K-tel Australia Index – 7

 

 

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track listing and cover images.

 

 

Serial number

 

 

Title

 

 

Artist

 

 

Year

 

 

Matrix Number

 

 

Notes

 

NA575
Majestic
Who’s Best The Who 1979 Manufactured in Australia under licence from Polygram Pty Limited, special products divisio.
K-tel - NA576 - Dancin Exercise - Front NA576
Majestic
Dancin Exercise Various Artists 1980 198999
K-tel - NA577B - Shirley Live - Back NA577
Majestic
Shirley, Squirrely & Melvin – Live The Chipmunks 1980
Sorry - No image is currently available. NA578
Majestic
Details Unknown Details Unknown
Sorry - No image is currently available. NA579
Majestic
Details Unknown Details Unknown
k-tel - NA580 - David Bowie - Best of Bowie - Front cover NA580
Majestic
Best of Bowie David Bowie 1980 199197 Manufactured in Australia under licence from R.C.A. Limited, Special Products Division.

Released – 15th December 1980

k-tel - NA581X - Frankie Valli - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Back cover NA581
Majestic
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons 199199
k-tel - NA582 - Diania Ross - Collection - Front cover NA582
Majestic
Collection Diana Ross
K-tel - NA483 - Platinum Album NA583
Majestic
Platinum Various Artists 1981 199419
K-tel - NA584 - Hooked on Classics - Temp NA584
Majestic
Hooked On Classics Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 1981
k-tel - NA585 - Elvis Presley - Elvis Live - Front cover NA585
Majestic
Elvis Live Elvis Presley 1981 199567
Chanelle Players NA586
Majestic
Classic Moments with the Chanelle Players Chanelle Players MX199418
k-tel - NA587 - Davey Jones - Davey Jones sings the Monkeys - Front cover - temp NA587
Majestic
Davy Jones Sings The Best Of The Monkees Davy Jones Recorded in Japan May 1981.
k-tel - NA587 - Summer-Moves - Front-cover NA588 Summer Moves Various Artists
k-tel - NA589 - Victoria Nicholls - Frizzale Frazzle Frozzel - Front cover - TEMP NA589
Majestic
Frizzle Frazzle Frozzle Victoria Nicholls 1981 Victoria Nicolls colouring book is included!

” NOT so successful, although slightly more original, is Frizzle Frazzle Frozzle, an album of 20 songs featuring Victoria Nicholls, and produced by K Tel. Sale of the Century fans may wish to follow their star, but quiz show fame cuts no ice in the kindergarten world. Among the original songs, there are some good ideas, as in Sixty Seconds Got Together. But mostly the lyrics are banal and unimaginative. Miss Nicholls’s voice is clear and she sounds sincere about her audience but lacks the expertise to reach out and communicate. It’s a pity that the marketing extras (free-feeling cover photograph and printed texts of the songs) were not devoted to a more worthy vehicle. But we can all do without the Victoria Nicholls Coloring Book (a free enclosure). Kids draw their own pictures freehand these days. (Victoria Nicholls Frizzle Frazzle Frozzle K T NA589).” Age – Green Guide – 24 December 1981.

MiniPops NA590 NA590
Majestic
Mini Pops Various Artists 1982
k-tel - NA591 - Hookedon Swing - Front cover NA591
Majestic
Hooked on Swing Kings Of Swing Orchestra
k-tel - NA592 - Johnny Rivers - Greatest Hits - Front cover - temp NA592
Majestic
Greatest Hits Johnny Rivers $5.99 – Platinum Picks.
Starsigns NA592 NA593 Star Signs and Predictions Details Unknown 1982 199921 A truely weird album combining Beatles songs with spoken word horoscopes for 1982!
k-tel - NA594 John MacNally - Love Songs - Back cover NA594
Majestic
Love Songs John McNally 1982
k-tel - NA595 - Abba - Majic of Abba - Front cover NA595
Majestic
The Magic of ABBA ABBA 1982 205383 Warner Special Products
Sorry - No image is currently available. NA596
Majestic
Rock Classics London Symphony Orchestra
k-tel - NA597 - Sandy Posey - Born a Woman - Front cover NA597 Born A Woman Sandy Posey
k-tel - NA598 - Without You - Front cover NA598 Without You – Vol. 1 & 2 Various Artists
Sorry - No image is currently available. NA599
Majestic
Details Unknown Details Unknown

 

Notes

This page covers the seventh tranche of the NA series from NA575 to NA599, that were either single artist or various artist compilations. Most were advertised on television and radio in some form. The NA series was the main consolidated series of serial numbers and seems to have covered anything that didn’t fit the TA (Teenager) and WA (Western and Country) music genres, although they increasingly slipped into the later NA series.

 

Numbering

The order of the early releases is based on the Australian Matrix system that many record companies adhered to. This is often referred to as the MX number. The MX number is not on many later issues and some international re-issues. Furthermore, many of the issues that K-Tel Australia simply acted as a distributer for, or where they did budget reissues for other labels also don’t have MX numbers. Publishing year is given on the rare occasions when printed on the cover or label, or if there is clear evidence that it was issued in a particular year.

(Please note: Inside flip back and double record images will come as I get time to photograph them, and some the front covers will be redone. Enjoy.)

More images to come…