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Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome

2x12"

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Record Details

Artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Title: Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Format: 12"
Label: Island Records / Island Records / ZTT / ZTT
Cat No: 7 90232-1-H / 90232-1-H / 7 90232-1-H / 90232-1-H
Released: 1984
Country:
Genres: Synth-pop
Status Have
Added To List 15th January 2016
Disc 1 | 12"
Very Good+
No Notes 
A Matrix:
[SRC logo] ST-IL-845583-A 1·2 SP-AR B-203 47-A Δ8349 0- STERLING  
B Matrix:
[SRC logo] ST-IL-845584-A 1-2 SP-AR B-20348 0- Δ8349-X ☆STERLING  
Disc 2 | 12"
Very Good+
No Notes 
A Matrix:
[SRC logo] ST-IL-845585-A 1-2 SPAR B-20349 Δ8350 ☆ STERLING 0-SM1-1  
B Matrix:
[SRC logo] Δ8350-X B-20350 ST-IL-845586-A 1-2 SP-AR STERLING 0-SM1-1  

Additional Information

Comments This is an Allied Record Company pressing, indicated by "SP-AR" and "B-#####" codes in the matrix. There also exists [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/7149410]a Specialty Records Corporation pressing[/url] which does not have the extra codes, and a [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/7156066]Hauppauge pressing[/url] which has "SP-HRM" instead of "SP-AR".

Issued in a gatefold sleeve, with LPs housed in artwork-bearing inner sleeves. The second inner sleeve has a merchandise mail-order catalog and order form incorporated into the artwork. The sleeve front, on some copies, may include a sticker bearing the artist name and catalog number.

Title on cover & spine: Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Title on labels: The Pleasure Dome
Cat# on spine: 7 90232-1-H
Cat# on labels: 90232-1-H

Inner sleeves designate the discs as "Record 1/2" and "Record 3/4". The first inner sleeve and the back cover designate the vinyl sides as Side One (F), Side Two (G), Side Three (T), Side Four (H). The labels have F, G, T, H in custom artwork, and the typeset text says Side One pray frankie pray, Side Two say frankie say, Side Three stay frankie stay, Side Four play frankie play. The total time for each side is printed on the labels as 15:37, 15:32, 16:32, and 18:03, respectively.

Track titles here are as shown on back cover and inner sleeve. The labels have some variations:
[A3] Snatch Of Fury
[C1] Fury
[C3] San Jose
[C4] Wish The Lads Were Here Inc. Ballad Of 32
[D1] Ḱrisco Ḱisses

Ian Cooper, the UK LP's mastering engineer, has a mastering credit on the first inner sleeve, but at least two sides of this US pressing were mastered (or further mastered) by Greg Calbi, indicated by the star next to the Sterling stamp in the dead wax.

Info on back cover:
Island Records,Inc.
Distributed By Atco Records Division Of Atlantic Recording Corporation [Warner logo]®A Warner Communications Company
75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York 10019 ℗ © 1984 ZTT *TM Owned by Antilles Communications Ltd. Printed in U.S.A.

Info on inner sleeve (Record 3/4):
©ZTT 1984
NuVisions Management Ltd. (USA)

Info on both inner sleeves:
Printed in U.S.A.

Info on all labels:
℗ + © 1984 zang tuum tumb (excellence)
Island Records, Inc., *TM Owned by Antilles Communications Ltd., Dist. By Atlantic Recording Corp., 75 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y., N.Y. [Warner logo]®A Warner Communications Company

Publishing info on labels:
[A1, A2, A4, B1, B3, C4, D1 to D5] Perfect Songs Ltd., adm. by Island Music, Inc., BMI.
[A3, C1] Dick James Music, Inc., BMI.
[B2] Jobete Music, ASCAP.
[C2] Laurel Canyon Music, ASCAP.
[C3] Carbert Music, Inc., ASCAP.
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