The Golden Ring

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Album Info

Release Date: 1969-12

Label: Decca

This is the first UK version for this cat#.
This LP was not released on a 'grooved wideband' label.

LABELS:
- Black/silver 'wideband' labels, NO 'groove'
- "MADE IN ENGLAND BY" at 11 o'clock
- "℗ 1969" at bottom
- Decca 'Muscial Notes' logo on both sides
- Matrix numbers printed upside-down

SLEEVE:
- Front laminated
- No flipbacks
- Positive stereo Ⓢ on black spine
- "© 1969, The Decca Record Company Limited, London."
- "Sleeve printed in England by Senol Printing Limited"
- "Laminated with 'Clarifoil' made by British Celanese Limited"

INSERT:
- One sheet folded into 4 full-size pages
- Contains liner notes and the lyrics in German and English
- "© 1969, The Decca Record Company Limited, London."
- "Printed in England by Senol Printing Limited"

CATALOG NUMBERS:
- SXL 6421 on sleeve and insert
- SXL.6421 on labels

OTHER INFORMATION:
- This release compiles excerpts from previously available recordings (UK stereo versions):
 Track A1 (Das Rheingold): from Decca SXL 2101/2/3, originally released in 1959
 Track A2 (Die Walküre): from Decca SET 312/6, originally released in 1966
 Track A3 (Siegfried): from Decca SET 242/6, originally released in 1963
 Tracks A4 to B2 (Götterdämmerung): from Decca SET 292/7, originally released in 1965
 Track B3 (Siegfried Idyll): from Decca SET 323/4, originally released in 1966
- Labelography code: ED3
- This compilation was not issued in monophonic form anymore
- Track A2 is misspelled "Die Walkure [..]" on labels, but spelled correctly on sleeve
- Track A3 is misspelled "[..] Forest Murmers" on labels, but spelled correctly on sleeve

Some copies have an AW rectangle sticker on back cover

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