featuring The Nice, Audience and Rare Bird:
Picture sleeve also updated for Lindisfarne “All Fall Down”
…featuring Trevor Billmuss and Audience:
featuring The Nice and Amen Corner on pink Immediate label; one of John Peel’s favourite bands on the Dandelion label, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre; very early Status Quo; Frijid Pink on Deram; a bit of Hawkwind on United Artists label; Three Dog Night on the Stateside label and finally Love’s best ever song on original Elektra label:
A new section has now been added to Track Record for various singles featuring Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Who initially, with lots more to follow. There have also been updates and additions to Purple Records (Silverhead), Harvest (The Pretty Things), Charisma pink scroll (Audience) and several additions to CBS orange featuring Chicago, Paul Revere and The Raiders (great 60’s psych!), Simon & Garfunkel’s best tune (The Boxer) and a fabulous tune from The Gun: ‘Race With The Devil’ which was nicely covered by Girlschool in 1980.
…featuring Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Revival and a young Michael Kamen’s band (before he went on to produce numerous film scores, including collaborating with Pink Floyd on ‘The Wall’):
Love the cover for The New York Rock Ensemble, although I have no idea what it has to do with the album or the band! This LP (1970’s ‘Roll Over’) features a track called ‘Fields Of Joy’ that was later covered by Lenny Kravitz in 1991.
Pink Floyd’s first full album without founder member Syd Barrett was released in July 1969 and was the first soundtrack to a film completed by the group. There are numerous versions of this LP in existence and many collectors and sellers are still confused or mistaken over which version is the correct 1st pressing. This can mean buyers are paying over the odds for what they think is the rarest version, when it could turn out to be a fairly common reissue.
So, here are the easiest ways to spot the differences between the 1st four pressings of Pink Floyd’s “More” LP (click the labels for the full, detailed explanation with regards to wording on the labels).
…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.
featuring Fairport Convention, Quintessence, Steppenwolf and Carol Grimes & Discovery:
…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…
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:
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