Vinyl Album - Cat Stevens - The World Of Cat Stevens - Decca

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Cat Stevens
Title:	The World Of Cat Stevens
Label:	Decca
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	SPA 93
Date:	Aug 1970
Format:	LP
Genre:	Pop
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	32 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Cat Stevens	Here Comes My Wife	Cat Stevens	Rate
A2	Cat Stevens	Granny	Cat Stevens	Rate
A3	Cat Stevens	Matthew And Son	Cat Stevens	10.0 Rate
A4	Cat Stevens	Here Comes My Baby	Cat Stevens	Rate
A5	Cat Stevens	Lovely City	Cat Stevens	Rate
A6	Cat Stevens	I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun	Cat Stevens	Rate
B1	Cat Stevens	I Love My Dog	Cat Stevens	Rate
B2	Cat Stevens	Kitty	Cat Stevens	Rate
B3	Cat Stevens	The First Cut Is The Deepest	Cat Stevens	Rate
B4	Cat Stevens	A Bad Night	Cat Stevens	Rate
B5	Cat Stevens	School Is Out	Cat Stevens	Rate
B6	Cat Stevens	Where Are You	Cat Stevens	Rate

Notes

Compilation of his earlier "Pop" era material

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kab2112 SUBS 7th Jun 2017		Two different Back Covers & Label Scans added



dr.pepper1952 19th Sep 2016		add better scan and dif. Labels



Focus B 10th Aug 2016		I've seen copies with the Red Mono, Blue Stereo hole in the rear. By the issue date it would appear unlikely a mono version exists. "The World of Them" definitely exists in mono form however with a release date of October 1970, yet the catalogue number is the lower (S)PA 86.



ppint. 5th Jan 2015		thejudge: i'm not at home to check, but i'm sure the colour printing on all my first-pressing decca lps in this period was such that whatever orientation one replaced the inner sleeve, the colour printing showed through the little round hole. since there are eight such variations of orientation, iirc the sleeves had a large, fairly wide, square border printed in either red or blue. i think decca'll only've sprung for one colour-printing on the inner sleeves, and i think i recall reading the standard text on 'em in blue (on the stereo sleeves) - bicbw - it may've been black + one colour. the design may've changed - possibly to use less ink over inner-sleeve print-runs in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions - i shouldn't be surprised and it had - but at least to start with, it was a continuous border. "i'm certain - bicbw." :-) edit 15/6/2021: i can & do confirm the red or blue coloured borders run all the way around both sides of the inner sleeves, and that they were only printed in their one colour, in the first place.



TheJudge 4th Jan 2015		RC, Could the compilation have been this, or it's Oz counterpart?



Neil Forbes 4th Jan 2015		Record Collector's comment: "I do recall some years back that Decca or EMI here in Australia issue Mathew and son and you got troubles on a compilation".... Would've been a various artists compilation. The other track mentioned by R.C. was actually "You've Got Your Troubles" by The Fortunes from 1964 or 1965 when they were signed to Decca. Those two tracks also turned up on the movie soundtrack compilation(2-LP set) on Stateside, "Stardust".



Record Collector 1st Jan 2015		I do recall some years back that Decca or EMI here in Australia issue Mathew and son and you got troubles on a compilation



Neil Forbes 1st Jan 2015		The Australian issue had all but two tracks in full stereo. The only two tracks that weren't in stereo were B4, A Bad Night and B6, Where Are You. Also, the front cover artwork had a sketched portrait of Stevens on the front cover. Soon as I can I'll upload the Australian cover. I should also mention Pickwick issued the album on CD simply as "Cat Stevens, using a cropped portion of the British front cover photo on the left of the cover card, and Stevens' name, black print on yellow backdrop on the right of the cover card. Track order was as per the LP and all stereo bar the two already-mentioned tracks.



PhilMH 1st Jan 2015		Added release month from Decca's 1974 catalogue.



TheJudge 31st Dec 2014		Slight correction to what you said, ppint. The inner sleeves were white but with red or blue squares at the corners which would show the appropriate colour through the little peep-hole on the rear of the sleeve.



ppint. 31st Dec 2014		decca's "world of" label/series was a budget-priced label ranging over pop, jazz, classical & folk material from decca's vaults, often recompiled - and often rechanelled into mock stereo, when the original recordings were mono. (for quite a while, mono "world of"'s paper inner sleeves were printed in red, whereas the stereo lps' - some "world of" albums were released in both mono and stereo - paper inners were printed in blue; a small circular hole in the top rh corner of the back cover of the lps' card outer sleeve was incorporated into a printed rectangle containing the advice that red=mono, blue=stereo - saving printing separate sleeves for mono and stereo versions of the album.) however, just because an original release was in mono only, it doesn't automatically follow that the original master tapes were - and sometimes when they were, decca's engineers found enough information'd - totally fortuitously - been taped to allow the recovery of true stereo - and sometimes new, stereo versions of originally mono tracks were recorded (e.g. quite a few rolling stones' singles, re-recorded for release on stereo lps such as the stereo version of "big hits - high tide and green grass"). i don't know whether which occurred with "a bad night", but some45/33catter out there may know. . .



wordnwot 27th Apr 2014		Labels from early 70's release.



wordnwot 2nd Jan 2014		Tracks A3,A6,B1,B2,B3,B4,B5 all true stereo A1, A2, A4, A5, B6 mono reprocessed to give a stereo effect. But! B4 famous for only ever being mono.... what does it mean?

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Australia - Decca - 1975