Description The summer had inhaled and held it's breath too long, The winter looked the same, as if it never had gone, And through an open window where no curtain hung, I saw you, I saw you coming back to me.   One begins to read between the pages of a book, The shape of sleepy music, and suddenly you're hooked, Through the rain upon the trees, the kisses on the run, I saw you, I saw you coming back to me.   You came to stay and live my way, Scatter my love like leaves in the wind, You always say you won't go away, But I know what it always has been, it always has been.   A transparent dream beneath an occasional sigh, Most of the time I just let it go by, Now I wish it hadn't begun, I saw you, yes, I saw you coming back to me.   Strolling the hills, overlooking the shore, I realised I've been there before, The shadow in the mist could have been anyone, I saw you, I saw you coming back to me.   Small things like reasons are put in a jar, Whatever happened to wished wished upon a star? Was it just something that I made up for fun? I saw you, I saw you coming back to me. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE: "Surrealistic Pillow" LP, MID-1970's UK PRESSING, TEXTURED ORANGE RCA LABEL. A very complex pressing in the UK, first issued in 1967 when Decca were the first to issue "Surrealistic Pillow", but released in 1966 in America.  Next Pye took over in 1969, coinciding with the introduction of the orange RCA Victor label, a few years later when this record was pressed in the early 1970's, there was a positive link to that very first orange RCA Victor label.   Side 1 still has 'T2PY - 9332 - 1 C' machine stamped exactly how it was first seen in 1969, around five years ago I sold that pressing on ebay and way back when we traded at record fairs as well.  A transitional record because Side 2 has a different format hand scribed with; 'T2PP -  9336 - B - 3E'.  Note how Side A is not even an orange RCA label Side identification, 'A' is missing, Side 2 does have the letter 'B.'  The orange label design ran between 1969 -1979, then it became black and silver, I will give my conclusion   underneath the maitrix, no speculation or guess work, but solid experience in the era itself and ever since. TEXTURED ORANGE RCA LABEL: SF 7889 MAITRIX:  T2PY - 9332 - 1 C  (machine stamped)  / T2PP -  9336 - B - 3E  (hand scribed) The very first orange RCA label pressing of "Surrealistic Pillow" had this maitrix: 'T2PY - 9332 - 1 C / T2PP - 9336 - 1 C,' so Side 1 of this 70's pressing was sourced from the 1969 metal stamping disc, as only a few copies were made in the 1970's decade.   I'm certain the 1969 first orange label records were made by Decca, who pressed and distributed the 1967 black RCA label first   UK "Surrealistic Pillow. " I have several reasons for that, the 1969 orange label does not even remotely resemble a Pye pressing.   Pye pressed all the orange label records for RCA right from 1969, when "Bless It's Little Pointed Head," Jefferson Airplane's live   album, was released in June, 1969 exclusively on the orange labels and Pye naturally pressed the records. On the same new label,   the first "Surrealistic Pillow" records retained the 1967 Decca maitrix format. Decca did use the letter 'C' ending on singles, but   Pye never did for any of their records, nor did they use the above 'T2PY' prefix. ALSO HAND SCRIBED IN THE RUN-OUT GROOVES:   (SF 7889) SIDE 1: 'W'   SIDE 2: A2T ORIGINAL 1978 RCA INNER SLEEVE, THIS HAS THEIR COPYRIGHT AND LONDON ADDRESS ETC.   SOME HAD A  MANUFACTURING  DATE, THIS DID NOT.   THE 1970's RCA INNER SLEEVES WERE WHITE AND   SQUARE SHAPED, WITHOUT CURVED CORNERS AND A CENTRAL DIE-CUT HOLE TO SEE THE LABEL THROUGH.   THE RECORD HAS NEVER BEEN PLAYED OR TAKEN  OUT OF THE COVER,  LIGHTLY AGED,NOT TORN, UNUSED AND UNSPLIT.  A RECORD IMPRESSION AND A FEW RELATED LIGHT CREASES, IN EXCELLENT++++  CONDITION. 1978 UK PRINTED "Surrealistic Pillow"  MATT COVER , PRINTED BY 'Clout & Baker Ltd.' The back top right has a 1970's 'GG' Price Code, unused and perfectly stored, there is no wear to detail, just a touch of natural   ageing to the untreated, matt cardboard. The spine has perfectly clear unworn printing, just a few ripples on the spine, the usual   record impression with a few related ripples, the unused opening edges are outstanding, so are the corners and edges.   Like the front panel, the back does not have any scuffs or scrapes to the black printing, some natural ageing here but minimal. I do tend to grade inner sleeves and covers much too severely, I feel that is unfair when an unplayed Mint record is inside, but   by doing that, when they arrive in the post I would rather my customers find they are much better than expected. THE UNUSED COVER IS IN EXCELLENT++++ NEAR MINT CONDITION.   BOTH TEXTURED LABELS ARE IMMACULATE WITHOUT ANY ALIGNMENT TRACES, THERE ARE NO PLAYING MARKS ON THE DEEPLY GLOSSY RECORD.   RCA 1970's RECORDS ALWAYS HAVE SOME FORM OF FACTORY HANDLING, MORE LIKE FROM THE METAL STAMPING DISCS, I FEEL OBLIGED TO STATE THAT BUT IT'S ABSURD FOR UNPLAYED VINYL. THE RECORD IS IN UNPLAYED MINT CONDITION. SIDE 1 "My Best Friend" (Skip Spence) "3/5 OF A Mile In 10 Seconds" (Marty Balin) "D.C.B.A. -25" (Paul Kantner) "How Do You Feel" (Tom Mastin) "Embryonic Journey" (Jorma Kaukonen) "Don't Slip Away" (Marty Balin / Skip Spence) SIDE 2 "Come Up The Years" (Marty Balin / Paul Kantner) "Chauffer Blues" (Melrose) "Today" (Marty Balin / Paul Kantner) "How Do You Feel" (Tom Mastin) "Embryonic Journey" (Jorma Kaukonen) "Comin' Back To Me" (Marty Balin) "Somebody To Love" (Grace Slick) Marty Balin - vocals & guitar Grace Slick - vocals, piano, organ & recorder Paul Kantner - rhythm guitar & vocals Jorma Kaukonen - lead guitar & vocals Jack Casady - bass, fuzz bass & rhythm guitar Spencer Dryden - drums & percussion Recorded October & November, 1966, In RCA's 'Music Center Of The World,' Hollywood, California. Sound Engineer - David Hassinger  Produced By Rick Jarrard Whenever possible I always try to give a precise pressing date, in this case I am taking into account the vinyl itself, indexing   and mastering details in the run-out grooves, the label format and paper used, the inner sleeve and the cover.  I feel this is   earlier than the given 'mid-1970's' and this pressing and printing were from late 1972 - 1973.  I decided 'mid-1970's' would be   more cautious, mostly because there is no difference between being 42 or 44 years of age for the vinyl or the softly textured   orange RCA labels.  With such a strong connection to the 1969 first orange RCA label, late 1972 - 1973 is not exactly a wild   guess, having established the approximate date of the pressing, I will concentrate on the details about the UK pressing, as   a 1967 released UK LP, that will have to focus on the 1967 first pressing.  This is really about the RCA label and how the orange   label took over from the black and silver RCA label and detailing the connection to both 1967 and 1969. That is there to see on   this record's transitional stamping on Side 1, so the history of the UK pressings over a few years could not be more appropriate. I will respect this ultimate condition record and leave it how it has remained for at least last 42 years, unplayed. The September,1966 debut Jefferson Airplane album,"Takes Off," was only issued in the USA with the original track configuration, reaching No.128 in the American charts, for a British release another 5 years passed before it was finally issued here in 1971. The first ever Jefferson Airplane LP released in the UK was this, their second album, "Surrealistic Pillow" in 1967, it was common   practice during the 60's for British albums to have original track configurations changed when released in the USA, so different tracks, LP titles and even the cover artwork was often re-designed.  The reverse happened here because of how often the artists were initially unknown outside their own country, or key tracks like non album singles were considered more suitable and were substituted for original tracks in order to create a more accessable albums.  There is no question that even today, recognition of   just one track tips the balance between buying an album, I'm not into downloading music but realise how such tracks are selected and the age of self chosen compilations is established.  Personally If I love a track I naturally want to hear the whole album, I   I am discussing the 60's here and singles were a dominant format and it was possible to have a No.1 yet a current album sold so poorly it failed to even enter the charts, cue the Kinks! Once a debut album had tracks altered,re-shuffling inevitably continued onto subsequent albums, in the end it took several albums before original configurations were left unchanged, the best example that in reverse are the American Beatles and Rolling Stones albums.  The UK RCA version of "Surrealistic Pillow" differed to the original American RCA issue because "Takes Off" was totally unknown here in 1967, songs such as the most psychedelic, surreal of them all, the "Alice In Wonderland" inspired "White Rabbit" was not even included on the UK album.   A very strange decision because the normal pattern of singles acting as an aid to selling the album was not followed, very like a promo would pave the way for advance publicity.  It might seem like a mistaken choice as a track to replace but in England "White Rabbit" completely failed to sell in the UK and was virtually unknown here throughout the 1960's,  I cannot explain that one!  Another reason not to release "Takes Off "and begin the chain of events that lead to altered tracks on this UK first pressing of "Surrealistic Pillow," had to be the direct result of Grace Slick not yet being a Jefferson Airplane band member when the debut albums was recorded   in 1966.  She was in The Great Society, a band in San Francisco who recorded and released the first version of her composition,   "Someone To Love," when Signe Toly Anderson, the original female vocalist who sang on "Takes Off," left Jefferson Airplane,   Grace Slick was invited to fill her place.  They also 'inherited' two major Grace slick compositions that would become succesful   as singles, the slightly re-titled "Somebody To Love" and of course one of the greatest psychedelic/acid songs, "White Rabbit." Jefferson Airplane now experienced national exposure and success in America and Grace Slick a female icon in rock music, in an era when women rarely achieved that honour.  When "Surrealistic Pillow" was released in America with Grace Slick on the cover in February, 1967, a long chart residency peaked at No.3 and sold over one million copies, what a difference a new lead vocalist made!   That kind of success prompted the release of this, the first Jefferson Airplane album in Britain, with the new line-up, it was in effect a debut album.  We had a very similar happening here with Fairport Convention when Sandy Denny replaced Judy Dyble who has sung lead vocals ion a debut album that hardly made a ripple.   With Sandy's arrival in 1968 the impact was immense,   if not immediately commercially, but within a year, like Jefferson Airplane, Fairport Convention were  known nationwide and experienced huge singles and album sales.  I have no idea which month of 1967 "Surrealistic Pillow" was released here, at the time there was so much happening in Great Britain musically, in 1967 Jefferson Airplane was only vaguely mentioned in the music press and that was still the situation when they first performed live here in 1968 with the Doors.  With so few copies made and bought, there are no chart figures to check but I assume because the "White Rabbit" single was released in July, 1967, it made commercial sense to have been fairly close to July. One thing I do know, there were no gold discs possible here, not even gaining   a chart entry at all has made the UK original pressings extremely rare and a Stereo first pressing almost unobtainable. Apart from   the missing "White Rabbit", there was no "Plastic Fantastic Lover" and being the B-side it became an obvious track to remove from the album, replacements were the key tracks from the unissued "Jefferson Airplane Takes Off" debut LP.  The condition is vital to   "Surrealistic Pillow", there are so many so many folk orientated tracks, with an emphasis on the beautiful melodies and wonderful   vocal harmonies   That brings me to two years later when Pye took over pressing the new designed orangle colour label RCA records, this record is a direct descendant from the Decca pressing and also positively linked to the 1969 first ever orange label pressing. {Roy} R & M RECORDS. 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