The Same Song

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Release Date: 1979

Label: Top Ranking

Often mistaken for a Jamaican pressing - this one is actually the UK 1st Pressing dating PRIOR to the Harvest release. It was released in the UK in April 1979 and then quickly withdrawn when Harvest elected to release it later in the year.

This release has white labels with pink printing, and cat# TCL 1001.

The proof that it is of course a UK 1st Pressing (and not Jamaican!) is that it has UK 1st Press MACHINE STAMPED matrixes, PERFECTLY pressed vinyl & labels, but most importantly of all it has "RAYS" in the run off groove. "RAYS" was one of the UK's premier vinyl cutters / engineers from the Period and ONLY worked in the UK.

You will find 'RAYS' appears / has cut many other UK releases from the period (from the mid 1970s through to the 1980s) - for example Adam & The Ants 'Kings Of The Wild Frontier' amongst many others.

It is worth noting, that although the cover does not quote a UK manufacturer, it is also clearly a UK made cover, with the same construction of other releases in the UK from this period.

So this is not Jamaican - it is actually the UK 1st Pressing and immediately withdrawn after release!

Recorded at Channel One & Concert Studios.

Back cover:
(P) 1978 (C) 1978 - Talent Music
Distributed by: Federal Records Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

Labels:
(P) 1978
(C) 1978

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