All profits from this album are contributed by the artists & K-Tel to the year of the child.
Rear sleeve:
Distributed by K-Tel International (UK) Ltd., 620 Western Avenue, London W3.
K-Tel International (Irl).,31 Ballsbridge Terrace, Dublin 4
Cut by Denis Blackham at Tape One Studio’s
Durations entered by timing the vinyl with stopwatch do not appear on release.
Runouts are etched.
First issue, first label, variant 1.
Distinguishing features:
A-1G / B-1G matrices in runouts.
First label stock with ‚Gramophone Co.‘ rim text, NO boxed EMI logo on labels, ‚Made in Gt. Britain‘ at bottom center inside ring.
Publishing credit to ‚World Copyrights‘ on all tracks, except B3 to ‚Lupus Music‘.
Small ℗ on side two label.
NOTE: Other variants on the first label stock:
Variant 2 [r=8926246] A1, B4 publishing credit is ‚World Copyrights/Lupus Music‘; B4 credit over two lines; large ℗ on side two.
Variant 3 [r=8926432] moves B4 ‚World Copyrights/Lupus Music‘ credit to one line; small ℗ on side two.
Variant 4 [r=13585432] B4 publishing on two lines like variant 2; small ℗ on side two; A-2G / B-2G matrices.
Labels:
Rim text at top: The Gramophone Co., Ltd. All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved.
Rim text at bottom: Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting, and copying of this record prohibited.
‚Made in Gt. Britain‘ on its own line bottom center, inside ring.
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Publishing info:
A, B1, B2, B4: World Copyrights
B3: Lupus Music
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℗ 1970
Sleeve:
Recorded at EMI Studios – Abbey Road
℗ 1970
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E.M.I Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd)
Hayes • Middlesex • England
Harvest – regd. trademark of The Gramophone Co. Ltd. – A Company of The [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/293204]EMI[/url] Group
Made and Printed in Great Britain
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7010 TPS Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Patent No. 943,895 SHVL 781
Inner sleeve:
Released with a Harvest Records inner sleeve.
Runout groove:
The water faucet drip at the end of Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast continues into a locked groove at the end of side B. This is not present on all LP versions.
Original UK release with earliest runouts (from A1/B1) in fully [outside & inside] textured [faux leather look] gatefold cover with printed green thick paper lyrics inner sleeve.
No ‚Made in UK‘ on labels.
No ‚v‘ below cat.# on labels.
Silver trim around title and band name.
First cat.# on cover back, 2nd on cover spine, inner sleeve & labels.
Labels:
An Atlantic USA Recording
Rondor/Yessongs
℗ 1972
Sleeve:
[a149420] appears by courtesy of A&M records Ltd.
an Atlantic record distributed by WEA Records Ltd. ℗ 1972
Inner:
All titles published by YESSONGS reproduced by permission © 1972
Visually identical version here [r29986165] in that it is the only other UK copy that still has no reference to ‚Made in UK‘ and no ‚v‘ below cat.# on labels. The difference being a white rather than green inner that may indicate a repress.
Runouts are stamped.
Recorded at Morgan Studios London, 16th October 1974 to 10th January 1975
Gatefold sleeve, 12 page booklet inside. Non-embossed front cover.
Shorepak by Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England.