m'm'mlade: "excellent!". - now all we need is for somekindcatter to check the original vanguard records/recordings release(s), to know whether or not the two appeared from nowhere. . .
the tracks listed here - and on both of the uk fontana issues' - labels as tracks b2, b3, are not on the original merkin part 2 album b-side label - see link below - nor are they on the first merkin concert album: does anycatter know whether the songs actually are on the original vanguard part 2 lp unannounced - or, if not, how they came to be on these fontana pressings?
(- or, are the tracks not in fact upon the fontana lps, despite being on both labels and lp sleeves?)
I seem to remember trying to discover what the story was myself when I found this, and part 1, which has similar two cover edition issue...
... and while I don't think I reached any solid conclusions, I was getting the impression that it had something to do with the Vanguard recording thing (I seem to remember something in Record Collector too), whereby Vanguard were pivotal in recording he initial sixties folk scene in America, and becoming popular here in the UK, they made something along the lines of export copies, of which, I now believe, your cover issues are, before, amking bespoke UK issues - as per my copy.
I may be wrong, but while, in this circumstance, it would seem that the covers for sladesounds image copies came first (similar cover design format for Part 1 as well), in this way, but the copies that feature my cover, and the alternate cover for part 1, came soon after, as the first UK proper issues, due to the success of those.
So while I may be corrected on this, I believe it may be necessary to switch the lead images for both parts at some point.
MM I just picked this album up and you can see the covers/labels on my issue are again made in England (printed by Garrod & Lofthouse) yet a different cover design to yours. Anyone any idea which was used first?
mmarmmallarde imaginaire: no, not in this case at least: if you check the publishing details (on the labels) against each track, you'll see that some are given, some merely noted "copyright control", which seems to indicate "(we think)/we know who wrote it, but we don't know who the publisher is, leastways not in the yuk-of-gb-and-norn-iron (or further british empire territories?)", and some are simply left blanks. the blanks correspond to "traditional", sometimes "arranged j. baez" (& sometimes "arr. a. n. other").
While there is nothing to indicate a country of manufacture, I wonder if this is made in the U.S?
My suspicions were aroused by the fact that the cover construction is the thick laminated card usually found on U.S issues, and the back of the cover in particular having the pasted over liner.
..And what's more, it's a couple of mil smaller than most of my U.K albums, as evidenced by the fact that the inner sleeve that I found in my copy is one of the orange CBS ad sleeves (which obviously has come from some other album), and it is a very tight fit - very difficult to get in and out of the cover.
With regards to the composer credits left blank here... looking at the labels, they seem to imply that, in the case of the first three songs, "all of the above" (tracks 1-3) are by Bob Dylan, and that where the other tracks are left blank, the same rule applies: (all of the above, to the last named composer).
Should the blanks be filled in with these composers then, or left blank, in accordance with how they are set out on the labels?