US pressing plants
Columbia Records, Pitman, New Jersey.
1979: Dancin' Fool/Dancin' Fool (promo)
1979: Dancin' Fool/Dancin' Fool (test pressing)
1979: Dancin' Fool/Baby Snakes (version 2)
1979: Joe's Garage/Central Scrutinizer (version 2)
1980: I Don't Wanna Get Drafted/Ancient Armaments (version 2)
Columbia Records, Santa Maria, California.
1979: Dancin' Fool/Baby Snakes (version 1)
1980: I Don't Wanna Get Drafted/I Don't Wanna Get Drafted (version 1, matrix variation 2)
1980: I Don't Wanna Get Drafted/Ancient Armaments (version 1, matrix variation 2)
Columbia Records, Terre Haute, Indiana.
1979: Dancin' Fool/Baby Snakes (version 4)
1980: I Don't Wanna Get Drafted/I Don't Wanna Get Drafted (version 1, matrix variation 1)
1980: I Don't Wanna Get Drafted/Ancient Armaments (version 1, matrix variation 1)
Monarch Records Mfg. Co., Los Angeles, California.
1980: I Don't Wanna Get Drafted/I Don't Wanna Get Drafted (version 2)
PRC Recording Corp., Compton, California.
1979: Joe's Garage/Central Scrutinizer (version 1)
PRC Recording Corp., Richmond, Indiana.
1979: Joe's Garage/Joe's Garage (promo)
1979: Joe's Garage/Central Scrutinizer (version 3)
UK pressing plants
CBS Records, Aston Clinton, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire.
1979: Dancin' Fool/Baby Snakes
1979: Dancin' Fool/Baby Snakes (promo)
1979: Joe's Garage/Catholic Girls
1979: Joe's Garage/Catholic Girls (promo)
Australian pressing plants
CBS Records Australia Limited, Artarmon, New South Wales.
1979: Dancin' Fool/Baby Snakes
1979: Dancin' Fool/Baby Snakes (promo)
1979: Joe's Garage/Catholic Girls
1979: Joe's Garage/Catholic Girls (promo)
1980: I Don't Wanna Get Drafted/Ancient Armaments
1980: I Don't Wanna Get Drafted/Ancient Armaments (promo)
References
From William Brown:
The Zappa Records era:
http://www.zappafrenzy.com/singles/1...n%27_Fool.html (CP in the deadwax and the number 56 on the label signified Columbia Records, Pitman, NJ)
http://www.zappafrenzy.com/singles/1...by_Snakes.html (see previous reference to CP/56; 25 on the label and CS on the deadwax signified Columbia Records, Santa Maria, CA; 73 on the label and CT on the deadwax signified Columbia Records, Terre Haute, IN; can't say for certain about SMK on the deadwax and 60 on the label)
http://www.zappafrenzy.com/singles/1...7s_Garage.html (72 on the label and PRC on the deadwax signified PRC Recording Corp., Richmond, IN)
http://www.zappafrenzy.com/singles/1...t_Drafted.html (the promo on the bottom apparently was from Monarch Record Mfg., which by then was pressing their 45's on vinyl)
http://www.zappafrenzy.com/singles/1...Armaments.html (the T in the deadwax indicated this pressing was from Columbia in Terre Haute)
I Don't Wanna Get Drafted/Ancient Armaments version 2 copy would show indications of being a Pitman pressing; this shows that occasionally, they would use label copy artwork from Terre Haute (as on Version 1). The faint black ink on Version 2, plus the lighter red rim within the label, points to a Pitman pressing as well. Also, Pitman pressings frequently had "X" on the deadwax.
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From Robert Lyons (Seventies Sevens)
There were not many pressing plants here in the 1970s. The Verve singles, VS-545 and VS-557 would have been pressed at the EMI Records plant in Hayes, Middlesex, as would 'What Will This Evening Bring' (UP-35319) and the two Grand Funk singles, INT-523 and INT-528. 'Tears Began To Fall' (K-14100), 'Cosmik Debris' (K-19201), 'Yellow Snow' (K-19202), 'Dancin' Fool' (CBS-7261) and 'Joe's Garage' (CBS-7950) would all have been pressed at the CBS Records plant at Aston Clinton, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
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