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  2nd May 2020, 10:04 AM#1  REPORT  
Saqqara

Member since May 2020
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Hello, hoping someone can help me.

I'm trying to win a contest and I need some expert help!

The question is: why is this record special?

The record in question is The Doors "Strange Days" with a blue label with a butterfly on it.

After a few guesses i was given the clue: Think the label, the album, the press, the colour, the country.

I have found out that the blue butterfly label indicates that it was pressed? Produced? (Not sure of correct terminology) in Australia, but that is not the answer. I am on the right track though.

The next clue was another picture of The Doors album "LA Woman" - again with the blue butterfly label.

Any insights would be greatly appreciated please :smile:


  3rd May 2020, 1:18 AM#2  REPORT  
Juke Jules SUBS

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Take a look on 45cat for singles, there's a few EPs with Strange Days, though not on 'butterrfly' labels (yet)

- Jules


  3rd May 2020, 9:29 AM#3  REPORT  
TopPopper

Member since Mar 2013
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It's hard to know what the question is getting at. It appears the blue label was in use briefly, around 1971, in Australia, and around the time LA Woman came out.

Why is the record special? Because it has that label? I don't know what other answer they want.

LA Woman

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Strange Days (blue label)


  3rd May 2020, 11:10 AM#4  REPORT  
zabadak

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That question is OP's only contribution so far... :sideways:


  3rd May 2020, 9:10 PM#5  REPORT  
Lee Wrecker

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Perhaps the answer is that Strange Days LP is a 1971 pressing of the 1967 LP. The other two were actually released in 1971 and therefore first press issues were on the blue label. This design of the Elektra label was unique to Australia and only issued in 1971. Why? I don't know. The original release of Strange Days had the Gold (Big White E) label. Does any of this help?


  4th May 2020, 7:23 AM#6  REPORT  
PhilMH

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I think you're probably right Lee, STRANGE DAYS is a reissue and the others are first issues. It puzzles me, though, why Warner/Kinney (or, more accurately, Australian Record Company, who did Kinney's pressings) were able to print the multicoloured 45 Elektra caterpillar label without any apparent problems, yet seemingly couldn't do the same for the butterfly LP label for most of 1971, judging by the number of blue label releases found in Discogs, unless the printing wasn't done in-house and they used different printing companies for 45 and LP labels?


  5th May 2020, 12:09 AM#7  REPORT  
The_Vinyl_Junkie SUBS

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As I recall the original Elektra label releases in Australia were done through Astor prior to Warner/Kinney gaining the label. Astor had the butterfly, Warner had the caterpillar.


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