Talk:Alison McCallum
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I believe that if anything, the article spelling Alison's name "McCallum" should be the one merged into the one spelled "MacCallum". While it is true that record labels spelled her name both ways, the spelling on her 2 biggest hits "Superman" & "Excuse Me", + on her second album is 'MacCallum'. Furthermore this is the spelling Alison herself uses on her email correspondence though I hope you'll take my word for that as I am not at liberty to divilge this personal information. Furthermore I feel that there are discrepencies in the "McCallum" article. Firstly if the articles are to be merged, then her other singles need not be dismissed as flops as all bar Alison's very last 2 enjoyed success in the various Australian state charts (or at least notoriety & much TV exposure in the case of It's Time) There is also no mention of Alison's groundbreaking work as a solo girl singer singing straight rock music when all the other succesful girls sang pop. Nor is their any mention of the fact that she was the first Australian female singer to have an album make the album charts. Alison led the way in doing this & should be acknowledged as such.
The other thing I found galling was to see see 2 of Australia's most respected vocalists Bobbi Marchini & Janice Slater, referred to as "fellow session vocalists". Janice was one of the most familiar faces on Australia's version of Bandstand in latter half of the 1960's, released several singles & went on to carve an international reputation as a member of "Esperanto Rock Orchestra". Bobbi Marchini gained much attention for her rock vocals as one of the 2 vocalists (alongside Jon English) in the band Duck, which featured many of Australia's best musos of the era. This lead to her being signed to one of Australia's most successful independent labels "Albert Productions" & releasing several solo singles. Both ladies were also called on to provide vocals on the solo album by John Robinson (ex- Blackfeather/Duck) as well as lead vocals on 2 prominent rock musical projects of the era, "Ned Kelly" & Grass: A Rock Musical" Sure both ladies, along with Alison, did session work as backing singers but to dismiss them as merely 'session singers' does them & their careers an extreme disservice.
Regards
Mike Robbins —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.208.102.184 (talk) 01:30, August 20, 2007 (UTC)
I believe that this article should be merged from <<< the other article on this singer in which her surname is spelt MacCallum. McCallum is the spelling of her surname that was shown on the majority of her recordings and on various other contemporaneous primary sources shown on the links page attached to that article. For evidence of the way it was spelt on her records go to the website page: http://www.freewebs.com/alisonmccallum/whatsinaname.htm which has a selection of screen shots of the record labels and LP covers, covering the major proportion her solo career from 1972 to 1979.
Terry Stacey 20/06/07
