DEAR FRIENDS - Communication for the LINKS

MY DEAR FRIENDS, HELLO EVERYBODY!

I must apologize, but I have received so many requests of download links in these days, that I really have lost track of so many of them.

So I ask you a favour:  I need that you write me again a new email where you tell me again which LPs you want, the exact list one by one.

Yes, this method of using single comments and emails for requests, is a bit annoying for you and me, I know, but it's giving me the results I was hoping to get!

So, finally one good new, at last!

Thank you for your closeness, it's beautiful to be a blogger! - LOL!

 your

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IRISH ROVERS - Live at CBC TV Center, Vancouver (Interfusion, 1972)

As you can see, the foto comes from UnmöglichFolk times ;)))

JOHNSTONS - same (Transatlantic, 1968)

JOHNSTONS - The travelling people [singles' compilation, 1966-69] (Hallmark/Marble Arch, 1969)

Chronologically, this compilation of singles stays between the LPs "The barley corn" and "Bitter green".

JOHNSTONS - "Give a damn" (Transatlantic, 1968) and "Both sides now" (Polydor, 1969)

The Johnstons started as a kind of sunshine-folk group, in 1966, they published a bunch of singles for the labels PYE (1966-67, most of which mono) and BigT (1968-70), and recorded their first LP for Transatlantic in  1968, "The Johnstons".  Their second album was this, "Give a damn" again in 1968, which included some of the original BIG T singles. 

Shortly after, for reason unknown to me, the labels Polydor (in UK) and Tetragrammaton (in the USA) republished the same tracks list of this Transatlantic album, including "My house" / "The wherefore and the why" (absent on the "Give a damn" LP), on a compilation entitled "Both sides now".

Therefore, practically, these two LPs contain the same songs, but "Give a damn" lacks the above mentioned single, while "Both sides now" lacks "Julia" and "Urge for going".  So, what I 'm going to post here is this: the complete "Give a damn" album with the songs "My house" / " The wherefore..." as bonus tracks.

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As to the Johnstons' early mono singles, the Marble Arch / Hallmark label packed them on a compilation album named "The travellin people" in 1969, where the songs are re-channeled into stereo. This LP will also soon appear.

XXX Your COUNTESS

JOHNSTONS - The barley corn (Transatlantic, 1969)

Again an album that Transatlantic reissued on CD, but excluding one song

Check what I wrote on my post of the Johnstons' "Bitter green" LP

The original album cover on Transatlantic.

This is a reprint, different cover, title and label, but the songs are exactly the same.

The album is named "Ye Jacobites by name", from the title of the opening track, and was reprinted shortly after the first issue in 1969, on the Contour label, a subsidiary of Philips records.

A similar things happened for Martin Carthy's LP "The bonny black hare...", which is a compilation.

JOHNSTONS - Bitter green (Transatlantic, 1970)

Recently Transatlantic Records (or whoever for them) has decided to make some "2 LPs on 1 CD" reprints.  I don't have any of them, but I gave a look online, and I see that for some Artists, and especially for the  Johnstons, reissues are not completely faithful to the originals...

This is not only a matter of being collectors, it's a problem of deleting materials making people believe in fatamorganas... Once more, I'm happy that I can stick to my glorious big pads of black plastic, what would I do without them?  

This (vinyl) album, "Bitter Green" presents two tracks more than the CD reissue.

They are maldestrously "substituted" with a version of "Streets of London", which appeared as an A-side single in 1970 for the Big T label.

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JOHNSTONS - Colours of the dawn (Transatlantic, 1971)

JOHNSTONS - If I sang my song (Transatlantic, 1972)

BLOODWOOD - Still Battlin' (EMI Custom, 1982 or 84)

GREAT ALBUM OF THIS DOWNUNDER GROUP!!

MICHAEL CHAPMAN - The man who hated mornings (Decca, 1977)

MICHAEL CHAPMAN - Savage amusement (Decca, 1976)

MICHAEL CHAPMAN - Pleasures of the street (Decca Nova, 1975)

MICHAEL CHAPMAN - Deal gone down (Deram, 1974)

MICHAEL CHAPMAN - Millstone grit (Deram, 1973)

Not as the same level of the second LP, but again a respectable one

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MICHAEL CHAPMAN - Window (Harvest, 1971) - original LP version

I understand from other sources that the reissue on CD offers a different mixage...  Not easy to understand why... Anyway, as you know, here by me you always find the originals.

The album was also issued in Italy, under the CBS label, no-gatefold cover.

MICHAEL CHAPMAN - Fully qualified survivor (Harvest, 1970)

MICHAEL CHAPMAN - Rainmaker (Harvest, 1969)

WIZZ JONES - same (United Artists, 1969)

 

 

 

 

Your COUNTESS :-)

FYLDE ACOUSTIC (VV AA) - same (Trailer, 1973) @320

HARVEY ANDREWS - Brand new day - In concert (Polydor, 1980)

HARVEY ANDREWS & GRAHAM COOPER - Fantasies from a corner seat (Transatlantic, 1976)

HARVEY ANDREWS - Someday (Transatlantic, 1974)

Not a great album ... Lots of easy-listening stuff.... for completists...

HARVEY ANDREWS - Friends of mine (Cube,1973)

RE-UP from Folk Impossible ;-)

HARVEY ANDREWS - Writer of songs (Cube,1972)

RE-UP from Folk Impossible ;-)

HARVEY ANDREWS - Places and flaces (Deram Nova, 1970) + an EP [1966]

 

 This is his first LP

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... But what can't really be missed is this extraordinary EP, "A most peculiar man", with three originals by HA, three songs that you can't stop from listening over and over... and bitterness remains in your mouth, especially with "Children of Hiroshima" where a 7-ys old child, now dead, recollects about the events. Also wonderful is  "You're on your own". For me, one of his highest artistical points.

A MOST PECULIAR MAN 

[Transatlantic, 1966 / TRA EP 133]

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JOAN BAEZ - In Italy (Ricordi/Vanguard, 1967)

This album was recorded in Milan, Teatro Lirico, 29th May 1967, with the exception of the last song, recorded in Vienna on June 2nd 1967. It was published by a special agreement with Vanguard records only for the Italian market, and as far as I know - Italy apart - it was never released anywhere except in Argentina.  It was reprinted for the mid-price serie "Ricordi-Orizzonte" in Italy, I guess around 1976 or 77.  In the record you find a curious version of "Blowing in the wind" in JAPANESE!  :-)))

The last song is a version of a number that hit the charts in Italy, originally sung by Gianni Morandi, "C'era un ragazzo che come me amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones", an anti-militarist song, principally related to the Vietnam war. In the song, a young man is recruited to leave friends and music and freedom in order to fight in Vietnam, where he unfortunately will never come back from.  Comparisons are made between his guitar, an instruments that gives 1000 different notes and a machine gun, another "instrument" that can give just ONE single note: Rat-tat-tat-tat.

There exists also a black-n-white film with some extracts of live concerts of Joan Baez in Italy, but unfortunately the qality is poor, and the film is not only often interrupted by extremely loud and disrespectful audience  (Joan is constricted to suspend her performance for some minutes), but also by an intruding speaker who tells a lot of NOT-interesting bullshit about the woman and her career. If someone is interested please tell me, I will upload the film as well.
As a curiosity, I will also add the original Italian song of Gianni Morandi ;)

Enjoy.

The COUNTESS

DAVE COUSINS - Two weeks last Summer (A & M, 1972)

NORMAN BLAKE - Home in Sulphur Springs (Rounder, 1972)

Attention friends:
don't confuse THIS album with the one that was recorded in 2006, named "Back home in Sulphur Springs"!

More of Norman Blake's early LPs will follow

"The fields of November" 1974

and more...

The Countess

BOBBY BROWN - The enlightening beam of Axonda (Destiny, 1972)

AN EXTRAORDINARY ALBUM

To be absolutely RESCUED in case of flood!

I will also post his 2nd and 3rd :-)))

XXX

the Countess

BLACK PLUS RED - James Cook's 1st voyage around the world... (RCA New South Wales, 1970)

coming (probably) soon

The album gatefold cover and the label

One side of the double-sided poster

MARTIN SIMPSON - Sad or high kicking (Topic, 1985)

COMING (relatively) SOON

MÉLUSINE - La treizieme heure (Polydor, 1979) @320

Their fourth album, @320

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