LP - Jethro Tull – This Was - original - 1969 - UK - M / NM

Jethro Tull – This Was
Jethro Tull - This Was album cover
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Label: Island Records – ILP 985
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, 3rd pink Island label design
Country: UK
Released: 1969
Genre: Rock
Style: Blues Rock
A1 My Sunday Feeling
Written-By – Anderson*
3:38
A2 Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You
Written-By – Anderson*
2:42
A3 Beggar's Farm
Written-By – Anderson*, Abrahams*
4:19
A4 Move On Alone
Arranged By – David Palmer (2)
Written-By – Abrahams*
2:00
A5 Serenade To A Cuckoo
Written-By – Kirk*
6:01
B1 Dharma For One
Written-By – Bunker*, Anderson*
4:11
B2 It's Breaking Me Up
Written-By – Anderson*
4:56
B3 Cat's Squirrel
Arranged By – Abrahams*
Written-By – Traditional
5:36
B4 A Song For Jeffrey
Written-By – Anderson*
3:18
B5 Round
Written-By – Bunker*, Cornick*, Anderson*, Abrahams*, Ellis*
0:50
Published By – Chrysalis Music
Published By – Flamingo Music
Copyright © – Chrysalis Productions Ltd.
Recorded At – Sound Techniques, London
Bass Guitar – Glenn Cornick
Cover [Cover Concept], Artwork – Ian Anderson, Terry Ellis
Drums [Hooter & Charm Bracelet] – Clive Bunker
Engineer – Victor Gamm*
Flute, Harmonica [& Claghorn], Piano, Vocals – Ian Anderson
Guitar, Guitar [Nine-string], Vocals – Mick Abrahams
Photography By – Brian Ward (5)
Producer – Jethro Tull, Terry Ellis
UK pink Island 3rd label design, MONO pressing, with small white i label. Rough textured labels.
Laminated gatefold mono cover.
Inside gatefold has two un-flapped white borders.
Back cover: "Island Records Limited 155 - 157 Oxford Street London W1 England" in large lettering at the bottom. This has the wide white spine (8mm circa), with mono cat#.
Includes original light blue Island Records poly-lined inner sleeve with pink "i" logo.

From book "FROG TO PROG: PINK LABEL LPS – Island Albums Part 1", by STUART PENNEY and CHRIS SAVAGE:
"The discovery of a 3rd design pink mono "This Was" gives the lie to the oft-quoted claim that this mix of Tull's debut was withdrawn immediately after release.
The 3rd pink label did not come into service for LPs until October 1969, almost a year after the mono "This Was" is generally thought to have been deleted!
Can the explanation lie in the murky and still unexplored waters of the great British export pressing? While the newly-unearthed white 'i' copy of "This Was" is certainly a U.K. pressing, the BIEM publishing legend on the label used to be seen more often on records originating in, or destined for, mainland Europe.
Whatever, Island definitely pressed up a second batch of mono Tull LPs in late 1969 or 1970, baffling researchers, discographers and others who care about such things.
The sleeve of this particular oddity is also unusual in that, though it has a similar design to those found housing 2nd and 3rd pink label pressings (as well as palm tree and early Chrysalis reissues), it features un-flapped white borders on the inside gatefold rather than the black borders found on all of those later pressings. Moreover, by the time the 3rd pink label carne into use, Island was firmly established at Basing Street, yet the laminated sleeve of this anachronistic mono pink still carries the label's earlier Oxford Street address in large lettering across the back".

Matrix / Runout (Side-A Run-out, Stamped): ILP+985+A
Matrix / Runout (Side-B Run-out, Stamped): ILP+985+B
Rights Society: BIEM