Guitar Spotting

[JimN]

Yes I noticed the picture sleeves too, it just didn'happen that way, the Parlophone singles cover was a multi coloured stripey design back then, followed by the single plain colour a bit later when they went to the black labels. I remember Coloumbia being green and maybe the Parlophone ones were too.

I still have a few EMI singles of the early 1960s in their original sleeves. The EMI group's singles looked better (IMO) when they had distinct and discrete label designs, red for Parlophone, dark green for Columbia, plum for HMV, all with silver lettering and with individually designed paper sleeves.

I felt at the time that the 1962/63 re-design to make all the single and EP labels a uniform black design (with a distinctive colour for the label name on EPs) was a mistake, and time hasn't modified that opinion.

Note that this Parlophone single (released January 11th 1963) was still in the "old" Parlophone livery...



...whereas this Columbia single (released November 1962) was in the newer design:



However, a few examples of the Columbia single escaped on the green label:



1962 Columbia sleeve (as used for Wonderful Land, etc):



1962 Parlophone sleeve (as used for Love Me Do):

[dave robinson]

These are the ones I have.
Columbia (Apache) the circle design and Parlophone the stripes.

[Moderne]

Hi Jim, are you sure that green label Dance On! is a British pressing? I've never seen a green label copy of Dance On! in all my years (!) of collecting records.
Cheers, Clive

[JimN]

It certainly looks like a British pressing - same serial number, same small print, etc.

Don't forget, the first batch of The Beatles' Please Please Me was issued on the red Parlophone label even though the release date was 11th January 1963, and that's a similar anomaly, given that Dance On! had been issued on the black label in 1962 (I have a copy).

It seems to me that EMI was using up stocks of labels as an obvious economy measure.

But on closer inspection of the image file (with a magnifying glass), it looks as though the legend just under the 45-DB number says "Made In ?????", with the last word not long enough to be "Gt Britain", so a foreign pressing is a possibility.

Here's an Irish one, but there are obvious differences:

http://tinyurl.com/plsww97

[dave robinson]

As expected, nothing to excite vintage instrument-wise on the final episode.

[keithmantle]

As expected, nothing to excite vintage instrument-wise on the final episode.

Why was the same sky blue Futurama bass used in every shot even by the session basist ?

[Uncle Fiesta]

As expected, nothing to excite vintage instrument-wise on the final episode.

Why was the same sky blue Futurama bass used in every shot even by the session basist ?

'Cos the production company couldn't be bothered to hire more than one bass?

[stephen]

Let's all not be too critical. Overall, the production people didn't make too bad a job of things, we just tend to look at one or two aspects (instruments & car registrations!) with more focused attention than most. I bet that there are also some viewers with an interest in period clothes, interior décor etc., who've been able to spot holes in the content.
It really wasn't a bad mini-series and a lot more watchable and pertinent to us '60's fans than most of the rubbish they put on the box these days. As I've said before, Sheridan Smith again demonstrated her abilities to the full and was a pleasure to watch. I actually preferred her rendering of Cilla's songs to Cilla singing them herself, as I always thought she was a bit shrill. Even though I'm an ex.pat Liverpudlian, Sheridan's 'scouse' accent was far less grating & eye-watering than Cilla's is even now! I left Merseyside in 1975 and apparently although I can still be detected as 'northern' by southereners who seem obsessed with anyone who sounds different to them, I don't sound 'scouse' and haven't done for many years (not that it was a heavy inflection in the first place). Frankly, I find it amazing (and not that believable!) that Cilla still has such a Liverpudlian twang after all the years she's lived in the south. I inwardly flinch every time I hear her these days. Oddly, if you see and listen to any interviews with her in the late '60's, she's quite 'well' spoken with nary a trace of her 'scouse' roots.
Interesting....................maybe!
Stephen.

[dave robinson]

You're probably right about those things Stephen and I agree entirely about the Cilla stuff. Mum used to call her 'nasal Annie'.

[Gatwick1946]

Watched the last episode of "Cilla", last night.

Sheridan Smith did a good job, but neither looked or sounded much like the Cilla Black I recall circa 1964!

Guess it was an entertainment show, not a documentary?

Regards
Christopher