This 1970 release is one of the stranger records I acquired I do not recall ever hearing it played on the radio, like many things little has changed, one of my many jobs within the company I worked for was a spell in the Personnel group, I was in the Exit group dealing with people leaving the company, the work covered Age Retirement, Medical, Death In Service, Resignations and the largest part (at the time) Redundancy, on the redundancy side the most often asked question was "How can I get my whole Pension paid out as a lump sum" at the time it was not possible, you could only transfer it the another pension scheme, after I had left that group government rule changes allowed people to withdraw their pensions as lump sums.
The scans are from 45cat and are of my copy of the record, there is also a factory sample (not mine) it indicates that at least 100 copies were pressed, as part of the QA controls the 100th, 200th, 300th, etc. records was played, if the record was faulty the batch back to the last good record were rejected, the record that were played had a sticker put on them and were sold to the staff at a reduced rate, they are not as some people who try to sell them as promotional copies, generally the first 500 records were produced as promotional records and were supplied to Radio Stations, some D.J's and at one time record shops (so you could listen to the record before deciding to buy it).
The rejected records were dumped, the children local to Hayes where EMI was based found out where the records were dumped and started scavenging them, sales in the local record shops of EMI records declined, a number of children were interviewed about the records and all said they had 100's of records from the dump and all of them played perfectly.
When I first started collecting records I could often get 10 for £1, on 45cat it has this record valued at £20 I think I paid £1 for my copy.
I am still trying to work out is this worse than the record by the Saucepan Lids or is the Saucepan Lids better than this record?
O.A.P's - Give Us The Right To Live (Part 1) (youtube.com)
During the week I was in Goodrington, Devon, so I decided to try a bit of beach fishing, on Monday I fished for about 2 hours I did not catch any fish I was not alone as none of the few other anglers there caught any fish, I gave up as a cold wind was blowing down the promenade, Tuesday was windy all day so I did not bother to go fishing, by Wednesday the weather had improved, despite fishing the 3 hours up to high tide and the 3 hours after I did not catch any fish though others caught very small pollock, Thursday this time I managed to catch some fish the first was a Ballan Wrasse, I did not take a photo of it and the next fish caught which was a small pollock.
For some reason the Mackerel have not arrived at the venue yet, also none of the fishmongers have has any Mackerel for a number of weeks.
FFish #3 a small pollock
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#4 a small pollock
#5 a slightly larger pollock
Ray Stevens - Shriner's Convention (Original) (youtube.com)
Ray Stevens - Shriner's Convention (Knights Of Columbus Version) (youtube.com)
This was also an early post on the blog at the time I was using Magix (version 3 though it may have been version 2) in those days Magix used the headphone plug of a stereo system, later I would use Audacity and then transfer to Magix, as Magix did not at that time support loading via USB ports, later I got an ION USB deck and used that for a number of years, I eventually changed over to Stanton ST80 decks and used an optical digital interface, the problem with the Stanton Decks if you had the power chord too close to the out put cables you would get Transformer Hum, I did intend to get some chokes for the power cables but never got round to it, I also have a Thorens record deck that was used mainly for 78's as the Ion deck did not support 78's.