‎– The Rock Machine Turns You On Label:  ‎– SPR 22,  ‎– PR 22 Format: , LP, Sampler, Stereo 
Country: Released: Genre: Style: Tracklist A1–I'll Be Your Baby Tonight Producer – * A2–Can't Be So Bad Producer –  A3–Fresh Garbage Producer –  A4–I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife For You, Sugar Producer –  A5–Time Of The Season Producer – ,  A6–Turn On A Friend Producer –  A7–Sisters Of Mercy Producer –  B1–My Days Are Numbered Featuring – , Producer –  B2–Dolphins Smile Producer –  B3–Scarborough Fair/Canticle Producer – * B4–Statesboro Blues Producer –  B5–Killing Floor Featuring – Producer –  B6–Nobody's Got Any Money For The Summer Producer –  B7–Come Away Melinda Producer –  B8–Flames Producer –  Credits Compiled By –  Photography By –  Notes The UK release has "GB" printed bottom-right on the back cover above the E. J. Day imprint.
The label indicates "Made in England".
Sleeve reads PR 22 labels reads SPR 22.
Some have STEREO sticker on back.


Track B3 on this recording does not appear on the reissue CD.

Side A
A1 From the LP "John Wesley Harding" S 63252
A2 From the LP "Wow" S 63271
A3 From the LP "Spirit" S 63278
A4 From the LP "The United States Of America" S 63340
A5 From the LP "Odessey & Oracle" S 63280
A6 From the LP "The Great Conspiracy" S 63277
A7 From the LP "The Songs Of Leonard Cohen" S 63241
Side B
B1 From the LP "Child Is Father To The Man" S 63296
B2 From the LP "The Notorious Byrd Brothers" S 63169
B3 From the LP "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme" S 62860
B4 From the LP "Taj Mahal" S 8-63279
B5 From the LP "A Long Time Comin'" S 63294
B6 From the LP "Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith" S 63184
B7 From the LP "Tim Rose" S 63168
B8 From the LP "Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera" S 8-63300

The Rock Machine Turns You On was the first bargain priced . It was released in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, The Netherlands, Germany and a number of other European countries in 1968 as part of an international marketing campaign by , who were known in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as CBS.

As part of its highly successful campaign, CBS Records released The Rock Machine Turns You On, the first budget sampler , in the UK in 1968. The album was priced at 14  and 11  (£0.75), less than half the cost of a full priced LP at the time. It entered the  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 's "Top Gear". CBS competed actively for this new market against other “progressive” labels such as , , , and the EMI subsidiary , 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.