The Golden Shot - The Soundtrack Album!

[dubs honest]

Decidely bored I was looking through e-bay and looked up The Golden Shot.

Two items appeared (I was looking for the mythical board/action game from the 70's if truth be told) - they were both LP's with a Norman Vaughn grinning inanely with a crossbow pic on the cover (both identical).

However one was titled "Norman Vaughan - 40 hits from The Golden Shot", and the other "Norman Vaughan - 40 hits from The Beatles".

I take it these were not actual pressings from appearances of artists on the Shot but compilations - the latter album would seem to reinforce my perception as The Beatles would hardly have been on the Shot as it started in 1967.

Both albums were credited to "Bradleys" who I know issued a few "Goodies" song recordings in the 70's.

Or is it all a an e-bay con?

Over to you...

[dubs honestly]

I have it from an good source that the prevoiusly mentioned two albums were simply Norman Vaughn "cover" albums - so bugger all to do with the "Shot" - the mind boggles...

And apparently the two albums are one and the same under different titles..

Nice pic tho....

[lfbarfe]

Guest-dubs said:

Both albums were credited to "Bradleys" who I know issued a few "Goodies" song recordings in the 70's.

Bradleys was a record label set up by ATV's music publishing division.

[dubs again]

Interesting Mr. Barfe.

I thought Bradleys were a small independent label.

So when the Goodies recorded for Bradleys on albums/singles they were working (visually) for the BBC but on audio they were on ATV!!

Being that you seem to be something of of a "musico historian"can you delineate the exact boundaries between ATV Music/Publishing and subsiduary labels and the relationships to the ATV Television company?

And what were these labels called?

I know that ATV Music had rights to the Beatles (publishing rights ?) for years did they not, until Sony, then Jacko bought it it..?

Would this be why Norman's album was under "Bradley's" as an ATV label as he was under contract to ATV (TV) on the "Shot"at the time?

It's all rather confusing to say the least...

(still scratching head...)

[Dale Rumbold]

As someone who studied UK record labels in the 70s, I can remember that the Bradley's label was always stated to be owned by Miki Anthony, a former pop singer who had one hit in the UK in 1973 "If it wasn't for the reason that I love you". It made #27 on the Bell label, and Anthony then created the Bradley's label in 1974. He may well have done so in association (ho-ho) with ATV. Certainly, as well as The Goodies, Stephanie de Sykes and Rain recorded on Bradley's, and they of course also recorded one of the later Golden Shot themes (Golden Day) and had a couple of hits derived from Crossroads.