Sunflower Album

[silodweller]

Alan Boyd on Cotton Fields:

"...COTTON FIELDS was never intended to be included on an album, although EMI - which had distribution rights in Europe for the first two Brother Records albums on their Stateside label - saw fit to add the song to their initial release of SUNFLOWER, and somebody at Stateside took a mono single master, made it duophonic (yecch) and it appeared as the first song on side one of the European Stateside Records SUNFLOWER."

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,1203.msg26330.html#msg26330

Re the Edition you have - go to Discogs, and type in the album title + any other barcodes or industrial type markings you can see (in the deadwax etc).  Perhaps you have this edition:

Beach Boys, The ‎– Sunflower
Label: Caribou Records ‎– CRB 31773
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1980

Hi Alan,
Yes indeed, the one you have listed above is the exact copy I have.  Okay, that clears that up.  Anyway, I listened to it for the first time yesterday and I have to say, it sounds lovely.  It's a great copy just in itself; the fact that whoever had the vinyl before I laid my hands on it, really took care of it. 
Thanks again for the assistance!

[Dave Modny]

Alan Boyd on Cotton Fields:

"...COTTON FIELDS was never intended to be included on an album, although EMI - which had distribution rights in Europe for the first two Brother Records albums on their Stateside label - saw fit to add the song to their initial release of SUNFLOWER, and somebody at Stateside took a mono single master, made it duophonic (yecch) and it appeared as the first song on side one of the European Stateside Records SUNFLOWER."

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,1203.msg26330.html#msg26330

Re the Edition you have - go to Discogs, and type in the album title + any other barcodes or industrial type markings you can see (in the deadwax etc).  Perhaps you have this edition:

Beach Boys, The ‎– Sunflower
Label: Caribou Records ‎– CRB 31773
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1980

Hi Alan,
Yes indeed, the one you have listed above is the exact copy I have.  Okay, that clears that up.  Anyway, I listened to it for the first time yesterday and I have to say, it sounds lovely.  It's a great copy just in itself; the fact that whoever had the vinyl before I laid my hands on it, really took care of it. 
Thanks again for the assistance!

Again, the 1980 reissue doesn't have Cottonfields listed on the cover, or included at all for that matter, and you noted in your first post that your cover did (yet your vinyl didn't). As I suggested earlier, is it possible that you simply have an earlier UK or Euro, Stateside or Odeon cover mated with the '80 reissue UK CBS/Caribou vinyl?

Or...does your release look entirely like this? This is the cover and the vinyl from that noted 1980 UK CBS/Caribou release. No Cottonfields at all: 



http://www.lukpac.org/~dave/sunflowerukoverview.jpg

http://www.lukpac.org/~dave/sunflowerukoverviewback.jpg

http://www.lukpac.org/~dave/sunfloweruklabel1.jpg

[Don Malcolm]

Wasn't the Sunflower UK version with "Cottonfields" and the inversion of "Deirdre/GTKTW" also issued as a double-LP set with Surf's Up? Alan B. mentions the single LP version, but I seem to recall having a copy of the double-LP set way back then...

[Dave Modny]

Wasn't the Sunflower UK version with "Cottonfields" and the inversion of "Deirdre/GTKTW" also issued as a double-LP set with Surf's Up? Alan B. mentions the single LP version, but I seem to recall having a copy of the double-LP set way back then...

Yes, indeed it was. With black Stateside labels. Another one that I parted with...many moons ago. 

[silodweller]

Alan Boyd on Cotton Fields:

"...COTTON FIELDS was never intended to be included on an album, although EMI - which had distribution rights in Europe for the first two Brother Records albums on their Stateside label - saw fit to add the song to their initial release of SUNFLOWER, and somebody at Stateside took a mono single master, made it duophonic (yecch) and it appeared as the first song on side one of the European Stateside Records SUNFLOWER."

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,1203.msg26330.html#msg26330

Re the Edition you have - go to Discogs, and type in the album title + any other barcodes or industrial type markings you can see (in the deadwax etc).  Perhaps you have this edition:

Beach Boys, The ‎– Sunflower
Label: Caribou Records ‎– CRB 31773
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1980

Hi Alan,
Yes indeed, the one you have listed above is the exact copy I have.  Okay, that clears that up.  Anyway, I listened to it for the first time yesterday and I have to say, it sounds lovely.  It's a great copy just in itself; the fact that whoever had the vinyl before I laid my hands on it, really took care of it.  
Thanks again for the assistance!

Again, the 1980 reissue doesn't have Cottonfields listed on the cover, or included at all for that matter, and you noted in your first post that your cover did (yet your vinyl didn't). As I suggested earlier, is it possible that you simply have an earlier UK or Euro, Stateside or Odeon cover mated with the '80 reissue UK CBS/Caribou vinyl?

Or...does your release look entirely like this? This is the cover and the vinyl from that noted 1980 UK CBS/Caribou release. No Cottonfields at all:  



http://www.lukpac.org/~dave/sunflowerukoverview.jpg

http://www.lukpac.org/~dave/sunflowerukoverviewback.jpg

http://www.lukpac.org/~dave/sunfloweruklabel1.jpg

No, not the same cover.  Like you said, someone has obviously placed the 1980 Caribou pressing into an older UK or European gatefold cover.  

[Dave Modny]

Alan Boyd on Cotton Fields:

"...COTTON FIELDS was never intended to be included on an album, although EMI - which had distribution rights in Europe for the first two Brother Records albums on their Stateside label - saw fit to add the song to their initial release of SUNFLOWER, and somebody at Stateside took a mono single master, made it duophonic (yecch) and it appeared as the first song on side one of the European Stateside Records SUNFLOWER."

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,1203.msg26330.html#msg26330

Re the Edition you have - go to Discogs, and type in the album title + any other barcodes or industrial type markings you can see (in the deadwax etc).  Perhaps you have this edition:

Beach Boys, The ‎– Sunflower
Label: Caribou Records ‎– CRB 31773
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1980

Hi Alan,
Yes indeed, the one you have listed above is the exact copy I have.  Okay, that clears that up.  Anyway, I listened to it for the first time yesterday and I have to say, it sounds lovely.  It's a great copy just in itself; the fact that whoever had the vinyl before I laid my hands on it, really took care of it.  
Thanks again for the assistance!

Again, the 1980 reissue doesn't have Cottonfields listed on the cover, or included at all for that matter, and you noted in your first post that your cover did (yet your vinyl didn't). As I suggested earlier, is it possible that you simply have an earlier UK or Euro, Stateside or Odeon cover mated with the '80 reissue UK CBS/Caribou vinyl?

Or...does your release look entirely like this? This is the cover and the vinyl from that noted 1980 UK CBS/Caribou release. No Cottonfields at all:  



http://www.lukpac.org/~dave/sunflowerukoverview.jpg

http://www.lukpac.org/~dave/sunflowerukoverviewback.jpg

http://www.lukpac.org/~dave/sunfloweruklabel1.jpg

No, not the same cover.  Like you said, someone has obviously placed the 1980 Caribou pressing into an older UK or European gatefold cover.  

Cool...thanks for the reply! I'm always just interested in knowing if there's some other rare/undocumented issue of the album -- however bizarre it might be, or even if it's a mispressing. Good to know that isn't the case here!