Rare test pressing for the ‘Ruby Tuesday’ EP released in Australia in 1967. Pressed by EMI in Sydney Australia, with EMI labels. Tracklist side A: Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? / Paint It, Black. Tracklist side B: Let’s Spend The Night Together / Ruby Tuesday. Matrix side A: 7XDEC 1162. Matrix side B: 7XDEC 1163.
COLLECTORS NOTE: There are only two known Rolling Stones test pressings from Australia in the 1960s. This is one of them. The other example is shown in the entry for ‘Satisfaction EP’ (1969). No other items have been documented yet or are known to circulate (but they must exist, surely?). A standard practice at many record companies in the 1960s was to destroy test pressings after listening to them. Employees at Decca Australia must have been incredibly scrupulous in doing this! This is the only reason I can think that other 1960s Rolling Stones test pressings from Australia have not emerged. I am very fortunate to have these items in my collection.
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