December | 2013 | Rare Record Collector

Swan Song singles added featuring The Pretty Things, Dave Edmunds and Maggie Bell…

Posted by r3c0rdc0113ct0r on December 31, 2013

Posted in: Swan Song. Tagged: Dave Edmunds, Led Zeppelin, Maggie Bell, The Pretty Things. Leave a comment

…and Led Zeppelin…sort of!

Here’s a big chunk of the 30 or so UK manufactured singles on Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song label. The Pretty Things and Dave Edmunds were especially prolific in releasing singles, with Edmunds in particular having lots of UK chart success in the late 1970s. Despite Led Zeppelin owning the label, their attitude towards releasing singles never waivered from their original 1969 insistence on only releasing LPs (in the UK anyway). Three catalogue numbers were, however, intended for Led Zeppelin singles but all were cancelled in the UK.

New additions to B&C Records, Probe and pink Island…

Posted by r3c0rdc0113ct0r on December 29, 2013

Posted in: B&C, Island, Probe. Tagged: Carol Grimes, Fairport Convention, Fools Meeting, Quintessence, Sandy Denny, Steppenwolf. Leave a comment

featuring Fairport Convention, Quintessence, Steppenwolf and Carol Grimes & Discovery:

Another label version of “Red Sea” by Warhorse on Vertigo swirl…

Posted by r3c0rdc0113ct0r on December 23, 2013

Posted in: Vertigo. Tagged: Deep Purple, Nick Simper, Vertigo swirl. label variations, Warhorse. Leave a comment

…just when you thought there couldn’t be any more label variations, or perhaps you thought your Vertigo swirl collection was complete…a new label variant has been spotted. This time it’s (ex-Deep Purple) Nick Simper’s band, Warhorse, and their second album on Vertigo, “Red Sea”.

If you look closely you can see that the track listing details differ in their layout, one version has more lines of type (with some track timings running onto a new line) whilst the second version has tidied this up and managed to get things onto the same line as the song title.

It is my assumption that the version on the left (with more line breaks on the track listing) would be the 1st issue and the tidied up version (on the right) would be a second issue. I can’t see that the ‘clumsier’ typesetting of the left hand version would have been a reissue or 2nd pressing…

New demos added to Vertigo Swirl singles…

Posted by r3c0rdc0113ct0r on December 21, 2013

Posted in: Vertigo. Tagged: Beggars Opera, Jackson Heights, Tudor Lodge, Vertigo Swirl. Leave a comment

featuring Beggar’s Opera, Tudor Lodge and Jackson Heights. All with the outline red ‘A’ on the A side. Notice how the Tudor Lodge single has a date stamp, whilst the other demos have no information about intended release dates (unlike Harvest demos for example, which usually announce the release date on the labels). Click the images to go to each single’s specific page:

Various updates and additions featuring Genesis, Fleetwood Mac and Lindisfarne amongst others…

Posted by r3c0rdc0113ct0r on December 8, 2013

Posted in: CBS, Charisma pink scroll, Harvest. Tagged: Bombadil, fleetwood mac, Genesis, Janis Joplin, Lindisfarne, Peter Green, Strife. Leave a comment

Some updates on the Gull, CBS, Charisma, Harvest and Blue Horizon labels, including a very rare Genesis DEMO single. Click the images to go to each page:

Harvest singles updates

Posted by r3c0rdc0113ct0r on December 6, 2013

Posted in: Harvest, The Gramophone Co. Ltd. Tagged: Deep Purple, ELO, Grease Band, Panama Limited, Pete Brown, Roy Wood, Spontaneous Combustion, Wizzard. Leave a comment

I’ve added a whole new section on Harvest singles, featuring the text “THE GRAMOPHONE CO. LTD” around the label rim, to tie in with the albums section. There’s a whole lot of weird and wonderful along with the standard examples you’d expect such as Deep Purple, Edgar Broughton Band, Wizzard, ELO and Roy Wood.

There are just over 70 singles released up to and including Wizzard’s “Angel Fingers” (HAR 5076) in July 1973 before the wording changed on the labels to “EMI RECORDS LTD”. There’s a few more to add yet to the list, but here’s a broad selection to browse through for now!