Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn – UK Stereo 1st Vinyl Pressing – R1/A1 – "File Under Popular" 2nd - LP album (stand-alone item) - 1967

Title: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Columbia Records 1st issue stereo)
Record Company: Columbia Records
Catalog Number: SCX 6157
Matrix Information: (side 1 / side 2)
3419-1 / 3420-1:

4) YAX 3419-1 R 1 / YAX 3420-1 A 1 (both stamped) [BC2]

Release Date: August 5, 1967
Release Information: First stereo issue on a black Columbia label with a blue Columbia trademark logo. The song listing and writing credits on the labels are as follows:

Side 1:
1. ASTRONOMY DOMINE (Barrett). 2. LUCIFER SAM (Barrett)
3. MATILDA MOTHER (Barrett). 4. FLAMING (Barrett)
5. POW R. TOC H (Barrett-Waters-Wright-Mason)
6. TAKE UP THY STETHOSCOPE AND WALK (Waters)
Magdalene Music/Essex Music,
Mecolico, BIEM, NCB

Side 2:
1. INTERSTELLAR OVERDRIVE (Barrett-Waters-Wright-Mason)
2. THE GNOME (Barrett). 3. CHAPTER 24 (Barrett)
4. THE SCARECROW (Barrett). 5. BIKE Magdalene Music/Essex Music,
Mecolico, BIEM, NCB
Description:
Front Cover: Kaleidoscope picture of the band with "PINK FLOYD" at bottom. EMI logo in upper left corner. Laminated flipback cover.
Back Cover #1 [BC1]: On early pressings, the top right part of the flipback is blank. Back cover includes title, credits, and song listing. Catalog number in upper right corner. Unlaminated except for flipbacks.
Back Cover #2 [BC2]: On later pressings, the top right part of the flipback includes the text: "File under POPULAR : Pop Groups."
Inner Sleeve: [front] [back] Cream colored inner sleeve. On the front is an EMI logo at the top center, with "Add these outstanding LPs to your collection" at the top, 16 LP covers pictured in the middle including Both Sides of Herman's Hermits, and "Remember-the new Emitex cleans and preserves your records," and "Patents applied for" at the bottom. On the back is an EMI logo at the top center, with " - the greatest recording organization in the world" at the top, 16 LP covers pictured in the middle including the Beatles-Revolver, and "E.M.I. Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) Hayes - Middlesex - England, Made and Printed in Great Britain" at the bottom.
Spine: White with The Pink Floyd.
Labels (Factory Sample): Black Columbia labels with a white Factory Sample Not For Sale sticker on side 2. The letters "K" and "T" are stamped on side 1.
Labels: Black Columbia labels with silver text, and a blue "Columbia Records Magic Notes Trademark" at the top, and a blue "Columbia" in the center.
Underneath the blue "Columbia" it says "Sold in U.K. subject to resale price conditions. See price lists." The letters "K" and "T" are stamped on the label (on either on side 1 or 2) on each side of the spindle hole. These are the U.K. tax stamps and indicate that the tax was paid for this album. At the bottom of the label, it says "Made in Gt. Britain."
Text around the bottom edge of the label starts at 10 o'clock and says:

The Gramophone Co., Ltd. All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved. Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting, and copying of this record prohibited.