Vinyl Solution Records Australia in Cheltenham, Victoria | Film & music shop
Vinyl Solution Records Australia
Locality: Cheltenham, Victoria
Phone: +61 3 9583 4360
Address: Shop 5 / 10 Park Road 3192 Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Website: http://www.vinylsolution.com
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25.01.2022 Fabulous jazz/rock from Jim Peterik's Ides Of March, out of Chicago, an original US promo copy featuring their massive hit 'Vehicle'. In New Zealand, Wellington's Quincy Conserve raided this album to produce the definitive version of 'Aire Of Good Feeling'. Peterik later resurfaced in Survivor.
25.01.2022 The Jaggerz (great name) weren't around for a long but they left an indelible mark with their 1970 classic 'The Rapper'. No, it wasn't an early rap - it was a guide to seduction. Their only album also featured the excellent 'I Call My Baby Candy' and a version of the Cocker arrangement of 'With A Little Help From My Friends'
25.01.2022 The original idea was just to save on ink but World Record Clubs monochromatic alternative sleeves often look much cooler than the original ones. This is Yehudi Menuhin's recordings of Walton's Violin and Viola Concertos. A 1970s Australian pressing
25.01.2022 Hits of the 60s as only Ronnie Aldrich and Phase 4 Stereo can present them..but who's that with Engelbert on the front? Why it's Van Morrison's Them and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. And a girl in a bikini, with Pow! written, Batman-style, next to her. Who else can you spot?
23.01.2022 Nobody did the lush harmonic ballad better than the Hollies in the 1970s; "I'm Down", "Sandy" and, of course, "The Air That I Breathe". Lovely stuff. But the same can't be said for Allan's white suit.
22.01.2022 In the 1960s it wasn't uncommon for rockers to mellow out a little and perform in panto and musicals. Here Lincolnshire guitarist Joe Brown, famous for hits like 'A Picture Of You', joins Anna Neagle in a stage production of 'Charlie Girl'.
20.01.2022 Four of the finest from the world of percussion, including Lionel Hampton's astonishing 'Chasin' With Chase'. Hampton was famed as a vibes player but he could handle a kit and sticks just as brilliantly.
20.01.2022 Billy Mure, ace session guitarist and creator of Happy Guitars. Billy played surf, pop, Hawaiian and lounge music and died aged 98 in 2013. This 60s classic came in a very groovy psychedelic sleeve.
19.01.2022 Pop/soul diva Marcia Hines came to Australia to sing in 'Superstar' and stayed to carve out a magnificent career. This is her rare 1982 45, 'Take It From The Boys', from the album of the same name
19.01.2022 Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen; a 1961 EP featuring the hit 'Midnight In Moscow', which explains the woolly hats and arms folded in Russian style. A New Zealand plum label original in a fully laminated flipback sleeve.
19.01.2022 Tina Cross' "Nothing But Dreams" - a 1979 45 which won that year's Pacific Song Contest. From Auckland, Tina relocated to Australia where she became lead singer for 1980s technopop band Koo De Tah - not to be confused with New Zealand's Coup D'Etat which featured Jan Preston.
17.01.2022 Sounds Orchestral's 'Words', a 1968 plum label flipback laminated sleeve New Zealand original featuring John Schroeder, Johnny Pearson, Kenny Clare and Peter McGurk. Any album that includes the magnificent 'Soul Coaxing' is ok by me.
16.01.2022 Down girls! From his early 1960s heartthrob days as the delectable and desirable Dr Kildare, a scarce 4 track New Zealand yellow label EP by Richard Chamberlain.
16.01.2022 Brilliant as Van is, this 1976 version from Ian Matthews' 'Go For Broke' album is the definitive version of 'Brown Eyed Girl'.
16.01.2022 Mi-Sex were a hugely successful New Zealand new wave synth/pop group fronted by Steve Gilpin and known mainly for their 1980 hits 'Computer Games' and 'Graffiti Crimes'. This is a promo copy of their 1981 single 'Falling In And Out' - the band had relocated to Australia by '81.
16.01.2022 When the Bee Gees were fracturing around 1969 and Robin was going out on his own, Maurice tried his hand at a solo 45; he later said that he never liked it much but 'Railroad', while slight, is a pretty, melodic and attractive ballad. A NZ Spin label pressing from 1970.
16.01.2022 Regular collaborators on EMI New Zealand's 1970s compilations, of both domestic and overseas artists; compiler Bruce Ward, mastering engineer Kirk McMillan and artist/cover designer Kevin Dunkley. This 1976 LP pulls together 20 ballads from 1956 to 1975, by international artists.
15.01.2022 Andy Dickson and Liam Ryan's melodic ballad 'Heart And Soul' was a big hit in New Zealand for the Narcs in 1984 but when released in Australia the band's punky name was ditched in favour of the more radio friendly Great Divide.
15.01.2022 "I said...kickin' this habit ain't gonna be too tough...and with that bit of reassurance .. I took another puff..." Jerry Reed's "Ko-Ko Joe", a 1971 orange label New Zealand original, issued in a groovy flipback laminated sleeve.
15.01.2022 French bandleader Paul Mauriat became famous the world over after his hit version of Vicky Leandros' 1967 Eurovision entry, forLuxembourg, "Love Is Blue", topped world charts early in 1968. This 1960s LP from Venezuala showcases his version of John Phillips' "San Francisco"
14.01.2022 An Australian compilation of 14 Jo Stafford country/pop tracks including her signature hit, 'You Belong To Me'. Born in 1917, Jo sang in the Pied Pipers before going solo. She was married to Paul Weston and died in 2008, aged 90.
14.01.2022 Diversity was essential in the fast movin', pop pickin' world of the 60s and by 1965 Jan & Dean were packing away their surfboards and joining the folk/rock revolution. This is a very rare New Zealand black label original mono pressing, made by HMV.
13.01.2022 As well as distributing major labels like Decca, HMV New Zealand handled the affairs of smaller locals like Joe Brown, who had Kiwi country legend John Hore (Grenell), from Ranfurly in Southland, on their books. This version of 'Mary Ann Regrets' is from 1964
13.01.2022 'Radar Love' is rightly remembered as the classic GE track but the haunting, strutting and powerful 'She Flies On Strange Wings' was just as good. Too long for one side of a 45 though. This is a New Zealand original
13.01.2022 Classical music has seldom been used to greater effect in a movie than in Visconti's remarkable 'Death In Venice', which utilised Mahler, Beethoven, Moussorgsky and Gil. This is a German reissue of the soundtrack LP.
13.01.2022 The latest in Grant Gillander's excellent Frenzy reissue series of classic New Zealand sixties pop & rock. 57 original tracks on two CDs, hits and rarities, plus a superb colour booklet.
13.01.2022 Must have seemed like a good idea at the time...key 'Hollies' into a calculator, look at it upside down and you've got an album title. This is a NZ Parlophone pressing of 1979's slick and smooth ballad-laden 5317704.
13.01.2022 Inspired by Herb Alpert's success, Teddy Phillips formed the Mexicali Brass in the1960s. They never matched Alpert's success - perhaps because they weren't in the right place : this young trumpeter appears to have lost herself some 50 miles from ..er .. Mexicali?
12.01.2022 The raucous and in-your-face sounds of Sounds Incorporated were not to everyone's taste although Tony Barrow noted their 'vitality tempered by a respect for precision'. Well...perhaps. A rare NZ green label 1964 mono original.
12.01.2022 The Parris Mitchell Strings with Brass - one of the many sixties albums cashing in on the James Bond-inspired spy boom. Various spy paraphernalia on the front; passport, guns, camera etc - although it's not clear why they include a pitch fork and a tennis racquet.
11.01.2022 In the 1960s it was very common for EMI Australia to press albums locally but to use sleeves imported directly from the UK - sometimes leading to the catalog numbers being different on the label and the sleeve. An example is this Columbia stereo pressing of Klemperer's recording of Mendelssohn's 'Scotch' symphony, from 1961.
11.01.2022 A couple of New Zealand country music legends - John Hore (John Grenell) and Paul Walden team up for this 1966 album on the Joe Brown label
10.01.2022 As well as starring in films like 'Trial Run' and 'World's Fastest Indian', Annie Whittle had a successful career as a 70s pop singer. This is her 1976 45, Kim Carnes' "When We Go Sailing", produced by Dave Fraser.
09.01.2022 Reg Presley's 1st great composition - the first of many - this was the 3rd Troggs single, the follow up to "Wild Thing" and is, arguably, a better and more melodic piece of pop. A New Zealand red label Parlophone original, 1966. Reg's real name was Reginald Maurice Ball.
09.01.2022 Nobody repackaged their sixties product quite as prolifically as Pye who even managed two squeeze two Golden Hours out of the Searchers. Having said that, there's some fine material on this Tony Hatch-produced album.
08.01.2022 Hard to be taken seriously when you are known as a lightweight pop outfit & that's a pity as Love Affair (shortened to L.A.) made a superb, melodic and inventive album in their rock/prog 'New Day'. An original 1970 New Zealand pressing. Gus Eadon replaces Steve Ellis on vocals.
08.01.2022 Australian record club edition of 'Stay With The Hollies'. Artwork different to the original and featuring a later pic, with Bernie Calvert, who didn't play on the album, and with Eric Haydock (who did), missing. WRC's World Stereo 'strobe' label
07.01.2022 "I can think of worse places to be..like down in the sewer..or even on the end of a skewer..." Old and hairy in 1977 but still as punk as you could get, a rare NZ Liberty pressing of the Stranglers' debut.
07.01.2022 Booker T Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald 'Duck' Dunn and Al Jackson - a rare New Zealand yellow Stax label pressing of Booker T & The MG's 'Soul Limbo' from 1968, in which the cool Memphis soul/funksters tackle the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, among others.
07.01.2022 A hard 45 to find - ex-Chick Suzanne Lynch's excellent covers of 'Carolina In My Mind' & 'Woodstock', from 1971, on Philips' short-lived pink and red label - and Sue gets her own personalised matrix number!
06.01.2022 "What am I, supposed to do, with a girl like Jesamine? Though my eyes are opened wide, she's made my life a dream" The Casuals' 1968 pop classic was written by Manston and Gellar who, in reality, were Ronnie Scott and Marty Wilde. This is the New Zealand 4 track EP version.
06.01.2022 Intimate, live, jazz/pop from Meg Myles; a 1963 stereo original. Born Billie Jean Jones, Meg was a singer, actress ("Satan In High Heels") and one of the 1950s most popular pin-up girls.
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03.01.2022 Fabulous cover art on this 1954 jazz classic of early material by Duke Ellington. The artist, unfortunately, is not credited on the sleeve of this rare Australian edition from 1954. The original U.S. version had a monochrome version of the seated jazz fan.
03.01.2022 NZ country star Suzanne Prentice released many records over the years but her first two albums, when she was still in her mid-teens, are among her best. The hardest to locate is her second effort, through Christchurch's Master label, from 1975, containing 12 country classics.
02.01.2022 Nino Rota was one of Italy's finest film musicians and his score for Zeffirelli's 1968 'Romeo And Juliet' was one of his most famous. The soundtrack features Rota's sumptuous melodies plus dialogue from the movie. A green label Australian original.
01.01.2022 From 1989, the second volume of Ellington classics in the Robert Parker series; 18 tracks from 1930 to 1938. The hard to find Australian vinyl pressing
01.01.2022 I am continuing to post images and information regarding great vinyl records but please note that most of these are NO LONGER FOR SALE. There is a limited amount of stock still for sale at https://www.discogs.com/user/vinylsol but if an item is not listed for sale here then it is NOT AVAILABLE.
