Claudine´s Emotional Rescue

Emotional Rescue

ROLLING STONES RECORDS CUN 3911/COC 16015

Produced: Glimmer Twins

Cover Design: Peter Corriston

Photography: Roy Adzak

Date: June 1980

Acetates & test pressings

Not the same "Emotional Rescue" version as it was released! 
The Rolling Stones finished their recording sessions for this album in Paris in October 1979 (the album tentatively called "Saturday Where The Boys Meet" !!). In November Mick and Keith started to work on the mixing but due to disagreement(s), they spent months trying to figure on what to use or whose mixes were best. Until May 1980 the tracks selection changes constantly and in early June acetates were made, but still with some alternate tracks and a different running order ("Summer Romance" was the opener on these acetates).
It is reported (unsure) that the track "Claudine" was included in these first pressings, but the Rolling Stones have apparently been forced by Atlantic Records to drop it to avoid legal actions against them.

UK Emotional Rescue 10-track white label test pressing

Bring Your Own Meat

Actually, this is not a lost album, but a mock-up sleeve made by M&Co team of designers for a future assignment with the Rolling Stones. They did several proposals for a record called Bring Your Own Meat and other titles as Pain Of Love or Touch Of Flesh were aired for this forthcoming release(s). These are some of the concepts designs for those titles.

more info go to Magazines&books page

Note: M&Co did the cover design for UK Time Waits For No One 1979 anthology LP

Beast Of Burden

Fool To Cry /Crazy Mama
RSR 19103(4?)
Date: 1976
Withdrawn/unreleased?
Do promo 7" singles exist with this coupling?

Beast of Burden
RSR 19309
Date: August 1978
Withdrawn sleeve

LIVE Stones!

Live Stones

DECCA ROST 3/4

Date: 1975

No cover sleeve

2 Test pressings LPs exist (pink and white labels)

Unreleased

Track listing: (?)

Note: Another 1975/1976 release! It was the tenth anniversary of LONDON´s signing the Stones and ABKCO were set to release any Stones material they could. 

At least one of those live LPs was ready back in December 1974 and the double set was ready to release as a follow-up to "Rolled Gold" late 1975/1976.

At first someone at ABKCO mentioned there was some unreleased live recordings for one of the LPs, later this project was thought to issue the two live albums "Got Live If You Want It!" and "Get Yer Ya-Ya´s Out!" as a double album. There is a similar "LIVE!" double album pressed in Japan.

No one got a pic from those pink label test pressings?

The Rolling Stones` Greatest Hits

Rolling Stones Greatest Hits

ABKCO (?)

Date: late 1975

No acetates or test pressings known

Original color proof sleeve

2 LP set

Released as DVL 2-0268

Note: Early cover for an ABKCO compilation Greatest Hits, conceived in 1975, at first only available  as a RCA Special Products mail-order offer (the one pictured below), then released all over the world in 1977 as low budget album.

RELATED TO:

ABKCO DVL 2-0268

Essential Rolling Stones

The Essential Rolling Stones aka The History Of The Rolling Stones

DECCA (no catalogue nº)

Date: 1975

No cover sleeve

3 LP DECCA test pressings:

LP 1 matrix: ZAL 12996-1W/12997-1W

LP 2 matrix: ZAL 12998-1W/12999-1W

LP 3 matrix: ZAL 13000-1W/13001-1W

Disc 1:

- Come On

- I Wanna Be Your Man

- Not Fade Away

- I’m King Bee

- Carol

- Route 66

- It's All Over Now

- Little Red Rooster

- Everybody Needs Somebody

- Time Is On My Side

- The Last Time

- Satisfaction

- Heart Of Stone

- Oh Baby (We Got A Good Thong Goin´)

- That's How Strong My Love Is 

Disc 2:

- Get Off Of My Cloud

- 19th Nervous Breakdown

- As Tears Go By

- Under My Thumb

- Lady Jane

- Paint It, Black

- Have You Seen Your Mother

- Let’s Spend The Night Together

- Ruby Tuesday

- Yesterdays Papers

- Back Street Girl

- We Love You

- Jumping Jack Flash

Disc 3:

- She's A Rainbow

- Lantern

- Honky Tonk Women

- No Expectations

- Sympathy For The Devil

- Street Fighting Man

- Midnight Rambler

- Gimmie Shelter

- You Can't Always Get What You Want

Note: Thought has a 3 record boxed set with a 12-page booklet, this was another project that started in 1974. 

Originally scheduled for Christmas (according to Roy Carr), the boxes were ordered, text and photos prepared but the ABKCO/"Metamorphosis" negotiations delayed it until early 1975, eventually causing the change of concept in favour of "Rolled Gold" 2-LP issued in November 1975.

Songs Of The Rolling Stones

Songs Of The Rolling Stones


ABKCO MPD-1
Date: 1975
Promo 30-track sampler
Original edition

SIDE 1:
- Under My Thumb 1:30
- I'm Free 1:25
- Sittin' On A Fence 1:30
- Ride On Baby 1:25
- Salt Of The Earth 1:58
- No Expectations 2:00
- Wild Horses 2:50
- Paint It Black 1:58
- Lets Spend The Night Together 1:37
- Midnight Rambler 2:18
- You Can't Always Get What You Want 1:55
- Stupid Girl 1:45
- One More Try 1:10
- The Last Time 1:38
- Sing This All Together 1:07


SIDE 2:
- Jumping Jack Flash 1:28
- You Got The Silver 2:00
- All Down The Line 1:40
- Satisfaction 1:45
- Play With Fire 1:45
- Live With Me 1:43
- Yesterdays Papers 1:15
- Something Happened To Me Yesterday 1:00
- Sweet Virginia 1:55
- Blue Turns To Grey 1:12
- Out Of Time 1:56
- Shine A Light 2:20
- Loving Cup 2:00
- Ruby Tuesday 1:44
- Honky Tonk Women 1:48

Songs Of The Rolling Stones

ABKCO MPD-1

Date: 1979

Promo 30-track sampler

Reissue edition

Same track list

Note: In 1975 Abkco secured the distribution rights to the Stones LPs and intended to reissue all the albums. To promote this campaign they issued this album containing a montage of 30 tracks used as a sampler for music publishers. 

In 1979 it was time for Abkco to once again reissue the Stones back catalogue and the 

album was repressed (retaining the original MPD-1 catalogue number) as part of the promotion 

campaign.

The Black Box

BEWARE: FAKE - Repro For Visual Purposes Only!

Black Box (1)


DECCA (?)
Date: early 1975
Proof sleeves unknown
Decca acetate/Test pressings unknown


SIDE 1:
- Bright Lights, Big City
- Cops And Robbers
- I´d Much Rather Be With The Boys
- Little Red Rooster (Live)
- Down The Road Apiece (Live)
- Don´t Lie To Me


SIDE 2:
- If You Let Me
- Godzi
- Panama Powder Room
- Gold Painted Nails
- Fanny Mae
- Down In The Bottom


Note: Packaged in a thin black box with a booklet of early Stones photos, press clipings and tour souvenirs. 
Since mid-1974 Bill Wyman involved himself in compiling vocal and instrumental tracks for a concept called "Black Box". He spent months going over the archives, selected about 18 titles, laid it all historically, especially for the collectors, provided this album to Klein which he turned down.
The live songs in this album, "Little Red Rooster" and "Down The Road Apiece", surely are radio recordings, same as with BBC "Cops And Robbers" and "Fanny Mae" sessions.


Black Box (2)

DECCA (?)

Date: early 1975

Proof sleeves unknown

Decca acetate/Test pressings unknown

SIDE 1:

- Out Of Time

- Don´t Lie To Me
- Somethings Just Stick In Your Mind

- Each And Every Day of The Year

- I´d Much Rather Be With The Boys

- Sleepy City

- We´re Wasting Time

- Try A Little Harder

SIDE 2:

- Satisfaction (Live)

- Fanny Mae

- I Don´t Know Why

- Downtown Suzie

- Memo From Turner

- I´m Going Down

Metamorphosis

DECCA SKL 5212

Date: June 1975

Decca test pressing

SIDE 1:
- Out Of Time
- Don´t Lie To Me
- Somethings Just Stick In Your Mind
- Each And Every Day of The Year
- Heart Of Stone
- I´d Much Rather Be With the boys
- Sleepy City
- We´re Wasting Time
- Try A Little Harder

SIDE 2:
- I Don´t Know Why
- If You Let Me
- Jiving Sister Fanny
- Downtown Suzie
- Family
- Memo From Turner
- I´m Going Down

R&R Circus

The Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus
ABKCO/DECCA (?)
Date: early 1975
Cover color proofs exists
Cover design: (?)
Illustration: Alan Aldridge


Note: Since December 1974 to March 1975, it was reported several times that DECCA/ABKCO were set to release this album, which was delayed until September 1975, then to 1982, and CD/Video were finally released in 1996.
There´s some few old acetates from the "Rock & Roll Circus", mostly from The Dirty Mac or The Who set, and an unconfirmed Sterling Sound acetate from April 4, 1975 (as "Necrophilia" acetate, still its existence is unconfirmed), one of ABKCO scheduled "RR Circus" date release!
As noticed before by some collectors, the old 1968-1970 IBC acetates usually are "various-artists compilations" of rare demos or live recordings available at the studio for some unknown reason,which later on, somebody carefully mastered and pressed for personal use, and most were the basis of unauthorized pressings of the early 70´s, from The Beatles, Stones, Cream to Jimi Hendrix or Led Zeppelin.
The 10" IBC acetate, pictured below, have two tracks by John´s Dirty Mac ("Yer Blues" and "Jam") and The Who´s "Mini-Opera" (A Quick One) on side 1, and Jimi Hendrix´s "Live at Winterland Arena" on side 2.
The original 7" one-sided EMIdisc acetate includes Yer Blues.

"The Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus" LP acetate features The WHO, JOHN LENNON, JETHRO TULL and TAJ MAHAL. Although this acetate has a release date of 4th April 1975, on STERLING SOUND INC. apparently this concert was never issued on vinyl.

The (unconfirmed) "RR Circus" Sterling Sound acetate track list:

SIDE 1:
1. UNDER THE DOUBLE EAGLE
2.TAJ AMAHAL - CORINA CORINA
3. TAJ MAHAL - AIN'T THAT A WHOLE LOTTA LOVE
4. JETHRO TULL - SONG FOR GEOFFREY
5. DIRTY MACK - MACK-YER BLUES
6. DIRTY MACK - WHOLE LOTTA YOKO

SIDE 2:
1. THE LOVELIEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR
2.THE WHO (TRACK NOT LISTED ON LABEL)
3. ROLLING STONES - JUMPIN' JACK FLASH - PARACHUTE WOMAN 

- NO EXPECTATIONS - YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT 

- SALT OF THE EARTH