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A quick reminder – The Vinyl Vault will be launched this Wednesday

Posted by Bruce on August 28, 2010 in Announcements with No Comments

Just a quick reminder for everyone, that the Vinyl Vault will be (officially) launched on Wednesday afternoon, although it could be uploaded as early as sometime this weekend (due to unforseen circumstances on Wednesday)

My intention for this website to be an online disography of records manufactured and distributed in Australia (with a few New Zealand titles thrown in (Music World, anyone?)

The listing is in a very embryonic stage, but will be expanded from time to time. for further details visit the Vinyl Vault here.

Also due to other commitments, I haven’t posted much here this month, but I intend to get back to speed in September, so stay tuned.

Changes

Posted by Bruce on August 26, 2010 in Announcements with No Comments

I made a big change to the registration process. I have taken off the meta tag at right.

If you now wish to register online (only to post comments) you must contact me (the address is in the contacts page)

Also note that you must give me a username that you want to use.

If you only want to read up on the latest updates, then please use the RSS feed.

Ta.

EMI Columbia label gallery coming in August

Posted by Bruce on July 26, 2010 in Announcements with No Comments

As it’s a bit too late to include this month (due to other commitments, as well as starting to compile the images now), my next labels gallery will be coming in August

Just as it says on the label, I will be posting a gallery of Columbia Records labels that EMI used from the 1940′s to the early 1970′s

Below, I have a sampler.

Also coming in August will be part 2 of the “Goon Show Classics” cover art (in this case, volumes 7 to 11)

Info on charting singles and albums added to blog entries

Posted by Bruce on July 3, 2010 in Announcements with No Comments

Somethin’ new has been added.

Thanks to the book “The Australian Chart Book: 1970-1992″, I am now able to give Australian chart info (when the single or LP entered the charts, the highest position it reached, and the number of weeks it was in) and will appear on future posts I make where I know the LP or single charted.

Update: 8/7/2010 ”The Australian Chart Book: 1940-1969″ was purchased today, so any charting records from this period that I have in my collection will be added in future posts.

Both books are exlusively available through Time Warp Records

Posts that have had their info added in the last couple of days include “Baa-Baa Black Sheep”, Play that Again with Australia’s City Slickers, Aussies on 45 and Beatle Barkers

Coming in July (it’s tentative at the moment)

Posted by Bruce on June 27, 2010 in Announcements with No Comments

We are getting close to the end of the month, so today I’m posting a (proposed) coming soon, so this may change by the time July comes around next week.

VINTAGE GOON SHOW CLASSICS LP ARTWORK

Over the next month (and August) I will be posting the cover art for all eleven “Goon Show Classics” LPs that the BBC released (it won’t be a daily thing like the 12 discs this month was) (the cover above is from Volume 4)

The volumes will not appear in Chronological order, but I promise all eleven volumes will appear

Also planned will be the labels gallery for Mushroom Records (well at least the records I have. The only label I do not have is Mushrooms’ very first label)

The Vinyl Vault – testing for large pages

Posted by Bruce on June 17, 2010 in Announcements with No Comments

I recently decided to do some testing of a few pages in the Vinyl Vault (as a few of these pages are a little large)

I’ll be spending the next week doing some page tests on some internet cafes (after I get over my bout of the lurgi)

but you can help me too. I’ll shortly give a link (it will be temporary until the site is put up in September)

the test page can be found at http://vinylvault.brucelaing.com/temptest/festk1000.html (the second last series of 45′s released by Festival – K 1-K 1050). and if there any problems with it loading, then e-mail me at the Vinyl Vault address (thevault at brucelaing dot com)

To me, the most likely delay will be for those few that are still using 56K modems (as the above link is nearly 600KB in size. (to be precise, 604,845 bytes)

Update: Version 3 is now online. An additional collection of records has now been updated. Click on the above link to view (please note, the links will not work as these pages haven’t been uploaded yet. When the website opens in September, all links will work)

12 Discs coming on Sunday

Posted by Bruce on June 10, 2010 in Announcements with No Comments

Just a reminder that my dozen LPs in the 12 discs of Christmas will start appearing on Sunday morning, every day at the same time (approximately 7:00 am) until the 24th of June.

I originally was going to do this in time for Christmas, and later on for the Christmas in July celebrations, but I decided to post these a bit earlier than I anticipated, so that I won’t have a huge backlog of posts when it came closer to Christmas.

I will be posting a couple more LP’s later this year closer to Christmas (as I found a lot more that my original 12), so you’ll see them in December.

here’s a preview of what’s to come.

Major Labels galleries coming in June

Posted by Bruce on May 26, 2010 in Announcements with No Comments

It’s that time of the month again…

Coming in June, I am posting two major label galleries. One will be for EMI’s Parlophone label which (will be from the 1940′s until the mid 1970s)

The second gallery will be for CBS records in Australia (and it’s ancestor the Australian Record Company)

these will be coming soon.

What’s coming up for the rest of this half of the year?

Posted by Bruce on May 1, 2010 in Announcements with No Comments

Coming up amongst other things during May and June I have a few things planned.

as you can see, I’m planning a labels gallery for 1970′s label M7 and it’s sucessor, 7 Records (the record label of the Seven Network from 1977 to 1982.)

for our friends in the northern hemisphere the other main news will sound strange. I will be presenting in June a series of posts of Christmas LP’s (due to the fact that many here celebrate Christmas not only at Christmastime, but also in June and July (as it’s too hot to have a traditional Christmas in the middle of our summer.)

These posts are going to be called “the 12 discs of Christmas”, and the first will be posted on 13/6/2010, and conclude 24/6/2010.

there’s a lot more than that to come between now and the end of the year, so stay tuned.

Updates

Posted by Bruce on April 17, 2010 in Announcements with No Comments

Just letting everyone know that I have made an update to the Festival Records Gallery, with two new label designs (including the earliest label).

this can be found on this post.

Meanwhile, while I have finished my Spike Jones trilogy that was released by RCA in Germany, I have another unusual pressing of Spike’s recordings.

Eagle eyed fans would recognise the above image from Spike’s “Dinner Music for People who Aren’t Very Hungry” LP, but what was slightly unusual is where it came from.

Details of this will appear in May (I have decided to delay this).

Also coming is a sound effects LP put together by former Hey Hey It’s Saturday’s sound effects man, Murray Tregonning.

Stay Tuned!