Vinyl Albums - Comments by Neil Forbes

Vinyl Albums - Comments by Neil Forbes

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Neil Forbes 23rd Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Jackson 5 - ABC (1970)	@Jasper, they could afford to "splurge" so they made 'em thick back then!
Neil Forbes 22nd Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Traveling Wilburys - Volume One (1988)	When I first bought a CD player, one of the first CDs I bought to play on it was this album.
Neil Forbes 22nd Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Neil Diamond - Hot August Night (1972)	RC, Are all three copies Australian issue or is one of them, perhaps of overseas origin?
Neil Forbes 21st Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Neil Diamond - Double Gold (1973)	C4, "Love To Dance" is the only track I'm missing from this set. I've got all the other tracks spread across three or four other EMI-issued labels, Axis, Stateside or EMI-International.
Neil Forbes 21st Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Neil Diamond - Gold (1973)	Interesting... This US issue has what appears to be a gold border round the front cover. This does not appear on the Australian issue, or subsequent reissues.
Neil Forbes 20th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle (1984)	PhilMH, I stand(or sit) corrected! the Grapevine track IS the single edit! But what I forgot about, and was reminded of just now as I looked at my copy, it's coupled for auto-changer turntables(Side 1/Side 4, then Side 2/Side 3). And now I remember, the full version of Grapevine was on an album called Creedence Gold. And RC, the CD would be a single disc as the capacity of that format could easily handle the entire content of this album, whereas the vinyl LP was restricted to 30 minutes a side(at a pinch, 33 minutes).
Neil Forbes 20th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle (1984)	My copy is definitely a 2LP set! Issued in 1976 as L-70057/8 by Festival in Australia. This gets me back to the argument(probably dealt with in the Forums) about 2LP album catalogue numbers. If it takes 2 discs to store the content of one album, then the same catalogue number should apply to both discs and only the matrix numbers should(mostly) be sequential. Thus, Chronicle should've been L-70057 OR L-70058, but certainly NOT L-70057/8.
Neil Forbes 20th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle (1984)	Aha! RC! True confessions of a former community radio presenter! So *THAT'S* why you played this track! How'd I find out? "I Heard It Through The Grapevine", of course! Ha-ha
Neil Forbes 20th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young - Déjà Vu (1970)	Do you get a strange feeling like you've seen this somewhere before? Ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 20th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 22 Explosive Hits Volume Two (1972)	DOH!!!....Nuts! - Doughnuts! LOL
Neil Forbes 20th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle (1984)	This LP showed up in Australia when Fantasy was distributed by Festival. It carried the full 11-odd minute version of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine".
Neil Forbes 20th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 22 Explosive Hits Volume Two (1972)	RC, you're fine but your keyboard can't count. There were 22 tracks!(gotta be a catch there! Catch-22, get it? ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 20th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 22 Explosive Hits Volume Two (1972)	The newest cuts on this LP date from 1972 so, by default, that's the issue year of this LP.
Neil Forbes 20th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 22 Explosive Hits Volume Two (1972)	And how many of the songs on this album are present in their entirety? Probably none of them!
Neil Forbes 19th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Lee Dorsey - Night People (1978)	When exactly did Lee Dorsey pass away(I know he died of emphysema, a lung disease) but I cannot remember when. Was it late 1970s or early 1980s?
Neil Forbes 15th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show - Sloppy Seconds (1972)	I've seen Dr. Hook "live" a couple of times, both as & the Medicine Show while still with CBS, then later when they were with EMI(on their Capitol label) and had dropped the "Medicine Show" tag. In both instances I saw them at the Civic Theatre, Newcastle, and in both instances they were total crack-ups! A great deal of their show involved mad-cap carry-on between songs. The only downside was when Dennis Locorriere did his "Kiss It Away", a dirge of a song that carried on seemingly far too long.
Neil Forbes 15th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 16 Top Hits November / Dezember ´86 (1986)	@RC, Vielen dank!
Neil Forbes 15th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show - Sloppy Seconds (1972)	@RC, it's because they dared to plug a magazine and the stodgy ol' BBC couldn't allow it, being, as they were, strictly non-commercial.
Neil Forbes 15th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 16 Top Hits November / Dezember ´86 (1986)	Three volumes of this series are on display here but it seems the content of each originates in Britain or America. Are there any indigenous German recordings in these sets, sung in German?
Neil Forbes 15th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show - Sloppy Seconds (1972)	I knew of this album and several tracks from it have turned up on other "best-of"-type albums, but this LP seems to be "rare as hens' teeth".
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Diana Ross And The Supremes Plus (1970)	@Jasper, thanks for that info! Looks like the remaining 5 issues were a waste of vinyl! The label started with a modest bang but went out with a whimper! The two that I do have, this and GE-0003 - Simon & Garfunkel, are the only ones I'll bother with.
Neil Forbes 12th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Diana Ross And The Supremes Plus (1970)	This and the Glen Campbell LP would've been the only ones made by EMI, unless, out of the ten in total in this limited "Gold Edge series" there were any other EMI acts appearing. Not all had the "gold edge" on the labels either, as evident in GE-0003, Simon & Garfunkel which carries the standard CBS label of the day but with the Gold Edge" serial number instead of the regular SBP-series numbers.
Neil Forbes 12th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 12 (1982)	Yep, not surprising! Like I said, If Astor had "left well enough alone" and not tried to buy the Motown rights off EMI Australia, maybe, just maybe, Astor might've survived beyond 1982.
Neil Forbes 12th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 12 (1982)	Unless I miss my guess, I figure that not long after this LP was issued in Britain, EMI relinquished British rights to Motown. EMI had already lost the Australian rights to Astor. Astor's purchase of Motown sent them broke. Not only did the record division go down the "gurgle-hole"(drain) but the consumer electrical/electronics division followed close behind. Astor went *"Ker-Blooey"*! Should've left well enough alone.
Neil Forbes 10th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Vol.3 (1969)	For the Australian issue, add a silver border(about an inch wide) around the rear sleeve. I have this on British LP and on CD, but not with the CD packaging, to which Roger Forster provided the link. Where I saw the Aussie issue? It was at a rehab centre in Hornsby(outer northern suburb of Sydney) in 1972.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - That'll Be The Day (1973)	This album was issued in Australia by EMI on the Stateside label, a follow-up movie called "Stardust", also starring David Essex in the role of Jim McLain, had its soundtrack also carried here on the Stateside label.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Power House (1976)	It's fairly futile trying to compare the US and Australian K-Tel LPs beyond the "cosmetics"(cover and label designs) because the titles and track content vary wildly between them.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Memories Vol. 3 (1970)	Geez.... the tracks on this are right out of the vault! They(EMI Britain) must've snuck into Record Collector's deep, dark, cavernous archive to get this lot! Ay, RC? Ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 8 (1973)	There were just three tracks from this album that actually made our charts directly, RC. They were A1, A6 and B5. I don't really count cover versions. Cover versions are sourced from elsewhere, not this album.
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 8 (1973)	This one did make it to the Australian market via EMI Australia, but other volumes didn't(see my comment elsewhere), though we didn't get the clear purple disc, we just got the run-of-the-mill black job. The content of this LP seems to scan the years 1970 up to late 1972 or early 1973.

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