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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
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1Johnny CashWhat Is TruthCashRate
A2Mark LindsayMiss AmericaKellyRate
A3Blood, Sweat And TearsMore And MoreVee, YoungRate
A4The Gun [England]Race With The DevilGurvitzRate
A5Gary Puckett And The Union GapHis Other WomanAllen, ChaterRate
A6O. C. SmithSweet ChangesLeonard, WeinsteinRate
A7Mark LindsaySilver BirdYoungRate
A8Don LaneYou're EverythingHatch, TrentRate
A9Mike PrestonDear HeartLivingston, Evans, ManciniRate
A10OliverAngelicaMann, WeilRate
B1ChristieYellow RiverChristieRate
B2Joe DolanYou're Such A Good Looking WomanHammond, HazelwoodRate
B3Status QuoDown The DustpipeGroszmanRate
B4Vincent BellAirport Love ThemeNewmanRate
B5The Cuff LinksWhen Julie Comes AroundVance, PockrissRate
B6Neil DiamondHolly HolyDiamondRate
B7Jack Blanchard And Misty MorganTennessee BirdwalkBlanchardRate
B8Blue MinkGood Morning FreedomCook, Greenaway, Hazelwood, HammondRate
B9KamahlSounds Of GoodbyeRabbitt, HeardRate
B10Murray HeadSuperstarWebber, RiceRate


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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