E X T E N D E D P L A Y - Are you game?

[bosshoss]

Who'll join me in this televisual feast of worldwide ep cover scans? After the success of our recent Company Sleeves Extravaganza, I'm hoping for lots of contributions to this new quest. Ep's usually have 2 tracks per side, as distinct from picture sleeve 45s which have one track per side.

I never particularly set out to collect ep's. But quite a lot have fallen into my hands via major collections I have purchased over the years. Recently I scored the Bo Street Runners Oak ep, which has to be the crown jewel of my ep collection I guess. One thing seems obvious - the UK and Australia were the kings of the 60s garage EP scene. The USA barely scraped into the ratings on this score. But what of Europe? I have a few, but not many of those, and I'm hoping to see lots of posts showing fabulous Euro only picture sleeve EP's appear on this thread...come on, I know some of you must have cool collections! I'm setting the bar low, including any cool 60s sounds like surf instrumentals, beat/r&b, shaven psych etc.

I start with ep's from the United Kingdom. Front and back covers in most cases. There are links to hi-res versions at the bottom of the post.

 

[bosshoss]

 

[bosshoss]

 

[bosshoss]

Hi-res versions

http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep01.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep03.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep04.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep05.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep06.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep07.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep08.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep09.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep10.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep11.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep12.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep13.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep14.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep15.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep16.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep17.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep18.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep19.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep20.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep21.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep22.jpg

 

[pfft]

Wonderful!!
I've been meaning to ask you: throughout the years you have given us countless amazing label/PS scans of your 45 collection from the U.S. of A., Australia/NZ, Greece, Holland, Sweden, U.K., Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Peru etc.
But how's your Eastern European and Asian sections? I would love to see some of those one day.

 

[bosshoss]

Wonderful!!
I've been meaning to ask you: throughout the years you have given us countless amazing label/PS scans of your 45 collection from the U.S. of A., Australia/NZ, Greece, Holland, Sweden, U.K., Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Peru etc.
But how's your Eastern European and Asian sections? I would love to see some of those one day.

Eastern Europe and Asia are nothing too special at the moment. Here's a rough breakdown of the 45s currently in the record bunker

USA 60s garage - 5,200
Australian 60s garage (broadly defined) - 800
UK 60s beat, R&B, garage, freakbeat etc - 800
Canadian 60s garage incl Fr.Can - 300
Netherlands - 300
Sweden - 200
Greece - 150
Japan, Germany, Italy - 50 each
Spain - 40
Denmark, France - 30 each
Belgium, Peru, Swizerland, Brazil - 20 each
Norway - 15
Finland, Singapore, Turkey, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Austria - 5 each
Others - maybe 25
USA R&B and soul - 2,400
USA surf & hotrod - 100
Australian 70s & 80s punk etc - 800
Worldwide 70s & 80s punk, general rock etc - 1,000

Totals roughly 8,155 worldwide '60s garage 45s
plus 4,300 "others"
or just over 12,000 altogether

 

[pfft]

Wow...
I wouldn't mind spending a couple of days in your bunker.

 

[bosshoss]

Wow...
I wouldn't mind spending a couple of days in your bunker.

With the rats?

 

[bosshoss]

Here's the next batch of UK eps. The Seaders is a Lebanese group whose ep was only? released in the UK

 

[AZ54]

Proud to be Dutch - such a little country and still 300 items!
AZ54
Nice scans by the way, bosshoss.

 

[bosshoss]

 

[bosshoss]

hi-res versions

http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep23.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep24.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep25.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep26.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep27.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep28.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep29.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep30.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep31.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep32.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep33.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep34.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep35.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep36.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep37.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep38.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep39.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep40.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep41.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep42.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep43.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep44.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep45.jpg
http://www.finerecordingstudio.com/eps/ukep46.jpg

 

[bosshoss]

Proud to be Dutch - such a little country and still 300 items!

And I only collected the A-grade Dutch killers so far. There's probably another 300 good-to-decent ones that I don't have.

 

[howlin' hoosier]

How much did eps typically cost in comparison to 45s in the UK?

 

[AZ54]

And I only collected the A-grade Dutch killers so far. There's probably another 300 good-to-decent ones that I don't have.

Jazeker!

 

[pfft]

With the rats?

I'm no stranger to rats, so sure!

 

[MopTopMike]

The scant few USA EP's I have came without pic jackets / covers:

CLASSICS (RAM)
GENERATION GAP (Century)
MOXIES (no label name, but a Century custom pressing)
SHADES (Joslin)
TIDAL WAVES (no label name)

I might have a few more; these were the ones I could think of at the moment.

Oh, I forgot:
I have the Mike Vetro & the Cellar Dwellers 6 song EP, released on the Art label. It came with a full color (front side) hard cardboard sleeve.

 

[pfft]

I know Expo67 has an impressive EP collection.

 

[ian]

first French EP, same tracks as on DFE 8612.

 

[howlin' hoosier]

No Yardbirds???

 

[depravedskippy66]

Will dig some out from my collection and share within the next few days or so.

Not as cool as what Bosshoss has on offer, but hopefully some will find interesting...