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Regal Zonophone 2
Some of those are on my old Pop Cycles series. Pity it's Particles, as these will be little more than needle drop quality. Songs like David & David's 'In The City' and and Day 'n' Night's 'I Just Need Somebody' deserve a really good remaster. They're quality recordings and are very much in the style of the 'Tea & Syphony' or 'Fading Yellow' comps. Nonetheless,better that they are at least in the public domain. It looks like an interesting collection and worth having. The 13-yearold Lori Balmer does a good version of the Bee Gee's 'Four Faces West' and this only usually turns up on 60s girl singer comps, so nice to see it on a wider style of collection.
PM
... and, yes, my rant about unofficial releases seems a bit funny when read just before my request for free mp3's...
Boris - I think they have done in the past hence the re-branding (Past and Present becomes Psychic Circle becomes Particles etc). However, I understand they pay royalties into an escrow account, which I guess must be a legal way round the time consuming and exacting process of gaining licensing from each and every artist that appears on their numerous comps. Plus I imagine it would be almost a task for Sherlock Holmes himslef to trace who owns some of the copyrights on the obcure labels some of this stuff came out on originally.
I don't have any Pop Cycles uploaded at present but I can put some on Dropbox if you let me know which ones you need. Just to recap (re the hyppcrasy factor!). The PC series was a non-commercial freely given series I made of (at the time) under appreciated or unknown 45s for the purpose of giving them some public profile. I guess Particles, FY and other comemrcial entities picked up on some of the cuts on them as well (as multiple reisuers have done with cuts originally on Rubble etc) so it does mean tunes and artists who would otherwise have languished in perpetual obscurity, now have a fan base, even if the aritsts themselves don't know it!
PM
Paul,
Many thanks for your reply and very friendly offer! I would love just about any volume of 'Pop Cycles' to be honest. I'm mainly after the stuff that's still uncomped. Do you have them in FLAC?
BTW, I just checked my inbox and noticed an email exchange we had back in the summer of 2007 (how time flies!). I was going to send you a DVDR of Syd-era Floyd videos in exchange for a few volumes of 'Pop Cycles' on CDR. Did you ever get that DVDR? I have a very vague memory that I got your CDR's so they should probably be around here somewhere if I wade through a couple of million boxes in the attic. 
That must be a hell of long in box if you still have a 2007 email on it! Don't think I got the DVDR. Email me your email address and I'll send links for Pop Cyles. Just in bog standard MP3 I'm afraid, my PC / IT skills are negligible to say the least!
Paul
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No, this isn't correct. Even if royalties were paid into an escrow account, that only covers the songwriting royalties. Ownership of the actual recordings is an entirely separate matter, and it's the fact that these labels don't license any of the recordings from the owners that makes them out-and-out bootlegs.