Comment by PhilMH:
Hi Greg, the stickers and the black marker would have been added when this album was exported to other countries, as the Columbia name and trademark were owned by EMI in most of the world outside the US and Canada at the time. As the stickers have CBS printed on them, I think that they would have been added by the record company, either prior to export or on receipt of the records by the CBS affiliate in the destination country, so this would then qualify as an international CBS release, rather than an import by a record shop from a US one stop, who in my experience here in Australia would have used black marker on the labels as well. It's probably safe to leave this with three labels as it is now.
Comment by gregs45s SUBS:
A curious one, this was a joint release by Columbia and the Russian label Мелодия (Melodiya), but, for some reason the album artwork was printed with "Columbia / Melodiya" (a mistake in the first place??), which has then had every mention of "Columbia" subsequently covered over with "CBS" stickers, even to the point of using a marker to cross out the smallprint on the back.
This is the first time i've come across these circular "CBS" stickers on a label, here's what the normal labels and cover looked
like
I've added all three labels here, but, if you want to change it to just "CBS / Melodiya" that's fine too