HONG KONG BEAT & OTHER THEMES : BBC W/L TEST PRESSING LP, translucent RED VINYL

	£		20
	$		26

ITEM DETAILS

ARTIST - RICHARD DENTON & MARTIN COOK
TITLE - "HONG KONG BEAT & OTHER TV THEMES"
FORMAT - vinyl LP (album)
LABEL - BBC Records
CATALOGUE NUMBER - REH 385
YEAR - 1980
OTHER DETAILS - a very scarce 1980 UK white label TEST PRESSING UK 12-track LP on the BBC Records label.

Interestingly, if you hold the album up to a bright light (at a window or an electric light bulb or similar) you can see that the vinyl is a translucent, deep wine red colour - however, in 'normal' light it appears to be a regular black vinyl pressing!

*PLEASE NOTE* that I found it pretty much impossible to get a decent picture of the 'red' vinyl mentioned above (camera only showed it as a sort of purple, no matter how many times I tried), so have doctored the picture above a little and included it to give you a very rough idea - in reality, as already stated, it's more of a deep wine red or cranberry colour.

Artist Info.
Richard Denton (guitar, keyboards) and Martin Cook (guitar, keyboards) were both orchestra leaders who teamed up in the late 1970s to compose and produce theme and incidental music for BBC Television serials and documentaries, most notably for ‘The Theme From Hong Kong Beat’, a series examining the Hong Kong Police Force which, when aired in 1978, topped the ratings and pushed the programme’s theme into the UK singles chart. After this success they went on to produce themes for Diamonds In The Sky, Circuit Eleven - Miami and The Great Egg Race, and in 1980 a new electronic opening for the long-running science series Tomorrow’s World.

This rare album brings together for the first time all six singles previously released for BBC Records, together with the original B sides.

TRACKS

SIDE ONE
1) Hong Kong Beat
2) Tomorrow's World
3) Jet Lag
4) The Spangler
5) Quiller
6) Inside Story

SIDE TWO
1) The Great Egg Race
2) Diamonds In The Sky
3) General Direction
4) Circuit Eleven - Miami
5) Chasing The Dragon
6) Scramble

CONDITION

COVER - VG condition

• there are about 7/8 small lines/crinkles by the spine.
• shows the merest hint of storage outer rim record-shape impression.
• there is a little wear and a small bend in the bottom right corner.
• nothing major at all and otherwise fine.

• very nice and clean, appears to have hardly been played.

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GRADING

NEW: Just that. Note that an item will only be factory sealed/shrinkwrapped if it says so in the description.

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EXCELLENT (EX): The record shows signs of having been played, but there is very little lessening in sound quality. The cover and packaging might have slight wear and/or creasing.

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GOOD (G): The record has obviously been played a lot and while it still plays through OK, it will have a lot of surface marks and/or light scratches (maybe also the occasional 'feelable' scratch) and most likely there there will be regular and noticeable surface noise. The cover and contents may suffer from folding, scuffing of edges, spine and/or seam splits, discoloration, etc.