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Release Date: 1989Label: Vinyl Magic
Red label design.©1971℗1989
The first edition on cd by Vinyl Magic in 1989 has a 43:42 minutes length (Part 1 is 18:20, Part 2 is 25:22) and is presumably taken from the original masters.
VM013 catalog number appears on the spine of the cd while the other two Cat# VM013CD and Cat# 14207 appear on the label. Music and lyrics credits are given to all two songwriters on the cd label. The distinctive cover art and posters were designed by Gianni Sassi and recall the style of subsequent productions for the Cramps.
This edition indeed includes a miniature reproduction of the original LP poster, an approximately 7 x 9 poster showing a grainy photo of a man with two children, and these lines (in English, oddly): "I was in Sicily in 1936. Sun and sea as in California. Wonderful!" at the top, and, at the bottom, "No one washes his teeth, just someone drink milk: terrible!" This relates somehow to the topic of the album. This separate insert is missing from the 1993 second edition, which has instead (stapled into the single-fold sheet that replicates the original LP fold-out cover) and Vinyl Magic's mail-order catalog.
Also the third Vinyl Magic cd version from 1997 (almost identical to the first in the CD cover, though with a different disc label), has a 46:41 minutes length and is presumably taken from a demo tape that apparently even saw a cassette-only release before the actual LP came out. This doesn't include the mini-poster.