CD Album - ABBA - The Visitors - Polydor

CD Album

Artist:	ABBA
Title:	The Visitors
Label:	Polydor
Country:	Europe
Date:	1983
Catalogue:	800 011-2
Barcode:	3259180001124
Format:	CD Album
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	5 Own
Price Guide:	$69 - $485
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PRICE GUIDE

$69 - $485

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	ABBA	The Visitors	Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus	Rate
02	ABBA	Head Over Heels	Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus	Rate
03	ABBA	When All Is Said And Done	Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus	Rate
04	ABBA	Soldiers	Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus	Rate
05	ABBA	I Let The Music Speak	Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus	Rate
06	ABBA	One Of Us	Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus	Rate
07	ABBA	Two For The Price Of One	Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus	Rate
08	ABBA	Slipping Through My Fingers	Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus	Rate
09	ABBA	Like An Angel Passing Through My Room	Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus	Rate

Notes

This album is the first CD manufactured by PolyGram at Hanover, West Germany, for general sale to the public, making it the first in the world outside Japan.

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wordnwot 19th Feb 2019		Itsy Bitsy little update....



henry29 3rd Dec 2018		Scans of the Missing Inside Images added. From the All Red Disc the Red Ring one Is the same I have both. They go between Images 332893 and332895. H.



wordnwot 27th Jan 2018		Earlier Demo CD as gifted to pop glitteratti pre 1983. Almost identical to the later public sold red faced CD but with added track length times. Even more $$$$$$$$....... Sold for US $3,500.00



Magic Marmalade 5th Jan 2018		Red face recently sold on ebay for £890 (how many exclamation marks would you like after that?) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ((But don't worry folks, there's another one listed for a similar price))



wordnwot 2nd Jan 2016		More....



GEMSMFAN 3rd Sep 2014		Just realized my release has a different bar code... 0 42280 00112 4



wordnwot 31st Aug 2014		At place holder 13 this one just sold (31/08/2014)



fixbutte 27th Jun 2014		Thanks, good to know the list (but as already commented before, it's not strictly chronological: ...I have my doubts about whether the catalogue numbers used by Polygram at this stage were chronological because 800 012-2 is Abba's Greatest Hits Volume 2, which came out in 1984.).



wordnwot 27th Jun 2014		Well handy!



gregs45s SUBS 27th Jun 2014		Nice work!,very useful.



wordnwot 27th Jun 2014		First-generation CD's - all time list (starts at position 11 this disc..) The last page in the list pg15 at place holder 350 is Robin Gibb ‎– How Old Are You? Last Red Label: Polydor ‎– 810 896-2



wordnwot 2nd Jun 2014		*KennyG said*: Another neat feature of those early Polydor CDs, which you may already be aware of, is that if you lift up the top right corner of the black plastic on the CD case, the CDs catalogue number is printed on the rear of the back cover. This occurs on coated and early uncoated Polars, so I guess it would be the same for Polydors. I can confirm that my disk has these too.



wordnwot 2nd Jun 2014		Got it on eBay about 5 years ago from a fellow in Germany. Its selling point was exactly that it was the first commercially made CD in Germany, being to my knowledge the first country outside of Japan making CD's, but I'm no expert guys. Footnote. I worked with a guy whose wife got him a Philips CD player Philips CD100 the day it came out and being also his birthday, and a couple of CDs to start him going. That was March 1983 in the UK. So my point is, I gave the ABBA The Visitors a 1983 date based on that fact! If it was sold in 1982 then how could you play the disk?



fixbutte 2nd Jun 2014		That means that the current record notes (This album is the First CD manufactured by Polygram at Hanover, West Germany making it the first in the world for general sale to the public.) have to be adjusted too. I propose the following: This album is the first CD manufactured by PolyGram at Hanover, West Germany, for general sale to the public, making it the first in the world outside Japan.



fixbutte 2nd Jun 2014		Also from that thread, with reference to the PolyGram CD catalogue numbering system: 93curr said: why is the 'ABBA/Visitors' catalog # 800-011-2? if it's the first prototype, wouldn't it be 800-001-2? what were 001-010? KennyG said: The Visitors wasn't a prototype. It was commercially released and remained in print until 1997. I have my doubts about whether the catalogue numbers used by Polygram at this stage were chronological because 800 012-2 is Abba's Greatest Hits Volume 2, which came out in 1984. As for 800 001-2 to 800 010-2, I don't know what they were. It seems the catalogue numbers began at 800 011-2 for some reason.



fixbutte 2nd Jun 2014		There's an interesting discussion about the first commercial CD ever released on an old (June/July 2005) thread on forums.stevehoffman.tv. Whereas it is beyond dispute that Billy Joel's 52nd Street CD was first commercially released in Japan in October 1982, it seems that The Visitors CD, manufactured by PolyGram in Hannover, West Germany, and presented to ABBA around September 1982, didn't reach the record shops before 1983 (like it was entered by wordnwot here). From this discussion: KeithH said: I have a West German pressing of The Visitors on Polydor with catalog number 810 011-2. The disc has an orange coating with black text, which is Polydor's original design. Perhaps this is the very first version of The Visitors released. I don't know the chronology between the West German Polydor and Polar discs. ... KennyG said: That's the one I was talking about. That was the first version of The Visitors released and the one demonstrated to Bjorn and Benny by Polygram in 1982. The brief chronology of the Polygram / Polar Abba early CD changes are: 1. Orange Polydor Label (1982 releases -- The Visitors ?? only) 2. Blue Polar Label (light blue coating with royal blue text -- 1983, 1984 releases) 3. No coating Polar label (royal blue text -- from c.1985 ?) 4. Standard Polydor Rings (phased in from about 1987 onwards) Coated versions are the hardest ones to get and I never knew that the orange Polydor made it beyond prototype stage until today.



kimbozw 2nd Jun 2014		My copy of this album on CD from Germany was evidently from a later pressing, acquired after 1988. It's good that at least one "fab four" had the first commercial CD release in the world. The correct spelling of the composer and band member's surname is ANDERSSON. [mod: composers corrected, also Bjorn to Björn]



fixbutte 2nd Jun 2014		Obviously a very dear item to own. Did you buy it early in the 1980s in a shop or later at an auction?



wordnwot 1st Jun 2014		First commercial CD in the world....http://topics.info.com/What-was-the-first-CD-pressed-in-the-US_4887 Take a deep breath and........ click here +

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