Vinyl Album - Mel And Tim - Starting All Over Again - Stax

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Mel And Tim
Title:	Starting All Over Again
Label:	Stax
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	2325-090
Date:	1973
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Mel And Tim	Don't Mess With My Money, My Honey Or My Woman	Mitchell	Rate
A2	Mel And Tim	Starting All Over Again	Mitchell	Rate
A3	Mel And Tim	I May Not Be What You Want	Mitchell, Shelby	Rate
A4	Mel And Tim	Carry Me	Mitchell, Shelby	Rate
A5	Mel And Tim	Free For All	Mitchell	Rate
B1	Mel And Tim	Heaven Knows	Banks, Jackson, Hampton	Rate
B2	Mel And Tim	Wrap It Up	Hayes, Porter	Rate
B3	Mel And Tim	What's Your Name	Johnson	Rate
B4	Mel And Tim	I'm Your Puppet	Penn, Oldham	Rate
B5	Mel And Tim	Too Much Wheelin' And Dealin'	Banks, Jackson	Rate

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PhilMH 3rd Oct 2019		Purely by coincidence, I've just come across this Solomon Burke album on MGM that also had a stickered cover for UK release via Polydor, and this didn't even make the US R & B album chart; makes me wonder whether imported covers for "niche" product was a frequent occurrence at Polydor UK? (Interestingly, the German release with the same catalogue number has a completely different cover!). The only other one that I'm aware of is James Brown's THE ORIGINAL DISCO MAN from late 1979/early 1980.



ppint. 1st Oct 2019		hi philmh: over 50 catters confess to owning the merkin single, "starting all over again", so i think it was reasonable for polydor to have high hopes for both it, and the lp from which it was taken - so some kind of "strike while the iron is hot" - no? (and whilst "backfield in motion" hadn't charted here in the uk, it was still an immensely popular party/disco dance single, and had been something of a "turntable hit" on uk radio - and sold pretty well over time - so there was a mel and tim track record...)



PhilMH 30th Sep 2019		Hi ppint, my first thought was a rush job too, but as the title single didn't chart in the UK, and the album only got to # 175 (Top 200 albums) and # 35 (Top R & B albums) in the US, I don't think it would have met anyone's definition of "hot".



ppint. 30th Sep 2019		philmh: *nods* - or a rush job, to get the lp into the shops whilst it was - relatively - hot: they could've moved to yuk- or yeurppean-printed sleeves later - if sales warranted a "later"...



PhilMH 30th Sep 2019		Discogs has a UK copy showing a US cover stickered with the 2325 090 pop catalogue number and SUPER price code (probably a bit over-optimistic expecting to get any sales at top price; STANDARD would probably have been a better bet, unless Polydor put everything out at SUPER price at that time?. Anyway, the album didn't chart in the UK). Trying to imagine why they imported US covers - perhaps it was only a small pressing run, and the usual LP cover printers specified minimum quantities that were more than had been pressed? Anyway, I think 1973 is a more likely release year, as the US release seems to have been in December 1972 - Billboard of 23rd December shows the album in the Bubbling Under LP chart.



ppint. 30th Sep 2019		nickinstoke: "pass"; but, for polydor/polygram to've handled it, the merkin sleeve would've needed to've been stickered or overprinted with their 2325-090 cat# - is there any sign of this having been the case on your lp sleeve?



nickinstoke 18th Apr 2019		My copy of this album, bought in the 1970s, has a UK record in a US sleeve. Were US sleeves used on all copies of the UK release?

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USA - Stax - 1972

Canada - Stax - 1973

Germany - Stax - 1973