Update History 2014

UPDATE HISTORY
2014

AUGUST

AUGUST 28:

Promo "Theme/Mary, Mary" from Germany.

All I've been finding lately are these promotional records.
I like the ones with the unique labels, such as Japan, Germany, UK (the giant A), USA & the Philippines.
Some countries just put a sticker or a stamp on the label and a few didn't issue any at all.

AUGUST 26:

Found a seller who had some uncut jukebox strips for
Daydream Believer, Valleri & D. W. Washburn:

and my other two, Pleasant Valley Sunday and Oh My My:

I don't know how many people collect these, but I've always liked them
and the uncut sheets are pretty hard to find.

AUGUST 24:

I finally picked up some LPs from Canada; Pisces & Instant Replay:

Scanning ebay I've come across 3 variations in the Canadian LP jackets for the first LP:

Type 1: "Papa Jean's Blues" (misspelled) with "Colgems" in red

Type 2: "Papa Gene's Blues" (corrected) with "Colgems" in red

Type 3: "Papa Gene's Blues (corrected) with "RCA Victor" in red

As far as I can tell all the pressings have "Papa Jean's Blues" misspelled on the reverse jacket.

AUGUST 23:

"More Of The Monkees" from France:

It looks like the French only released the first 5 LPs. I've never seen
French versions of Instant Replay or Head. Although I would think Head
would have played France, because they seem to like really crazy movies.

AUGUST 21:

2 promos from Japan:

Star Collector/No Time

Valleri/Tapioca Tundra

Promotional records from Japan (and Australia) were not pressed
in great quantities and today are very hard to find.

AUGUST 13:

Added a page in the LP section detailing all the Colgems jacket variations.

I got pics for 24 different jackets: including the misspelling of "Papa Jean's Blues" (stereo & mono),
the Beard photo on HQ (stereo & mono), the Colgems circle symbol in later pressings on the first 2 LPs,
correcting Gerry Goffin's name on Head, the black and brown cover for "Greatest Hits"
plus all the regular stereo & mono pressings.

If you are a hard core fan you've got 'em all!

AUGUST 12:

An Australia promo of Nez's Texas Morning/Tumbling Tumbleweeds.

The label says "Texas Morning" but in fact the song is "I Looked Away"!
The catalog number on the label (ZPKS-8497) matches
what is stamped in the dead wax, so it would seem somebody at RCA
sent the wrong tape to the pressing plant and no one caught it.

I need to find out if anyone else has this record to see if they ever corrected this mistake.

AUGUST 7:

Found all 3 promos of the Nesmith produced records on the Dot label:

Bill Chadwick:

The B-side "If You Had The Time" was co-written by Davy and he recorded it
for the "Monkees Present" LP, but it didn't see release until "Missing Links Vol. 1"
(Sorry Mike, but Davy's version is better)

Corvettes:

I'm just missing the stock copies of the Corvettes; they are hard to find!

AUGUST 5:

Found a nice copy of Davy's "Rainy Jane" from Portugal:

and a Bell Records ad with a small pic of his LP:

AUGUST 4:

Completed the album section with pictures from all 28 nations that released
the Monkees. From the time I started collecting 8 years ago, every time an LP
would appear on ebay I would grab the pic; so basically most of these pics
are from past ebay sales, as I have only collected LPs from 18 countries (so far).
Right now I'm just listing the RCA/Colgems releases, except for Japan & the USA.
There is also a link on each country page.

Some interesting foreign LP sleeves:

Uruguay