Title:
Peaches
En Regalia
Format: 3"CD
Company: Rykodisc
Ordering Number: RCD3 1001
Matrix Number: RYK-RCD31001 SOI01
Pressing Plant: Shape Optimedia, Inc.
Country: USA
Year: 1987
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Title:
Peaches
En Regalia
Format: 3"CD
Company: Rykodisc
Ordering Number: RCD3 1001
Matrix Number: RYK-RCD31001 SOI01
Pressing Plant: Shape Optimedia, Inc.
Country: USA
Year: 1987
GREG RUSSO: That version was originally planned for the 3" CD along with the remixed album version, but only the latter ended up on the officially released 3" CD single.
According to Erik Jan Schuringa, this was the world's first CD single release. [EDITOR'S NOTE]: I remember when I bought this single there were, just at the same time, two or three other 3" releases by other artists available. Wether they were from other record companies, or also Ryko releases, I can't remember anymore. From the ordering number it seems to be the first Ryko release in this format. But one always has to be careful with statements like "the first one ever". It sure was "one of the first" ever released 3"CDs in the world of digital audio.
August 28, 2001 Steve Cobham sez: Copies of these were given away free with a British music magazine - the name of which escapes me - at about the time of the first reissue of Frank's material on CD. As far as I can recall, the magazine made no mention in its pages of the giveaway. I seem to remember that the magazine and the CD were "united" by a polythene bag.
The CD is only complete with the original Rykodisc "Adaptor for 3-inch
compact disc". By the time of release most CD players haven't had the
right
drawer to center the disc properly, resulting in spitting it out after
trying to insert them, or even worse, eating it up completely and
finding
it back somewhere inside the player. Unfortunately the adaptor isn't
really
special, no manufacturer or any other specific hint is given. The
adaptor
is made of black plastic, and was packaged additionally in a plastic
foil,
including a black sheet with information how to mount the CD into it.
The CD had a very special package. By the
time of release most shops in the US and even here in Europe had
special
CD bins designed to carrry the so called "Longboxes", means: Every CD
was
packaged additionaly in an extra cardboard sleeve with roughly double
the
size of a normal CD tray. The sleeve was made of one long cardboard
strip,
longer than the longboxes to fold the sleeve during production. The CD
is visible at the lower part of the package, and is hold by a tongue.
The
lower part of the strip is the actual sleeve to carry the CD later on,
and can be removed from the rest by tearing it off. The whole package
is
shrink-wrapped, and the adaptor mentioned above is crimped on the back.
A picture without the adaptor can be found here.
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Title:
Sexual
Harassment In The Workplace
Format: 3"CD
Company: Rykodisc /
Barking
Pumpkin Records
Ordering Number: RCD 3-1010
Matrix Number: RYK-RCD-3-1010 SOI02
Pressing Plant: Shape Optimedia, Inc.
Country: USA
Year: April 1988
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Title:
Zomby
Woof
Format: 3"CD
Company: Rykodisc /
Barking
Pumpkin Records
Ordering Number: RCD 3-1011
Matrix Number: RYK-RCD-3-1011 SOI01
Pressing Plant: Shape Optimedia, Inc.
Country: USA
Year: 1988
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Title:
Montana
(Whipping Floss)
Format: 3"CD
Company: Rykodisc /
Barking
Pumpkin Records
Ordering Number: RCD 3-1012
Matrix Number: RYK-RCD-3-1012 SOI01
Pressing Plant: Shape Optimedia, Inc.
Country: USA
Year: May 1988
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Title:
Zappaween
At The Troc
Format: 3"CD
Company: Rykodisc
Ordering Number: PROM-1
Matrix Number: PROMO-01 1277 C
(???)
Pressing Plant: unknown
Country: Japan
Year: 1991
'Once upon a time there was a guy who thought that music was
important
and that rock'n'roll songs ought to say something different in their
lyrics.
So he wrote a few hundret of these items, trying to get this point
across
to the people in the U.S.A.
Twenty-five years later, most of the people in
his country had never heard any of this music (it had been
systematically
"removed" from the mainstream of American broadcasting and made
mysteriously
absent from many important retail outlets). But he kept on doing it
anyway
because he believed that one day things would get better.'
Additional info from Hugues-Robert Gros:
It came out with a plastic bag (see
scan). My copy doesn't include a T-Shirt and I've never heard about
this cloth inculdes in this item. I've purchased it few years ago at a
japanese dealer involved in Ryko Japan.
More Info: In addition to the plastic bag the package also
contained a 16-page booklet and 3 japanese leaflets. This from an Ebay
auction in October 2006.
I can provide you with additional pictures.
[EDITOR'S NOTE]: Thanks to Steven
LaCombe I finally got the tracklist. And there's even more info
over at Bossk's(R) Zappa
Patio. But I'm still not 100% sure if this is really made for a
japanese
Zappa fan meeting, or if "Zappaween" is an american invention.
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Title:
Stairway
To Heaven
Format: Maxi-CD
Company: Zappa Records
Ordering Number: CD FRANK 101
Matrix Number: FRANK CD 101 MPO @@@
Pressing Plant: MPO
Country: France
Year: 1991
("Bolero" is on the American and Japanese versions of The Best
Band
You Never Heard in Your Life, but was deleted from the European version
for copyright reasons. It only appears on some of the European copies.)
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Title:
Bobby
Brown
Format: Maxi-CD
Company: Zappa Records / Intercord
Ordering Number: MFN/ZAPPA 828.510, also INT 828.510
Matrix Number: 828.510 P+O-8678-A2 04-91
Pressing Plant: Pallas
Group
Country: Germany
Year: April 1991
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Title:
Valley
Girl
Format: Maxi-CD
Company: Zappa Records / Music
For Nations
Ordering Number: CDFRANK 102
Matrix Number: MAYKING RECORDS CDFRANK102 / 10221741 02 %
Pressing Plant: Mayking
Multimedia
Country: England
Year: August 1993 (?)
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Title:
Bobby
Brown
Format: Maxi-CD
Company: Rykodisc / Rough
Trade Records GmbH
Ordering Number: 159.3094.3 16
Matrix Number: RTD159-3094-3 14
Pressing Plant: Sony DADC
Country: Germany
Year: July 31, 1995
From David Goodwin: The CD single comes in the standard UK single case. The cover is more than a bit strange: it has Zappa's face (from the Jazz from Hell cover pic, and VERY blue-toned, lookingly) in a circle in the middle of the front cover, surrounded by what looks like lots and lots of either badly thrown paint, or a kalaidescope image of SOMETHING (I think I see objects, but I'm not sure as to what those objects are at all). My description of the "Bobby Brown" single is the one with "The Torture Never Stops" and "Valley Girl" on it ... apparently, they reused the cover for later ones. It ALSO has the Strictly Commercial sticker. [EDITOR'S NOTE]: Hmm... The picture of this edition is more green-toned. The blue-toned one is the earlier release.
This CD was also released as a vinyl maxi-single.
[EDITOR'S NOTE]:
"Ryko 159.3094.3, Austria" is what I additionally found when I
took
over Bossk(R)'s Singles FAQ, but probably "Austria" referes only to the
manufacturer of the CD, DADC
Austria.
You can read this where the matrix number is placed.
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Title:
I
Don't Wanna Get Drafted
Format: Maxi-CD (jewel case)
Company: Rykodisc
Ordering Number: REALCS 4 (jewel case) / REALCDS 4 (disc)
Matrix Number: CD PLANT AB REALCDS 4
CDM01
Barcode: 7 391946 072552
Pressing Plant: CD
Plant AB
Country: Sweden (See also "Tips
For Collectors")
Year: 1995
Also
released as:
Format: Maxi-CD (cardboard sleeve)
Company: Rykodisc
Ordering Number: REALCDS 4 (both sleeve and disc)
Matrix Number: CD PLANT AB REALCDS 4
CDM01
Barcode: 7 391946 072514
Pressing Plant: CD
Plant AB
Country: Sweden (See also "Tips
For Collectors")
Year: 1995
From Dr. István Fekete: It came in both a jewel case and a cardboard sleeve. They have different catalog numbers and barcodes, though the discs in both packagings are the same. And the artworks differ slightly, too. [EDITOR'S NOTE]: From his email: Front of cardboard sleeve shows a blue strip at the bottom, and includes more film perforations at the top. Not included is the 'Is this trip really necessary?' text and the top of the atomic cloud on the back, but shows the lower part as shown on the original vinyl single, i.e. the skyscraper, the hollywood sign, and the two soldiers. Picture of this item here.
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Title:
Strictly
Bonus
Format: Maxi-CD
Company: Rykodisc / Festival
Records
Ordering Number: TVD 93446-2
Matrix Number: *D93446-2* #01 IFPI L282
- MADE BY PMI
Pressing Plant: Pacific
Mirror Image
Country: Australia / New Zealand
Year: 1996
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Title:
Frank's
Wildest Years!
Format: Maxi-CD
Company: Rykodisc / Hitchhyke
Ordering Number: ZOO EP 13
Matrix Number: EURODISC S.A. WS01 ME 11320
Pressing Plant: unknown, probably from Ariola Eurodisc?
Country: Greece
Year: 1998 (magazine is from January 1999)
David Goodwin informed me that all songs are coming from the 1995 CD's version, as stated on the cardboard sleeve.
[EDITOR'S NOTE]:
I still can't find the right pages to the pressing plant and the record
company Hitchhyke. The URL for Hitchhyke seems to be right, as I found
some greek pages with links to them, but somehow their homepage seems
to
be down.
"Eurodisc" (or "Eurodisk")
instead can be found in large quantities on the net, most of them
connected
to the german brand Ariola (belongs to Bertelsmann). But I am not able
to trace a pressing plant with this name.
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Title:
Dancin'
Fool
Format: Maxi-CD
Company: Rykodisc
Ordering Number: SVAM 0065
Matrix Number: unknown
Pressing Plant: unknown
Country: Japan
Year: October 2002
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