Reply With QuoteYou're a fan Graham? Sorry, I wish I could help. I had a friend who now lives in Northern Cali. that loved his stuff. Was it popular in the Great White North?
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This is a long shot, but...
I found out a while ago that there's more than one version of Captain Sky's "Adventures of..." LP. So far I have found two versions, but I suspect there may be another.
The original has the following tracklisting for side 2:
1 - Now That I Have You (3:38)
2 - Wonder Worm (13:15)
3 - Can't Stop Now (5:50)
I have a later version which has the following tracklisting for side 2:
1 - Dr. Rock (6:45)
2 - Wonder Worm (With Tones) (8:03)
3 - Can't Stop Now (5:50)
They both have the same sleeve with the original tracklisting. The catalog number on the original label is AVI-6042, whereas it's AVI-6042-3 on the later one... which makes me wonder if there's another version with AVI 6042-2... anyone know?
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You're a fan Graham? Sorry, I wish I could help. I had a friend who now lives in Northern Cali. that loved his stuff. Was it popular in the Great White North?
Find them and destroy them!
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Hey Graham
I was always blown away by the interesting jacket and the fact that such a P funk influenced record would come out on such a disco identified label as AVI.
More info on the guy :
Captain Sky - The Adventures Of Captain Sky
and
Deep Groove Encyclopedia - Captain Sky
KRIS
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Originally Written by paul
No, these records are really, really hard to find up here. I don't even know if they got released here at all; every copy I've seen is a US one.
To make matters worse, they're pressed on AVI's infamously bad vinyl, *and* these albums only ever seem to come up in very poor condition. I'm going to give a try cleaning this one up, but my copy of the original version is so bad that it might be a write-off.
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The Deep Groove entry isn't entirely accurate... "Wonder Worm" isn't a radio-friendly re-titling of "Super Sporm" but an entirely different track.Hey Graham
I was always blown away by the interesting jacket and the fact that such a P funk influenced record would come out on such a disco identified label as AVI.
More info on the guy :
Captain Sky - The Adventures Of Captain Sky
and
Deep Groove Encyclopedia - Captain Sky
I'm still going over this to see if the "with tones" version is a remix or just an edit of the original.
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hmmmmm difficult this one....
AVI (Américan Variety International)
lists the AVI stuff but only has it as avi6042
But some interesting stuff on Captain Sky can be found
Captain Sky
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Okay, I think that one explains it. The second version dropped "Super Sporm" in favour of "Dr. Rock". The third version brought back "Super Sporm" but dropped "Now That I Have You" and edited/remixed "Wonder Worm".
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That's insane! Why would they put out the same LP three different ways? And it's not like it was by some big name artist. He was a newcomer. The most I've ever seen was 2, which was the TGIF soundtrack (maybe there were three?) and a John Davis LP or 2.
Disco Funk
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I'm assuming because he came out with the "Dr Rock" single shortly after the album was finished, but he wasn't ready to do a full follow-up. Or perhaps AVI wanted a version without "Super Sporm"... after all, there are two versions of the cover of Le Pamplemousse's "Le Spank", although the music is the same on both.
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