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| "Secret Messages": 7" picture sleeves for the UK and Dutch markets ... |
Hello ... Hello ... my old friends ... It's great to see you once again! The advent of
ELO's seminal LP
"Secret Messages" [JETLX527] in the summer of 1983 [here in the UK] was marked by lead single
"Rock 'n' Roll Is King" [A3500] and another less noticed happening as it saw the familiar
'JET' prefix dropped from the catalogue number in lieu of the then standard CBS Records [UK]
'A' prefix. But that was not the case, at least initially, in Europe with
"Rock 'n' Roll Is King" assigned JET7034 and title track
"Secret Messages" [UK: A3720] also assigned JET7038. Later singles
"Four Little Diamonds" [A3869] and
"Stranger" [A4070] were evidently not assigned a formal JET prefix.
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| "Rock 'n' Roll Is King": A3500 and JET7034 ... |
However, quite by accident, I recently discovered a most unusual 'second' 7" issue of the UK edition of
"Secret Messages". It was an almost a duplicate of the original A3720 single but was numbered A7038 [without a JET prefix] with a large hole centre. This
'juke box' issue came in a picture sleeve citing JET7038 and was seemingly intended for the European market via Holland but the record itself was entirely
"made in England". The run-out area [as with the earlier
"Four Light Years" boxed set featured
here] has '3720' scratched out with '7038' etched alongside [see below], confirming its UK source.
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| A7038 was once A3720 ... |
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| "Secret Messages": A3720 and A7038 ... |
Hence, you can [hopefully] see that the thrill is still there for Yours Truly KJS here in 2015 when collecting and searching out
ELO and
Jet Records vinyl.
I really am an ELOnorak aren't I?
Until next "Time" in the ELO [and related] Universe ... KJS ... 16-Jan-2015
Also,the label went back to the 1977 "Jet" label,before it was corrected,for the "Out Of the Blue" Lp!
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