Merry Christmas Everybody!!!
A few rare treats to see you through the build up to
Christmas and into the New Year.
Smiths Chart Busters (Lyntone LYN 3142-3157 UK)
(2022 Remastered Expanded Edition) (1975)
A special promotion by Smiths Crisps in the UK in 1975.
You had to save up 20 tokens from packets of Smiths Crisps,Chipsticks, Quavers, Chipitos, Smokees or Twists in order to send off and choose one of eight flexi-discs available.
All flexi-discs came in a plain white sleeve inside a 7" gate-fold picture sleeve.
The artists to choose from were: Bay City Rollers, Gary Glitter, The Glitter Band, Showaddywaddy, Sweet Sensation, Rubettes, The Stylistics, Status Quo and Slade.
https://www.45cat.com/record/lyn31567
All 16 tracks are included here, plus for this special 2022 remaster, a further 6 bonus tracks have been added by some of the same artists released around the same time, and were all big hits in 1974 and 1975.
This now 22 track collection has a CD running time of 77:58.
The Kinks - 20 Golden Greats! (Ronco RPL 2031 UK) (2022 Remastered Expanded Edition) (1978)
The Kinks - 20 Golden Greats! is a compilation album by The Kinks released by Ronco in 1978 and peaked at No. 19 in the UK album chart.
The album remains officially unreleased on CD.
All tracks are the original 7" 45 mono single mixes.
For this 2022 remaster I have now added 8 bonus tracks from 1965 to 1969, all singles which were not featured on the original album due to time constraints, making a 28 track CD with a running time of 79:38.
https://www.discogs.com/release/904041-The-Kinks-20-Golden-Greats
The Monkees - 20 Golden Greats (Ronco RTL 2085 UK) (2022, 40th Anniversary Remastered Expanded Edition) (1982)
The Monkees - 20 Golden Greats is a compilation album by The Monkees released by Ronco in 1982 in the UK.
In memory of the very sad loss of Michael Nesmith who sadly died last week:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/12/michael-nesmith-obituary
The album remains officially unreleased on CD.
For this 40th anniversary 2022 remaster I have now added 9 bonus tracks which were not featured on the original album due to time constraints, making a 29 track CD with a running time of 77:59.
https://www.discogs.com/release/3599323-The-Monkees-20-Golden-Greats
Now That's What I Call Music - The Christmas Album (2021 Remastered Expanded Edition) (1985)
Now - The Christmas Album is a compilation album released in 1985. The album is part of the Now! series in the United Kingdom, and collects popular Christmas songs of the last few decades.
It reached number 1 on the UK Albums Chart for two weeks,
in between two runs of Now That's What I Call Music 6.
It has never been re-released in its entirety on CD, a fewer tracks version was released in 1986.
Newly compiled using the latest digital remasters at 320 -
the original 1985 UK album with the complete 18 tracks (the 1986 CD had 16).
For this special 2021 remastered edition, I have added 4 bonus tracks, including 'Thanks for Christmas' by The Three Wise Men (XTC) (1983),
and 'December Will Be Magic Again' by Kate Bush (1980),
which never show up on compilations, all released before 1985,
the original album release date, making a 22 track CD with a running time of 79:35.
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Now-Thats-What-I-Call-Music-The-Christmas-Album/release/981303
A Rock and Roll Christmas Party (2016)
https://jasmine-records.co.uk/en/christian-christmas/2996-various-artists-a-rock-and-roll-christmas-party-.html
Now That's What I Call Christmas (3CD) (2021)
https://www.nowmusicstore.com/*/*/NOW-That-s-What-I-Call-Christmas-3CD/76J20000000
NUMBER ONE CHRISTMAS SONGS ……
+ TWO MORE BONUS SURPRISES!
A very Merry Christmas from MR XXX
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