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
Taiwan
Colombia
Peru
AUGUST 1:
The 'Pisces' LP from South Africa:
Just like the singles, no where on the sleeve or label does it say South Africa.
Fortunately they used a unique numbering system.
This LP is in mono and sounds like it has the same mix as the USA version.