CDŽs released in UK?

Re: CDŽs released in UK?

Sascha - 06.01.2008, 23:31
CDŽs released in UK?
Hello,

did EPIC released ABBA on CD in the eighties?

Sascha

I am sorry for my english :-(

Re: CDŽs released in UK?

ABBAFANUSA - 07.01.2008, 00:21

No, I don't think EPIC ever did. I believe the initial releases were compilations on labels like Pickwick & Castle.

Re: CDŽs released in UK?

Charlie - 07.01.2008, 02:04
Early UK CDs
Using Visitors as an example the first CD I have was "Printed in West Germany by" and "CD is manufactured by PolyGram in Hannover" and is on the blue Polar label. In this case they have added a black sticker "CD 10032" over the POLCD 342 number. By the way it cost me £11.95! The other albums were similar although some omitted the sticker.

The second version I have was a Japanese import on Polydor. Both have a copyright date of 1981.

The reference to others, such as Castle and Pickwick, were budget labels that put out compilations rather than the official albums.

fyi - it should possibly read Greatest Hits Vol 2 since initially Greatest Hits [Vol 1] came out in a US long box on Atlantic (can't speak for other countries) but didn't come out in the UK.

Also there was the Abba-Live CD as an official release about that time (1986).

Re: CDŽs released in UK?

ABBAFANUSA - 07.01.2008, 05:52

The first appearance of LIVE & Ring Ring was on the Castle release 'ABBA The Collection Vol. 2' The other CD's may have been available, but they were most likely Polydor Germany imports.

I'm sure Ian Cole will sort all of this out.

Re: CDŽs released in UK?

Maxi-saxi - 08.01.2008, 06:16

Thanks for that.


Maxi-saxi

Re: CDŽs released in UK?

Toggler - 03.02.2008, 18:16
CDs in UK - 1980s
Just to expand on what Iancee correctly said, Epic UK actually did quite a big promotional push on Abba / Abba-related CDs around 1984/85...this included listing the availibility of CD albums such as 'Greatest Hits vol 2', 'The Visitors', 'The Singles - The First Ten Years', 'Wrap Your Arms Around Me' and 'Something's Going On' on inserts that went into other artists' CDs....

So, even though the CDs themselves had the Polydor or the Polar logo, there was clearly some liscensing benefit for Epic in terms of UK sales. Plus they gave the CDs the stickers that Iancee referred to, and an Epic catalogue number.

Along with the release of 'Eyes Of A Woman' and its singles, it was probably one of the last Abba-related areas of work for Epic. I guess they must have realised their Abba association was coming to an end, since they never even gave Agnetha's 'One Way Love' a picture sleeve and did not promote it at all.

regards

Toggler

Re: CDŽs released in UK?

Toggler - 03.02.2008, 18:49
CDs
Hey well done Jack, that is good going, I lost all of my original CDs (apart from 'GHV2') in a house move that went wrong !

But I am very happy with my set of 2001 re-masters - the only problem was that I was collecting the digipak ones, and the European ones were so limited I could not find 2 of them ('Arrival' and 'The Album'). So I had to get the American equivalents for those (shiny surface rather than matt ones, slightly different markings etc....).

cheers

Toggler