Messiah Excerpts

FIRST EDITION Same ED1 labels as this release but with a flip back sleeve and early matrix numbers. These are excerpts from the complete "Messiah" recording, issued in the UK on Decca SET 218/20 in 1961. ED1 LABELS: - Black/silver 'grooved wideband' labels - "Original recording by" at 11 o'clock - "Made in England" at bottom - "Recording first published 1961" - No Tax Code on Label SLEEVE: - Front laminated - Flipback (Earliest Cover) - Boxed Decca logo on front and back - Small "stereo" in a black box on front top left - Spine has text on it, bold "stereo" on spine - "© 1962, The Decca Record Company Limited, London" - "Printed in England by Robert Stace" - No Print Date - "Original instrumentation" - Sleeve notes in English only on back OTHER INFORMATION: - Recorded 15 May - 25 August 1961 in Kingsway Hall, London - Labelography code: ED1 - Corresponding mono issue has cat# LXT 5685 - This was the last cat# in the SXL 2000 series Runouts are stamped - No Tax Code normally stamped at 12 o'clock