"Precious and Few" - Climax

And so does my own copy, pre-Arista.

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.

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