New Zealand
"20 Fabulous Ballads" (SHM 525) - 1973
This album was listed on the backs of two later New Zealand albums (see above). It's not credited to the Poppers there, but it has been attributed to them elsewhere.
We have seen an album with this title billed as on the Music World label. If true, this would upset our understanding of the New Zealand chronology, as Music World are otherwise not known to have been involved in the first half of the 1970s. Also, the prefix "Top of the Poppers Present" is known from an internet advertisement, which suggests that the album may indeed be theirs, as they often used the "Top of the Poppers Present" tag.
(That said, Hallmark/Meastro issued a Poppers LP called Twenty Smash Hits some years before Music World did the same, for an album with different contents - so a repeat of LP titles is not unknown. Further research is clearly needed...)
On a different note, we might mention the much more recent download album, 20 Fabulous Ballads which may in fact be this collection re-issued. If so, the track listing would be as follows:
We have seen an album with this title billed as on the Music World label. If true, this would upset our understanding of the New Zealand chronology, as Music World are otherwise not known to have been involved in the first half of the 1970s. Also, the prefix "Top of the Poppers Present" is known from an internet advertisement, which suggests that the album may indeed be theirs, as they often used the "Top of the Poppers Present" tag.
(That said, Hallmark/Meastro issued a Poppers LP called Twenty Smash Hits some years before Music World did the same, for an album with different contents - so a repeat of LP titles is not unknown. Further research is clearly needed...)
On a different note, we might mention the much more recent download album, 20 Fabulous Ballads which may in fact be this collection re-issued. If so, the track listing would be as follows:
- Michelle
- Something
- Let It Be
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Those Were The Days
- Vaya Con Dios
- Without You
- Alone Again (Naturally)
- Where Do I Begin (Love Story)
- Love Theme from "The Godfather"
- Avenues & Alleyways
- I Am ... I Said
- Knock Three Times
- I Did What I Did For Maria
- Mamy Blue
- Butterfly
- Is This The Way To Amarillo
- What Are You Doing Sunday?
- Bangla Desh
- It's Too Late