Vinyl Albums - Comments by Scratchy45

Vinyl Albums - Comments by Scratchy45

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Scratchy45 15th May 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Motown 20th Anniversary Album (1980)	Scans added. Pressed using an autoplayer sequence Disc1 (sides 1,4), Disc 2 (sides 2, 3)
Scratchy45 15th May 2017		Vinyl Album The Modern Jazz Quartet - One Never Knows (1958)	This was the sleeve for my secondhand copy - inside of which was nestling the mono disc.
Scratchy45 14th May 2017		Vinyl Album Chubby Checker - Twistin' Round The World (1962)	The twisting craze gets milked to the last drop and beyond on this LP, which I used to own a UK copy of. While some is pretty amusing, for example hearing Chubby Checker in German ("Der Tvist beginnt,- macht sie nicht so crazy - Der tvist beginnt - endlich ist er hier".... Tantzen tvist mit mir", others are the soundtrack to a twistin' barrel being repeatedly scraped. [YouTube Video]
Scratchy45 13th May 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Capitol's Country Festival (1970)	I've left the precise country open, or even possible export status. This one doesn't seem to fit the current model. Last scan shows printing credit from a Singapore company, and three local E.M.I. companies. From what I can make out, E.M.I. Records (S.E.A.) Pte. Limited was Singapore-based, while the names of the other two companies are self-explanatory in terms of territory. the inner sleeve also displays the same three company names. One side advertises "Western" releases from the UK and USA, while the other advertises local artists (mostly Hong Kong artists from what I can see) . I really need to scan this for clarity and create composite images for 45spaces inner sleeves, though putting it there also begs a question as to how to post, country-wise. I can supply matrix numbers from the run-out if required.
Scratchy45 13th May 2017		Vinyl Album Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together (1976)	Scan added of shrink-wrapped UK-imported example, complete with MCPS copyright sticker on the shrinkwrapping. For a while, this was the only way for a UK customer to obtain a copy of this album, bolted together from the A-sides of a couple of singles, a complete EP, and Ferry B-side re-recordings of Roxy Music album tracks.
Scratchy45 13th May 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - BBC Space Themes (1978)	Sleeve/label photos added: this is one of those dark and glossy covers, so a bit of image manipulation was required.The side 2 label lists track 2 as "Star Treck" to describe an arrangement played by Johnny Keating and his Orchestra. The guitarist and his wah-wah pedal are given a fairly free hand.... It's a bit of a jolt sometimes to hear longer or expanded versions of themes before the familiar sections used on the TV kick in - e.g. Tomorrow's World.
Scratchy45 13th May 2017		Vinyl Album Ryan - ...At The Rank (1975)	"This record should be played with a limp leek at 52 dragons to the groove" - to quote the sleeve.
Scratchy45 12th May 2017		Vinyl Album Chic - Trés Chic (1978)	Europe-only release, essentially the same album as C'est Chic, but released before it with this different title and cover and including two extra tracks (the singles Dance, Dance, Dance and Everybody Dance). It's suggested that the cover was considered too risqué.
Scratchy45 10th May 2017		Vinyl Album Marino Marini And His Quartet - Marino Marini Again (1962)	Marino Marini Quartet, with legs and disembodied female lower torso, if the cover's any guide. Those stilettos can't be doing the piano lid any good....
Scratchy45 9th May 2017		Vinyl Album Teach In - Festival (1975)	"Ding A Dong Every Hour, When You Pick A Flower"...... The sleeve speaks for itself.
Scratchy45 9th May 2017		Vinyl Album Nana Mouskouri - Dans Le Soleil Et Dans Le Vent (1969)	A linguistic mix. Songs nearly all originally written in other languages but translated into and sung in French (even the one Hadjidakis song). You want to hear "Love Minus Zero", "Both Sides Now" or "Ruby, Don't take your love to town" sung in immaculately-enunciated French by a non-French singer? Here is your opportunity. Greek-language sleevenotes, and distribution statements, disc made in Greece but songs listed in Latin rather than Greek text. Song credits and technical stuff in French (e.g. "gravure universelle" - which I at first thought indicated some kind of pan-europe pressing rather than a record playable on stereo or mono players. There's a long explanation of that in the small print at the bottom of the sleeve which I should have read first before asking a forum question about what "gravure universelle" meant.
Scratchy45 8th May 2017		Vinyl Album Carly Simon - No Secrets (1973)	Brilliant section with Klaus Voorman on the "classic albums" production covering this, recently aired on BBC4. He demonstrates and explains the "thrum" that he played in the intro to "You're So Vain". It's instantly recognisable, but I'd never imagined it to be bass guitar,
Scratchy45 8th May 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 14 Carats, Volume 1: Rock And Roll Classics 1956-1963 (1974)	An interesting collection: John Tobler was one of the compilers - a nice interview with him (totally unrelated) here.
Scratchy45 8th May 2017		Vinyl Album Roxy Music - Manifesto (1979)	There are two distinct pressings under this cat# - earlier ones with the original version of "Angel Eyes", and later ones after the release of the 7" single version which include that instead. As far as I know, the only way to tell them apart is to play them.
Scratchy45 8th May 2017		Vinyl Album Stevie Wonder - Stevie Wonder Live (1970)	One of the more bizarre credits I've seen on an album sleeve: Side 2: A: A Place In The Sun Italian - Stevie Wonder
Scratchy45 8th May 2017		Vinyl Album Bryan Ferry * Roxy Music - Street Life * 20 Great Hits (1989)	The appearance here of the asterisk in both album title and artist name(s) has a lot to do with the sleeve design, which uses the asterisk symbol as both a decorative device and separator between different items. Sleeve Designers 1 - Discographers 0 That said, I guess consistency is the best way to go.
Scratchy45 6th May 2017		Vinyl Album The Mamas And The Papas - The Mamas And The Papas Deliver (1967)	..and scans of the standard issue added.
Scratchy45 6th May 2017		Vinyl Album Y Diliau - Tân Neu Haf (1980)	Added with the appropriate circumflex in the title and tracks A1, B1, B2 (have just corrected it on Discogs).
Scratchy45 6th May 2017		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - Trams (1971)	Once upon a time, I bought a secondhand copy of an Average White Band album in a plain grey sleeve with stickers fixed onto it with handwritten title and track listings. The disc is long gone now but the reversed sleeve reveals itself in all its anorak glory. It's been hole-punched for display and bears a handwritten "Specimen" note. No labels for reasons stated, but for those interested, the "also available" section at the bottom of the sleeve lists other transport delights available on the BBC label - Bygone Buses REB 81M End of Steam REB 30M Narrow Boats REB 56M Green All The Way REB45M Powered Flight REB 45M Railways In Aspic REB 49M Traction Engines REB 107M
Scratchy45 6th May 2017		Vinyl Album Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure (1973)	Item added with sleeve scans - I appear to have a UK issue inside a german sleeve, so no label scan possible.
Scratchy45 5th May 2017		Vinyl Album Roxy Music - Roxy Music (1972)	I never realised until a few days ago that for this particular version of the USA release, Graham Simpson's photo was swapped out in favour of Rik Kenton, who plays bass only on "Virginia Plain" (added to this release). Also missing are Simon Puxley's florid sleevenotes.
Scratchy45 2nd May 2017		Vinyl Album John Martyn - Glorious Fool (1981)	Scans added. Thanks ppint: your comments on another version made me realise I'd lazily hit the "I Own it" button on a different release.
Scratchy45 28th Apr 2017		Vinyl Album Ted Heath And His Music - Hits I Missed (1958)	I too had no idea until I scanned the musician credits on this album sleeve (sorry, the scan here is probably not sharp enough to read). A quick google elsewhere shows his appearances in Heath's band started in (1945) - though the abstract of this British Library sound archive suggests it was just one aspect of a (possibly precarious) life as a jobbing musician.
Scratchy45 27th Apr 2017		Vinyl Album Ted Heath And His Music - Hits I Missed (1958)	I've added scans of the cover in all its late-50s glory. "Now if you could just stand there with the longbow please, and look to your right Mr Heath..." His band include Stan Tracey and Cliff Townsend (possibly earning the money to help pay for one of his son Pete's guitars).
Scratchy45 26th Apr 2017		Vinyl Album Ted Heath And His Music - Gershwin For Moderns (1957)	Scans of slightly odd-looking sleeve added. As with some other 1950s sleeve designs - "What were they thinking?"
Scratchy45 26th Apr 2017		Vinyl Album Ted Heath And His Music - Hits I Missed (1958)	In mono on LK 4275. I'm tempted to add the mono issue of the very cheesy cover here, as the only differences I can see elsewhere are the triangular stereo Decca logo and the STEREO/Cat# text. I guess it requires a separate entry though.
Scratchy45 26th Apr 2017		Vinyl Album Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (1976)	Nice to see a well-preserved sleeve of this fantastic record. Mine, bought at the time of original release, has better-preserved vinyl than cover. It's been played many. many times!
Scratchy45 25th Apr 2017		Vinyl Album John Lewis - Grand Encounter (1957)	Some slightly tatty scans added (applies most to rear of sleeve).
Scratchy45 25th Apr 2017		Vinyl Album The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Countdown: Time In Outer Space (1962)	Scans added: this cover had seen a liberal application of reinforcing sellotape. I've edited it from the front cover but chickened out on doing the same to the rear.
Scratchy45 21st Apr 2017		Vinyl Album Beaver And Krause - Gandharva (The Celestial Musician) (1971)	Also exists with same cat. no. but Burbank label (scans added)

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