Showing posts with label Tower Records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tower Records. Show all posts

June 28, 2025

20,000 vinyl LPs 389: Pink Floyd ~ A Saucerful of Secrets

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vinyl LP front cover 
 cover design by Hipgnosis 
photo of album cover by Styrous®


On June 28, 1968, the second album by Pink FloydA Saucer Full of Secrets was released by EMI Columbia in the UK and in the US by Tower Records. I'm having a hard time realizing it was over fifty years ago! I didn't actually discover Pink Floyd until 1971 with their Meddle album. A Saucer Full of Secrets, was my second album purchase by the English rock band.             
 
    
 
 
 
 
vinyl LP front cover details 
 cover design by Hipgnosis 
detail photos of album cover by Styrous®
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
vinyl LP back cover 
 cover design by Hipgnosis 
photo of album cover by Styrous®
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
vinyl LP back cover details 
 cover design by Hipgnosis 
detail photos of album cover by Styrous®
 












 
   
Tracklist:
       
Side 1:
        
1 - Let There Be More Light, written by Roger Waters - 5:32
A2 - Remember A Day, written by Rick Wright* - 4:27
A3 - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, written by Roger Waters - 5:23
A4 - Corporal Clegg, written by Roger Waters - 4:07
       
Side 2:
       
B1 - A Saucerful Of Secrets, written by Gilmore*, Mason*, Wright*, Waters* - 11:52
B2 - See Saw, written by Rick Wright* - 4:30
B3 - Jugband Blues, written by Syd Barrett - 2:57
        
Companies, etc.
       
    Manufactured By – Capitol Records, Inc.
    Published By – Essex Music, Inc.
        
Credits:
       
    Producer – Norman Smith
       
Notes:
       
Second pressing from 1968, "MANUFACTURED IN THE U.S.A. BY CAPITOL RECORDS, INC." printed at the bottom edge of labels.

Rear jacket includes number, "6" in bottom right corner.
Other jacket text: "Printed in U.S.A." (in circle), "Manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc., a subsidiary of Capitol Industries, Inc., Hollywood and Vine Streets, Hollywood, Calif. · Factories: Scranton, PA., Los Angeles, Calif., Jacksonville, Ill."

Typos and misprints:
David Gilmour's last name is misspelled as, "Gilmore" on jacket and labels
Catalogue number shown on jacket is "ST-5131" with "ST 5131" shown on labels
Track B2 is titled, "See-Saw" on the jacket and "See Saw" on the label
       
Barcode and Other Identifiers
        
    Matrix / Runout (Side A, variant 1): ST1 5131
    Matrix / Runout (Side B, variant 1): ST2 5131
    Matrix / Runout (Side A, variant 2, etched): ST 1 - 5131
    Matrix / Runout (Side B, variant 2, etched): ST 2 - 5131
    Rights Society: ASCAP 
 
Pink Floyd – A Saucerful Of Secrets
Label: Tower – ST 5131, Tower – ST-5131
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1968
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock

         
Viewfinder links:        
        
David Gilmore        
        
Rick Wright         
        
Net links:        
        
         
        
        
         
        
        
YouTube links:        
        
Let There Be More Light          
Remember A Day           
Corporal Clegg                  
A Saucerful Of Secrets         
See Saw           
Jugband Blues           
        
         
        
        
        
Styrous® ~ Saturday, June 28, 2025        
       
 
 















October 18, 2015

all things Pink (Floyd)

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Dark Side of the Moon                 
Pulse CD       
Wish You Were Here        

        

blue glass Division Bell
photo by Styrous®
mentions:         

The Beatles ~ Revolver        
David Bowie ~ The Man Who Stole the World's Heart       
David Bowie ~ Pin Ups                
Chrisma ~ Chinese Restaurant          
Depeche Mode ~ Master & Servant      
Flaming Lips ~ Zaireeka              
King Crimson ~ Discipline            
Like "Picasso at the Lapin Agile"
      
Paul McCartney ‎~ Flowers In The Dirt    
McKendree Spring ~ Tracks          
Tower Records ~ All Things Must Pass: a blast from the past     
         

Green links in the articles lead to more information about the article.























June 3, 2015

Tower Records ~ All Things Must Pass: a blast from the past

Bay and Columbus streets
photographer unknown


From KQED News: "The rise and fall of Tower Records is the subject of the new documentary All Things Must Pass.” Scott Shafer of KQED's The California Report interviewed the film’s director, Colin Hanks (link below). 

I remember the many delightful hours I spent in the Tower Records store at Bay and Columbus streets in San Francisco and where I bought many of my records, in particular, in 1994 or 1995, my Pink Floyd, The Division Bell, limited edition (there were only 1,000 issued) CD with the blue glass bell that came with it. I still have the whole special packaging in the original Tower bag it came in (link below).     

The Pink Floyd, Division Bell CD package 
in the original Tower bag
photo by Styrous®

The Pink Floyd, The Division Bell 
blue glass bell
photo by Styrous®

   

All Things Must Pass screens at San Francisco’s DocFest, tomorrow, June 4, 2015, at 8 PM at the Brava Theater. There will be a QA with the director, after which there will be drinks and live music by Thee Hobo Gobbelins and The Chuckleberries!    

Tower was founded in 1960 by Russell Solomon in Sacramento, California. The store was named after his father's drugstore, which shared a building and name with the Tower Theater, where Solomon first started selling records. The first Tower Records store was opened in 1960 on Watt Avenue in Sacramento. By 1976, Solomon had opened Tower Books, Posters, and Plants at 1600 Broadway, next door to Tower Records. It was also one of the first retailers to move online in 1995 as Tower.com   

Seven years after its founding, Tower Records expanded to San Francisco, opening a store in what was originally a grocery store.   



Pink Floyd ~ The Division Bell CD         
   
The Tower Records Project (It was more than music) 
             
The California Report interview



Styrous® ~ Wednesday, June 3, 2015 

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