VARIOUS ARTISTS "The Rock Machine Turns You On" 1968 UK issued CBS 15 track comp All scans & photos are of the actual item for sale              

Artist

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Title

"The Rock Machine Turns You On"

Label/Cat No

CBS PR22

Year & Country of issue

1968 (UK)

Grading

Record: EX/EX

Sleeve:  EX/EX

Labels: EX/EX

Matrix number stamped in run out groove

Side 1: SPR 22 -A2

Side 2: SPR 22 -B2

Other information

As part of its highly successful campaign, CBS Records released The Rock Machine Turns You On, the first budget sampler LP, in the UK in 1968, selling at less than half the cost of a full priced LP at the time. It entered the UK Albums Chart in June 1969, several months after its first release, rising to no. 18, and was estimated to have sold over 140,000 copies.

The Rock Machine Turns You On influenced a generation of music fans. At the time, what was then called "underground music" was starting to achieve some commercial success in Europe, bolstered by new radio and TV programmes such as John Peel's "Top Gear". CBS competed actively for this new market against other “progressive” labels such as Elektra, Island, Immediate, and the EMI subsidiary Harvest, who followed with similar samplers of their acts. Although some of the featured artists were already stars, others such as Leonard Cohen and Spirit were only starting to become known in Europe, and the album made a major contribution to their success.

Follow-ups

CBS released a second, similar, sampler album in the UK in 1968, Rock Machine I Love You. The company followed up these LPs in 1970 with three double sampler albums - Fill Your Head with Rock, Rockbuster and Together!.

Some years later, the affiliated company, Epic Records, used a similar format for The Rock Machine Still Turns You On, Vols. 1 and 2, in 1983.

A version of The Rock Machine Turns You On was issued on CD by Sony Records in 1996, but it lacked the Simon and Garfunkel track for licensing reasons.

Track listing

Side 1

"I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" - Bob Dylan - from the LP John Wesley Harding

"Can't Be So Bad" - Moby Grape - from the LP Wow

"Fresh Garbage" - Spirit - from the LP Spirit

"I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife For You, Sugar" - The United States of America - from the LP The United States of America

"Time of the Season" - The Zombies – from the LP Odessey and Oracle

"Turn On A Friend" – The Peanut Butter Conspiracy – from the LP The Great Conspiracy

"Sisters of Mercy" – Leonard Cohen – from the LP The Songs of Leonard Cohen

Side 2

"My Days Are Numbered" – Blood, Sweat and Tears – from the LP Child Is Father to the Man

"Dolphins Smile" – The Byrds – from the LP The Notorious Byrd Brothers

"Scarborough Fair / Canticle" – Simon and Garfunkel – from the LP Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

"Statesboro Blues" – Taj Mahal – from the LP Taj Mahal

"Killing Floor" – The Electric Flag – from the LP A Long Time Comin'

"Nobody’s Got Any Money In The Summer" – Roy Harper – from the LP Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith

"Come Away Melinda" – Tim Rose – from the LP Tim Rose

"Flames" – Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera – from the LP Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera

The grading standard used is the UK Record Collector magazine gradings as described below 

Mint: The record itself is in brand new condition with no surface marks or deterioration in sound quality. The cover and any extra items such as the lyric sheet, booklet or poster are in perfect condition. Records advertised as Sealed or Unplayed should be Mint.

Excellent: The record shows some signs of having been played, but there is very little lessening in sound quality. The cover and packaging might have slight wear and/or creasing.

Very Good: The record has obviously been played many times, but displays no major deterioration in sound quality, despite noticeable surface marks and the occasional light scratch. Normal wear and tear on the cover or extra items, without any major defects, is acceptable.

All items are securely packaged in purpose made mailers, with 2 cardboard stiffners, clearly marked fragile, with the record removed from the outer sleeve (to avoid sleeve splits whilst in transit) in a brand new polythene sleeve. 

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