ADDITIONS, CORRECTIONS &
COMMENTS
TO PUBLISHED RECORD INFORMATION SERVICES CATALOGUES
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many years, have taken the trouble to send additional information regarding
published RIS British label listings, whether by letter or more recently via
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started in 1974, long before the internet became a global source of information,
and a wonderful extra resource for checking on the details, even the existence,
of many records.
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this new web page, listed in label alphabetical order. Please note that, in the
case of those comb-bound listings which are printed to order, any additional
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January 2012
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DERAM |
July-October 2009: The DERAM label listing I published over
20 years ago has been widely borrowed, complete with my deliberate false
entries to fill in blank spaces (not my normal practice), and can be found
all over the internet. Of my own volition and research, note the following corrected
or additional entries: DM 134 - WHISTLING JACK SMITH - Colonel Bogey's march // Ja-da [foreign issue] DM 191 - TEN YEARS AFTER - Rock your mama // Spider in my web [foreign issue] DM 236 - AMEN CORNER - Let the good times roll // Love me tender [foreign issue] DM 300 - TEN YEARS AFTER - Love like a man // If you should love me [foreign issue] DM 326 - TEN YEARS AFTER - I'm coming on // My baby left me [foreign issue] DM 338 - EAST OF EDEN - Ramadhan (Medley) // Have to whack it up DM 352 - CHICKEN SHACK - Poor boy // Daughter of the hillside [foreign issue] DM 366 - BROTHERHOOD OF MAN - Rock me baby // Hang on [WITHDRAWN] Also note that my listing stopped short at DM 432 in late 1979, for reasons I can't explain, but I am in the process of completely updating the label listing, with the possibility that I will publish a separate, thoroughly overhauled and complete DERAM listing, including all the DERAM & NOVA LP issues. |
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EMBASSY |
August 2009: Since the original publication
of the Singles listing in 1991, only one catalogue number remains
unaccounted for, and there has also been some additional EP information.
Current purchasers of the listing have been kept up-to-date with added
supplementary pages, one of which is a basic but incomplete listing of
EMBASSY LPs. Two LPs have recently been added: WLP 6067 - Various Artists - "3 Big Beat Films" WLP 6076 - JAMES WRIGHT & HIS ORCH. - "Top TV Themes" January 2010: Per Andy Whitaker: ADD to Listing EMBASSY EP – WEP 1122 - "Latin-American Piano" by Jules Ruben, his Piano and Percussion Andy acquired this very late number EP (it would have been issued in 1965, around the time that Embassy's parent company was acquired by CBS) from a seller in Australia. I speculate that because of the take-over, this Embassy EP never made it to the Woolworth's stores, instead it was sold off as a job-lot to an Australian company (Oriole was always an exporter). Andy also says: "I've recently been chatting with Bob Rogers, who was guitarist with The Ted Taylor Four back in the 1960s. The group recorded for Oriole and were also employed on Embassy recordings. Ted Taylor's distinctive clavioline featured on various keyboard-orientated instrumentals, while Bob Rogers confirmed his alter-ego of axe hero Bud Ashton, or as he said, 'One of them'. "He told me other session players performing under that pseudonym included Judd Proctor, Eric Ford and Ernie Shears (the latter responsible for the into on 'Move It'). He emphatically confirmed that Bert Weedon was never employed in Ashton guise. "The same selection of six-stringers also appeared on the Steve Stannard recordings, explaining the very similar sounds and playing styles. It was a case of 'what's in a name' back then, as even the two artist aliases were equally interchangeable on occasion, with Steve Stannard credited on the singles: Man Of Mystery, Rocking Goose, Riders In The Sky and Ja-Da, but with the same titles attributed to Bud Ashton on the LP 'Play Man Play'!" |
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EMBER |
Please note that the EMBER listing was thoroughly revised in June 2007, using company file information supplied by Mike Atherton, courtesy of label boss Jeff Kruger. |
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ELEKTRA |
September 2009 - NOTE: EKSN 45055 - Artist is definitely DIANE HILDEBRAND |
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FONTANA |
August 2009: I received an email some time ago which I never followed up, but which I think was from Steve ????. It mentioned John Dummer, and at the time I was baffled by it. However, whilst compiling the Philips singles listing, I discovered that the catalogue number 6007 027, which was definitely a French issue by John Dummer's Famous Music Band, was also used for a demo pressing by the band Czar, but the 'stock' pressing was issued on PHILIPS 6006 071 in December 1970. Around this time, Philips were trying to end FONTANA as a singles label (although it did burst back into life later) and the Czar release was transferred to PHILIPS. |
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KAMA SUTRA |
July 2009: Amend as follows: KAS 212 - Feb.68 - ANDERS 'N' PONCIA - So it goes // Virgin to the night |
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LIBERTY |
September 2009: In the brief note at the beginning, I incorrectly refer to the DALTON label instead of DOLTON. Also note that 10000/12000 issues, starting at 10046, belong to an international series rather than using the original American catalogue number. |
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LONDON |
July
2009: Per
Audun Tylden from Norway: Amend as follows HLU 9818 - THE VALLEY YOUTH CHORALE |
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MGM |
August
2009 - ADD
to Listing 2006 221 - 1973 - CONNIE FRANCIS - Lipstick on your collar // Frankie [UK pressing but probably for Export] POSP 265 - Jun.81 - RON HARGRAVE (a), JIM PEWTER (b), JIMMIE NEWSOME (c) - Latch on (a) // Bop-a-rock (b) / Do that thing (c) [issued to promote the "MGM Rockabilly Collection, Vol. II" LP] POSP 438 - Apr.82 - JULIE ANDREWS - Le jazz hot // The shady dame from Seville [issued to promote the MGM film "Victor/Victoria"] Amend as follows: 2006 143 - Jan.73 - LARRY NORMAN - I've got to learn to live without you // The outlaw [NOT POSP series] 2006 257 - THE BOONE FAMILY - All for the love of sunshine // Mr. Blue 2006 318 - JIMMY DURANTE - I'm the guy who found the lost chord // It's my nose's birthday 2006 512 - SANDRA DICKINSON - B-side shown on label as "Never get over you" Thanks to Anthony Berrington for the Connie Francis & Sandra Dickinson information, and for giving me a suitable nudge which has resulted in the other information. |
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ORIOLE |
June
2009: Per
Syd Kreft from Germany: ADD to Listing CB 1942 - BUDDY BRITTEN & THE REGENTS - Everybody has their day // A merry-go-round of love [probably an export issue] CORRECT CB 1911 & 1942 to: BUDDY BRITTEN (corrected by me on later catalogues sold) August 2009: On a general note, whilst checking the listing, several records were out of numerical order (1123, 1130, 1978) but this has now been corrected. Also, I have added a note to clarify the two issues shown for CB 1542; the Vic Barell record was scheduled and possibly not released, but 45 rpm pressings for Johnny Scott definitely exist. March 2011: An email from Martin Samuels (who once played drums with Geoffrey Glover-Wright, aka Simon Raven, aka Simon Raverne, aka Buddy Britten) corrects me on CB 1942 which I had wrongly shown as "BOBBY" (although it was correct on my database). Then on checking I find I have CB 1911 wrongly shown as "BOBBY" as well. The male singer Bobbie Britton has no connection. This website throws light on Buddy Britten: http://www.nicksimper.com/nicks_story2.htm |
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PALETTE |
June 2009: Per Bob Lusty: ADD
to Listing PG.9037 - TEDDY MARTENS his Trumpet & Orchestra - Sunset prayer // Lonesome heart His name has been mis-spelt - it should be Mertens. Teddy is one half of the Belgian Mertens Brothers who released "Puppet on a string" on Palette in Belgium and in the UK on CBS. |
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RCA |
June 2009: Per David Smith: ADD to Listing RCA 1186 - SKEETER DAVIS - Wishful thinking // Am I that easy to forget RCA 1448 - JIM REEVES - Don't let me cross over // The world you've left behind David describes both singles as normal releases and recalls hearing the Skeeter Davis record on Radio Luxembourg at the time (1960) and buying it maybe a year later from a market stall in Stockport. However, there is no trace of either record in any official trade record catalogue or other British record releases publication at the time, nor are copies of these singles readily available through normal internet sources. They were possibly intended for export, or perhaps simply missed from trade catalogues by an administrative error and sold poorly. August 2009: On a general note, earlier listings omit 1295, for which no issue is known. January 2010: Per Brian Hawkins: ADD to Listing RCA 1511 - JIM REEVES - We Thank Thee // Across The Bridge Brian says: "With regard to the single RCA 1448 I can confirm it exists, but what puzzles me is why the one I have seen has an orange label, as this number would have been used around April 1965 and therefore should have had a black label. "RCA 1511 is also a Jim Reeves item - the copy I have seen has an orange label. Again, this number meant that it should have had a black label. If they were export copies, why haven't they turned up on eBay? I can confirm that both are genuine U.K. releases as I have had the opportunity to look at them closely." I can only repeat what I said earlier about these records, although the fact that Brian Hawkins has seen both RCA 1448 & 1511 pressings with the later orange labels clearly indicates they were available long enough to need re-pressing, which rules out my remark (for 1448 at least) that they sold poorly. As far as I know, the minimum pressing for a single made by Decca would have been 500 copies, so if 500 copies were made with black labels, then another 500 with the later orange labels, that suggests that at least 1000 copies of RCA 1448 & 1511 existed at one time. It is certainly odd that these records are not surfacing on the internet. However, just because there is a large international internet market for buying and selling old records, don't forget there are still many countries in the world where the internet is still a novelty and not widespread (such as much of Central & South America, also Africa, the Middle East and much of Asia), so if these records were exported to such a country, they are staying there. |
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REVOLUTION |
July 2009: Amend as follows: REV 001 - Issue date is possibly Dec.68, not Mar.69 as shown REV 002 - Ob-la-di Ob-la-da Story, Part 1: Alullo // Ob-la-di Ob-la-da Story, Part 2: Doh |
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STATESIDE |
July
2009: Per
Audun Tylden from Norway: NOTE as follows SS 2060 - GENE PITNEY - Shop pressings also exist with "Where did the magic go" on the B-side |
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STATESIDE |
July 2009: Audun Tylden from Norway has drawn my attention to the fact that EMI started issuing singles again on STATESIDE in 2002, continuing with the numerical series at SS 2227, the point at which the series stopped in 1974. |
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TAMLA MOTOWN |
June 2009: TMG 670 - The artist for this single
should be PAUL PETERSEN, not Peter Petersen as shown Thanks to whoever brought this to my attention |
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TOP RANK |
July
2009: Per
Audun Tylden from Norway: Amend as follows JAR 353 - NORA BROCKSTEDT - The label of origin is actually KARUSSEL, Norway |
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WARNER BROS. |
Long ago, Ray Bolton informed
me of the existence of a demo for WB 60 but I have only recently obtained
the full details: WB 60 - Bob Luman - Louisiana Man//Rocks of Reno |
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