booklet and a stiff, box sleeve which the two records and the booklet slide out of.
Fokeman 7th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album The Brighouse And Rastrick Band - The Floral Dance (1981)	Rear of sleeve image provided by Malcyramone.
Fokeman 7th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album The Brighouse And Rastrick Band - The Floral Dance (1977)	This TRS 109 is an interesting concept. At the time, Logo, who had just bought Transatlantic were running a TRS reissue series from the most commercial of Transatlantic's back catalogue. This, despite the fact that Transatlantic had already found several different ways of reissuing their back-catalogue with just a little re-packaging. They had, for example, had the TRA-SAM series which in most cases simply reissued a whole album with a different title. They had also used their XTRA label to reissue Transatlantic material. Following up on their huge hit single - Floral Dance - which had been promoted by Terry Wogan on BBC Radio, they actually put the LP out on Logo, which made it difficult for them to call it a Transatlantic LP. Instead they seem to have given it a reissue series TRS 109 code but not actually created any more Transatlantic labels. Perhaps they overestimated sales and never ran out of the original batch which was printed on LOGO labels? For completeness sake I would like to use this sleeve to create the TRS 109 which is missing from the Transatlantic catalogue, if there are no objections.
Fokeman 6th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Les Gens De Cherves - Une Vie Paysanne En Mireballais (1971)	The date coincides with the creation of the Les Gens De Cherves Association
Fokeman 5th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album The Choir Of King's College Cambridge, David Willcocks - G.P. Da Palestrina: Stabat Mater (1964)	Are we sure that there was a Mono equivalent of this record?
Fokeman 4th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Agour, Chiberoua ! (1958)	I think that we can assume that this record did NOT come from a Non-Smoking household.
Fokeman 1st Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Raven - Rock Until You Drop (1981)	Complete Italian Pressing uploaded. This should be the Italian version not the UK version. We can move images to the Italian version...
Fokeman 28th Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - His Holiness Pope John Paul II (1979)	Just for completeness' sake!
Fokeman 21st Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Jacqui And Bridie - Come Day, Go Day (1977)	This date is miles out! The date was 1977 but the first issue was on Canon not on NEVIS. This was probably round about 1980.
Fokeman 16th Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Peter Seeger - Darling Corey (1950)	Much better...
Fokeman 16th Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Peter Seeger - Darling Corey (1950)	Yes, that is a VERY bright blue, not really reflecting the actual colour of the labels.
Fokeman 13th Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Harry Robertson [Composer] - Hawk The Slayer (1980)	This is not the Australian folk singer but an English composer called Harry Robinson who went by Harry Robertson professionally.
Fokeman 13th Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Harry Robertson - Whale Chasing Men: Songs Of Whaling In Ice And Sun (1980)	AKA Dark Engine Room but also AKA "Little Pot Stove" as recorded by Nic Jones and many other singers since.
Fokeman 13th Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs (1980)	Little Pot Stove was originally "Wee Pot Stove" and was written by Harry Robertson for his LP "Whale Chasing Men". Nic Jones did not claim songwriting credit but allocated it Copyright Control "C.C.". probably because he didn't know who wrote it at the time. Likewise he did not credit himself or "Trad. Arr." for "Farewell To The Gold" which was written by Australian Paul Metsers, a wonderful songwriter, who performed it himself on one of his several LPs.
Fokeman 3rd Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Sledgehammer - Blood On Their Hands (1985)	There's another cover for this record with different images front and back. Same address on the back and an Import sticker for France on the front showing it was bought in FNAC.
Fokeman 1st Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du H. C. F. - Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du H. C. F. Avec Stephane Grappelli Et Hubert Rostaing (1973)	Songe D'Automne written by Archibald Joyce in fact and incorrectly attributed to Reinhardt.
Fokeman 1st Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Django Reinhardt - Django Reinhardt Volume II (1971)	Likewise "Songe" is a dream - Dream of Autumn, rather than Song D'Automne. Again, the rear of sleeve has it correctly. Although, saying that, they credit it to Reinhardt himself on the rear of sleeve when the label gives it as Archibald Joyce. Archibald Joyce. Neither can the numbers be relied upon - 39 is 39 on label and sleeve but 49 is 48 on the sleeve?

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