Messiah Excerpts

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Release Date: 1962-09

Label: Decca

Early UK version for this cat# with ED1 labels (see below for description).
There is an earlier version with a flipback sleeve and lower matrix numbers here: here
These are excerpts from the complete "Messiah" recording, issued in the UK on Decca SET 218/20 in 1961.

LABELS:
- Black/silver 'grooved wideband' labels
- "Original recording by" at 11 o'clock
- "Made in England" at bottom
- "Recording first published 1961"

SLEEVE:
- Front laminated
- No flipbacks
- Boxed Decca logo on front and back
- Small "stereo" in a black box on front top left
- Spine has text on it, bold "stereo" on spine
- "© 1962, The Decca Record Company Limited, London"
- "Printed in England by Robert Stace"
- "Original instrumentation"
- Sleeve notes in English only on back

OTHER INFORMATION:
- Recorded 15 May - 25 August 1961 in Kingsway Hall, London
- Labelography code: ED1
- Corresponding mono issue has cat# LXT 5685
- This was the last cat# in the SXL 2000 series

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