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It s exciting and totally brilliant if you are a serious collector. --4/5 The Daily Express
Many gems with The Everly Brothers, Gene Vincent and the late Buddly Holly. --The Daily Mirror
Many gems with The Everly Brothers, Gene Vincent and the late Buddly Holly. --The Daily Mirror
Many gems with The Everly Brothers, Gene Vincent and the late Buddly Holly. --The Daily Mirror
Many gems with The Everly Brothers, Gene Vincent and the late Buddly Holly. --The Daily Mirror
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There's a bit of a story here! Acrobat Music originated the British Hit Parade series which originally featured the charts from the New Musical Express. Each year, as the material came out of copyright, another collection was added to the series - this continued up to the set for 1957. Acrobat Music and a group of their investors then had a bit of a falling-out which resulted in legal action preventing further releases by Acrobat.
During this period the investors continued the series on their new Fantastic Voyage label producing sets for 1958 and 1959 in the same style as the previous Acrobat releases. Also during this period many of the earlier Acrobat releases went out of print and gradually became unavailable. However, in 2010, Acrobat were successful in court and have now won back some of the rights to the disputed material. I don't know all the ins and outs or rights and wrongs of the dispute but it leaves us this year with BOTH labels producing sets for 1960!
Acrobat Music continue their previous format of four CDs in an expanded jewel case - but because of the inclusion of more material 1960 will be issued as three sets of four CDs. Fantastic Voyage have opted to change to long-box presentation and have produced two collections of six discs each. I had pre-ordered the Acrobat series as they were due to be the first released - but the release was delayed so I now have the Fantastic Voyage version instead. I can't compare the two as I have not seen or heard the other collection, but this version from Fantastic Voyage seems better value, is nicely presented with each CD in its own slip-case within the long-box and a comprehensive 76 page booklet with full track information and news stories from Stuart Colman is provided with both parts one and two.
Although I have not had time to play all the tracks I have dipped into a few of the CDs to check the sound quality and what I have heard so far is pretty good. It must be remembered, though, that these are not official releases from the original record companies so the source material is not going to be the master tapes! However, modern remastering techniques can bring out the best from the sources available - and they should all be the original recordings rather than re-recordings.
It is difficult to recommend one labels release over the other without being able to directly compare them, or without knowing more about the details of their dispute - but I am very pleased with the quality and value offered by this version from Fantastic Voyage.
During this period the investors continued the series on their new Fantastic Voyage label producing sets for 1958 and 1959 in the same style as the previous Acrobat releases. Also during this period many of the earlier Acrobat releases went out of print and gradually became unavailable. However, in 2010, Acrobat were successful in court and have now won back some of the rights to the disputed material. I don't know all the ins and outs or rights and wrongs of the dispute but it leaves us this year with BOTH labels producing sets for 1960!
Acrobat Music continue their previous format of four CDs in an expanded jewel case - but because of the inclusion of more material 1960 will be issued as three sets of four CDs. Fantastic Voyage have opted to change to long-box presentation and have produced two collections of six discs each. I had pre-ordered the Acrobat series as they were due to be the first released - but the release was delayed so I now have the Fantastic Voyage version instead. I can't compare the two as I have not seen or heard the other collection, but this version from Fantastic Voyage seems better value, is nicely presented with each CD in its own slip-case within the long-box and a comprehensive 76 page booklet with full track information and news stories from Stuart Colman is provided with both parts one and two.
Although I have not had time to play all the tracks I have dipped into a few of the CDs to check the sound quality and what I have heard so far is pretty good. It must be remembered, though, that these are not official releases from the original record companies so the source material is not going to be the master tapes! However, modern remastering techniques can bring out the best from the sources available - and they should all be the original recordings rather than re-recordings.
It is difficult to recommend one labels release over the other without being able to directly compare them, or without knowing more about the details of their dispute - but I am very pleased with the quality and value offered by this version from Fantastic Voyage.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
This is a great set and well worth the money, They all seem to be original. I would recommend to anybody interested in buying the chart hits of 1960, hopefully we should get 1961 next year
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
British Hit Parade 1960 Part 2 July To December. This Is a Massive 6 Disc Collection Every Song to Enter the U.K. Top 40 as It was Then, Is Here Plus Some That got Into Other Charts at the Time Like Record Mirror and Music Week, All the Tracks are Original Recording's In The Original Mono/ Stereo State All the Hits you Remember and Some you Don't, And One's you'll say So That's what it was Called well I Never.Unlike The Others That Where In Jewel Cases These Come In Lovely Cardbord ClamShell Type Box. Enjoy
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