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Just bought this off ebay. A couple of points and a question.

It seems that this pic sleeve was put together before any NEW (ie 1973) photos were available - hence the Marvin, Welch & Farrar pics and the 1969 pic of BB!!! Never seen this before.

And this is the reverse of the pic sleeve.

I spent all day yesterday scratching my head and trying to work out the reason for the little cut-out song titles and group name at the top. Can this have been for use in a jukebox? If so, I have NEVER come across such a thing before! And it took me all day to come up with that theory...!!!

(I suspect the word 'Binnenkort' suggests that both the LP and the photos were forthcoming...)

The photos of Hank, Bruce and John Farrar were obviously cropped from existing promo photographs of M,W & F.

The picture of Brian, on the other hand, is older by at least a year, maybe more. It's a detail from a 1969 publicity photograph for the Hawkshaw line-up. The original photo was a quartered compilation of the Marvin/Bennett/Rostill/Hawkshaw heads, with one or two looking a bit dishevelled.

Can't find it on line with obvious search-terms, but here's the Hawkshaw part:



PS: Yes - that's the cut-out for use in a juke-box. The ides was little used in the UK because we almost never (not quite absolutely never, but pretty nearly never) had singles with picture sleeves.

Thanks folks.

Another BRILLIANT 1969 pic of the Marvin/Bennett/Rostill/Hawkshaw line up can be found near the top of my recent article on the Shadows of the Seventies, to be found on MC's website! Forgive the plug!!!

(Yes, most of the pic sleeves for Shads singles of the early-mid Seventies that I have found have been from almost anywhere and everywhere apart from the UK!!!)

It looks like the same session produced both photos, Chris.

Or maybe that should strictly be "all five", given that the better-known one was four pictures stitched into one.

drakula63 wrote:And this is the reverse of the pic sleeve.

I spent all day yesterday scratching my head and trying to work out the reason for the little cut-out song titles and group name at the top. Can this have been for use in a jukebox? If so, I have NEVER come across such a thing before! And it took me all day to come up with that theory...!!!

(I suspect the word 'Binnenkort' suggests that both the LP and the photos were forthcoming...)

Hi Chris,

You are absolutely right with your guess. The cut-out piece is thought for use in jukeboxes. They can be found sometimes on single sleeves from Germany and at least also Holland (where this single comes from).
However, more often the record companies provided these jukebox inserts to the suppliers of records for jukeboxes in tear-off stripes for easy use. I cannot imagine any supplier cutting out these inserts. They had blank ones and filled them out by hand.

'Binnenkort' is Dutch and means 'shortly' as you presumed.

Best wishes,

Ulrich

Thanks.

Yeah, an interesting practice, not followed over here in the UK to my knowledge. Nice to have found such an example or I would never have been aware of it.

(The record sounds great too!!!!)

drakula63 wrote:And this is the reverse of the pic sleeve.

I spent all day yesterday scratching my head and trying to work out the reason for the little cut-out song titles and group name at the top. Can this have been for use in a jukebox? If so, I have NEVER come across such a thing before! And it took me all day to come up with that theory...!!!

(I suspect the word 'Binnenkort' suggests that both the LP and the photos were forthcoming...)

"Binnenkort de elpee Rockin' with Curly Leads" indeed means "Available soon, the LP "Rockin' With Curly Leads"" or more loosely translated "From the forthcoming LP "Rockin' With Curly Leads"".