.....I bought this album on an 8-track tape in 1971, I already owned the vinyl album, and used to listen to it on my Radiomobile/Voxson 8-track stereo with 4 speakers in my then current car, a 1958 Daimler Conquest Century saloon/sedan. This track was a great favourite in the old Daimler, with myself and 3 or 4 friends singing along with Neil and Crazy Horse.
#.....so I talked to some old friends for a while, before I wandered off, alone.....#
.....thanks ppint, you are quite right, my last paragraph of my previous comment is in error, I did check on wikipedia and found plenty of information and meant to link it, but failed to do so..... mea culpa....
Quote from wikipedia, with acknowledgements....
"On July 1, 1971, following the pattern set by similar joint ventures in Canada and Australia, the Warner labels entered into a partnership with the British arm of CBS Records to press and distribute Warner-Reprise product in the United Kingdom, although this was undertaken as a cooperative venture rather than a formally incorporated business partnership. The Billboard article that reported the new arrangement also noted that, despite their intense competition in the US market, CBS continued to press Warner-Reprise recordings in the USA. However the new UK arrangement was a major blow to Warner's previous British manufacturer Pye Records, for whom Warner-Reprise had been their largest account. With the scheduled addition of the UK rights to the Atlantic catalogue, which would revert to Kinney in early 1972, Billboard predicted that the Warner-CBS partnership would have a 25–30% share of the UK music market."
The full wikipedia link thousands of words in length is entitled Warner Music Group
yankeedisc: there was an interregnum when (?initially pye-pressed?) reprise label uk records were distributed by cbs: the pye-licence cat#s were retained.
any "product"' pressed (by whomever) during this period should have the rubric advising pye distribution overprinted with a solid black block - see e.g. the original uk release of frank zappa's "hot rats" album, which occurred during this period.
sfayhsia, cbs continued distribution of reprise uk until the kinneyfirstnationalbankservicesandcarparkmegamusiccorpse computer system & warehouse took over.
(philmh may have - well, let's face it, probably does have :-) - the precise dates. . .)
The first images posted by Auto_Da_Fe #459738 - #459741 show how errors occurred when record labels switched distribution.
Catalogue number RSLP 6349 was only ever used by Pye records as UK distributor for this release, and changed to cat.# K 44073 under Kinney, which later became WEA distribution.
The first two album sleeve images, marked K 44073 should now be transferred to the linked edition K 44073 now that the original Pye records printed sleeve has appeared, correctly printed RSLP 6349, with thanks to poster Gilberts004, obliged.
I had the original Pye pressing, RSLP 6349, bought from memory in 1970/1971, and it had the 'tan' paper labels, not the 'steamboat' paper labels, which were on the very earliest UK issues, from Pye records distribution, replicating as far as I know the original US issue.
It's not as if Kinney over-stickered the vinyl paper labels on unsold product that Pye records were required to deliver up to Kinney at the change of UK distributor, they just didn't bother, so Auto_Da_Fe got a hybrid without deserving it.
From memory, I think Polydor pressed Reprise UK issues until about 1974 when WEA took over, including Atlantic, Warner Bros., Capricorn, Elektra, Asylum, and others.
Slightly unusual variant there Auto. Tan label but with the original Cat# in the later Kinney Cat# sleeve. The 1st edition RSLP 6349 are on the 3-Color 'Pop Series' Label. Making this a sort of 1.5 edition.