UPDATE HISTORY
2020

MARCH

 

MARCH 24:

Thanks to reader Jesus Galeote we now know the chart positions for their hit singles
in Spain via this book: Sólo éxitos, 1959-2012 by Fernando Salaverri Aranegui.

 

MARCH 21:

Found another set of cassette tapes from Arista with catalog prefixes (AC5)
that I've never run across before:

AC5-8061 & AC5-8063.

I figure these were manufactured in the latter '80s since the numbers are so close together.

 

Thanks to Stephen Wright for sharing his photos of this new find for "Silver Moon"
for from El Salvador:

Created a new page for El Salvador; hopefully will see more records from there.

 

MARCH 17:

Here is the latest version of Nez's "Cosmic Partners" LP on "Electric Blue" vinyl.
Really it looks teal to me, but that's marketing for you -

Thanks to Ben Belmares for these photos!

 

MARCH 14:

Good Times! Promo CD:

Took me about 4 years to find a copy for sale.
I'm guessing Rhino didn't make too many of these available for journalists.

 

MARCH 7:

For the last few years I had this sleeve under the German section but reader
Manfred Schmidt recently informed me that it was in color and actually
issued in Austria. The record found inside the sleeve was just the German single.

This is such a great looking picture it is hard to believe that no one else every used it.

Added a new button on the left for Austria and also included
this 3" CD EP that was manufactured there.

MARCH 6:

Recently found out why RCA issued two sleeves for Nesmith's "Silver Moon" in Germany.
Reader Manfred Schmidt told me there was a German artist "Randolf Rose"
who covered Silver Moon as "Silver Moon Baby". His single did very well
on the charts getting to #5 in April '71.

RCA then capitalized on that single by reissuing Nez's version with an updated
picture sleeve that said "The Original".

 

 

MARCH 5:

Yet another stock version of this Arista 8-track, this time in a black cartridge:

 

MARCH 1:

Found this Arista 8-track in an orange cartridge for their "Greatest Hits".
Previously I've only seen the CRC or RCA club versions for this tape.