Another 8 updates to the Harvest section, click the sleeves to go to each page:
Harvest
Some more updates completed in the Harvest Records section, including 2 versions of Deep Purple’s ‘Fireball’ you may be unaware of:
Many thanks to Steve Moore for emailing in with great pics of his rare copy of the “Harvest Sampler Of The Initial Four June Releases” from 1969. This is believed to be a DJ promo only release to help ‘launch’ the newly formed Harvest label. It promotes the first 4 albums on Harvest from Deep Purple, Michael Chapman, Shirley & Dolly Collins and Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments.
Steve wondered why SHVL753 had been omitted from the sample record and I can advise him that it is my belief that Panama Limited Jug Band’s album was not released until around September/October of 1969 (despite it having the third catalogue number in the sequence between Pete Brown’s SHVL752 and the Collinses’ SHVL754), thereby not being ready in time to be included on the sampler…
It’s a definite rarity, rumoured to be limited to a production run of 100 copies, and thanks once again to Steve for supplying the images and showing an interest in the site! Rest of Harvest section to be updated in next few weeks!
A further 8 Harvest LPs have been fully updated, click the sleeves to go to each album’s page:
The following have now been fully listed and updated in the Harvest Records section, click the album sleeve to go to that page:
The highly collectable Harvest label from EMI with ‘THE GRAMOPHONE CO. LTD’ around the labels has been updated with all labels and sleeve details. The first 25 or so albums are pictured below (and some are very hard to get hold of). The remaining Harvest section will be updated in the next few days. Come back soon for parts 2 and 3 to complete the update:
Inner sleeves have been swapped, exchanged and ‘upgraded’ for years on vinyl. You’ll find lots of very early Harvest UK 1st pressings offered for sale with company inner sleeves and it is my suggestion that collectors and sellers have mistakenly exchanged these inner sleeves on 1st pressings that didn’t originally include them.
Here’s the theory: the famous Harvest inner sleeve advertises releases up to the middle of 1970…so logic suggests that prior to this date, the advertising inner sleeve could not have been issued on Harvest 1st pressings up to and including Edgar Broughton Band’s “Sing Brother Sing” (SHVL 772).
All of the albums pictured on the advertising sleeve would have been originally sold with a plain white sleeve, the only possible exceptions being the very latest ones advertised as these could have been imminent releases at the time the sleeve was produced. For example; how can a genuine 1st pressing of Deep Purple’s “Book of Taliesyn” (the very 1st LP on Harvest released in July 1969) have a Harvest company inner sleeve that miraculously predicts the next 25 albums up to a year in the future…! You get my point?
Albums depicted on the inner sleeves:
Side 1
SHVL 753 – PANAMA LIMITED JUG BAND
SHVL 757 – EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND – Wasa Wasa
SHVL 758 – THE BATTERED ORNAMENTS – Mantle-Piece
SHVL 760 – FOREST
SHVL 763 – KEVIN AYERS – Joy Of A Toy
SHVL 765 – SYD BARRETT – The Madcap Laughs
SHVL 768 – PETE BROWN & PIBLOKTO! – Things May Come And Things May Go But The Art School Dance Goes On Forever
SHVL 769 – GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH – Horizons
SHVL 770 – BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST
SHVL 771 – SHIRLEY & DOLLY COLLINS – Love, Death And The Lady
SHVL 773 – THIRD EAR BAND
SHVL 775 – QUATERMASS
SHDW 3/4 – LOVE – Out Here
Side 2
SHVL 751 – DEEP PURPLE – The Book Of Taliesyn
SHVL 752 – PETE BROWN & HIS BATTERED ORNAMENTS – A Meal You Can Shake Hands With In The Dark
SHVL 754 – SHIRLEY & DOLLY COLLINS – Anthems In Eden
SHVL 755 – MICHAEL CHAPMAN – Rainmaker
SHVL 756 – THIRD EAR BAND – Alchemy
SHDW 1/2 – PINK FLOYD – Ummagumma
SHVL 759 – DEEP PURPLE
SHVL 761 – TEA & SYMPHONY – An Asylum For The Musically Insane
SHVL 762 – BAKERLOO
SHVL 764 – MICHAEL CHAPMAN – Fully Qualified Survivor
SHVL 766 – ROY HARPER – Flat Baroque & Beserk
SHVL 767 – DEEP PURPLE – Deep Purple In “Live” Concert At The Royal Albert Hall
SHVL 772 – EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND – Sing Brother Sing
In my opinion, all of the above should have a plain white inner sleeve and NOT a Harvest advertising one. According to the 7006 date code on the inside of SHDW3/4, (so that would seem to be the last issue advertised) which therefore indicates the sleeve was produced in June 1970, we can logically assume that the advertising sleeve was introduced either around or some time after that. Let’s say June/July 1970. Also around this time, the label sampler from Harvest was released – “Picnic, a breath of fresh air”…and my copy doesn’t have Harvest inner sleeves…(removed? replaced? how it was originally issued…?).
My best guess is that the 1st Harvest album originally issued with Harvest advertising sleeves would be The Pretty Things ‘Parachute’…unless you know better?! Comments and suggestions gratefully received.
There are (at least!) 5 known versions of this classic Deep Purple from 1969 on the UK Harvest EMI label. The first 2 versions feature the ‘SOLD IN THE UK SUBJECT TO RESALE PRICE CONDITIONS’ wording and feature 2 styles of this writing – 4 lines came first and then the 5 line version. Check out the images below to spot the differences and click here to go to the album page to see the sleeve details.
The first 7 releases in 1969 on the newly formed Harvest label all had to carry the text “SOLD IN THE U.K. SUBJECT TO RESALE PRICE CONDITIONS, SEE PRICE LISTS” on the labels. This had been introduced by EMI in early 1964 (and featured on all EMI owned labels, e.g. Parlophone) and was phased out towards the end of 1969.
It’s one of the easiest ways to spot a UK 1st pressing on these first 7 Harvest releases. Without this text (but still with ‘THE GRAMOPHONE CO. LTD’ on the label) the record is a 2nd pressing.
Click the labels above to go to each album’s individual page and compare these to the 2nd press labels (where available) and see the sleeve details.
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