1979

Disc one of a box set from the Reader’s Digest/Polydor stable. This features no fewer than three Lennon/McCartney songs and on the back cover we can see no fewer than six pictures of James Last including one in which he generously agrees to share the frame with another person. An attractive lady at that; how fortuitous.

Label: Reader’s Digest GLAS-6A/S1

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Sleeve Notes:

Dear Friends, We recorded this Album on March 26th at Big Tom’s Studios and we really enjoyed the experience of working with top professionals. Selecting material for an Album is always a problem and we hope our choice meets with your approval. We have tried to mix old with new, featuring “Where My Eileen is Waiting for Me, and Majella’s own composition “I am a Travelling Man”. Our thanks to Big Tom for his help, also John Brown for arranging the recording session. To all at the Studios including Brendan, Gabriel, Eugene and Tony. Last but not least our thanks to Basil Hendricks for arranging and producing.

Sincerely,

Label: Ringtone Records RTE 1000
Photography: T.A Wilkie, Guildford

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This momentous release by The Dee Jays featured a sombre looking model on the front cover who cheered up considerably for the cassette version cover photo – see below.

Sleeve Notes:

When Australian based artistes decide to make it in a big way, they usually take hold of a large slice of the pop market. Rolf Harris, Frank Ifield, The Seekers, Olivia Newton-John and, of course, the phenomenal Gibb Brothers The Bee Gees. Since their first U.K. success with “New York Mining Disaster”, twins Robin and Maurice plus brother Barry conquered America. In fact, during their first effective year’s work, their total record sales topped the ten million mark. Hit after hit followed and, in 1977 a film appeared called “Saturday Night Fever”. Impressario Robert Stigwood commissioned the Bee Gees to write the original music, so the story goes in fourteen days! The result – a double album that has reputedly sold over twenty million sets worldwide. We have selected one dozen really great Gibb Brothers songs and given them to a talented bunch called the Dee Jays, who lend their own individual style to these titles and, in their own way, salute the world’s number one family.

Label: Chevron CHVL 088

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Serie “Golden”

Una serie de discos creada especialmente para nosotros en los estudios de Toshiba Musical Industries, de Tokio, Japón. Cada disco de esta serie esté dedicado a un tema o instrumento distinto y lo transforma en una verdadera sensación “golden”. Estas grabacionu han sido realizadas en un nuevo.estudio diseñado exclusivamente para la maxima calidad. Los micrófonos profusamente diseminados, captan todas las sutilezas del tono y color de los instrumentos y los aparatos de control mas modernos perfeccionan las mezclas y amplian la contribución de los micrófonos con la delicadeza, precisión y brillantez que caracterizan los avances técnicos alcanzados en el Japón. La soberbia serie “Golden con un sonido estereofónico casi viviente, puede proporcionarle su música predilecta.

“Golden” Series

A series of records created especially for us in the studios of Toshiba Musical Industries, in Tokyo, Japan. Each disc in this series is dedicated to a different theme or instrument and transforms it into a true “golden” sensation. These recordings have been made in a new studio designed exclusively for the  maximum quality. The microphones profusely disseminated, capture all the subtleties of the tone and colour of the instruments and the most modern control devices perfect the mixes and amplify the contribution of the microphones with the delicacy, precision and brilliance that characterize the technical advances achieved in Japan. The superb series “Golden, with the almost living, stereophonic sound, is capable of providing you with your favourite music.

Label: Regal J048-80611

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