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wordnwot 22nd Jan 2019		Vinyl Album Tom Jones - Live In Las Vegas (1969)	This and it's stereo sibling SKL5032 I believe mark the last of the UK released UNBOXED Decca logo labels. LK 5035 and SKL 5035 Born To Take The Highway - Foggy Dew-O came with BOXED Decca logo labels
wordnwot 12th Jan 2019		Vinyl Album Shirley Bassey - Big Spender (1971)	Budget re-run of ........
wordnwot 10th Jan 2019		Vinyl Album Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again I'd Do It All Over You (1970)	First press cat no. SKL 5052 in line with other Stereo Decca releases from this period. First press with a misprinted sleeve ("If I Had To Do It" on the back cover), dark blue labels and SKL 5052. Then the Cat number was changed to SKL-R 5052. This is somewhat odd and way out of sequence with other Decca cat numbers of this period. There are transitional Sleeve SKL 5052 and Label SKL-R 5052 cat no. combinations out there. This release was just 4 Decca releases (cat no's) after the last Decca Stereo/Mono release. So This just missed the mono option by a smidge.
wordnwot 6th Jan 2019		Vinyl Album Aphrodite's Child - Best Of Aphrodite's Child (1971)	What dreadful Album cover artwork!
wordnwot 4th Jan 2019		Vinyl Album Shirley Bassey - Something Else (1971)	Last appearance of the Purple/Orange UA label.
wordnwot 4th Dec 2018		Vinyl Album Georgie Fame and The Harry South Big Band - Sound Venture (1966)	Project funded entirely by Georgie Fame.
wordnwot 5th Sep 2018		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Pajama Game (1957)	Added cover scans of a rare find - a Mint copy!
wordnwot 27th Aug 2018		Vinyl Album The Moody Blues - To Our Children's, Children's, Children (1969)	FocusB - TH4 Side 2 Candle of life is a minute shorter than the Album version, but on the made in UK for Dutch market release 6101 600 http://www.45cat.com/record/6101600nl we are treated to the full album version. Now that was nice of them:) They also use ZDR not XZDR as on their UK releases (except TH2/2 of course) for stereo. What was going on there?
wordnwot 27th Aug 2018		Vinyl Album The Moody Blues - To Our Children's, Children's, Children (1969)	Focus B - I stand corrected. I have every Threshold single TH1 through TH25, but did not re-check, I just checked and you are spot on, with TH2 side 2 alone is mono amongst singles. btw, (TH3 has a lovely wide stereo field). so all checked.
wordnwot 23rd Aug 2018		Vinyl Album The Moody Blues - To Our Children's, Children's, Children (1969)	Apart from an early Threshold singles TH 2 side 2, this Mono LP was 'It' as far as mono releases on Threshold. Decca made a decision to end concurrent mono/stereo versions, sometime April - May 1970 'ish. So this left a window from Nov 1969 when it 1st appeared through to April 1970. One would assume that there was only 1 batch pressed to cover demand and then that was the lot.
wordnwot 11th Aug 2018		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'N Roll (1974)	My inner sleeve has the Luxury time added 5.02
wordnwot 10th Aug 2018		Vinyl Album Nazareth - Loud 'n' Proud (1973)	Album Cover track titles A2 - Not Faking It, Label - Not Fakin' it
wordnwot 8th Aug 2018		Vinyl Album Ralph McTell - Not Till Tomorrow (1972)	Just checked matrix on my copy, A3/B3. Matrix run-out message A3 McTell, It How It is - Bobil My A3/B3 labels have different fonts, narrower spacing yet thicker and enboldened and the edging text is missing the WB logo at the end at 2pm Uploaded scans and pg3 of lyric sheet (illegible almost for reading.)
wordnwot 14th Jun 2018		Vinyl Album Colosseum - Those Who Are About To Die Salute You (1969)	Colosseum founder passes away: Jon Hiseman, passed away on June 12 after a battle with brain cancer at the age of 73...
wordnwot 14th Jun 2018		Vinyl Album Ashton, Gardner And Dyke - Ashton, Gardner And Dyke (1969)	Label: Track 4 Side A 'Young Man' Sleeve: Track 4 Side A 'Young Man Ain't Nothing In The World These Days'
wordnwot 14th Jun 2018		Vinyl Album Ashton, Gardner And Dyke - Ashton, Gardner And Dyke (1969)	Rare single off this album
wordnwot 20th May 2018		Vinyl Album The Zombies - Odessey And Oracle (1968)	I thought I'd check the difference between the mono and stereo versions of Care of Cell 44 and I was stunned to see that the mono version (supposedly the original mix) is 45 secs shorter than the stereo mix, the tracks remain largely the same until about 2.40 secs in when things start to alter radically, with the mono finishing at 3.07 and the stereo (with added repeating verses) finishing at 3.53 approx. Worth checking out if you have the time! Obviously, I have too much time, but hey, aren't we all nerdy somehow being part of this website. (see image 1661421)
wordnwot 31st Mar 2018		Vinyl Album Donovan - Donovan's Greatest Hits (1969)	So instead of it being called, Donovan's Greatest Hits, it should've been titled The compiler's Greatest Favourites from the Donovan Canon. (when I purchased my copy when it came out, I must admit a lot of the songs were unfamiliar so, it was an LP of newly released stuff).
wordnwot 20th Feb 2018		Vinyl Album The Monkees - Headquarters (1967)	[YouTube Video] But it never appears on Monkees compilations??
wordnwot 19th Feb 2018		Vinyl Album Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)	Note!, Ist presses came with black record inner sleeve same delicate black type as Beatles Abbey Road inner sleeves. Its Sleeve is quite Blue by comparison to those shown and with Blue EMI text, etc. as in Magic Marmalade's image Number: 548981 Example: Similar...
wordnwot 11th Feb 2018		Vinyl Album The Association - Insight Out (1967)	Track 2 Side 2 HAPPINESS (missing the) IS on the label or perhaps the IS has been added to to the Sleeve rear.
wordnwot 7th Feb 2018		Vinyl Album Rock And Roll Allstars - Red China Rocks (1972)	It's on a 50p mate!
wordnwot 24th Jan 2018		Vinyl Album The Bee Gees - Odessa (1969)	Candidate for the last Polydor mono version vinyl release in U.K.
wordnwot 22nd Jan 2018		Vinyl Album Spirit - Twelve Dreams Of Doctor Sardonicus (1981)	Track running order still not corrected on Cover Rear.
wordnwot 2nd Jan 2018		Vinyl Album Kaleidoscope - Faintly Blowing (1969)	The 1970's Aldershot was a rich picking ground treasure trove for me and many valuable bits of vinyl. Sadly Kaleidoscope was not one of them, I had never heard of them before 45cat came along and I blame BBC Radio 1 for that, as I listened all throught the mid to late sixties into 1970's and their music never crossed my path. One particular item that sticks in my mind is >>>>>>
wordnwot 30th Dec 2017		Vinyl Album Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink (1971)	russh29 YQ... but the brown labels on this entry uploaded by "thepretender" are the 2nd type you referred to ? does 2nd type mean 2nd pressing or were two label types used on the first pressing... A. No it means nothing specific, NOT 2nd Pressing, it only gives a guide to the point in time when it was pressed. example, if it had small Deram on brown label - that identifies it to be the first run of vinyl that used a stack of labels from the printer in that style, between April 1971 - Late 1971. If the vinyl was given a brown label with larger DERAM text size, this would confirm the vinyl was pressed sometime between March 1972 - May 1972 that used a stack of labels printed up with the larger text and so on with the red labels. It is likely that some months never saw a DERAM record pressed up so there will be some months missing, as in Late 1971 to March 1972 etc. (Note this is my interpretation of data from Labelography Volume 2 by Jan Pettersson, who is a guru of these things (apparently). I've revisited the Labelography book vol 2. Suffice to say the Deram label story is a complex entity. For the purposes of this Caravan record, the coloured labels shown are referred to thus. The Slightly Orange, Red Deram label shown 1st is known as type #24. 2nd brown large Deram are know as type #22 and type #23. the difference between the #22 & #23 is that in type #22 the date sits at the bottom, type #23 date sits right side middle. Type #21 is now shown and resembles type #22 but with small Deram brown label. This is the 1st type that ITLOGAP appeared on and is 1st press. If you want more... ISBN-13: 978-91-89136-72-4 Labelography book
wordnwot 20th Nov 2017		Vinyl Album Pretty Things - Parachute (1970)	Lot of harmonies in the vocals which are somewhat tucked away centre at too low a volume for my liking, bit more 'out front' vocals would've sealed a good album.
wordnwot 18th Nov 2017		Vinyl Album AC/DC - High Voltage (1975)	Rip Malcolm Young
wordnwot 12th Oct 2017		Vinyl Album The Sunshine Company - The Sunshine Company (1968)	1st UK Single 2nd UK Single 3rd UK Single
wordnwot 22nd Jul 2017		Vinyl Album Simon And Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)	My laminated front matrix A1 and B1 has Boudleaux with printed record cover. Rear cover missing Acuff-Rose, but label has it.

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