Vinyl Albums - Comments by moax429

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moax429 13th Aug 2022		Vinyl Album The Association - Renaissance (1966)	Were there any pressings of this that had "A Division of Four Star Television" in the rim print at the bottom? I know Warner Bros. Records purchased Valiant from Four Star in 1966 and absorbed Valiant into Warner Bros. As for Four Star, their back catalog of TV shows are now owned by Disney(!). In early 2019, Disney bought out the film library of 20th Century Fox (who owned Four Star's library at that time) and renamed the company to 20th Century Studios. Then all the Fox TV properties began being syndicated by Disney.
moax429 30th Jul 2022		Vinyl Album Gallery - Nice To Be With You (1972)	I received this album as a Christmas present in 1972, when I was just 10 years old. I still have it to this day (I also remember my Dad - may he rest in peace - enjoyed the entire album). At that time, I wasn't aware Gallery was from Detroit. We were then living in Lansing, Michigan, where my family and I stayed until June 1978 (previously, we lived in the Detroit suburb of Warren, Michigan, from 1964 until July 1971).
moax429 19th Jul 2022		Vinyl Album Pierre Bachelet And Hervé Roy - Emmanuelle (Original Soundtrack Recording) (1975)	At least this was during the days when movies like this were properly rated X and later NC-17, and not sneakily appealed to R like they are now. I believe Emmanuelle was one of only four X-rated films Columbia Pictures released in its long history. I don't remember what the others were (although there were a few NC-17's put out by its sister company, Sony Pictures Classics, in the 2000's).
moax429 17th Jul 2022		Vinyl Album Ray Charles - Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music Volume Two (1962)	Like the first album, there were also later pressings of Modern Sounds, Volume Two on ABC (these had the "rainbow-outline box" ABC logo on the black label).
moax429 9th Jul 2022		Vinyl Album Shelley Fabares - Shelley! (1962)	I can only imagine what "Where's it Gonna Get Me" (which was the B-side of "Johnny Angel") sounds like in stereo: Her voice comes from the left channel, singing the first verse. Then the right channel, singing the second. Then both voices singing both verses simultaneously from both channels. Am I right?
moax429 17th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Roy Orbison - The Classic Roy Orbison (1966)	Later reprinted with the blue-and-gold swirl MGM label (apparently from the early 80's, since it mentions Polydor in the rim text).
moax429 9th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Various Artists - This Is Soul (1968)	Also pressed with the orange and green Atlantic label, with the 1841 Broadway address in the rim print (no mention of Warner Communications yet). I have this copy, but unfortunately, my printer is not big enough to scan the whole record; when I tried to scan the label, it came out blurry. Sorry.
moax429 9th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Music Man (1962)	Also reprinted in the late 70's with the off-white Warner Bros. "shield and pinstripes" label and in the 80's with the white Warner Bros. "watermarked shields" label.
moax429 9th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Heindorf - For Whom The Bell Tolls (1958)	This was the very first album ever released on Warner Bros.
moax429 16th May 2022		Vinyl Album Jackie Gleason - The Best Of Jackie Gleason (1967)	Later reprinted in the 70's with the yellow Capitol label (no mention of Star Line on that one). "Melancholy Serenade" is a rerecording, not the original 1953 hit version.
moax429 24th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Alvin, Simon And Theodore With David Seville - The Alvin Show (1961)	My copy has the stock Liberty label (with the crest at 9 o'clock and the fading color spectrum on the left side of the label), and it too is "....visual sound STEREO." Unfortunately, I have no way of copying the labels since my printer is not a large format one. When, oh when will the original Alvin Show series ever make it to DVD?.... (Listening to this album only made me wish more I could see it again. I especially remember my Mom - may she and my Dad rest in peace - liked Clyde Crashcup a lot.)
moax429 22nd Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Nelson Riddle - Batman (1966)	Wasn't this album reissued by PolyGram's Casablanca label in the 80's? I thought I saw a Casablanca pressing of this once.
moax429 31st Oct 2021		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Don't Knock The Twist (1962)	It's possible George Young, a prominent Philadelphia session sax player, performed track B5. He had also made an album for Chancellor the year before.
moax429 31st Oct 2021		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Shindig (1965)	The stereo version of this album is itself hard to find also! But luckily I found one about six years ago (I previously had the mono pressing of Shindig). I didn't care for track A3, but, as that Osmonds song said, "One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch." It was especially a treat to hear "The Name Game" in stereo.
moax429 30th Oct 2021		Vinyl Album Bob Kuban And The In-Men - The Cheater (1966)	Perhaps the title song is about that one so-and-so who became the all-time winner on Jeopardy (and, unfortunately, who might become the permanent host if Mayim Bialik declines)? Pretty sure he cheated his way to the top....
moax429 30th Oct 2021		Vinyl Album The Hanna-Barbera Organs And Chimes - Merry Christmas (1965)	I'm certain the organ and chimes were played by Hoyt S. Curtin, then Hanna-Barbera's music director. I was only 5 when I first had this album in 1967; I got a record player to play it on for Christmas that year, but soon proceeded to break the machine, after which my folks told me I couldn't have another one until I got older (3 years later in 1970, to be exact, when I turned 8). Exactly one decade later - longing to relive some nice old childhood memories - I got in touch with Hanna-Barbera and asked if they had any copies of Merry Christmas laying around in their archives I could buy (by 1977, Hanna-Barbera had no record division anymore) - but the music director at that time, Paul DeKorte, was nice enough to send me 2 copies - just for the asking - one of which I still have now (and had transferred to CD about four years ago)!
moax429 26th Oct 2021		Vinyl Album Bobby Darin - The Bobby Darin Story (1961)	Anybody who has heard the stereo version of this album may be annoyed - as I was - by the "ping-pong" stereo effects (I had this on CD once). You'd be much better off going with the mono version (shame Atlantic didn't release that.pressing of The Bobby Darin Story on CD, much like Motown used all mono masters for their Ultimate Collections with the Supremes, Four Tops, etc. Motown even went so far as to explain the stereo versions of those hits by those stars were different versions).
moax429 23rd Oct 2021		Vinyl Album Ira Ironstrings - Stereo Goes Charleston (1959)	Uploaded front and back cover images (apologies if the back side seems a little blurry. If anyone has a clearer image of the back cover, please feel free to upload it).
moax429 18th Oct 2021		Vinyl Album Julie Andrews - "Star!" Original Motion Picture Sound Track Album (1968)	Star! was one of the major flops of 1968. It almost put 20th Century Fox into bankruptcy, along with Doctor Doolittle.
moax429 15th Sep 2021		Vinyl Album Various Artists - You Must Remember These Volume II (1972)	"Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" is an alternate stereo take. The original hit radio version was in mono.
moax429 13th Jul 2021		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Golden Hits (1967)	All tracks are the original recordings except tracks B2, B3, and B5, which are rerecordings.Tracks A4 and B6 are "padded" (slightly extended) versions. This album appears not to have been properly mastered as the sound is "out of phase" (specifically, the drum tracks are out of sync).
moax429 13th Jul 2021		Vinyl Album Lalo Schifrin - Cool Hand Luke (1967)	A Warner Bros. movie soundtrack album on then-Paramount Pictures-owned Dot Records? Very unusual. I remember reading there was a rift between Warner Bros. and Paramount in 1958 regarding Tab Hunter. He recorded for Dot, but was under contract as an actor to Warner Bros. (the studio), and Warners was extremely P.O.'d Paramount was publicizing their star that they formed Warner Bros. Records and signed Hunter right away. Now hard to believe Warner Bros. Records is now Warner Records (they aren't affiliated with WarnerMedia any longer, but with Warner Music Group, a totally different company), and, despite the recent attempt by Universal Music to revive Dot Records (under their Country-oriented Big Machine label), that that label is again dormant. By the way - I did recognize that track for the ABC-owned TV stations' news in the video above. From 1978 to 1983 my family and I lived in Glenwood, Illinois (WLS, Channel 7 in Chicago), and from 1983 to 1986 in the New York City suburb of Saddle River, New Jersey (WABC, Channel 7 in New York City).
moax429 6th Jul 2021		Vinyl Album Jerry Goldsmith - Poltergeist (1982)	This was the final original album of any kind released on MGM Records (not counting the Lena Horne and Connie Francis compilation LP's that followed). After that - especially with the parent MGM facing possible bankruptcy and having merged with United Artists to temporarily avoid that fate - the record division folded. The Poltergeist soundtrack has since been rereleased, first on Turner Classic Movie Music via Rhino Records, and more recently on Warner Bros.' Watertower Music. (Atlanta media mogul Ted Turner bought the pre-June MGM film and television library - of which Poltergeist is a part - in July 1986, and in the late 90's Turner Entertainment became part of the Time Warner - now Warner Media - empire. The parent MGM owns all the Poltergeist sequels made after June 1986, beginning with Part 2.)
moax429 12th Apr 2021		Vinyl Album Mullendore - Original Music From The Soundtrack Honey West (1965)	Wouldn't this album have been released in 1966? In 1967 ABC Paramount had already changed its name to ABC Records.
moax429 17th Jun 2020		Vinyl Album The Young Americans - Presented By Johnny Mathis (1965)	If you look closely, Vicki Lawrence is the third from the left in the fourth row.
moax429 17th Jun 2020		Vinyl Album The Young Americans - While We're Young (1967)	I read somewhere Vicki Lawrence of The Carol Burnett Show was a member of this group. But, looking at the personnel on the back cover, she wasn't in this lineup. (Maybe because Carol Burnett was about to premiere four months later?)
moax429 3rd Feb 2019		Vinyl Album The Partridge Family - The World Of The Partridge Family (1974)	Another piece of trivia: Screen Gems Television, which made the Partridge Family series, "morphed into" Columbia Pictures Television right after the show was canceled in September 1974. Columbia Pictures Television retained that name until 1996, when they became known as Columbia TriStar Television (in 1986, for one year only, Columbia Pictures Television was known as Coca-Cola Telecommunications, after their then-current owner). In January 2006, the TV division assumed its current name, Sony Pictures Television (in September 1989, Sony purchased Columbia Pictures). After Bell became Arista Records in late 1974, they were still a division of Columbia Pictures until March 1979, at which time Arista was purchased by the German Ariola Eurodisc company. In early 1986, Ariola also purchased RCA Records, and the company became RCA/Ariola. In mid-1988, the German Bertlesmann company bought out RCA/Ariola, and both RCA and Arista were put under BMG Music's aegis. Finally, in the mid-2000's, Sony purchased BMG, and all of BMG's labels were now under Sony's roof. So - in short - the entire Partridge Family saga, both audio and video, is all back together again now at Sony. (Unfortunately, Sony folded Arista in 2011 and placed that label's catalog under RCA Records' administration. Technically, RCA now owns all those classic Partridge Family hits under Sony - very sad.)
moax429 12th Oct 2016		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Dangerous Christmas Of Red Riding Hood (1965)	Too bad I never got a chance to see this special when I was just a kid (I was only 3 years old when it first aired). Why isn't The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood on DVD? I presume ABC Studios produced the show and therefore Disney - which now owns ABC - would own the DVD rights. (I believe this album - if the masters still exist - would now be owned by Universal Music via Geffen Records.)
moax429 12th Oct 2016		Vinyl Album The Impressions - Greatest Hits (1965)	I presume you mean the label with the "Mobius strip and sound wave" logo. The page you cross-referenced posts an error notice when opened. ABC Paramount became ABC Records in 1966 when the parent company changed its name to American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. Then-label president Larry Newton felt record buyers could better identify with the ABC network logo, as well as provide for better cross-promotion. (ABC had also branched out into such industries at that time as theatrical films, Broadway stage productions, and book publishing.)