I should know this but I don’t!

what is the first true original of this tune?

is it USA Philips,or was it a uk first release? If uk first,which is the true first uk issue?

lee

He's British, so likey Island first?

I would say island with the "eye" on it.

I have on Island (pink label) 67, and the later 'palm tree label' 78.

A friend, collector, looks down upon me because I don't have it on Phillips -  I/he assumed (incorrectly it seems) that Phillips came first.

I look forward to directing him to this thread : )

Philips is the American pressing. So considered a later "foreign" presses.

Fontana for French or German and Stone on Canadian if he wants them all. 

COVAY TRIVIA >> Back in 1963, the London based jazz guys were swopping over to R&B and many clubs in the capital  were doing the same. Alexis Korner started up a Blues / R&B club (The Blues Club !) by hiring the Empire Rooms on Tottenham Court Rd.  There his band would play + he'd book other similar acts. One such act being the Graham Bond Quartet. Graham himself having just moved from jazz (with the The New Don Rendell Quintet) to R&B. Also with Graham in that jazz band was Phil Kinorra (aka Julien Covey).

By the time Graham Bond had started his own R&B band, Julien Covey had also moved on and was playing drums in the Brian Auger Trio, who became the Brian Auger Trinity ... this is Covey (Phil Kinorra) playing drums on this track .. 

 

Everytime I hear this I am transported back to the Casino's Mr M's and it's 4.00 am in the morning. The dance floor is absolutely rammed solid with dancers. With the heat, in time handclaps and the intense atmosphere buzzing! Northern Soul in the extreme!

Edited January 7, 20241 yr by Solidsoul

According to 45cat site  UK island is May 1967 and US Phillips is Dec 1967

The Uk copies With the Eye design are the first and the ones with the letter I are 1969

Legend has it that he came from Sherwood Rise, Nottingham.  

14 hours ago, Mick Boyle said:

Legend has it that he came from Sherwood Rise, Nottingham.  

He did, born Robert Cromwell Anson on 20th October 1940 in Sherwood, Nottingham.

first issue with the eye issued in May 1967

reissued in autumn 1969 with the big i on the left