Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Canada part two – the WEA singles

In 1978 Warner took over Sire records and GRT lost the distribution deal for Canada. From now on WEA Music of Canada took care of the business and they released four singles between 1979 and 1981. WEA also re-released the three first albums in Canada in 1978. The singles all came in a stock version and a white label promo version but unlike in the U.S. they had two songs on the promo-versions, not the same track in mono and stereo.
All singles was released in canadian WEA company sleeves, no picture sleeves.
Here they are – and together with the GRT-singles this is the complete canadian singles discography. A big thank you to Timo from www.ramones.fi for helping me with some of the pictures:


Songs: Rock'n'Roll High School/Do you wanna dance? (live)
Number: Sire SRE 1051
Year: 1979
Country: Canada
Notes: Stock version.

Songs: Rock'n'Roll High School/Do you wanna dance? (live)
Number: Sire SRE 1051
Year: 1979
Country: Canada
Notes: White label promo.


Songs: Baby I love you/High Risk Insurance
Number: Sire SRE 49182
Year: 1980
Country: Canada
Notes: Stock version.

Songs: Baby I love you/High Risk Insurance
Number: Sire SRE 49182
Year: 1980
Country: Canada
Notes: White label promo.



Songs: Do you remember Rock'n'Roll Radio?/Let's go
Number: Sire SRE 49261
Year: 1980
Country: Canada
Notes: Stock version.

Songs: Do you remember Rock'n'Roll Radio?/Let's go
Number: Sire SRE 49261
Year: 1980
Country: Canada
Notes: White label promo. Photo: ramones.fi



Songs: We want the airwaves/All is quite on the eastern front
Number: Sire SRE 49812
Year: 1981
Country: Canada
Notes: Stock version. Photo: ramones.fi


Songs: We want the airwaves/All is quite on the eastern front
Number: Sire SRE 49812
Year: 1981
Country: Canada
Notes: White label promo.





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