Rock This Town, second single by the Stray Cats, really don´t need introduction. This masterpiece of rock music history always exploded the crowd. Here are some pressings.
France 102971 Arabella Eurodisc
French pressing with beautiful picture sleeve. First, blue-tinted plastic centre label is of first, French-made pressing and second, Arista paper label is of second, German-printed pressing. Same sleeve for both, though.
Germany 102890 Ariola Eurodisc
German release with nice picture sleeve.
Australia K-8218 distributed and manufactured by Festival Records Pty
Australian single was released without picture sleeve.
New Zealand ATA 725 distributed and manufactured by EMI Records New Zealand
New Zealand also released this without picture sleeve.
Canada EMI B-8132
Canadian release by EMI of Canada, without picture sleeve.
USA EMI B-8132
USA release with utterly stunning picture sleeve.
USA EMI P-B-8132
USA double-sided promo single, no picture sleeve.
USA X-7109
Capitol Records Silver Spotlight Series re-pressing and it´s
jukebox version, no picture sleeve.
Ireland Scat 2
Irish pressing with black paper labels, no picture sleeve.
Scandinavia Scat 2
Sleeve and centre label similar to UK issue, but this was manufactured in Holland by CBS Records for Scandinavian market.
Spain A-102890 Ariola Eurodisc
Spanish release with fantastic picture sleeve, one of my favourites. Normal version centre label and white label promo.
Spain B-102890
Spanish "Serie Delfin" budget-priced re-pressing with
decolorized sleeve. Interesting one and nice to have.
Japan 7RS-16 manufactured and distributed by Nippon Phonogram
Japanese pressing with colourful front cover and lyrics and info on the back side of the leaflet. There is also a white label promo but I don´t have it ( yet ).
Mexico S-559
Mexican "Rock En La Ciudad" with spanish printing on cover.
Holland 102890 Ariola Eurodisc
Holland release, nothing spectacular here.
UK Scat 1
UK release with it´s quite crude and plain sleeve and all three centre label variants with which it was released.
Italy ARS 37080 manufactured and distributed by CGD Messaggerie Musicali Spa
Italian single with Baby Blue Eyes as b-side. This was released in 1982, so later than anywhere else. Really fantastic picture sleeve, my copy is unfortunately quite bad, but I had to take it because this one really is HARD to get.
Austria 102890 Austro Mechana
Austrian release with Austro Mechana logo and Made in Austria text on label, but little "Made in Germany" text on matrix which has been tried to scrape off and also another, smaller serial number 102971 which is for French pressing. It has also been tried to scrape off. So, Austro-German-French mutant ? Whatever, I´m glad I finally got it !
South Africa AAJ1104
South African press of which I wasn´t even aware of. Former radio station copy, that´s why marks and numbers. Released without picture sleeve.
And Rock This Town is declared finished ! Next on the line will be Stray Cat Strut !
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