Showing posts with label JOHNSTONS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JOHNSTONS. Show all posts
Friday, 26 February 2010
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.
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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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