GULP1019 is missing from every online discography I could find for Gull Records…and it’s probably not hard to see why! I’ve tracked down a copy of “Charlie Smithers Is A Very Funny Man”. Click the sleeve below to find out all the details… (and the other updates for Turning Point, Isotope and Arthur Brown are featured below too).
Tim Hart and Maddy Prior’s “Summer Solstice” on B&C Records has been updated. Click here to see all the details.
CAS 1040 has proved to be hard to track down but has finally been added to the collection. Click the sleeve below to see all the details. Click here to view the full Charisma Pink Scroll discography.
Two new additions to Mooncrest, the reissue of Pegasus PEG7 and a 1974 compilation of various folk artists previously released on B&C Records.
Deep Purple’s label released just over 30 LPs in its 7 years of activity, the majority (unsurprisingly) either Deep Purple albums or solo albums by band members. It’s highly likely that Ritchie Blackmore’s ‘solo’ album would have been released on this, effectively his own label, but he insisted that his new project have nothing to do with Deep Purple and his management team created Oyster and distributed “Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow” through Polydor instead.
A few other minor LPs were released on Purple, and this is I believe the correct release order of all albums (sadly I’m missing just one LP, Maldoon’s second album, but this will be added as soon as a copy is acquired). If you’re wondering what happened to TPS 3511 and TPS 3512 (in between ‘Powerhouse’ and ‘Northwinds’ chronologically) those catalogue numbers were previously allocated to each of the 2 discs that made up the ‘Made In Japan’ set in 1972. Otherwise, here they all are, in order:
Several new acquisitions have been added to B&C Records, Pegasus and Gull Records. Click the sleeves to see the album pages for Shirley Collins and The Albion Band, Three Man Army, Ginhouse and the soundtrack to ‘Silent Witness’:
New update to Pegasus Records and also an interesting take on the change of the label design from a winged horse to a peg…
Two albums from IF have been added to the Gull Records section, GULP 1004 and GULP 1007, the band had previously released albums on Island and United Artists labels.
Some more updates completed in the Harvest Records section, including 2 versions of Deep Purple’s ‘Fireball’ you may be unaware of:
Black Sabbath’s debut on the iconic Vertigo Swirl label has been issued three times before eventually being reissued on the Spaceship label. However, a sharp-eyed viewer (thanks to Martin in Copenhagen!) has noticed a variation in the label design. Here are the swirl labels in the order I believe them to have been issued:
And here are the differences (in same cases very subtle!)
1st Issue
2nd Issue (Martin’s newly discovered copy) – changes from 1st Issue in italics
3rd Issue (previously known as 2nd issue) – changes from 2nd Issue in italics
4th Issue (previously known as 3rd issue) – changes from 3rd Issue in italics
Thanks again to Martin from Copenhagen…so, are there any more variations in existence! Send me your scans if you find any!
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