Comes with a plain white poly-lined inner sleeve and the shrink-wrap has a “Verve By Request” sticker.

[Catalog numbers]
LS 86071 Front cover and spine
LS-86071 Back cover and labels
B0038140-01 Back cover, spine and labels
548365-1 labels

[Back cover]
Recorded at: 8-TRACK STUDIOS, Chicago, Illinois, Stuart Walder, engineer / AMIGO STUDIOS, North Hollywood, California, Hank Cicalo, engineer / AUDIO FINISHERS, Chicago, Illinois, Murray Allen, engineer / Remixed at: 8-TRACK STUDIOS, Chicago, Illinois, Bruce Swedien, engineer, Stuart Walder, engineer / RCA RECORDING STUDIOS, Chicago, Illinois, Brian Christian, engineer
Distributed by Universal Music Enterprises, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

Jodie Christian, Lester Bowie, Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell, Byron Bowie and Steve Galloway all identified as “Members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)”.

A2, to A5, B2 to B4 Melvin Jackson’s ‘Effects’, ie string bass transformations, are created “with Maestro G-2 filter box for guitar, Boomerang, Echo-Plex and Ampeg amplifier”.
A1, B1 Melvin Jackson’s ‘Effects’, ie string bass transformations, are created “with Maestro G-2 filter box for guitar, Boomerang and Ampeg amplifier”.

[Back cover and labels]
A Verve Records release; Originally released in 1969 on Verve Records © 2023 UMG Recordings, Inc.

[“Verve By Request” sticker]
Manufactured at Third Man Pressing in Detroit MI
180g Audiophile quality vinyl
Third Man Pressing

Runouts are etched except “STERLING” is stamped.

This release differs from others to date with the same catalog number in that the jacket rear has a white barcode at the top right instead of pink, and an additional Sony Music logo at the bottom. The disc labels also have additional references to Sony.

Recorded and mixed using the Acusonic Recording Process
Aditional Sound Sources Recorded at Ocean Way Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Recorded at Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, CA

A1, A3, B1, B2: © 1982 Mijac Music (administered by Sony/ATV Songs LLC.) (BMI)
A2, A4, B5: © 1982 Rodsongs. All rights for the U.S. and Canada, administered by Almo Music Corp. (PRS) (ASCAP)
B3: © 1982 Sony/ATV Tunes LLC & John Bettis Music (ASCAP). All rights on behalf of Sony/ATV Tunes LLC administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC.
B4: © 1982 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI)

Quincy Jones and James Ingram appear courtesy of Qwest Records
David Paich, Steve Porcaro, Jeff Porcaro and Steve Lukather appear courtesy of Columbia Records
Louis Johnson and Janet Jackson appear courtesy of A&M Records, Inc.
Greg Phillinganes appears courtesy of Solar Records
Paulinho da Costa appears courtesy of Pablo Records, Inc.
Eddie Van Halen appears courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Howard Hewett appears courtesy of Solar Records
Bill Wolfer appears courtesy of Constellation Records
Michael Boddicker appears courtesy of Boddifications

℗ 1982 MJJ Productions Inc.
© 1982 MJJ Productions Inc.

© 1982, 2015 MJJ Productions Inc. / ℗ 1982 MJJ Productions Inc. Distributed by Epic, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. Sony Music Entertainment International Services GmbH
Made in the E.U.