12 Chart Buster Hits Vol. 16 – Various Artists
Sleeve Notes:
The Chartbusters never rest, for just as one successful album has been completed and dispatched to an eager audience they’ve embarked on a fresh album project.
Pye: PCS 15015
The Stylistics – You Are Beautiful
Sleeve Notes:
Funky Weekend, Jenny – Featuring Airrion Love, Russell Thompkins, Jr.
That Don’t Shake, MeNa-Na Is The Saddest World, Michael Or Me, The Day The Clown Came To Town, You Are Beautiful, To Save My Rock ‘n’ Roll Soul, If You Are There , We Just Can’t Help It
Label: Avco 9109 006
Album Art Direction: Michael Mendel, Maurer Productions
Photography: Si Chi Ko
Back Liner Art: Carlo Creatore
The Melachrino Strings and Orchestra – The Best of George Melachrino
Sleeve Notes:
April In Paris, Ramona, Alone, Poor Butterfly, Fascination, Paradise, Dancing In The Dark, Gigi, Starlight, I’ll Always Be In Love With You, No Other Love, Bali Ha’i
Label: RCA ANL1-1093
12 Tops – Today’s Top Hits Vol. 27
Sleeve Notes:
TOP OF THE POP SOUNDS OF TODAY’S TOP HITS WHILE THEY ARE HOT ON THE CHARTS.
THE SOUNDS YOU HEAR EVERYDAY ON YOUR RADIO AND TELEVISION.
LOOK FOR AN EXCITING NEW ALBUM OF HITS EVERY MONTH. BUILD THE MOST EXCITING COLLECTION OF POP TUNES IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD.
Label: Stereo Gold Award MER 123
Soft and Easy Vol. 2 – Various Artists
Featuring: Mantovani & His Orchestra, Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra, Botticelli & His Orchestra, Maurice Larcange With The Claude Martine Orchestra, Ronnie Aldrich & His Two Pianos, Werner Müller And His Orchestra
Label: Decca DPA 3037/8
Top of the Pops Best of ’75
Sleeve Notes:
14 Number One hits* of 1975. Plus a giant Calendar/Poster
*BMRB/MUSIC WEEK
This is some record! Every song’s a number one! Yes, each of the 14 great selections on this L.P. has been Number 1 in the 1975 Pop Music Charts! Each is an absolute WOW!
Take a look at the titles – ’Oh Boy’, ’Space Oddity’, ’Bye Bye Baby’, ’If’, etc. – and listen to the fine quality of the production and recording! This has got to be the greatest L.P. ever – and the greatest value!
There’s an inspiring FREE gift inside the record sleeve, too… a Giant poperific pin-up Calendar Poster for 1976. Take a look.
Incidentally, do you know about TOP OF THE POPS? Every 6 to 8 weeks a new volume is released, packed with 12 super-charged pop hits and producing the World’s largest selling, regularly released L.P’s.
The Pickwick people have certainly done it again by selecting these smash hits, and putting them all together to make “THE BEST OF TOP OF THE POPS 1975”. It’s the perfect L.P. for Party-time or anytime… music that makes you feel you’re living… and it’s a great L.P. for giving! So turn on your player, tune in, and happy listening.
Label: Hallmark SHM 930
Top of the Pops Vol. 44
Sleeve Notes:
TOP OF THE POPS is here – yes, Volume 44 of Pickwicks’ top selling smash hit series. Once again you can enjoy listening to 12 of the latest, exciting new tracks, hand-picked from the charts, and all on one fabulous L.P.
As quoted in one pop magazine — “Some of these cover versions are better than the originals.” And that’s what it’s all about — all our artists and musicians are tops, all our songs are pops, all our recordings are great … and, like the proverbial “Hot cakes” all our volumes sell almost before you can say ‘TOP OF THE POPS!’
… By the way, if you (or your friends and family) have got a tape machine in your home or car, TOP OF THE POPS is also available on Cassette HSC 250 and 8-track Cartridge H8250. Tune in!
Label: Hallmark SHM 900
The Stylistics – Thank You Baby
Sleeve Notes:
Thank You Baby Featuring
Can’t Give You Anything (But My Love)
What Goes Around Comes Around Featuring
I’d Rather Be Hurt By You (Than Be Loved By Somebody Else)
Disco Baby
Tears And Souvenirs
A Honky Tonk Cafe
I’m Gonna Win
Stay
Sing Baby Sing
Label: Avco 9109 005
Photography: Si Chi Ko
Top of the Pops Vol. 43
Sleeve Notes:
We’ve popped up again – and we’ll soon reach our half-century – for this fabulous pop album is No. 43 in the longest running series of its kind in the history of recorded music.
How has this been achieved? We’ll tell you. HALLMARK RECORDS, a part of world famous PICKWIK INTERNATIONAL, was established to give record folk everywhere the greatest value ever. Mediocrity we don’t want. Our “Top of the Pops” sleeve design has to be the best of its type; our pressing standard second to none; our tracks the best in the current charts; our Session Musicians the finest available (and they’re really good!); our hi-fi sound unsurpassed. Only then will we issue another Top of the Pops. That’s why we’ve reached this forty-third issue; that’s why we’ll reach our half-century.
Label: Hallmark SHM 895
16 Chart Hits Vol. 18
Sleeve Notes:
Side One
There’s A Whole Lot Of Loving
I Can Do It
Bye Bye Baby Girls
Mandy
Reach Out, I’ll Be There
Wonderful Baby
Fox On The Run
Side Two
Fancy Pants
What Am I Gonna Do With You?
Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar
Let Me Be The One
Philadelphia Freedom
Swing Your Daddy
Queen Of 1964
Sweet Music
Label: Contour 2870 427
Sleeve design: Jack Levy
Photograph: Picturepoint