Status Quo - Masters Collection (The Pye Years) (2xLP, Comp, Ltd, Num, Whi)

Media Condition: Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

Comments:
sealed!

General notes about this release (please note: our version may differ a little. see the comments above):
Limited to 2500 copies issued in a gatefold cover. Records housed in black poly-lined inner sleeves. All together in a PVC protective sleeve. Hype sticker: The early Quo collection. Includes A's & B's and all kind of rarities from the Pye years. Rear cover & labels: Originally released ℗ & © 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd, a BMG company. Manufactured & distributed by Music On Vinyl B.V. 2021 under exclusive license from BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. Made in the EU. Inside cover: Vinyl mastering: Rinus Hooning at Record Industry B.V. A1 - The first single to feature any of the musicians who later became Status Quo and their debut for Pye subsidiary Piccadilly. It was an Italian song given English lyrics by Leiber & Stoller. Originally recorded for Ben E. King and a top ten hit for Shirley Bassey. A2 - B-side to I (Who Have Nothing), Neighbour-Neighbour is a blues standard written by Alton Valier and first performed by R&B singer Charles Berry in the US. The Spectres were just beaten to a UK cover by The Graham Bond Organisation. A3 - Not the Donovan song, but the first recorded Spectres composition credited to a band member, in this case bassist Alan Lancaster, "assisted" by manager Patrick Barlow, who had in fact bought his share of the song from another writer. A4 - Another Lancaster/Barlow credited composition and the b-side to Hurdy Gurdy Man. The co-writer was actually Rick Parfitt, although not a member of the band at the time. A5 - The third and last Spectres single, this time a song originally written and recorded by New York psychedelic band and one hit wonders, The Blue Magoos. A huge success in the US, it didn't chart in the UK. As with the first two Spectres releases, it failed to trouble the charts. A6 - A multiple writing credit here for Lancaster, Rossi, Coghlan and keyboard player Roy Lynes, who by this time had replaced original member Jess Jaworski. A7 - Having discovered psychedelia, the band adopted the name Traffic but were forced to change it to Traffic Jam to avoid confusion with Steve Winwood's Traffic. Banned by the BBC because the lyrics, written about a woman's sexual fulfilment, were "too suggestive". A8 - The first individual band composition to feature on a record, Wait Just A Minute was a Roy Lynes song in the style of The Hollies or The Bee Gees and certainly not indicative of the way the bands musical horizons would be changing. B1 - Another name change, this time to The Status Quo, saw the band move to the main Pye imprint and enjoy their first hit single with this psychedelic song taken from Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo, reaching number seven in the UK and number twelve in the US. B2 - Originally intended to be the a-side of Pictures Of Matchstick Men it was written by Bob Young, hired as road manager and occasional harmonica player and over the years, an important songwriting partner for the band. B3 - Another Francis Rossi solo composition, similar in every way to Pictures Of Matchstick Men but unfortunately not as comercially successful. B4 - Written by organist Roy Lynes, who also performed the vocals. The song was not included on Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo. B5 - Ice In The Sun, penned by Marty Wilde (father of Kim) and writing partner Ronnie Scott, put the band back in the charts and was the band's second hit climbing to number eight in the UK. B6 - A first recorded duel writing credit for Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, then known as Ricky. B7 - Technicolour Dreams, written by Anthony King, was scheduled and then quickly withdrawn in the UK by Pye due to "marketing concerns", whatever they might have been! Original 7" copies fetch a healthy price. B8 - B-side to Technicolour Dreams, Paradise Flat was written by Marty Wilde and Ronnie Scott. C1 - The last single as The Status Quo (subsequent releases would drop "The"), Make Me Stay A Little Longer was a Rossi/Parfitt song, which despite favourable reviews, didn't trouble the chart compilers. C2 - Another Alan Lancaster written b-side that wouldn't receive an album release until 1987. C3 - The first single as Status Quo, was a ballad written by Anthony King and the first Quo track to feature Rick Parfitt taking a lead vocal. The song was later covered by Nancy Sinatra. C4 - Once again, Alan Lancaster was on b-side duty, this time with a song take from the Spare Parts album. C5 - The Price Of Love is an Everly Brothers hit from 1965, written by Phil and Don. Due to public demand it was released as a single after the band performed at the NME poll winners concert. The first Quo release to feature Bob Young on harmonica. C6 - A Rossi/Parfitt composition featured on the Spare Parts album. C7 - Released as a non-album single in March 1970, the song was written by Australian singer-songwriter Carl Groszmann (who performed as Carl Keats) and to quote Francis Rossi, "was the first to feature our soon-to-be trademark boogie shuffle". Once again featuring Bob Young. D1 - Face without A Soul was another Rossi/Parfitt song and lifted from the previously released Spare Parts. D2 - Written in one afternoon by Rossi and Bob Young in the kitchen of the formers family home and allegedly recorded in two takes, its release was supported by a Pye advertising campaign proclaiming, "a wolf in sheep's clothing". Number twenty one in the UK. D3 - Gerdundula, written by Manston and James, was made up from the names of two German friends Gerd "und" (and) his girlfriend Ula. The band later re-recorded it for Dog Of Two Head. D4 - Tune To The Music was Quo's last "official" single to be released while the band were signed to Pye before they moved to Vertigo and was written by Francis Rossi and Bob Young. The track was another non-album release. D5 - Good Thinking was basically a blues jam composed by the band and recorded live in the studio and was the first Quo instrumental comitted to vinyl. Also released under the extended title of Good Thinking Batman-Jam in 1981. D6 - Quo's first release on Vertigo, Paper Plane was a huge success and Pye decided to cash in with Mean Girl, a Rossi and Young composition taken from the Dog Of Two Head album. The strategy worked and it spent eleven weeks in the UK chart. D7 - B-side to Mean Girl. Also taken from Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon, the last album to feature Roy Lynes. Runouts are stamped.

A1. The Spectres (2) - I (Who Have Nothing) 3:00
A2. The Spectres (2) - Neighbour, Neighbour 2:43
A3. The Spectres (2) - Hurdy Gurdy Man 3:15
A4. The Spectres (2) - Laticia 3:01
A5. The Spectres (2) - (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet 2:17
A6. The Spectres (2) - I Want It 3:03
A7. The Traffic Jam (2) - Almost But Not Quite There 2:45
A8. The Traffic Jam (2) - Wait Just A Minute 2:14
B1. Status Quo - Pictures Of Matchstick Men 3:18
B2. Status Quo - Gentlemen Joe’s Sidewalk Café 2:58
B3. Status Quo - Black Veils Of Melancholy 3:13
B4. Status Quo - To Be Free 2:37
B5. Status Quo - Ice In The Sun 2:10
B6. Status Quo - When My Mind Is Not Live 3:02
B7. Status Quo - Technicolour Dreams 2:53
B8. Status Quo - Paradise Flat 3:15
C1. Status Quo - Make Me Stay A Bit Longer 2:55
C2. Status Quo - Auntie Nellie 3:21
C3. Status Quo - Are You Growing Tired Of My Love 3:34
C4. Status Quo - So Ends Another Life 3:36
C5. Status Quo - The Price Of Love 3:42
C6. Status Quo - Little Miss Nothing 3:02
C7. Status Quo - Down The Dustpipe 2:04
D1. Status Quo - Face Without A Soul 3:10
D2. Status Quo - In My Chair 3:13
D3. Status Quo - Gerdundula 3:52
D4. Status Quo - Tune To The Music 3:07
D5. Status Quo - Good Thinking 3:40
D6. Status Quo - Mean Girl 3:55
D7. Status Quo - Everything 2:35

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Rights Society BIEM/STEMRA
Barcode 8 719262 018952
Matrix / Runout 32151 1A MOVLP2870
Matrix / Runout 32151 1B MOVLP2870
Matrix / Runout 32151 1C MOVLP2870
Matrix / Runout 32151 1D MOVLP2870

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