Sweden issued ELO LPs & CD.
Harvest and United Artists Scandinavia issued Vinyl LP's carried the NCB (Nordisk Copyright Bureau) Rights Society for the entire Scandinavia market.
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The LPs could have been pressed in various countries like England, Germany, Holland or Sweden. Often on the label it was started "Manufactured in England".
For pressing to be a Swedish issue it needs to have "Made in Sweden", carry the NCB Rights Society and have “SIB-tryck Tumba” printed on the back sleeve of Swedish LP covers. Tumba is a small city outside Stockholm where the covers were printed.
Only two ELO 7" singles were made/issued in Sweden.
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Out of the Blue was the last studio LP to be "Manufactured in England" / Made in Sweden and carry the NCB Rights Society info. After May 1978 the CBS issued albums were pressed/manufactured in Holland or the UK LPs and were imported without any changes to Cat Numbers, Artist Rights or label designs.
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Until 2000 when a "The Swedish Collection" was issued, this was a re-brand of the UK/Europe issued "Light Years" double CD.
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Note - this page is in Album Issue/Release order.
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Thanks to Patrik Guttenbacher - Face The Music German, Peter Miles & Erik Holmgren for help and corrections on this page.
Title
The Electric Light Orchestra
Format
Vinyl
Label
Harvest
Catalogue
7C 062-92970
Issue Date
1972
Chart Position
-
Notes
Made in Sweden, with a plain white inner sleeve.
Title
E.L.O. 2
Format
Vinyl
Label
Harvest
Catalogue
7C 062-05243
Issue Date
1973
Chart Position
-
Notes
Made in Sweden with a plain white inner sleeve.
Roll Over Beethoven - Single HAR 5063
Title
Showdown
Format
Vinyl
Label
Harvest
Catalogue
7C 038-05698
Issue Date
1973
Chart Position
-
Notes
Made in Sweden with a EMI White inner sleeve.
Showdown Single
HAR 5077
Title
On The Third Day
&
Eldorado
Notes
ELO were now signed to Warner Brothers Records (WB).
In the early 1970's ELO were not very popular in Europe. It is likely that WB did not press any Swedish issues and instead imported UK / Holland / German copies.
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It was not until 1977 that United Artists pressed and issued Swedish copies with their UAG re-issues series.
Title
On The Third Day
Format
Vinyl
Label
United Artists
Catalogue
UAG 30091
Re-Issue Date
May 1977
Notes
There are 2 LP versions:
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One version has "Manufactured in England" in the rim text, plus "Made in Sweden" on the LP label.
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There is also a version with "Manufactured In Sweden" in the rim text, but missing "Made in Sweden"
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Plain paper inner sleeve. Part of the UAG Re-issue series.
Title
Eldorado
Format
Vinyl
Label
United Artists
Catalogue
UAG 30092
Re-Issue Date
May 1977
Notes
LP has "Manufactured in England" in the rim text, plus "Made in Sweden" on the LP label.
With thick paper inner sleeve with printed lyrics & band photo.
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Part of the UAG Re-issue series.
Title
Face The Music
Format
Vinyl
Label
Polydor
Catalogue
2310 414
Issue Date
1975
Chart Position
41
Notes
Face The Music was issued in a Polydor sleeve made in Europe, but it did not erase the US Copyright sentence in full.
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So you could read the original USA text, “Printed in USA” on it.
This was made possible in the Netherlands, because the Dutch Face The Music Gatefold edition has also not erased USA sentence on the back cover.
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This version was a generic Scandinavian issued LP, Made In Germany with a Made in Europe Polydor Inner Sleeve with printed lyrics & band photo.
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There is also a pressing that has a country code of "710" marked in the run-out groove which, according to:- http://www.7tt77.co.uk/matrix_numbers.html suggests it may have been manufactured in Norway. - Credit to Howard Critchley for this info.
Missing From My Collection
Title
Face The Music
Format
Vinyl
Label
United Artists
Catalogue
UAG 30034
Re-Issue Date
February 1977
Notes
There are 3 LP versions:
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One has "Manufactured in England" in the rim text, plus "Made in Sweden" on the LP label.
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There is also a version with "Manufactured In Sweden" in the rim text, with a Jet logo, but missing "Made in Sweden".
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There is also a generic Scandinavian issued version with "Manufactured In England" in the rim text. But is missing "Made in Sweden" and misisng the Jet Record logo on the LP label but still has NCB rights stated on the label.
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With thick paper inner sleeve with printed lyrics & band photo.
The inner sleeve has angled corners, but the actual sleeve is not actually angled cut !
Part of the UAG Re-issue series.
Title
A New World Record
Format
Vinyl
Label
United Artists
Catalogue
UAG 30017 | Jet LP 20
Issue Date
1976
Chart Position
1
Notes
LP has "Manufactured in England" in the rim text, plus "Made in Sweden" on the label.
Embossed Cover - UA Cream Label Layout. Marketed by United Artists.
Heavy grade vinyl with thick paper inner sleeve with printed lyrics & band photo.
Title
Out Of The Blue
Format
Vinyl
Label
United Artists Records
Catalogue
JTLA-823-L2
Issue Date
1977
Chart Position
2
Notes
Most of the issues have
"Manufactured in England" in the rim text. Plus "Made in Sweden" on the LP label.
The gatefold cover/sleeve was printed in the USA.
First issues came with the cut out space ship and a band poster, with thick paper inner sleeves.
There seems to be many different Swedish issue versions of Out Of The Blue with different LP label information, please see below.
This version has the LP sides labelled 1-A, 2-B, 1-C, 2-D. As opposed to the more normal 1-A, 2-B, 3-C, 4-D. See images below (Thanks to Peter Miles)
This version has stated on the LP label, "Manufactured in England", plus Made in Sweden but with Dutch STEMRA
rights. See images below (Thanks to Out Of The Blue Artifacts website)
This version has stated on the LP label NCB rights and only "Manufactured in Sweden" See images below (Thanks to Peter Miles)
This version has stated on the LP label Dutch STEMRA rights and only "Manufactured in Sweden" See images below (Thanks to Peter Miles)
Title
The Light Shines On
Format
Vinyl
Label
Harvestt
Catalogue
7C 054-06 292
Issue Date
1977
Chart Position
30
Notes
With plain white inner sleeve.
Out of the Blue was the last "studio LP" to be "Manufactured in England" / "Made in Sweden" and carry the NCB Rights Society info, after that Holland / UK / Germany LPs were imported without any changes to Cat Numbers, Artist Rights or label designs being made.
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To a certain point, it was now nonessential in which county the LP, or CD was made and/or the sleeve was printed as most of the ELO releases were planned for the whole EU-market. (with the exception of some larger EU countries like German and Spain.)
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See Holland/European Discography HERE
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Record shops would watch for every European release, and so you could buy several releases from other EU Countries in your country.
Except below - Swedish Issue only - in 1997 when UK/Euro The Light Years Compilation was re-packaged as The Swedish Collection
Title
The Swedish Collection
Format
Double CD
Label
Epic
Catalogue
489039 9
Issue Date
2000
Chart Position
7
Notes
This was a re-brand of the UK/Europe issued "Light Years" double CD.
The fold-out sheet was replaced with a simple fold over booklet.
