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Vinyl Album

Artist: Various Artists Title: 20 Red Hot Hits Label:   Now Country: Australia Catalogue: N-001 Date: 1970 Format: LP Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  5 Own Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Johnny Cash	What Is Truth	Cash	Rate
A2	Mark Lindsay	Miss America	Kelly	Rate
A3	Blood, Sweat And Tears	More And More	Vee, Young	Rate
A4	The Gun [England]	Race With The Devil	Gurvitz	Rate
A5	Gary Puckett And The Union Gap	His Other Woman	Allen, Chater	Rate
A6	O. C. Smith	Sweet Changes	Leonard, Weinstein	Rate
A7	Mark Lindsay	Silver Bird	Young	Rate
A8	Don Lane	You're Everything	Hatch, Trent	Rate
A9	Mike Preston	Dear Heart	Livingston, Evans, Mancini	Rate
A10	Oliver	Angelica	Mann, Weil	Rate
B1	Christie	Yellow River	Christie	Rate
B2	Joe Dolan	You're Such A Good Looking Woman	Hammond, Hazelwood	Rate
B3	Status Quo	Down The Dustpipe	Groszman	Rate
B4	Vincent Bell	Airport Love Theme	Newman	Rate
B5	The Cuff Links	When Julie Comes Around	Vance, Pockriss	Rate
B6	Neil Diamond	Holly Holy	Diamond	Rate
B7	Jack Blanchard And Misty Morgan	Tennessee Birdwalk	Blanchard	Rate
B8	Blue Mink	Good Morning Freedom	Cook, Greenaway, Hazelwood, Hammond	Rate
B9	Kamahl	Sounds Of Goodbye	Rabbitt, Heard	Rate
B10	Murray Head	Superstar	Webber, Rice	Rate

Notes

On the cover, Christie is shown as J. Christie. Album content carries material from 1968(tracks A4 and A9) as well as content from 1969 and 1970. Album label gives a false link to Majestic(K-Tel) in exact-similar design but no connection exists.
Company issuing: National Television Programmes Pty. Ltd.,
293 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest, NSW 2065

Images

Number: 668678  THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: Neil Forbes Description: Front Cover

Number: 668679  Uploaded By: Neil Forbes Description: Rear Cover

Number: 668680  Uploaded By: Neil Forbes Description: A-side label

Number: 668681  Uploaded By: Neil Forbes Description: B-side label

Comments and Reviews

Jasper 1st Sep 2016		From Wiki -"Down the Dustpipe" is a song written by Australian singer-songwriter Carl Groszman. He was a client of Valley Music, who were affiliated to Status Quo’s management in their early days. Although I must admit that I had never heard of him.
rc Hunt 1st Sep 2016		B3: who was/is Grouzman? Grossman? no record of him I can see.
Record Collector 12th Feb 2015		Entered the charts 22nd of January 1969 Yep it's 1968 alright
Neil Forbes 12th Feb 2015		RC: "A4 twelve years later he was writing a classic" Actually, RC, it's more like 14 years as "Race With The Devil" was already two years old by the time it was included in this album. It was "fired" out of that particular Gun in 1968! Gurvitz composed his Classic in 1982.
Record Collector 12th Feb 2015		A4 twelve years later he was writing a classic
Neil Forbes 11th Feb 2015		B4 didn't quite "get as high as an airplane", ay?(ha-ha).
Record Collector 11th Feb 2015		B4 only reached number two kept off the top spot by The Beatles Let It Be
Neil Forbes 11th Feb 2015		RC: "Has the stereo copy of that song". Okay, so much for my comment(blown out of the water.... again! Ouch!).
Record Collector 11th Feb 2015		Has the stereo copy of that song
Record Collector 11th Feb 2015		Has the stereo copy of that song
Neil Forbes 11th Feb 2015		A8 wasn't intended for an LP track(Don Lane may not have been scheduled to do one at the time) so the track was recorded in mono at a Melbourne studio. I think, apart from Col Joye and Kevin Jacobsen's ATA studios, the only other Stereo-equipped studio for Festival was at Ultimo(Sydney) where Pat Aulton was resident producer(Neil Sedaka's Wheeling West Virginia was recorded there). At least that may have been the situation in 1969.
Record Collector 11th Feb 2015		A8 in fake stereo high on the left low on the right depends how you listen through your speakers or head phones
Neil Forbes 11th Feb 2015		Seems all the rest of the tracks were just "padding" for Lane, Preston and Kamahl(why, people are so unkind!). Don Lane's an ex-pat Yank from New York who never made it big in his own country so came here instead. Mike Preston DID have a degree of success in England before migrating to Australia where he did TV and an occasional LP or single. Lane had recorded on HMV and a couple of other labels, did this song(A8) for Festival's Spin label, then turned up a year or so later on the South Australian Sweet Peach label with "City Boy, Country Born"/"We Were Lovers Then" in early 1971. Mike Preston's Dear Heart was also on Spin but I don't know if he was signed long-term to the label. Kamahl's Sounds Of Silence was his debut single and one of the last Philips issues with the label name in orange with the orange wedges out from the centre spindle on a black background. By 1970 Philips had adopted the blue Euro label design.
Record Collector 11th Feb 2015		From another topic that I found There is no information on Now Records. It is likely that they had the same idea as Select Records - a television production company trying to make a buck through a cross marketing deal with one of their programmes. This is a pretty uninspiring collection of songs, but the presence of TV Australian personalities (yes they all had to sing back then), Don Lane, Mike Preson, and Kamahl makes this a bit of necessity for collectors of Australian music. It's pressed by CBS special products who also did the Majestic / K-tel pressings - so the sound quality is good, and many tracks are in real stereo. Very easy to find at the 2-5 dollar price point.
Neil Forbes 11th Feb 2015		Keep watching, RC, I'll be putting the "20 Explosive Hits"(EMI-Columbia) on this site in the next few days!
Record Collector 11th Feb 2015		This year marks thirty years since I started collecting used records and this was one of them alongside 20 electrifying hits the first I bought
Neil Forbes 11th Feb 2015		RC: "There was another album under now records under the country format and my guess is under that label never really took off".... Ay? You sprung that one on me! Don't tell me, let me guess its catalogue number.... "N-002", right?
Neil Forbes 11th Feb 2015		RC: "This album would have been released March-April 1970". Would've originally bought my copy sometime after that. I have two copies actually, and they're replacements for the one I bought way back then. Bought the first copy, on recording some tracks into MP3 a couple of the tracks "skipped", bought the second copy to get better-quality recordings that wouldn't skip.
Record Collector 11th Feb 2015		There was another album under now records under the country format and my guess is under that label never really took off
Neil Forbes 11th Feb 2015		B3, yeah, good track - pity the group prostituted itself for a f***in' stupid television commercial for an Australian supermarket chain!
Neil Forbes 11th Feb 2015		Well, the album wasn't too costly, it was cheap-cheap!(ha-ha)
Record Collector 11th Feb 2015		B3 great song
Record Collector 11th Feb 2015		B7 chirp chirp
Neil Forbes 11th Feb 2015		There are a couple of B-sides used here as well, A5 is the flip-side to This Girl Is A Woman Now(1969) and A3 is the flip-side to(I believe) Spinning Wheel(1969). Other 1969 tracks in the set are: A8 and A10, B6, B8 and B9(a harmless track - benign, get it?). Oh yes, not forgetting the two Mark Lindsay tracks, one of which is borderline, 1969/70.
Record Collector 11th Feb 2015		This album would have been released March-April 1970
Record Collector 11th Feb 2015		Ah ok thanks
Neil Forbes 11th Feb 2015		RC, I said that in the notes(A4 is also from 1968).
Record Collector 11th Feb 2015		A9 from 1968
Record Collector 11th Feb 2015		The Twight zone theme strikes again
Record Collector 11th Feb 2015		I got two copies of this one of them has firm sale stamped on it
Neil Forbes 11th Feb 2015		Not exactly correct claiming 20 original artists! More like 19 as Mark Lindsay has two entries on this album, Miss America and Silver Bird. And there at A6 is that O.C. Smith track we mentioned in relation to his, "At Home With..." album.

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