Off The Record

One Shot Labels 2 – Part 1

Bruce — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:25:51 +0000

Here, I will be showing you part 1 of a two part post on record labels that had not changed much during their years on vinyl (I’ll have a few more later on in the year)

The first one, is Ron Tudor’s Fable records. This label did not change during the two decades their titles were released on vinyl:

Today, Fable’s music publishing division specialise in production music

Next in our labels gallery is the Select label of United Sound (1970-1971). Around half a dozen releases were issued

Label number three is from Landfall Press, this time with the Peter Pan logo.

Finally, here is the label for the precursor to the J&B label, Dyna House (a number of titles released on the Dyna House label were re-issued years later by J&B

Like the J&B label, this appeared in a range of colour combos.

Hawaii – Johnny Pineapple

Bruce — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:48:39 +0000

Today, I’m posting the first of my International releases:

LP: Hawaii

performed by Johnny Pineapple and his Islanders

Label: Audio Fidelity

Category: International

Catalogue Number: AFSD 5850 (Also released in mono as AFLP 1850)

Recording credits: unknown. Supervised by Sidney Frey

Released: 1959

Side 1:

Naka Pueo
My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua Hawaii
Kila Kila
Lovely Hula Hands
Little Brown Gal
Hawaiian War Chant

Side 2

Sweet Leilani
Beyond the Reef
Kui Lei
For You, A Lei
Helia Alekohi
Aloha Oe

A complete volume of Hawaiian tunes performed by David Keonoki (A. K. A. Johnny Pineapple. Not to be confused with an act named Johnny Pineapple and his Waikiki Wildcats) in a volume of instrumental Hawaiian songs.

The artwork above is from the original 1950’s release of this LP. in the 1960’s, Audio Fidelity changed the layout for the cover art and appears on the Audio Fidelity Database here.

Beatle Barkers

Bruce — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:32:05 +0000

Here now, is the LP that was inspired by the Virgin Records release, Baa-Baa Black Sheep

Record Title: Beatle Barkers

“Performed” by the Woofers and Tweeters Ensemble

Label: Telmak Teleproducts

Category: Rock/What the…?

Catalogue Number TMAK 091

Produced and Arranged by Roy Nicholson

Engineered by John Pal (I don’t make up these names, folks!)

Recorded at Red Face Studios, Sydney

Cover Design by Fox Marketing

Side 1

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Love Me Do

Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da

We Can Work It Out

I Saw Here Standing There

I Feel Fine

Side 2

Can’t Buy Me Love

All My Loving

Day Tripper

She Loves You

Hard Days Night

Paperback Writer

What could be sillier than a group of singing sheep? Telmak gave us the answer in this Barking Mad volume of Beatles songs ’sung’ by dogs.

TBH, I have only heard the first three tracks on this LP, and have not played this since.

Mercifully, this was the final record of this type ever attempted.

Telmak Teleproducts

Bruce — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:30:54 +0000

Today, I am posting a labels gallery for Sydney (Balmain) based TV promotional record label Telmak Teleproducts, which was in operation between 1980 and 1986.

Telmak’s specialty included original compilation LP’s of classic radio shows (The Wonderful Wireless), greatest hits (Bill Haley and his Comets) and unusual releases (Murray Tregonning’s “Give ‘em Heaps” Sound Effects LP)

The first label was used in Telmak’s first year (1980-1981)

the second (and final) label was used by Telmak from Late 1981 until 1986…

a bit of trivia: the 1985 LP “Australian TV’s Greatest Hits” was later re-released on CD by Pickwick Music Australia (despite the facts that the old Telmak logo still appeared on the front cover.)

Bozo the Clown – Narrated by Larry Harmon

Bruce — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:55:29 +0000

Here is my final post for this month, and once again, it’s a children’s record from the Golden Books division of A. A. Records

Record title: Bozo the Clown, narrated by Larry Harmon

Label: Golden Records division of A.A. Records

Catalogue Number 00212

Category: Childrens record

Story by Carl Buettner

Illustrations by Charles Satterfield

Original book published in 1961 by Western Publishing Company, in association with Capitol Records

One of two Celebrity book and Record sets in my collection, the other being Danny Kaye narrating the story of “The Musicians of Bremen” (I also had Soupy Sales narrating a Wonder Book of “Silly Sidney”, but I haven’t been able to find the book (the original cassette has been long gone from my collection))

Poor Bozo is dragooned into being a lion tamer, with Butchie Boy being in disguise as a lion, but a switch finds the clown face to face with a real lion, resulting in “Who’s training whom?”

Sorry bout that!

Bruce — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:41:56 +0000

Sorry about the strange bit of theme changes over the last hour, but I have been mucking around trying out some seasonal themes for next Christmas.

Things are back to normal (sort of) and new posts will be coming in the next couple of days.

Magic Monkey – Godiego

Bruce — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:57:40 +0000

for this LP, we go back to the early part of the 1980’s for a show which first aired in Japan in 1979, and has become a cult classic.

LP: Magic Monkey (soundtrack to the ABC TV series “Monkey” performed by Godiego)

Category: Childrens/Soundtrack

Label: ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Records distributed by Festival

Catalogue Number: L 38256

Originally released as YX-5004-AX by Jeniko Music Group, Ltd., Japan

Produced by Johnny Nomura & Godiego by NTV Music Corp.

All songs composed by Mikie Yoshino (Side 1 Tracks 1 and 4 and Side 2 Tracks 1, 3, 4 and 5) and Yukihide Takekawa (Side 1 Tracks 2, 3 and 5 and Side 2, tracks 2 and 6)

All lyrics written by Yoko Narahashi

All Songs arranged byMikie Yoshino

Recording Engineers: Keizo Suzuki and Yoshio Miyamoto

Assistant Engineers Teruya Mitzutani, Susumu Mera and Keji Takeuchi

Remix and Mastering: Keizo Suzuki

Sound Co-Ordinator: Steve Fox

Recording Studios: Freedom and Sound City

Management and Co-Ordination by Jenika Music Co., Ltd.

Special Thanks to Japan Foundation, Roland Corporation Australia, Tama Drums and Colleen Ironside

the members of Godiego:

Mikie Yoshino: Keyboards

Yukihide Takekawa: Vocals

Steve Fox: Bass and Vocals

Takami Asano: Guitar

Tommy Snyder: Drums, Vocal and Marimba

Female Vocals:Kayoko Ishu, Midori Umegaki, Sandi A Hohn

Sax Solos: Jake H. Concepcion

All songs Published by Jenika Music Co., Ltd. and MCA Music Australia P/L (Universal Music Publishing Australia, P/L if they still have the music rights today)

Side 1:

The Birth of the Odyssey/Monkey Magic
Ghandara
Asiatic Fever
We’re Heading Out West to India
Thank You, Baby

Side 2

Steppin’ Into Your World
Havoc in Heaven
Dragons and Demons
A Fool
Flying
Celebration

The original soundtrack to the Cult Classic “Monkey”.

This LP is probably also notable as being the first LP to be released by the (by 1984 corporatized) Australian Broadcasting Corporation (prior to this, the ABC was a broadcasting commission)

this was not the only release for Godiego in Australia. Concurrent to this release, the ABC also released the opening title music and the series 1 closing theme “Ghandara” as a 45 RPM single.

the label for this release appears below:

(this post took a little longer than I anticipated)

Coming soon – Beatle Barkers and other stuff

Bruce — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:23:45 +0000

Coming soon to the blog in early March.

Last month, I posted “Baa Baa Black Sheep” (which I considered to be the worst recording ever put together)

About 6 months after this single was released, someone used the same idea to put together an LP of Beatles songs “Sung” by dogs.

the above image is (part) of the cover art from the LP “Beatle Barkers” of which I’ll post more of next month.

also coming will be part two of my one shot record labels (including labels which remained the same all through it’s life) as well as part two of my Festival Records gallery

But shortly, I will be posting another TV show soundtrack LP.

J&B’s Kids Name Record Series

Bruce — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:50:41 +0000

Now, here is tonight’s record from J&B.

The following 45 RPM EP was given to me on my 14th birthday, but this release was more for a (much) younger demographic

Title: Kid’s Name Record - Bruce

A Kids Name Record release through J&B records.

Catalogue Number JB 5100

Side 1:

A Special Song for Bruce

A Spelling Song

Bruce, Bruce

Side 2

Bruce’s Party

Happy Birthday

For You’re a Jolly Good Fellow

This was one of a series of EP’s released by J&B (about 200 titles released) which had songs, each had either a boy’s or girl’s name in all the songs

Oddly enough, I have a feeling the records were made for J&B by the custom record manufacturing divisions of either EMI, Festival or CBS.

Sadly we will never know

J&B Records

Bruce — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:31:04 +0000

Sorry about not posting anything new last week, but as soon as I got home from hols, I spent the rest of the week with the dreaded lurgi.

Today, I have a mini label gallery. This one is for the TV promotional label J&B records

Over the two decades the label was in operation (1977-1997) they had two label designs for their vinyl releases.

Here is the first label design, with the later design appearing below this label:

Incidentally, the colour combination for the J&B label does change from release to release. Finally, here is the label of J&B’s Kid’s Name record Series

One final note. the J&B record label was bought out in 1997 by home video company CEL and was re-branded CEL music. the new label only had two releases.