TCCDM Pulls One Out: "2 Originals Of Neil Young" - Neil Young (1975)

"2 Originals Of Neil Young" - Neil Young (1975)

     Here's an album you seldom see.  It's the first one I've ever come across, and I would've passed right over it if I'd not seen someone in the vinyl community hold one up.  The square is easy to overlook because the album doesn't give off much of a Neil Young vibe, but more of a K-Tel Records compilation kind of thing.  Whatever vibe the cover may be casting, it certainly doesn't scream "Cinnamon Girl" or "The Loner."  But if you left it behind, you'd be missing something rather unique.


     As strange as the outside cover of "2 Originals Of Neil Young" may be, open the inside gatefold, and you'll discover two actual Neil Young albums.  The first is "Neil Young" (1968), and the second is "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" (1969) with Crazy Horse.  It's a cool and surprising mind-flip.


     The album was pressed in Germany and is not rare at all, but it was never released here in the States.  That's why you never see a copy in record bins or in the wild.  I never have, anyway, until recently.  "2 Originals Of Neil Young" was one of several good finds I picked up a few months back from a house a couple of miles from McConnell AFB.  I've told this story before, but two or three airmen were sharing a house off-base, and at least one of them was being reassigned and was trying to thin out his record herd.   I didn't need it.  I already have original copies of both, but the novelty hooked me.  I don't remember what I paid, but they're not expensive.

 

"2 Originals Of Neil Young" - Neil Young (back)

"2 Originals Of Neil Young" - Neil Young 
(inside gatefold)

Favorites include:
"The Loner"
"Cinnamon Girl" 
"Cowgirl In The Sand"

     The vinyl is a 1975 German pressing on the brownish steamboat Reprise label.  The label has the boxed GEMA just left of the spindle, indicating it was manufactured for the German market.  The previous owner took good care of it, as the vinyl looks like it was played maybe once.  Dropping the needle, both squares sound nice and clean.  No tics or pops.  The cover artwork may be an oddity, but the vinyl received nice treatment.  A neat way to pick up a couple of Neil Young albums.

Reprise Records label
(1-2 & 3-4)

Cat #
REP 64 031 / LC 0322  (30 817)
SIDE 1  DEADWAX
WEA 64031-Axx  44059-A xx  PF  20  
SIDE 2  DEADWAX
R/S Alsdorf 64031  B2 x  STRAWBERRY (0)  44059  B2x  5 

Cat #
REP 64 031 / LC 0322  (30,911
SIDE 3  DEADWAX
WEA 64031  Cxxxx  PF  10
SIDE 4  DEADWAX
R/S Alsdorf  64031  D3  STRAWBERRY (6)  5

"Cinnamon Girl" - Neil Young / "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" (1969)

TRACKS:  "NEIL YOUNG"
A1  "The Emperor of Wyoming" 2:14
A2  "The Loner" 3:55
A3  "If I Could Have Her Tonight" 2:15
A4  "I've Been Waiting For You" 2:30
A5  "The Old Laughing Lady" 5:53
B1  "String Quartet From Whiskey Boot Hill" 1:04
B2  "Here We Are In The Years" 3:14
B3  "What Did You Do To My Life?" 2:22
B4  "I've Loved Her So Long" 2:40
B5  "The Last Trip To Tulsa" 9:25
TRACKS:  "EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE"
A1  "Cinnamon Girl" 2:58
A2  "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" 2:26
A3  "Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)" 5:49
A4  "Down By The River" 9:13
B1  "The Losing End (When You're On)" 4:03
B2  "Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)" 5:30
B3  "Cowgirl In The Sand" 10:03

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