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NOTES

ON NOTES

This record piracy-

Taiwan's announcement that they are ban- ning the export of pirated American and Chinese hit tunes, was greeted with pessimism by Hong- kong dealers.

It was generally agreed that sales have improved in the last eight weeks due, as one dealer put it "to the fine work of the revenue and police departments” who have moved in on the smugglers.

But the overall situation has not changed much. As long as the Taiwan authorities close a blind eye to the activities of the record pirates in Taiwan, these to cheap discs will continue

Hong- come on the market. kong may not be as badly affected as before, but other South-east Asian countries may be hard hit. --

There appears to be only one remedy. Taiwan mdst shut down the factories producing these counterfeit discs.

★ ★

DISC SHORTS: Hottest sell- ing album in the States is "Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall" which has been branded

other among things as "the top album of the year", "superbly per- formed" and "an album to treasure.".

Elvis Presley is again push- ing his way to the top of the charts with "His Latest Flame". It's number four on the US hit parade charts

having jumped 18 places in one week.

it

to

After

has

stop

of classical

De completing like Bizet,

Patti Page's real name is Clara Ann Fowler; Paul Anka has set up his own motion picture company to with was the good, old fashioned works

composers Falla, Liszt produce films starring him- harmonica.

his high school studies he join- Rachmaninoff and Rossini. The self; competition for Elvis

ed the famous Borrah Mine- music has been modernised cer- from the feminine side

vitch · Harmonica Rascalsa tainly, but the character of the being supplied by newcomer group specialising in comedy music of these masters is to the scene, Swedish-born routines. Ann Margaret. (Olsen); Connie Francis' real name is Constance Franconero. Her main hobby is collect ing stuffed animals.

A RARITY

band music which attracted his Later it was the sound of big

talents. Since then his career has been going strictly in one direction-upwards!

cut

restrained.

to the blues, and now coun- try and western music. This is the amazing field covered by Patti Page, that singing rage from Tulsa Oklahoma.

Patti was discovered by Jack Rael, now her manager, while singing on a radio show, Within six months of her signing a contract she was heard as the featured vocalist on a nation- wide morning show entitled Don McNeill's "Breakfast Club".

The rest is almost history. She has had ten million sellers since, and one of the discs, "Tennessee Waltz" sold over four million copies and is still selling.

Patti today however is a com- posed, happily married woman It has been recorded more who doesn't really have to work who wrote some of our most ex- She accepts work only as a tribute to the great men for a living. In fact she doesn't.

if she citing classical rhythms such as the "Ritual Fire Dance,"

-tunes feels like it.

Money doesn't interest her to "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2," the degree it did at the begin- Richard

bas

"William Hayman

Tell

Hence Overture" and ning.

her rejection of many albums

the "Danse Macabre" to name what was termed "a very good since joining

offer" from a Hongkong night- Mercury, but few have been as just a few. ambitious as his latest effort on

The album was recorded in club for a 30-minute

engage- the

Presence

three sessions, approximately 35 ment. Sound

The offer was made to Patti sion. The musicians themselves while she was in Manila, but were an odd assortment of men she wasn't interested. She was some with backgrounds steep- more interested in returning to ed in the classics, and the others the United States. of the modern era.

Series entitled "Pop Concert In musicians working on each ses- Sound".

Perfect In the highly competitive field of popular music, Richard Hayman is some- thing of a rarity.

A self-taught musician, he the complex in- has mastered tricasies of arranging, composing, conducting and playing.

The instrument Hayman started on the road to fame

Hit Parade

By Mitch Meredith

Although we in Hongkong

feel no violent (I think. this the most appro- priate term) repercus- sions of the Hit Parade overseas, it's of mild interest to note the trends that crop up now and again in the big wide wonderful. The case in point; that of a hit tune currently running for in the United top honours

Kingdom

among the names to be seen

on the attractive list of ATV's nationwide "Sunday Night at the London Palladium" show which was launched by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Must have been quite a show!

and

Other musicians have attempt ed-and with success similar albums, but Hayman has given his work an extraordinary polish which helps stamp the album as "distinctive".

Arrangements carefully con- ceived, help bring to life

Mitch Meredith

What to do to combat rock

roll? An enteritis day and is now at the Sheffield epidemic claimed victims in Lyceum. Shadows guitarist Blackpool recently. David Bruce Welch did not appear Whitfield, starring in Rose on Cliff Richard's show at Marie at the Hippodrome the opera house, Lonnie missed about a week of the Donnegan's guitarist (one of

I refer to the melody which show, which closed on Satur- the many) went down also.

I played recently as a crystal

TOP TEN

Wooden Heart

ball selection 03 the pro-

gramme called “MICHAEL'

and which was then sung by the group

called the High-

1.

Cinderella

Waymca.

Lonnie Donnegan has re- corded, as I mentioned

2.

Big Cold Wind

some

3.

Little Sister

time ago, yet another version of this song. At present the two recordings are battling for top honours in the British charts

4.

5.

6. Michael

7.

How Many Tears

If anyone manages to get hold of the Dernegan version before I do, I would much like to hear it.

8.

very

You'll Answer To Me 9. Together

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You can't please every- body! The other day Harry Belafonte was quoted as saying; "The first satisfying moment I came to in reach- ing mature life was the minute I accepted the fact that I cannot be all things to all people. I can't be loved and approved by every one. Then life became much easier."

bar,

Overhead in a coffee the following: “When Elvis Presley was in Germany there wasn't all this trouble"!!!

Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Connie Francis. These were

Let Me Belong To You

10. A Girl Like You

Paul Anka.

Pat Boone. Elvis Presley. Joe Dowell. Bryan Hyland. The Highwaymen. Bobby Vee and the Johnny Mann Singers. Patti Page. Connie Francis. Cliff Richard.

Hits Here and There Dept.

USA

1-Michael-The Highway-

Is Out-US

*en 2. School

Bonds. 3.-Take Good Care Of My

Baby Bobby Vee. BRITAIN

1.-Johnny Remember Me

-John Leyton. 2-You Don't Know-Helen

Shapino. 3-Reach For The

Climb Every Shirley Bassey.

AUSTRALIA

Heartbreak-

1. -Sca of

Don Gibson. 2.-The Fish-Bobby Rydell. 3. Dum Dum-Brenda Lee.

MALAYA

1.-Wedding Cake Siv

Malmquist.

the

2. Portrait Of My Love-

Steve Lawrence.

Stars, Mountain-

3. Breaking In a

Brand Heart

New Broken Connie Francis.

This blend of talents itself has helped make this album extraordinary piece of

an work.

ON PPS 6010.

Well, we missed

seeing her in person, so we'll just have to settle for second best-her records.

Her latest disc on Mercury is country and western with a more than steady beat. Patti is absolutely at home on numbers such as "Have I Told You Lately

SINGING RAGE That I Love You", "Just

From straight

"pop"

Because" and "Jealous Heart."

A must for Patti Page

music to jazz, to spirituals, fans. It's on MG 20615.

STAMP NEWS *

28. The Jubilee issue of 1891

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of occupation of Hongkong 250 sheets of 2c, stamps (SG. 33) were overprinted 1841/Hongkong/JUBILEE/1891 were placed on sale on January 22-24, 1891.

The overprinting was done

by the Government Printer in a setting of 2 rows of 6 at a time.

There are many varieties in the way of mixed and uneven lettering, and spacing, due to defective type-setting.

Forgeries are known of this stamp both on CROWN CC (SG 28) and CROWN CA paper, the overprints being forged on genuine stamps.

Some of the varieties fetch high prices, and the more im-

1841

1

which

portant catalogued by Gib. The day following the sell- bons are listed. The current out it was reported in the catalogue prices are indicated press that the stamps

were (for mint stamps)

hawked which being

outside the gives an idea of the scarcity Post Office at 10 cents apiece. of some items.

Within 6 months they fetch 50 cents.

The demand at the time for these stamps was such that during the first hour of sale each customer was limited to 25 stamps: later it was re- duced to 20; then 10.

SG 48

In 1906 Gibbons quoted the "non-variety" at 12s. 6d. with varieties up to £1 (this for the double overprint).

(£60)

double surcharge short Jin JUBILEE short U in JUBILEE

space between HO and ng (£10)

first 1 in 1891 broken

-

tall narrow K in Kong

(£10)

Only 12 of the double surcharge variety are known to

exist.