RockyCH, Author at Cover Heaven

July 18, 2020September 17, 2020

Top of the Pops Vol. 56

Sleeve Notes:

You’re on the right track for this month’s Top of the Pops! We’ve got together an amazing – top ten Selection – ready to blow your mind and make you feel real good. It’s a sound stompin’ sensation – a party – and the music’s so good it must be a record! This fantastic six-a-side freak-out has been specially chosen to make you feel funky – to make you feel mellow – to give you all the right vibes.

So what are you waiting for? Slide out the party!! Also available on Stereo Cassette HSC 315 and 8-Track Cartridge H8 315

Label: Hallmark SHM 965

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July 18, 2020September 17, 2020

Top of the Pops Vol. 52

Sleeve Notes:

Right on time, yet again. It’s TOP OF THE POPS VOLUME 52, another pop-packed, chart busting album of today’s BIG sounds. it’s exciting to listen to, great to dance to. This is Pickwick’s powerhouse album – the largest selling, regularly released LP in the world. A bumper package of top pops – superstar sounds at superstar quality.

Here are twelve GREAT tracks featuring all your favourite up-to-the-minute hits. And at only £1 , this is one album you really can’t afford to be without!

Also available on stereo cassette HSC 295 and 8-track cartridge H8295

Label: Hallmark SHM 945

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Top of the Pops Vol. 42 featuring cover girl Suzy Shaw

July 18, 2020September 17, 2020

Top of the Pops Vol. 47

Sleeve Notes:

“If music be the food of love, play on” Shakespeare said it, and you’ve just read it. Once again Pickwick have prepared: a feast of fabulous music for you on Volume 47 of Top of the Pops – 12 track winners, all of them the latest, greatest, ‘LOVEliest’ smash hits. This is your taste in music … so turn on, listen in, relax and enjoy the latest TOP OF THE POPS.

Also available on stereo cassette HSC 265 and 8-track cartridge H8265

Label: Hallmark Records SHM 915

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July 18, 2020September 17, 2020

Top of the Pops Vol. 42

Sleeve Notes:

Here we are, bouncing up for the forty second-time with our Top of the Pops album, bright, breezy, best-selling. On this album we’ve given you the best we’ve got. There are great sounds for all sections of the Pop World, for most of these tunes are currently hitting the high spots.

So, Pop People, let’s make this one a really smash-hit issue to top all the previous forty-one numbers. We’ve given you Britain’s best session musicians playing the best current tunes.

We’ve given you fabulous Hi-Fi sound and top quality records pressed by one of the world’s major companies. We’ve given you the greatest ever value in the history of recorded sound. Now it’s up to you to have yourself a ball when you listen to our fantastic rhythms, our vocals and our sounds.

Have fun – get popping with TOP OF THE POPS.

Label: Hallmark SHM 885

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July 18, 2020September 17, 2020

Top of the Pops Vol. 37

Sleeve Notes:

Well, pop people, we promised you that, in spite of the world-wide shortage of raw materials for making albums, we would not keep all you hundreds of thousands of faithful “Top of the Pops” fans short of your favourite album.

We’ve kept our promise and what’s more, we’ve also produced Top of the Pops Cassettes (HSC 210) and 8-track Cartridges (H 8210).

This is volume 37 in a record breaking, best-selling series and, boy oh boy, have we sweated blood to select the top tunes, get stocks of board for sleeves, and raw material for pressing this edition!

Guys and Dolls! We think this is a fantastic selection of Smash-hit tunes and we want you to move, move, move to this fabulous Sound!

Label: Hallmark SHM 860

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July 18, 2020September 17, 2020

Top of the Pops Vol. 36

Sleeve Notes:

Like “Ol’ Man River” we just keep rolling along. So here we are again, rolling out our 36th edition of the fabulous “Top of the Pops” album, which sells in hundreds of thousands to almost every country in the world where good pop music is appreciated.

D’you know something? There’s a world-wide shortage of raw materials for making albums, but one thing’s for sure; we will not keep you faithful pop fans short of your favourite album. Whatever else may happen we’ll make sure that “Top of the Pops” will be on sale in the many thousands of retail shops which sell our records.

What’s more, you can also get “Top of the Pops” on Cassette (HSC 205) and Cartridge (H 8205).

So, Pop People, see our list of tracks above, get the album (or Cassette – or Cartridge or preferably all three) and get jumping to these fabulous sounds.

We’d love you to love it!

Label: Hallmark Records SHM 855

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July 18, 2020September 17, 2020

Top of the Pops Vol. 35

Sleeve Notes:

We think we’ve created a record in both senses of the word. Not only have we created the best-selling budget record of its kind in the world, but we believe that our “Top of the Pops” series (this album is No. 35) is the longest lived in the whole history of recording – and we’re still going strong!

This sort of thing just doesn’t happen by luck. It takes dedication, hard work and expertise – plus a little bit of luck – on our part; and judgement, discrimination, appreciation of good pop sounds and value for money on the part of all of you many, many thousands of pop enthusiasts who have helped us to create this unique record.

So, fans and friends, here it is, No. 35. Just glance at the 12 great songs we’ve chosen for you this time and we think you’ll agree that our back-room boys have done their homework; in fact, so important is the choice of tracks, that the Boss Man himself takes a lively and considerable part in this side of our business.

Have fun, folks!

Label: Hallmark SHM 845

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July 18, 2020September 17, 2020

Top of the Pops Vol. 34

Sleeve Notes:

This is No. 34

What, you may ask, is so special about No. 34?

Well, nothing really, except that this is the 34th issue of “Top of the Pops”, the best-selling album of its kind in the World; and it’s the thirty-fourth time in 6 years that all our top brass (including The Boss Man) get into a huddle weeks and weeks before the album is produced to try to select the 12 pop titles that YOU, the experts and the enthusiasts, will want to hear when the L.P. is actually released – perhaps a month later.

Believe me, folks, it’s hard labour, but it’s also a labour of love; and on each of 33 occasions your response has been so heartwarming, so terrific, so gratifying, that we know it has all been worthwhile.

So, friends, here it is. You’ve given us grey hairs trying to produce for you the best L.P. in the World for pop fans – but we love you all!

Label: Hallmark SHM 840

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July 18, 2020September 17, 2020

Top of the Pops Vol. 30

Sleeve Notes:

So we’re coming up to our 5th anniversary.

Fifth anniversary of what? You may well ask. Well, just about five years ago we unleashed our first “Top of the Pops” on an unsuspecting public and – we’re happy to say – history was made.

Thanks to you good folk who appreciate good Pop music at a reasonable price, that historic volume 1 of “Top of the Pops” was a smash hit and so were all the subsequent volumes.

What’s more we’ve had four Number Ones in the L.P. charts and this of course means we outsold all the biggest international names in Show Business with those runaway best-sellers. Knowledgeable pop fans don’t consistently buy a series of albums on such an enormous scale unless they are well and truly satisfied, so here we are with this, our 30th volume.

Just look at the 12 fabulous tracks we’ve chosen for you! We’re the market leaders in our field because we’re not here to make a fast buck. We’re here for good; to satisfy a genuine requirement of pop people all over the world.

So get moving to these tunes, have fun and let’s all make a little more history by making volume 30 the biggest hit of the decade.

“TOP OF THE POPS” is consistently Britain’s best-selling L.P. record.

Label: Hallmark SHM 820

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July 18, 2020September 17, 2020

Top of the Pops Vol. 28

Sleeve Notes:

HEY THERE, GOOD LOOKING …… this album is the finest gift you can give to any pop friend, relation, wife, husband, girl friend, boy friend, or whoever – for birthdays, for anniversaries – or just because.

Every issue of Hallmark “TOP OF THE POPS” sells in hundreds of thousands throughout the world and the reason is simple. We do our very best to supply the finest pop music at a price within the reach of all lovers of pops music.

We’ve got a team of trendy types – technicians, artists, musicians and backroom boys – straining every nerve to keep you right in the swing of the real thing, the jumping, swinging, psychedelic scene of modern pop music.

So, here’s our twenty-eighth issue, packed solid with twelve hit songs, all buzzing around at or near the top of the charts – or on the way.

Wanna help us top our record figure of a third of a million copies of one edition? We’ve done our best to give you the best.

What about it, huh?

Label: Hallmark SHM 810

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