The Knack - My Sharona

Hykker wrote: There were also the target-logo-era albums that were also sort of a "puke green", but that only lasted until late '72/early '73, well before the (2nd) Knack was formed.

The chartreuse LP label with the purple target logo at the top only lasted about a year, mostly during 1970. When I bought Leo Kottke's Mudlark LP in early '71, the chartreuse background color had already been retired in favor of a reddish-orange. The rest of the label design remained unchanged.

The Discount Records chain had run an ad (probably in Rolling Stone magazine) in 1970 featuring a coupon for most of the Beatles' Capitol/Apple albums at $2.99 apiece, so I bought new copies of everything up through Sgt. Pepper's. Boy, was I ever surprised. Sacrilege! :) Although the sight of Sgt. Pepper's suddenly bedecked in chartreuse didn't make me puke, I thought it was the most hideous-looking record label I'd ever seen. I'm sure it was felt that the newly-rechristened Capitol Industries, Incorporated needed an updated logo to better represent its diversifying product line, but yeesh, that label color was the absolute pits.

Hykker wrote: My copy of "With A Little Luck" is a test pressing, but ISTR "regular" promos having the same label (only in black & white) as the stock copies with "not for sale" added.

I have that test pressing, too, as well as the standard promo 45. On the latter, the Tower Bridge design is in black and white on the stereo side, but is in full color on the mono side. You'd think it would have been the other way around.