UPDATE FEB 2011

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DEAR FRIENDS, AFTER RECEIVING FIVE NOTIFICATIONS FROM DMCA, I HAVE DECIDED TO CLOSE MY BLOGS, SO ALL THIS SHARING-LINK ACTIVITY IS FINISHED. YOU CAN READ THE COMPLETE TEXT I POSTED ON MY PILOT BLOG - - > HERE

FOR THE MANY MANY PEOPLE WHO KEEP ASKING FOR RECORDS: I'M SORRY, I CAN'T FULFIL THEIR REQUESTS, IT ALL CAME TO A POINT THAT'S 'S TOO DANGEROUS FOR ME. I HAD TO REMOVE THE 97% OF THE ALBUMS I HAD POSTED ON THE SERVERS. The few exceptions are: the bootlegs and the few studio albums authorized directly by the copyright owners.

FOR ALL THE OTHERS, Cyrus (who wants to buy some of my vynil records), Maxoom, Caroalt, Jiro, Trolley Dolly, Phil (who wants my copies of the COB albums), Marnie (who wants my copy of the original "Ptooff"), XJ64, Antiamnbient, Arman, Nicolas, Rick, etc etc , please WRITE ME AGAIN WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, AND I WILL ANSWER YOU, OKAY?

Last: I RE-UPPED THE FOREST'S LIVE ALBUM FOR THREE PEOPLE WHO ASKED FOR IT, SO IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED, HERE'S YOUR CHANCE.


VAN DER GRAAF FANS? - Click ==>> HERE

KISSES - YOUR COUNTESS VANESSA

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No pretention of completeness in mind, this blog sees the light with the idea of filling a good number of gaps here and there, where I notice that certain music that I particularly like is missing in other blogs. Therefore my intent is avoiding posting albums that are present elsewhere. Exceptions are: where I'm reported of dirty record scans, incomplete reissues often remixed and unfaithful to the originals, or when I can offer higher bitrate scans, or also when posting a title is necessary for the completeness of a thread or a discography.


Here you won't find links leading to downloads, whenever the "Link" is featured, the album is available, otherwise, it means "work in progress".... If you want an album, please write me a request in the comment section including your email address and where in the world you visit this blog from.

...and if you don't get an answer from me after a certain time, please write again - I'm sorry, but it's not rare that some emails get lost in outer space, unfortunately...

After seeing that certain people keep using some of my pictures (which are not first class, I admit it, but nevertheless were made originally by me) for their blogs, without mentioning me as the owner, I decided to apply a "watermark" on some of them.

Thanks for existing

Thanks for existing

27 February 2010

JOHNSTONS - "Give a damn" (Transatlantic, 1968) and "Both sides now" (Polydor, 1969)

The Johnstons started as a kind of sunshine-folk group, in 1966, they published a bunch of singles for the labels PYE (1966-67, most of which mono) and BigT (1968-70), and recorded their first LP for Transatlantic in  1968, "The Johnstons".  Their second album was this, "Give a damn", again in 1968, which included some of the original BIG T singles. 
Shortly after, for reasons unknown to me, the labels Polydor (in UK) and Tetragrammaton (in the USA) republished the same track list of this Transatlantic album, including "My house" / "The wherefore and the why" (absent on the "Give a damn" LP), on a compilation entitled "Both sides now".
[somehow, a Butcher-Wannabe cover]


Therefore, practically, these two LPs contain the same songs, but "Give a damn" lacks the above mentioned single, while "Both sides now" lacks "Julia" and "Urge for going".  So, what I 'm going to post here is this: the complete "Give a damn" album with the songs "My house" / " The wherefore..." as bonus tracks.

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As to the Johnstons' early mono singles, the Marble Arch/Hallmark label packed them on a compilation album named "The travelling people" in 1969, where the songs are re-channeled into stereo. This LP will also soon appear.

XXX Your COUNTESS
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 1, 2010 at 3:05 PM

    Ah now the mystery's explained! I had seen this Polydor record from 1969, it was weird 'cause the group had a contract with Transatlantic as well.
    A friend of mine found this "Both sides" on another blog some time ago but says that it's such a dirty recording, you can't even hear the music!

    Looking forward to get this from you, dear Dame, please don't forget about me
    Thank you for your enterprise, we really neeeded it, and thank you for not giving up after closing your first blog!

    ALL the best

    GURNEMANZ

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  2. MikeMyMarch 24, 2010 at 6:14 PM

    Countess Vanessa, how does one gain entitlement to access a link to these two Johnston Albums. I have spent hours around your sites but failed to find the answer to my question.
    Yours, a mere commoner
    Mike

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  3. MikeMyMarch 24, 2010 at 6:28 PM

    May I please have access to these albums. I am in London and saw the Johnstons win their first folk competition in Wexford folk competion many years ago. They were then two sisters and a brother.

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  4. CONTESSA VANESSAMarch 24, 2010 at 6:40 PM

    ....oh, a "mere commoner"? Well, it is mainly from them and from the poorest social layers of populations that we got so many musical presents in terms of songs, dances, plays, not forgetting even the invention of some particular instruments that by tradition always used to belong to the common people, so welcome dear "commoner" Mike! You saw the Johnstons on stage? You lucky man!
    As to how one can get access to my records, well, you did the right thing, as explained on my opening page, and it's simply writing to me directly :-)
    Now, you just need to do one last thing: write me again using a valid email address of yours (which remains PVT) and I send you all you need, okay?

    Cheers,

    Your Vanessa :-)))

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  5. MikeMyMarch 27, 2010 at 12:01 AM

    Thank you so much Contessa. I have enjoyed "Give a Damn" so much. You are so kind providing us common folk with the crumbs from your table.
    May you continue to prosper and enjoy all the things you wish for yourself, for life.

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