Vinyl Album - Peter And Gordon - The Best Of Peter And Gordon - Columbia

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Peter And Gordon
Title:	The Best Of Peter And Gordon
Label:	Columbia
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	SCXC 31
Date:	1966
Format:	Stereo LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Peter And Gordon	A World Without Love	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
A2	Peter And Gordon	True Love Ways	Holly, Petty	Rate
A3	Peter And Gordon	If I Were You	Asher, Waller	Rate
A4	Peter And Gordon	I Told You So	Asher, Waller	Rate
A5	Peter And Gordon	To Know You Is To Love You	Spector	Rate
A6	Peter And Gordon	Don't Pity Me	Asher, Waller	Rate
B1	Peter And Gordon	I Go To Pieces	Shannon	Rate
B2	Peter And Gordon	I Don't Want To See You Again	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
B3	Peter And Gordon	Love Me Baby	Asher, Waller	Rate
B4	Peter And Gordon	If You Wish	Asher, Waller	Rate
B5	Peter And Gordon	Woman	Webb	Rate

Notes

Recordings produced by Norman Newell and John Burgess in England. Produced for the U.S.A. by Bill Miller.

British export issue of U.S.A. Capitol LP.

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Otaridan 7th Dec 2019		These so-called British export LP’s were anything but that. EMI’s policy of strict control over stereo masters of hit singles led to the making of these albums. With the policy of never placing a hit single on an upcoming album meant that the audiophile that favored stereo got cheated because singles were only mono. However countries other than the UK very often did not market that way. So EMI’s Strategic Marketing Department instituted a policy of “selective distribution” where stereo masters for hit singles were concerned. That is why some stereo versions of some songs appeared in one country and other hit single stereo masters appeared only in another. This was done initially to prevent massive imports from being brought into the UK and flooding their market and in EMI’s view having the royalties ride the merry-go-round. However the plan was not fool-proof and British merchants brought tons of US pressings into the UK. It was then decided that it would be more cost effective to produce a sub-catalogue of US albums under a special nomenclature to keep the British Pound at home. Keeping in mind that the hit single stereo masters were territorial, EMI in England could not by agreement manufacture a stamp to press these US knockoffs, they actually had to get their pressing stamps from Capitol US. Proof in point, if you examine the vinyl between the runout grooves it shows the Capitol matrix number crossed out with a new YMX matrix number added in. All the so-called British export albums are the same, even the Beatles, although their export counterparts feature a YEEX lettering prefix. Since these albums did not appear in the regular British catalogue, did the artists in question get royalties from their sales?



rob2553 20th Aug 2019		My understanding is that these were pressed for export from the U.K. to other countries with a demand for the U.S. albums, like these Beatles issues on Parlophone: https://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/cpcs101



ppint. 19th Aug 2019		um; what breed of animal is a "british export issue of u.s.a. capitol lp." ? this looks very much to this ppint. as a perfectly ordinary uk columbia label emi lp. (the stereo version, so some of the tracks mayn't match the sound of the mono singles, as was common in this era - but that's a very different kettle of fish. . .)

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