Vinyl Album - Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark - Asylum

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Joni Mitchell
Title:	Court And Spark
Label:	Asylum
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	K 53002
Date:	Jun 1976
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	5 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Joni Mitchell	Court And Spark	Joni Mitchell	Rate
A2	Joni Mitchell	Help Me	Joni Mitchell	Rate
A3	Joni Mitchell	Free Man In Paris	Joni Mitchell	Rate
A4	Joni Mitchell	People's Parties	Joni Mitchell	Rate
A5	Joni Mitchell	Same Situation	Joni Mitchell	Rate
B1	Joni Mitchell	Car On A Hill	Joni Mitchell	Rate
B2	Joni Mitchell	Down To You	Joni Mitchell	Rate
B3	Joni Mitchell	Just Like This Train	Joni Mitchell	Rate
B4	Joni Mitchell	Raised On Robbery	Joni Mitchell	Rate
B5	Joni Mitchell	Trouble Child	Joni Mitchell	Rate
B6	Joni Mitchell	Twisted	Wardell, Gray	Rate

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PhilMH 16th Jan 2015		P.S. EMI issue of COURT AND SPARK at Discogs.



PhilMH 16th Jan 2015		Sorry,Your Honour, but I must (gently!) object - 1974 is correct as the original release date of the EMI edition of this album with the SYLA catalogue number, but this K edition is no earlier than 1976. Asylum did move from EMI to WEA in most countries following the Elektra merger, but the UK was different for some reason (probably Asylum being contractually bound to EMI UK until the end of 1975) and Elektra temporarily moved to EMI instead. This Harry Chapin album in the database is an EMI issue from 1974.



TheJudge 15th Jan 2015		OK, I'll go with '74. It chimes with Free Man In Paris getting a fair bit of airplay on the station I listened to most at that time, and that station didn't come on air until the beginning of Apr. 74.



ppint. 15th Jan 2015		david geffen sold his asylum label & music co. to the kinney car-park conglomerate now better known as warners when they offered him a large amount of dough and the managing of both it and the elektra label they'd bought from jac holzman - so the elektra/asylum labels were going to end up with whoever was the kinney car-park/warner conglomerate's distributors locally, if not actually with a local, wholly-owned subsidiary; but pre-existing contracts would've needed to be bought out, to achieve any earlier determination than'd been signed-up for; or the calculation made that a local distributor couldn't afford to sue kinney/warners if they just went ahead and broke the contract. . . - which at this time most definitely would not've been true of emi.



Record Collector 15th Jan 2015		Take it easy may have been a hit prediction but wasn't strong enough top chart top forty



Neil Forbes 15th Jan 2015		Actually, Phil, it was The Eagles' "Take It Easy" which appeared in Australia on an EMI-issued Asylum single in 1972(the record itself is copyrighted to 1971 but delayed to '72 for Australia. It dudded - never charted). The label for the issue looked like it had a Capitol affiliation. The affiliation didn't last too long though. Within a year, Warner in Australia had assumed distribution, though EMI in Britain may still have had the label for longer.



PhilMH 15th Jan 2015		Hi Neil, you are thinking of Linda Ronstadt's HEART LIKE A WHEEL album and associated singles. Linda had previously issued her Asylum debut DON'T CRY NOW (and Asylum was then distributed by Atlantic in the USA), but she still owed Capitol one more album, so HLAW was a Capitol label release in the States, and everywhere else it was issued by EMI with Asylum labels and Capitol catalogue numbers! Here in Australia, I seem to remember Asylum's transition to WEA happened pretty much straight away in 1973, and I think DON'T CRY NOW was one of the first Asylum/WEA releases, along with Jackson Browne's album of that year (title escapes me).



Neil Forbes 15th Jan 2015		The reason Asylum was with EMI(in Australia as well) in the early 1970s was because of an initial tie between Asylum and Capitol Industries(EMI's US subsidiary). That's my guess, for what it's worth anyway, Phil.



PhilMH 15th Jan 2015		This came up as a random record. Even though this is (P) 1973, it is not a 1973 release because: (1) The initial release in the USA was in January 1974; (2) Asylum was still distributed by EMI in the UK up until the end of 1975; due to some quirk in the 1973 Elektra/Asylum merger, Elektra actually moved to EMI UK for a couple of years (though still using WEA's "K" catalogue numbering system) and Asylum stayed put, so initial UK 1974 release of this via EMI was SYLA 8756. Joni's next two albums also came via EMI, the live MILES OF AISLES (SYSP 902) and THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS (SYLA 8763). Elektra and Asylum both moved back to WEA UK as from January 1976 IINM, so this is a 1976 reissue.



TheJudge 28th Oct 2014		Free Man In Paris - stone cold classic!!

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