CODENAME RUSSIA
LP
Company: Core Ltd.
Matrix Number: BL-888-3-A1 / BL 888 3-B1
Release Date: January 1988
Country: Holland
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SIDE A
1. ANOTHER DAY
2. HELLO DOLLY / INSTRUMENTAL
3. PLEASE MRS. HENRY
4. “RAMBLIN’ WOMAN”
5. “IT IS DISCOVERED”
6. PICASSO
7. TAKING A TRIP TO CAROLINA
8. BROWN-EYED HANDSOME MAN
9. WELL ALL RIGHT
10. BACK IN THE U.S.S.R.
11. EVERY LITTLE THING
12. (TAKE ANOTHER) PIECE OF MY HEART
13. FRERE JACQUES / IT AIN’T ME BABE
14. TWO OF US (rehearsal)
15. HEAR ME LORD/LADY MADONNA
16. “BLUES MACHINE”
17. WHAT’D I SAY / SHOUT!
SIDE B
18. A SHOT OF RHYTHM AND BLUES
19. (YOU’RE SO SQUARE) BABY I DON’T CARE
20. ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
21. ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC
22. DON’T LET ME DOWN
23. DON’T LET ME DOWN (reprise)
24. (THERE’S) A DEVIL IN HER HEART
25. INSTRUMENTAL (guitar solo)
26. JENNY JENNY/SLIPPIN’ AND SLIDIN’
27. THAT’LL BE THE DAY
28. INSTRUMENTAL
29. HI-HEEL SNEAKERS
30. I’M TALKIN’ ‘BOUT YOU
31. TILL THERE WAS YOU
32. DON’T BE CRUEL/IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ISLAND
Sound Quality: EX-mono
Source: Twickenham Studios, January 1969
COMMENTS
Another excellent release from Core Ltd., this time featuring a compilation of Twickenham sessions. Many oldies appear on this record, along with alternate takes and more Dylan cover versions. Also of interest are early performances of several songs which would reappear during the solo years, George's Hear Me Lord and Paul's Another Day. There are also interesting bits of dialogue, some of which were reproduced in the “Get Back’’ book.
RELEASES
CODENAME RUSSIA came with a laminated color cover with a similar design to THE REAL CASE HAS JUST BEGUN, with red generic labels, also similar to those used for the previous release of the company. As usual for these Dutch producers, a first pressing of 2000 copies was made, then 1000 more copies may have been pressed, in case that the first run was sold out.
Repressed in the U.S. by Rockwell & Good, RG 6010, with a different cover, featuring 4 different Richard Avedon posters. This material was also released (in part) on CD in September 1988, from master tapes as SONGS FROM THE PAST.
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INTEREST. Another well-done selection of previously unreleased material. Essential when it was released, and still a nice record to play nowadays. ***
