Whistling Jack Smith-"I Was Kaiser..."

Hykker wrote: Another interesting thing about this song is that it's the only Deram single I've ever seen with the multi-tone orange swirl label on promo copies like other London subsidiary labels..... By the summer of '67 their promos were the stock label with "promotional copy" printed on it. I wonder why Deram was different from other London labels.

Steve, the first U.S. Deram 45 (#7501) was Cat Stevens' 1966 #118 bubbler, "I Love My Dog." My promo copy was also printed on the standard London/Parrot/Press, et al. orange swirl promo label, using only plain block "DERAM" letters for a logo.

This is strictly a guess, but it could be that, unlike the color-intensive Parrot & Press stock labels, the Deram stock label had a significant amount of plain white background, perhaps enough so that less ink was used on the stocks than on the initial run of 1966-early '67 orange-swirl Deram promos.

Too bad Stevens didn't cut this one as "Walkin' My Dog Named Cat." :)

BTW, for whatever reason Deram utilized concurrent 45 numbering systems - the 7500 and 85000 series - by the time my promo copy of Stevens' Matthew And Son" (7505) bubbled under in March of '67, it was already on the more familiar brown and white promo label . This was over a month before Whistling Jack Smith (85005) charted. Looks like there was some overlap.

Edited by Yah Shure