Vinyl Album - The Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion - Elektra

Vinyl Album

Artist:	The Incredible String Band
Title:	The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion
Label:	Elektra
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	EUK 257
Date:	Jul 1967
Format:	Mono LP (also Stereo LP)
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	10 Own, 2 Want
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	The Incredible String Band	Chinese White	Heron	Rate
A2	The Incredible String Band	No Sleeping Blues	Williamson	Rate
A3	The Incredible String Band	Painting Box	Heron	Rate
A4	The Incredible String Band	The Eyes Of Fate	Williamson	Rate
A5	The Incredible String Band	Little Cloud	Heron	Rate
A6	The Incredible String Band	The Mad Hatter's Song	Williamson	Rate
B1	The Incredible String Band	Blues For The Muse	Williamson	Rate
B2	The Incredible String Band	The Hedgehog's Song	Heron	Rate
B3	The Incredible String Band	First Girl I Loved	Williamson	Rate
B4	The Incredible String Band	You Know What You Could Be	Heron	Rate
B5	The Incredible String Band	My Name Is Death	Williamson	Rate
B6	The Incredible String Band	Gently Tender	Heron	Rate
B7	The Incredible String Band	Way Back In The 60's	Williamson	Rate

Notes

UK Chart Entry: 21 Oct 1967
Highest Position: 26
Total Weeks on Chart: 4
Produced by Joe Boyd.

First pressings with dark orange "Big E" label

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annaloog ● 23rd Dec 2023		What's the deal with "The Mad Hatter's Song" vs. "The Eyes Of Fate"? Some labels show the titles at A4 and A6, other show them at A6 and A4.



ppint. 22nd May 2020		you can follow the changes elektra records (u.k.) ltd. went through from independent, getting records pressed by various uk plants (possibly on an ad hoc basis) and importing from the parent company; to polydor uk's licensing elektra product and the label from the u.s. parent company, with the manufacturing arrangements as per polydor uk's local arrangements - which varied somewhat over the years, including the changes due to philips uk group & polydor uk mutating into phonogram, and polygram - through the eventual determination of polydor's licence, and onto what i recall as being rather shorter-term licencing arrangements, etc, in somewhat finer granularity, by following the evolution of the elektra singles label on 45cat. i don't off-hand remember the date, but jac holzman sold elektra to kinney national at about the same time as they bought atlantic records, after which uk elektra's arrangements became just one part of negotiations between progressively larger conglomerates, through the effective end of the elektra label in favour of asylum - for a while.



Gian_paolo 10th May 2020		Look right Fokeman, thanks!



Fokeman 9th May 2020		I would have thought that early Elektra issues in the UK used Polydor. Joe Boyd was working for Elektra in the USA and he came over to the UK to push records onto the Polydor sub-label Bounty (amongst others). I think the relationship with Polydor lasted for a while before it became clear that Elektra could establish itself in its own right. When that happened they dropped the Polydor credits and just used Elektra (UK) credits. This is purely hypothetical so I'm not saying one way or the other. Just that it could put the other records first and the brighter Gilberts004 labels last... No, just checked and you're right Gian_Paolo! Does this look right?



Gian_paolo 7th May 2020		From what I can see and understand, Gilbert's labels must be first pressings, TopPopper 2nd (my copy is identical), BillyTwo 3rd pressing (publishing changes to Paradox/Essex). There should be at least a fourth pressing of this Mono LP, with Warlock Music/Essex publishing, which makes it a late '68 early '69 pressing.



TopPopper 12th May 2018		More label scans added. Text appears to be a hybrid of the other two examples, with elements from each.



Gilberts004 SUBS 11th Apr 2018		two full front and back images added unfortunately I added wrong way around, and named them wrong. Apart from that it went well. Mod edit: fixed



Gilberts004 SUBS 29th Mar 2018		There is a 3rd label currently on eBay 392004074332 buy it now, with same EUK-257-A and B, also incl. Polydor..



Lee Wrecker 29th Mar 2018		After a quick look here on the net it looks as though your labels are the earlier of the two here Gilbert.



Gilberts004 SUBS 29th Mar 2018		two labels added, with Manufactured in England, no mention of Polydor any ideas which came first?.

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UK - Elektra - 1967 [Stereo]

USA - Elektra - 1968 [Stereo]

USA - Elektra - 1968 [Mono]

UK - Elektra - 1976