Sunday, October 28, 2012

Leave Home – the first pressings

It's not easy to sort out all the different pressings of the LP's. This is an attempt to list the first pressings of Leave Home, an album that came out in far more countries than the first LP. On top of that there is the Carbona not glue-controversy, when the record company replaced the song to avoid a lawsuit. Although the song did come out in most countries. The oddest release is perhaps the spanish, where the record company chosed to remove Now I wanna be a good boy, instead of Carbona note glue, and replace it with Sheena is a punk rocker! 

First pressings of Leave Home:

Country: US  
Sire SA 7528         
Year: 1977      
Notes: With Carbona and inner sleeve with lyrics. Rereleased as SR 6031 with Sheena the same year.








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Country: UK  
Sire 9103 254  
Year: 1977  
Notes: With Carbona and inner sleeve with lyrics. Phonogram distribution. Rereleased with the same record number and distribution but with Babysitter the same year without mention the song on the cover. Released a third time after that with Warner distribution, Babysitter listed on label and cover and the year 1976 printed on the label!




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Country: Holland     
Philips 6370 809  
Year: 1977  
Notes: With Carbona. Phonogram distribution.




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Country: Spain        
Philips 6370 812  
Year: 1977  
Notes: With Carbona & Sheena, no Good boy. Phonogram distribution. Rereleased in 1980 as Sire 60.463 with Sheena.






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Country: Germany  
Philips 6370 809  
Year: 1977  
Notes: Carbona + sticker on cover. Lyrics sheet. Rereleased as Sire 26 436 XOT with Sheena some year later.





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Country: Canada  
Sire/GRT 9147-7528 
Year: 1977 
Notes: With Carbona and inner with lyrics. Rereleased 77 or 78 as Sire QSR-6031 with Sheena.




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Country: Italy  
Sire SA 7528    
Year: 1977 (?)   
Notes: With Carbona in both a white label promo version and a the yellow label stock version. Rereleased in 1980 in the Best Buy-series (logo printed on the sleeve).




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Country: Portugal   
Sire SR 6031NP  
Year: 1978 (?) 
Notes: "Repacked-marked" with Sheena. 





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Country: New Zealand 
Philips 6370 809 
Year: 1977 
Notes: With Carbona, Phonogram distribution. The backside of the cover is white, not blue!





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Country: Australia   
Philips 6370 809 
Year: 1977 
Notes: With Carbona. Rereleased on Sire with Sheena and inner with lyrics around 78.




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Country: Japan 
Philips RJ-7208  
Year: 1977 
Notes: With Carbona. Inner sheet with lyrics and Obi. WLP and stock version.







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Country: Ireland 
Philips 9103 254  
Year: 1977 
Notes: with Babysitter and inner sleeve with lyrics.


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Country: Norway  
Philips 6370 809 
Year: 1977 
Notes: For the Scandinavian market. With Carbona. 




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Country: Mexico 
Philips LPR 15148 
Year: 1977 (?) 
Notes: With Carbona and Spanish titles on the back of the sleeve.






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Country: France       
Philips 9286 743  
Year: 1977  
Notes: With Carbona. Phonogram distribution.



2 comments:

  1. I have one that shows SA- 7528 on the cover and on the label. It appears to be an original pressing just like the top pictures of this post. However, the run out code has the reissue number of SR 6031. Very confused

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  2. I have one that shows SA- 7528 on the cover and on the label. It appears to be an original pressing just like the top pictures of this post. However, the run out code has the reissue number of SR 6031. Very confused. Another thing, it also shows that Commando's duration is 1:50 on the cover and the label, unlike in your picture it says 1:56 on the label.

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