K-tel compilations of the '70s
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Topic: K-tel compilations of the '70s
Posted By: Ajay
Subject: K-tel compilations of the '70s
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 13:30
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Stool Man's http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=92606" rel="nofollow - thread about 20 Dynamic Hits sent me on a nostalgia trip, wherein I discovered this beauty: http://blogs.news.com.au/jackmarxlive/index.php/news/comments/those_k_tel_albums_of_the_70s" rel="nofollow - Those "K-Tel albums" of the 70s My cousins, who were older than me, tended to have these albums, so I associated them with a grown-up taste in music. *cough* But my mum did buy us kids one for Christmas:  Ah, those were the days, when a mother could buy her young children an album featuring a young woman's exposed buttock cheek and not expect a visit from a social worker. Who else here was blessed with these treasures? |
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 13:46
I have this one from the early 80's.
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 13:54
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These albums were revolutionary, honest. They offered a cheap way to get the most popular songs of the day, decades before file sharing, downloads, MP3s, etc. The only way to preserve the songs without buying the singles was to record them on tape or cassette, usually off the radio. Prior to this, the only compilations of hits that were available contained anonymous cover version of the songs, not the originals. Many since famous musicians paid their dues by playing or singing on such albums, including Elton John, David Byron, Jimmy Page, etc. The versions were though almost always pale imitations of the originals.
The K-Tel type albums paved the way for the Now That's What I call Music type sets, I think the new Now album is volume 80-something! |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 13:58
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I have this one too:  http://www.ktel.com/images/albums/lg/AC06339-F.jpg" rel="nofollow - -------------
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Posted By: Ajay
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 14:00
Lordy, I did enough of that! Then I'd sit with the tape, hitting play/stop/rewind while I transcribed the lyrics to The Logical Song or the guitar parts to Wish You Were Here. Good times.  |
Easy Livin wrote:Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 14:01
This is an odd one because it has a Pink Floyd track(Welcome To The machine) and Pink Floyd generally don't permit their songs to be used on compilation albums. The explanation in this case is printed in red on the bottom of the cover: 'Proceeds from the album were contributed to "The Year of the Child" to help sick and handicapped children'. Apparently the album was compiled by members of Led Zeppelin.
A1 Electric Light Orchestra – Shine A Little Love A2 Wings (2) – Jet A3 Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street A4 Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing A5 Eric Clapton – Let It Grow A6 Elton John – Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word A7 Cliff Richard – Devil Woman B1 Supertramp – Give A Little Bit B2 Thin Lizzy – Boys Are Back In Town B3 Yes – Don't Kill The Whale B4 Pink Floyd – Welcome To The Machine B5 Bad Company (3) – Rock & Roll Fantasy B6 Led Zeppelin – Candy Store Rock ------------- What? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 14:11
Two more, slightly older:
 A1 Who, The – Substitute
A2 Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, The – Fire A3 Procol Harum – Whiter Shade Of Pale A4 Cream (2) – Sunshine Of Your Love A5 Jimi Hendrix – Hey Joe A6 Elton John – Crocodile Rock A7 Ashton, Gardner & Dyke – Resurrection Shuffle A8 Faces, The* – Stay With Me A9 Derek & The Dominos – Layla A10 Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air B1 Spencer Davis* – Give Me Some Lovin' B2 Free – My Brother Jake B3 T-Rex* – Get It On B4 Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends B5 Status Quo – Down The Dustpipe B6 Manfred Mann – 54321 B7 Move, The – Blackberry Way B8 Hollies, The – Here I Go Again B9 Kinks, The – All Day & All Of The Night B10 Deep Purple – Hush  A1 O'Jays* – Backstabbers
A2 Johnny Nash – There Are More Questions Than Answers A3 Roxy Music – Virginia Plain A4 Atomic Rooster – Devil's Answer A5 Judge Dread – Big Six A6 Dave And Ansil Collins* – Double Barrel A7 John Kongos – Tokoloshe Man A8 Daniel Boone – Rock And Roll Bum A9 Free – All Right Now A10 Faces (3) – Stay With Me B1 Tyrannosaurus Rex – Debora B2 Mac Davis – Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me B3 Lesley Duncan – Sing Children Sing B4 Colin Blunstone – I Don't Believe In Miracles B5 Pioneers* – I Believe In Love B6 Johnny Pearson – Sleepy Shores B7 Greyhound (4) – Black And White B8 Lindisfarne – Meet Me On The Corner B9 Dandy Livingstone – Big City B10 Cat Stevens – Moonshadow I've highlighted the Lesley Duncan track here because this album was my first introduction to her wonderful voice, she never found much success as a solo singer but produced two notable albums, Sing Children Sing and Earth Mother, worked with Elton John, sang backing vocals on Dark Side Of the Moon and lead on Alan Parson's Eve. Sadly Lesley died in 2010 after a long illness.
 Her song "Love Song" has been covered by over 150 different artists, this early acid-folk version is the original.
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: March 21 2013 at 21:23
This is the one I had when growing up. The ROCK Album (1980) Side One: Side Two: ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 04:56
| ^Oh, my father has this one! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 05:06
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Never had a K tel album, had a few Top Of The Pops ones. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 05:42
My sister had this one:
 These regularily topped the UK charts in the early 70s and if I remember correctly the reason why budget albums were eventually excluded from the charts was because a Top Of The Pops album containing a cover of Maggie May knocked Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells A Story (that contains the original version) off the number one spot. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 05:46
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^I remeber not realising they were all cover versions at first and then I though...this Sweet song doesn't sound quite right!
Not bad versions though...not so much covers as clones. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 06:10
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Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 07:18
Mea culpa!  ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 07:33
Not K Tel but does anyone remeber this? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 08:21
Jimi Hendrix - British Gold???
 I used to have a couple of 20 Fantastic Hits albums in the 70s. I remember a couple of Blackfoot Sue classics that were on them. Anyone remember them?
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 08:24
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^British band, Hendrix lived here....i can see a good case for it. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 08:36
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^damn straight, Hendrix was a marginal figure in the USA until Chas Chandler imported his art back to the USA from the UK. I can't resist rejoicing in the delicious irony of this musical invasion being tantamount to an aesthetic Pearl Harbour launched by the perfidious albion' ------------- 
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Posted By: I like the 80's
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 08:48
| I've got the "By Invitation Only" album on cassette. At the time, the big deal was that ELP Karn Evil 9 Parts 1 & 2 were presented without a break/fade out. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 09:11
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 09:16
Absolutely. Hendrix was an American musician but the Jimi Hendrix Experience was a British group formed in London by Chandler as a vehicle for Hendrix with two British musicians. Wikipedia lists The Experience as an English-American group yet calls Placebo and English group even though Molko and Olsdal are American and Swedish musicians because they were formed in London.
Blackfoot Sue were a great rock band that like The Sweet adopted the glam image to sell records, (I wouldn't be surprised if their name wasn't derived in part from The Sweet's Wigwambam), Standing In The Road (JAM records) is one of the great singles of the 70s. I recall they appeared on the Benny Hill show once as his backing band. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 09:19
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 09:26
I have this album which covers Elton John's days as a cover artist: -------------
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 09:26
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 09:32
I always preferred "Sing Don't Speak" - I tried to download it recently and the only version I found seems to be a recent remake .
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 22 2013 at 09:52
I was working as a "Saturday Boy" in Woolies when it was released. That's when I bought it. ------------- What? |