HITS '67
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Catalogue number: MFP 1089 Release date: 29 May 1967 * Mfp's first covers outing, Hits '67 has a small cult following for the rumoured presence of David Bowie on "Penny Lane" and "A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You". Well, it's a little bit Bowie in sound, but is in fact session singer Tony Steven. Still, the rumour has put the LP somewhere on pop's vast map. As for "Penny Lane", it's hard not to be distracted by the trumpet solo - it's a fine rendition but displaced throughout, so that it runs in advance of the rest of the music! It's a shame, since it mars what is otherwise a listenable recording. Oh, and this album was released in mono only. The LP is called Hits '67 but in fact includes a couple of 1966 singles - largely because four of the tracks are taken from the earlier Bill Wellings-produced LP of anonymous cover versions, Top Ten Spectacular (left): "Green Green Grass Of Home", "Peek-A-Boo", "Sitting In The Park" and "I've Been A Bad Bad Boy". * The date was provided in Beatles Monthly magazine (issue 133, May 1987). |
Alternative Pressing
Shown here is an alternative edition of the LP. The price drawn on the cover is 13/11 as opposed to the lower 12/6. Otherwise, the album is the same.
Inner sleeve pricing
Pictured above is the original 1967 inner sleeve which shows all the mfp albums on sale at 12/6. However blogger Andy Howells discovered an example of this sleeve (still inside the original LP cover) which had been stickered to raise the price (of all the albums shown) to 13/11. The sticker on his copy (left) has become detached, but one can clearly see that it was originally placed over the 12/6 price. The same had happened on the other side of this inner sleeve too. |
Shown here is an MFP album which we believe is West German. It adapts the Hits '67 cover art, but essentially turns it sideways. This LP was released in 1970, and so the rotated artwork could be deliberately borrowed from the UK box set, 48 Great Hits of 1968.
The LP is called "Die Bekanntesten Schlager Aller Zeiten" which translates as "The Most Popular Hits of All-time". We do not know for sure whether these recordings are the same as the ones on the UK albums - four of them are not known in the UK discography at all. Assuming they are the same versions, most of the Hits albums from pre-1970 are sampled:
From Smash Hits: "A Whiter Shade of Pale"
From Hits '68: "Delilah"; "Cindelella Rockefeller"
From Super Hits: "Dance to the Music"
From Hit Hits: "Little Arrows"; "Those Were the Days"
From Big Hits: "In the Year 2525"
From Hits Again: "Sugar Sugar"
The LP is called "Die Bekanntesten Schlager Aller Zeiten" which translates as "The Most Popular Hits of All-time". We do not know for sure whether these recordings are the same as the ones on the UK albums - four of them are not known in the UK discography at all. Assuming they are the same versions, most of the Hits albums from pre-1970 are sampled:
From Smash Hits: "A Whiter Shade of Pale"
From Hits '68: "Delilah"; "Cindelella Rockefeller"
From Super Hits: "Dance to the Music"
From Hit Hits: "Little Arrows"; "Those Were the Days"
From Big Hits: "In the Year 2525"
From Hits Again: "Sugar Sugar"
This is a Dutch MFP album, basically an alternative edition of the above West German LP, but with the title in English. The Hits '67 cover art is deployed in its original state. Use of the phrase "Can you tell the difference between these and the original sounds" (which is given in English and French!) strongly suggests that these recordings are the same as in the UK "Hits" series.