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Post by dave910 on Oct 20, 2008 23:23:43 GMT -5
 and there's a website devoted to them: www.hitrecordsofnashville.com/ . My parents had a couple of those records, and I remember the cover of Good Thing being surprisingly good. The piccolo trumpet run in Penny Lane was shrill, though. Yikes. Did anyone have any of these, or remember seeing them in stores? I had this very 45. I had a few of them on that "HIT" label, I didn't realize at the time that they were covers. A lot of albums came out on the Pickwick label in the 70's that had covers of popular hits. Pete, When I was a kid a remember getting an album called "Sounds Like the Eagles As Performed by Mirror Image." I had no idea who the hell Mirror Image was, but they did a damn good job mimicking the vocals and playing of the Eagles. I played the album a lot when I was 12, so maybe it didn't matter that much to me. On a related note, I used to notice singles with bands with soundalike names. This would happen when a major label would not release a radio hit as a single. As a result, small companies would get some soundalike musicians to record the songs and pass them onto the public. I often would tell customers that "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" by Angels in Action isn't the same version on the radio. Of course the hit version was by Aerosmith, but the single was only available for one week. So I had to purchase my copy quickly! I sometimes wish I bought at least one of these "imitation" singles just for the sheer entertainment.  |
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Post by smittykins--70s pop RULES! on Oct 21, 2008 17:32:47 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I posted this here already somewhere, but it fits the topic, so... "Because of low royalties, we can't mention the artists."  |
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Post by Dawn on Oct 22, 2008 10:56:57 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I posted this here already somewhere, but it fits the topic, so... "Because of low royalties, we can't mention the artists." LOL! Yep, I remember seeing copies of that one in the used record stores as well. Their version of The Entertainer doesn't sound too bad from the sample (although that's a fairly generic song, hard to butcher too badly), but that version of I Won't Last A Day Without You - yikes! It's strange, because I remember seeing commercials for other soundalike/knockoff records in the '70s, but that's the only one I recall which had a mention of that "low royalties" disclaimer. Wonder what the story was behind that particular record? |
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Post by smittykins--70s pop RULES! on Oct 22, 2008 12:32:13 GMT -5
I imagine it was just a backhanded way of admitting "These aren't the original versions." CYA and all that.(Although it's hard to be fooled by those excerpts!)
I wonder how many people took advantage of that money back guarantee?
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Post by Ken on Oct 22, 2008 16:29:26 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I posted this here already somewhere, but it fits the topic, so... "Because of low royalties, we can't mention the artists." LOL! I remember seeing them occasionally in stores (as I mentioned above, my parents had a Country compilation). However, I never saw the TV ad's. Now as far as the Ktel TV ad's, I saw them all the time!  |
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Post by gremashlo on Oct 22, 2008 17:13:47 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I posted this here already somewhere, but it fits the topic, so... "Because of low royalties, we can't mention the artists." That is GREAT--and I remember friends who OWNED that album... The T.E.J. Records company also made the "Bloopers" album in the 1970's--we played that one to death... |
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