“And a blues CD on the Hallmark label”
– Twenty Four Hour Garage People
So… what do we know about the Hallmark label?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
“And a blues CD on the Hallmark label”
– Twenty Four Hour Garage People
So… what do we know about the Hallmark label?
EXXO
I’m dead right-on, don’t like eggs, can’t afford Marmite, don’t drive so I never buy petrol, occasionally buy sandwiches but certainly not at garage prices, think all cheesy snack flavourings developed since about 1980 are disgusting and will only ever countenance a £1.99 road atlas that’s a couple of years out-of-date (OMG like how do I cope what with all the constant re-arrangements in UK geography??) .
This all means that the only object that 24-HGP has ever sold me is this, http://www.allmusic.com/album/me-and-the-devil-blues-hallmark-mw0001474653
puchased at a service station for about £3 in around 2003/4. This may irk some purists but overall I’ve been satisfied with the purchase.
19 February 2015
this leaden paul
K-Tel were better.
19 February 2015
Bobby SVARC
Pickwick/Hallmark & TOTP LP’s. A godsend in my youth, my first one was ’71 I think….it had Tokoloshe Man on it
19 February 2015
dirk hofman
Did the cover have a girl in a furry bikini on it?
19 February 2015
Bobby SVARC
Yes, Still got it although the caver is a little bit marked. I had one with the girls in Lonsdale boxing gear but that was Hot Hits on the MFP Label.
19 February 2015
Bobby SVARC
Minds going, The Fur Bikini was Vol 8, I didn’t have that.
19 February 2015
dickhead in quicksand
Smell the Glove?
19 February 2015
dirk hofman
Hot Hits 15..
20 February 2015
Bananayogi
I think those ‘Top of The Pops’ LPs have fuelled my violent dislike of ‘tribute’ bands. As a kid you’d buy them only to be disappointed by the sometimes ‘nearly but not quite’ but more often ‘a million miles away’ nature of the re-creations.
20 February 2015
Bobby SVARC
fair comment Yogi but back in 1971 we had f*** all money all so asking me old fella to buy a genuine 7″ single or a TOTP /Hot Hits LP with 15 tracks, The single wasn’t really a option.
20 February 2015
Dawlishian
Wasn’t Elton John involved in some of those ‘nearly but not quite’ re-creations?
21 February 2015
Dr Desperate
He was.
22 February 2015
GoK WAN ACOLYTE
@Exxo – is that the UK Hallmark label or an American one. I suspect that NB57 is probably referring to something like this, but if he is then a line that I’d previously assumed to be sarcastic is actually a statement of fact (since I’d view the track listing as pretty good)
25 February 2015
eric olthwaite
When I first heard the song I thought it was ‘Blue CD’ and wondered why NB57 had picked that particular boyband. A lot of good stuff on Hallmark – my first Johnny Cash compilation was on the label. And I’ve a Frankie Laine LP that I think is too. They put out lots of rock and roll, blues and country compilations
26 February 2015
Pirx the purist
A collaboration between the UK branches of Pickwick International & CBS. Did occasionally release originals, such as Sandy Denny & The Strawbs’ “All Our Own Work” in 1973 (although recorded in Denmark in ’68).
The efforts on the ‘Top Of The Pops’ series were sometimes not remotely close. Volume 30 had a rendition of “Tweedle Dee” (a minor hit for Little Jimmy Osmond at the time) where the little brat singing it was quite clearly from somewhere nearer to Stevenage than to Salt Lake City. *And* he cocked a note up as well.
4 November 2020