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Below is a listing from the Albums Category.

Welcome to my listing of Albums from my collection. To view a different section (for example the BBC Transcription discs if there are any for this), select the new section in the links above this message.

To view details of a particular release, simply click on the picture or the text which follows underneath in the display below. By viewing a release page, you will find a lot more information about that particular release which includes basic details of it like the artist and year of release, any track details for the release (if applicable), lists of other similar releases as well as any other pictures I have taken. If there are linked videos, then you will be able to see the them in a form of a youtube embedded object into the webpage!

For BBC releases, all releases are listed whether they are in my collection or not. You can check if I actually have it by selecting the link.

Please note that if you are aware of a BBC release not listed on these pages, then I would be very interested in hearing from you. Would you mind please contacting me using the Contact me page, link above? If you also have an item to sell, then you can use that same page to try to sell the item to me. I should add that the number of entries I don't have from the publicly available catalagues are now quite small. To make this easier for you, I have created a Titles I need page listing them all, see link above!

Picture of albums BBC Records Albums - BBC - Radioplay Music - TAIR (TAIR 87042-TAIR 87057)

BBC Radioplay Music Library produced a series of Radioplay LPs & CDs exclusive to the British Broadcasting Corporation for use in its radio broadcasts. BBC Radioplay LPs & CDs were produced solely for broadcast by BBC radio stations and featured recordings that were free from Copyright, containing tracks recorded by the BBC (or partner organisations in Europe, USA etc). A number were live recordings, but there are also versions of well known songs recorded in the radio stations studios.

For the vinyl LPs the front sleeves were usually of exactly the same design, with a picture of the featured artist & title being the only difference. The rear sleeve notes the title, tempo, intro, duration, end, composer, publisher and blurb related to the track (so the presenter could appear knowledgable!) BBC Radioplay LPs have some unique recordings, and as they were usually pressed by companies like Nimbus and were for broadcast, the quality of the production and pressing is usually very high. All CDs prefaced with the TAIRCD reference. CDs were manufactured at the Nimbus plant. "BBC Radioplay Music is not available to the public."

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Eric Silver
First take


BBC TAIR 87042 Radioplay

UK flag 1987 No record


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Various
Through Bushes and Briar


BBC TAIR 87043 Radioplay

UK flag 1987 No record


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Bellamy Brothers
Close enough for country


BBC TAIR 87044 Radioplay

UK flag 1987 No record


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Various
Blue Christmas


BBC TAIR 87045 Radioplay

UK flag 1987 No record


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The Detroit Spinners
Spinning Tops


BBC TAIR 87046 Radioplay

UK flag 1987 No record


Picture of Glen Campbell at Wembley by artist Glen Campbell from the BBC albums - Records and Tapes library
 
Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell at Wembley


BBC TAIR 87047 Radioplay

UK flag 1987 No record


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Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris at Wembley


BBC TAIR 87048 Radioplay

UK flag 1987 No record


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Sound Connection Group
Sound Connection


BBC TAIR 87049 Radioplay

UK flag 1987 No record


Picture of Jazz classics - Volume 1 by artist Various from the BBC albums - Records and Tapes library
 
Various
Jazz classics - Volume 1


BBC TAIR 87050 Radioplay

UK flag 1987 No record


Picture of Jazz classics - Volume 2 by artist Various from the BBC albums - Records and Tapes library
 
Various
Jazz classics - Volume 2


BBC Radioplay TAIR 87051 Radioplay

UK flag 1987 Near mint


Picture of Killin' jive by artist The Canadian Aces from the BBC albums - Records and Tapes library
 
The Canadian Aces
Killin' jive


BBC Radioplay2 TAIR 87052 Radioplay

UK flag 1987 Good


Picture of Let's stay together by artist Al Green from the BBC albums - Records and Tapes library
 
Al Green
Let's stay together


BBC TAIR 87053 Radioplay

UK flag 1987 No record


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Randy Crawford
Actual emotional love


BBC TAIR 87054 Radioplay

UK flag 1987 No record


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Kevin Johnson / Paul O'Gorman
A hard act to follow


BBC TAIR 87055 Radioplay

UK flag 1987 No record


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Billy Preston
Pressin' on


BBC TAIR 87056 Radioplay

UK flag 1987 No record