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Posted: 04 March 2012 at 7:52pm

And so does my own copy, pre-Arista.

I turn up the good and turn down the bad!

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Posted: 01 February 2013 at 6:47pm

in my billboard book of top 40 hits, it says that the
climax song 'precious and few' was first released on
carousel 30055, which i have but also states it was
released as rocky road 30055.....i have never seen the
rocky road 45 release.....can anyone confirm that they've
seen or have a copy of the rocky road 30055 vinyl 45?.....

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Posted: 02 February 2013 at 6:32am

edtop40 wrote:

in my billboard book of top 40 hits, it says that the
climax song 'precious and few' was first released on
carousel 30055, which i have but also states it was
released as rocky road 30055.....i have never seen the
rocky road 45 release.....can anyone confirm that they've
seen or have a copy of the rocky road 30055 vinyl 45?.....

Ed, we've since taken that trivia note out of the books. I'd also be curious if anyone has ever seen a copy on Rocky Road. FWIW, Tim Neely does list it in his price guides.

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Posted: 02 February 2013 at 9:48am

At one time, I owned a Rock Road test pressing for "Life
And Breath", the follow-up to "Precious And Few." I'd
imagine there are pressings for "Precious And Few" on Rocky
Road.

I just did a Google image search and only the Carousel
label came up.

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Posted: 07 February 2013 at 7:00pm

According to the entry on the Both Sides now site,
"Precious and Few" was reissued as Rocky Road 30055" when
it became a hit single. First pressings in late 1971
were on the Carousel label.

Apparently, In late 1971 or early 1972, the label was
issued a cease and desist notice for the Carousel name,
so owner Marc Gordon abruptly switched the name to Rocky
Road.

The company folded in 1975, just two years after Al
Wilson's "Show And Tell" was a hit on the label.

The reason the reissue 45 wound up on Arista is because
Rocky Road was distributed by Bell, and that company
morphed into Arista when Clive Davis took the company, as
we know.

Edited by The Hits Man