THE RECORD OF THE WEEK:

DMC MEGAMIX

UK PROMO 12''

XPR2266

Brace yourself, because something BIG is coming here in the Showroom!!! Watch out the next "Record of the week" posts...!! Until then, the record of THIS week is an UK beautiful promo 12'' released in 1995 in conjunction with the HIStory album launch.

This record is housed in a grey MJ logo picture sleeve, and it contains the full version of the DMC Megamix (15'40'') on side A, and the edited version (11'15'') on the flip side.

 

 

 

 

PIZZA, SPAGHETTI AND BOXSETS:
THE ITALIAN BOXES PART II

The second italian boxset contains - of course - more cds than the previous one. the hits collections "This is it" and "Immortal", as well as the posthumous "Michael" and "Xscape" have been added. Also, the 2 "HIStory on film" have been replaced by the "Vision" set. This time, "HIStory" is a regular double cd edition.
Each cd comes with an unique digipack sleeve, and reports on the back "Pubblicazione editoriale abbinata a L'Espresso. Made in Italy su licenza Sony music".

PIZZA, SPAGHETTI AND BOXSETS:
THE ITALIAN BOXES PART I

It's no mistery I'm an italian collector. And even though my country in the past years didn't offer interesting releases (the latest was the "Dangerous" 13 tracks cd), in 2009 and in 2014 again, the magazines "TV Sorrisi e Canzoni" and "L'Espresso" released, week by week, 2 entire Michael Jackson's discography. Both the very first releases offered the chance to own a boxset to store all the future releases.
In this first post, you can see the first boxset released by "Tv Sorrisi e canzoni", that is a combo 7cds+3dvds+2 booklets. Each cd comes with a little booklet, written in italian, with the story of the album (or the video edition).
This box is very remarkable for all the MJ's collectors:infact, it's the first time we see the "HIStory continues" cd sold separately by the greatest hits cd 1. This version was later released also in Spain, in a similar collection.

THE RECORD OF THE WEEK:

WILL YOU BE THERE 

SPAIN MAXI SINGLE 12''

EPIC/SONY 659222 6

 

And here it is...there's no need to present the rarest european commercial release (not promo) on maxi single. We're talking about the spanish-only 12'' of "Will you be there", a real treasure for all the Michael's collectors.

Why is this record so rare? I don't know. It was released only in Spain, and that's a clue. But the release of such a few copies, in my opinion, is dued to its contents; at the time, 12'' singles were full of dance/club remixes, a "strictly for djs" product.

"Will you be there" tracklist had nothing useful for djs.

The title-track is a pop/gospel track, "Girlfriend" and "Man in the mirror" weren't exactly dancefloor-killer tracks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Someone once said me:"Will you be there" is not the last single taken from "Dangerous", and "Gone too soon" that is a ballad, served as last extract from the album, got a larger distribution. How can you explain this?"

I said "Of course it had...but look which is the 4th track on the Gone too soon 12'':it's Thriller!".

"Thriller" song could be a reason why a 12'' had been a larger release.

By the way, 10 years ago this record was a legend for me. And you dopn't know how I was happy when I purchased my copy (for a good price, I must say). Today, don't be surprised if yuou see this record traded for 500/700 euros...this is its correct value.

 

 

 

THE SHOWROOM'S 

MOST WANTED RECORDS:

WE ARE THE WORLD

GREY VINYL

SOUTH AMERICA

Wow! What a masterpiece! This "We are the world" release (sonewhere in South America, maybe Peru? or Colombia? Mexico?) it's a never-seen-it before item. I can't help you with additional infos, nor better pictures. This is all I've got.

If you know something more about that...well, you're welcome! 

 

 

AT LAST YOU CAN HAVE HIM 

ALL TO YOURSELF.

THE RECORD OF THE WEEK:

MOONWALKER UK PROMO BOXSET
PARKFIELD ENT./GUILD HOME VIDEO

And finally, the Showroom is proud to present not only the "Record of the week", but the "Item of the year".

This is another dream of mine that comes true...the rarely seen (even on the web) promotional boxset made for the launch of the Moonwalker home video in 1989, released only for promotion just a few weeks before the official release.

This promotional box, released by Parkfield Entertainment in UK, in conjunction with Guild Home video, and under the Warner Bros license, measures approximately 70cm (lenght) x 30 (!!!).

This box contains:

1 x MOONWALKER VHS (GUILD HOME VIDEO - UK VERS.)

1 x BLACK HOODIE SWEATER (With MW logo pressed on it)

1 x MOONWALKER STORYBOOK

1 x 4-PAGES FOLDED BOOKLET WITH MEDIA PLAN, AND

SHOP RELEASES PLAN

1 x ORDER POSTCARD

1 x PARKFIELD PROMOTIONAL HANDBILL (with references)

1 x ORIGINAL "MOONWALKER" MOVIE POSTER

Well, I've seen this item once in my lifetime. 

And the second time I saw it, was just a few weeks ago when I decided to buy it.
 

THE THRILLER SAGA CONTINUES:

4 OF A KIND FROM BULGARY!

THRILLER BULGARY LP

EPIC/BALKANTON 11703

 

 

You, collector, are you ready to face your madness?

Here we have 4 bulgarian presses of the best selling album of all time, "Thriller". They have the same front sleeve, 3 of the 4 have the same back sleeve, and 4 labels with 4 different colours:orange, light blue, green and multicoloured (white,yellow & blue) (pictures 1,2,3).

There's no doubt:the one with the multicoloured label and white back sleeve is the rarest of the lot (pictures 4,5,6,7).

So....

4 are the "Thriller" lps you can see in these pictures.

But this doesn't mean the set is complete.

Maybe there's another different coloured label out there...so:

THE HUNT CONTINUES!