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Vinyl Album

Artist: Dr. Feelgood Title: Stupidity Label:   United Artists Country: UK Catalogue: UAS 29990 Date: 17 Sep 1976 Format: LP Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  27 Own, 4 Want Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
Sheffield Side
A1	Dr. Feelgood	I'm Talking About You	Chuck Berry	9.0  Rate
A2	Dr. Feelgood	Twenty Yards Behind	Wilko Johnson	9.0  Rate
A3	Dr. Feelgood	Stupidity	Solomon Burke	10.0  Rate
A4	Dr. Feelgood	All Through The City	Wilko Johnson	10.0  Rate
A5	Dr. Feelgood	I'm A Man	Ellis McDaniel	9.0  Rate
A6	Dr. Feelgood	Walking The Dog	Rufus Thomas	9.0  Rate
A7	Dr. Feelgood	She Does It Right	Wilko Johnson	10.0  Rate
Southend Side
B1	Dr. Feelgood	Going Back Home	Wilko Johnson, Mick Green	10.0  Rate
B2	Dr. Feelgood	I Don't Mind	Wilko Johnson	9.0  Rate
B3	Dr. Feelgood	Back In The Night	Wilko Johnson	9.0  Rate
B4	Dr. Feelgood	I'm A Hog For You	Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller	9.0  Rate
B5	Dr. Feelgood	Checkin' Up On My Baby	Sonny Boy Williamson	8.0  Rate
B6	Dr. Feelgood	Roxette	Wilko Johnson	10.0  Rate

Notes

Side 1 produced by Dr. Feelgood
Recorded at Sheffield City Hall, 23rd May 1975 by Vic Maile with The Manor Mobile
Side 2 produced by Dr. Feelgood
Recorded at Southend Kursaal, 8th November 1975 by Vic Maile with The Island Mobile

Mixed by Dr. Feelgood & Vic Maile at De Lane Lea, Wembley, August 1976

Sleeve design by Paul Henry
Cover photo: Chris Horler

Colour retouching: T. A. Pix Associates

Images

Number: 513108  THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: janiejjones Description: front cover

Number: 513109  Uploaded By: janiejjones Description: back cover

Number: 513111  Uploaded By: janiejjones Description: a side label

Number: 513112  Uploaded By: janiejjones Description: b side label

Comments and Reviews

JamesTrash 16th Nov 2019		The release date should be 17th September 1976 not the 27th.
Problem Child 8th Nov 2018		I have two copies of this, one I bought at the time and another near new one to replace my well played copy more recently, though both look the same. My original copy has after the matrix;- A-1 U JONZ , the name is hand written, on Side 2;- B-1 U TRIDENT , the name is also handwritten. The other copy, with exactly same label has; A-2U and B-2 U on their respective sides but no handwritten names. I don't know if this signifies and earlier or later pressing, but I bought my first copy in December '76 and it included the 'free' single.
Problem Child 27th Nov 2015		Reached No. 1 in the UK Albums charts staying in the charts for 9 weeks.
YankeeDisc SUBS 29th Mar 2014		As an update I was just over on discogs correcting, and I found this similar 1975 UA album West German issue, UAS 29 743 XO - Vernon Burch. The XO suffix present on that issue could have been added to this entry so that similar stock numbers were stored in the correct place - anyone who's worked in record retail will know what I mean, regarding "alpha-numerical" filing. Also, EMI group printing code: E.C.G./ST/76, These are the only G entries, and some of those might be EP printers only..... G & L = Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Garrod = Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Garrod and Lofthouse Gothic Print Finishers Ltd. G.P. = Graphis Press Ltd. Graffia - 113 Stafford Rd., Croydon, Surrey Graphis Press Ltd. E.A. Gray - 14 Greville St., London E.C.1. E.C.G. does not look familiar, any ideas?
YankeeDisc SUBS 29th Mar 2014		....that sticker "29 990 XO" looks like a stock reference index item, for a record shop, perhaps. I used to use the same size stickers, typed on, when I was catalogueing my then burgeoning 35mm film slides collection. You could purchase packs of those stickers, die cut, self adhesive in Stationery retail outlets.
Deltics 28th Mar 2014		Initial copies came with this free single.
PhilMH 28th Mar 2014		Except here, I think the "importer" was most probably UA's licensee in Germany/Austria (assuming that Ariola were in fact handling UA at the time), and marketed the album as if it were a domestic release. Here in Australia, most of the majors occasionally imported releases from their overseas parents to market as local releases (particularly Phonogram/Polygram for classical Deutsche Graamophon and Philips releases, many of which were intended as multi-market releases with multi-lingual liner notes), and Festival took the extra step of applying their own catalogue numbers to their imports, which were listed in their catalogues and could be ordered by shops in the same way as domestic pressings. Sure, these things aren't especially easy to catalogue at times, but I think we need to make this site as accurate as possible and reflect the realities of how the market was (and still is, to some extent), not try to shoe-horn things into pre-conceived and inflexible "boxes".
janiejjones 28th Mar 2014		As I said before, I do not support the view of imports or foreign distributions being releases. If I remove those stickers, what remains? A genuwine UK issue.... Importers had so many ways of handling their stuff.
PhilMH 28th Mar 2014		I thought that might have been an Ariola code, not that I've seen a large number of those! Maybe this would qualify as a Germany and/or Austria release, then?
janiejjones 28th Mar 2014		I am not too sure, but the distributors code would fit Ariola at the time. I think several Islands around that time had similar codes. I guess these were used by the import branch of one of the major German label groups. Being released in the UK by EMI did not automatically mean a German release as well. If German branch chose to pass by a certain release, and even their import/distribuition neglected it, the importers took over, and that could well be from a rival organisation.
PhilMH 28th Mar 2014		September 1976 release. Sticker on back possibly catalogue number and price code for another country, but were UA with anyone other than EMI in Europe at this time?
janiejjones 28th Mar 2014		EMI group printing code: E.C.G./ST/76
janiejjones 8th Oct 2013		Mine has a white on red "LIVE ALBUM" sticker on front, and stickered "29 990 XO" on back

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