VARIOUS. "THE ROCK MACHINE TURNS YOU ON" CBS UK 1968 LP. EX COND
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Various ?– The Rock Machine Turns You On
Label: CBS ?– SPR 22, CBS ?– PR 22 Format: Vinyl, LP, Sampler, StereoCountry: UK Released: 1968 Genre: Rock Style: Psychedelic Rock
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A1 –Bob Dylan I'll Be Your Baby Tonight Producer – Bob Johnson* A2 –Moby Grape Can't Be So Bad Producer – David Rubinson A3 –Spirit (8) Fresh Garbage Producer – Lou Adler A4 –The United States Of America I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife For You, Sugar Producer – David Rubinson A5 –The Zombies Time Of The Season Producer – Chris White (2), Rod Argent A6 –The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Turn On A Friend Producer – Gary Usher A7 –Leonard Cohen Sisters Of Mercy Producer – John Simon B1 –Blood, Sweat And Tears My Days Are Numbered Featuring – Al Kooper, Steve KatzProducer – John Simon B2 –The Byrds Dolphins Smile Producer – Gary Usher B3 –Simon & Garfunkel Scarborough Fair/Canticle Producer – Bob Johnson* B4 –Taj Mahal Statesboro Blues Producer – David Rubinson B5 –The Electric Flag Killing Floor Featuring – Mike BloomfieldProducer – John Court B6 –Roy Harper Nobody's Got Any Money For The Summer Producer – Shel Talmy B7 –Tim Rose Come Away Melinda Producer – David Rubinson B8 –Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera Flames Producer – Barry KingstonCredits
- Compiled By – David Howells
- Photography By – Wadham Artists
Notes
The UK release has "GB" printed bottom-right on the back cover above the E. J. Day imprint.The label indicates "Made in England".
Sleeve reads PR 22 labels reads SPR 22.
Some have STEREO sticker on back.
Track B3 on this recording does not appear on the reissue CD.
Side A
A1 From the LP "John Wesley Harding" S 63252
A2 From the LP "Wow" S 63271
A3 From the LP "Spirit" S 63278
A4 From the LP "The United States Of America" S 63340
A5 From the LP "Odessey & Oracle" S 63280
A6 From the LP "The Great Conspiracy" S 63277
A7 From the LP "The Songs Of Leonard Cohen" S 63241
Side B
B1 From the LP "Child Is Father To The Man" S 63296
B2 From the LP "The Notorious Byrd Brothers" S 63169
B3 From the LP "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme" S 62860
B4 From the LP "Taj Mahal" S 8-63279
B5 From the LP "A Long Time Comin'" S 63294
B6 From the LP "Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith" S 63184
B7 From the LP "Tim Rose" S 63168
B8 From the LP "Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera" S 8-63300
The Rock Machine Turns You On was the first bargain priced sampler album. It was released in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, The Netherlands, Germany and a number of other European countries in 1968 as part of an international marketing campaign by Columbia Records, who were known in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as CBS.
As part of its highly successful campaign,[4] CBS Records released The Rock Machine Turns You On, the first budget sampler LP,[5] in the UK in 1968. The album was priced at 14 shillings and 11 pence (£0.75), less than half the cost of a full priced LP at the time.[6] It entered the UK Albums Chart in June 1969, several months after its first release, rising to no. 18,[7] and was estimated to have sold over 140,000 copies.[8]
The Rock Machine Turns You On influenced a generation of music fans.[9][10] At the time, what was then called "underground music" was starting to achieve some commercial success in Europe, bolstered by new radio and TV programmes such as John Peel's "Top Gear". CBS competed actively for this new market against other “progressive” labels such as Elektra, Island, Immediate, and the EMI subsidiary Harvest, who followed with similar samplers of their acts. Although some of the featured artists were already stars, others such as Leonard Cohen and Spirit were only starting to become known in Europe, and the album made a major contribution to their success.
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