France "Hit Parade Pop Music Vol 1" (MPD 013) - 1974

Side 1:

• Waterloo from Volume 38
• Angie from Volume 33
• Ooh Baby from Volume 33
• Daydreamer from Volume 34
• Photograph from Volume 34
• Jambalaya from Volume 37

Side 2:

• This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us from Volume 38
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road from Volume 34
• Dancing On A Saturday Night from Volume 33
• Rock On from Volume 33
• Everything Will Turn Out Fine from Volume 33
• Seasons In The Sun from Volume 37

This album is a compilation from UK volumes 33 to 38, therefore probably dating to mid or late 1974. The cover is familiar to us, being a re-run of the recent UK volume 36 - itself a re-working of the Europe Edition 1, which of course had been on sale in France some years earlier.

The Paris office paid good attention to detail here, creating their own lettering for the title, exactly matching the regular Top of the Pops typeface.

The album is entitled Volume 1 - but whether Volume 2 ever appeared is unknown, and we think unlikely.

* Next France LP *