Ramones and the record clubs

There are at least two Ramones albums that have been pressed exclusive for record clubs.

The first one is the debut album that was made for the Australian World Record Club in 1977. WRC started in England and operated i Australia from 1957 to the late 70's. The subscribers of the record club got a magazine each month, the World Record News, with articles on music and order forms for the new releases.

The sleeve of the Ramones LP is based on the australian release on Philips but with a small WRC logo on the front, a different catalog number and some information about WRC on the back. The labels are totally different.

The other club-release I have found is a version of Subterranean Jungle for the Columbia. The mail order service started in the early 1970's in USA by the Columbia Records division of CBS and was really big in the 1980's and early 1990's.

One of the records with a unique sleeve and labels on Columbia House was Subterranean Jungle. Unlike the standard US pressing this one don't have a barcode. The sleeve is marked with "Manufactured by Columbia House under license" and the labels has a different number. The record has the same inner sleeve with lyrics as the standard US pressing.

Album: Ramones

Number: W.R.C. R 90324

Year: 1977

Country: Australia

Album: Subterranean Jungle

Number: Sire W1-23800

Year: 1983

Country: USA

The spanish promo singles

There is a handful of promo singles from Spain. The first one is a four track promo EP that was released in 1978 to promote for acts on Sire records, Talking Heads, Flamin Groovies, Dead Boys and the Ramones. The next promo is the Rock'n'Roll Radio 7" from 1980. The promo version was issued in the same picture sleeve as the stock version but there are also copies in a Hispavox promo company sleeve.
Later on Ariola released white label promos of two singles, Howling At The Moon and Something To Believe In.
Here are the spanish promo 45's:

Songs: Talking Heads: Take Mer To The River, Ramones: Don't Come Close, Flamin' Groovies: Feel A Whole Lot Better, Dead Boys: 3rd Generation Nation

Number: Sire CP 319

Year: 1978

Country: Spain

Notes: Promo only-EP on 33 rpm 

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Songs: Do You Remember Rock'n'roll Radio?/Let's go

Number: Sire 45-2003

Year: 1980

Country: Spain

Notes: Promo, some copies in PS, others i promo-company sleeve. 

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Songs: Ramones: She's A Sensation, Pretenders: Message Of Love

Number: Hispavox CP-385

Year: 1981

Country: Spain

Notes: Promo, onesided flexi.

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Songs: Howling At The Moon/Wart Hog

Number: Ariola A-107.136

Year: 1985

Country: Spain

Notes: WL Promo.

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Songs: Something To Believe In/Somebody Put Something In My Drink

Number: Ariola A-108.387

Year: 1986

Country: Spain

Notes: WL Promo.

Howling At The Moon – and the rest

I have been searching for this single for a long time before I suddenly found it, the italian Howling At The Moon. It's a promo-only release on RCA records and it marks the end of the vinyl single era in Italy, at least when it comes to the Ramones.
RCA did the distribution in Italy right from the start, in 1977, and most of the italian Ramones releases have a white label promo version. Here is the complete list of 45's pressed in Italy:

Songs: Howling At The Moon/Chasing The Night

Number: RCA PB 6811

Year: 1985

Country: Italy

Notes: Promo only

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Songs: Baby I Love You/Do You Remember Rock'n'roll Radio?

Number: Sire SRE 1012

Year: 1980

Country: Italy

Notes: Two versions, stock copy and white label promo. Both came in the same PS.

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Songs: Ramones: Baby I Love You/Decibel: Contessa

Number: Sire JPB 6412

Year: 1980

Country: Italy

Notes: Juke-box single. 

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Songs: Ramones: Baby I Love You/Decibel: Contessa

Number: Sire JPB 6412

Year: 1980

Country: Italy

Notes: Same as above with a disputed "semi-legitimate" sleeve. Read more here. Watch out for fakes!

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Songs: Ramones: Needles & Pins/She's The One

Number: Sire SRE 1009

Year: 1978

Country: Italy

Notes: Distributed in the italian RCA company sleeve. A few copies have the DJ-sleeve but watch out for fakes!

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Songs: Do You Wanna Dance?/Rockaway Beach

Number: Sire SRE 1008

Year: 1978

Country: Italy

Notes: Two versions, stock copy and white label promo. Both came in the same PS.

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Name: Disco Refrain – Punk Collection

Number: RCA PF 6204

Year: 1978

Country: Italy

Notes: Promo EP with short versions of 8 songs, among them Rockaway Beach & Cretin Hop. It's most likely that this EP was distributed together with  this songbook:

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Songs: Sheena Is A Punk Rocker/I Don't Care

Number: Sire SAA 746

Year: 1977

Country: Italy

Notes: Two versions, stock copy and white label promo. Both came in the same PS.

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Songs: Glad To See You Go/Babysitter//California Sun/I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You (live)

Number: Sire SAA 734

Year: 1977

Country: Italy

Notes: Two versions, stock copy and white label promo. Both came in the same PS. Read more about this release here.

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The argentinian singles

In 1981 Music Hall in released a single under license from Sire records to promote the album Suenos Placenteros (Pleasant Dreams) in Argentina.
The single came in a white label promo version and a stock version with Sire labels. Both have titles in spanish and was issued in company sleeves.
Today, 32 years later, it looks like the promo version is easier to find than the stock version – but often with the handwritten XX on the labels.
Here they are, the only official singles from South America:

Songs: No Te Vayas (Don't Go)/Ven Ahora (Come On Now)

Number: Sire/Music Hall 32.829

Year: 1981

Country: Argentina

Notes: Stock version

Songs: No Te Vayas (Don't Go)/Ven Ahora (Come On Now)

Number: Music Hall 32.829

Year: 1981

Country: Argentina

Notes: Promo version

All the singles from Germany

Dee Dee Ramone lived there for 14 years as a kid. Ramones did 35 shows in the country. And since 2005 there is a Ramones museum in Berlin.
It's A Long Way Back To Germany is just one of many Ramones songs with references to Deutschland. I have been writing about some of the releases from Germany before but here is the complete list of singles:

Songs: Sheena Is A Punk Rocker/I Don't Care

Number: Philips 6078 511

Year: 1977

Country: Germany

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Songs: Rockaway Beach/Locket Love

Number: Philips 6078 517

Year: 1977

Country: Germany

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Songs: Don't Come Close/I Don't Want You

Number: Sire 15 868 AT

Year: 1978

Country: Germany

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Songs: C'mon Let's Go/Magic Power

Number: Sire 100 036-100

Year: 1978

Country: Germany

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Title: She's the one/Sheena is a punk rocker

Number: Sire/Ariola 100 394-100

Year: 1978

Country: Germany

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Title: Baby I Love You/High Risk Insurance

Number: Sire/Ariola 101 399-100

Year: 1980

Country: Germany

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Title: Do You Remember Rock'n'Roll Radio?/Rock'n'Roll High School

Number: Sire 101 871

Year: 1980

Country: Germany

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Title: I wanna live/Bye bye baby

Number: Upfront 6.14958

Year: 1987

Country: Germany 

Note: Promo only

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Songs: Pet Sematary/Don't Bust My Chops

Format: 7"

Number: Chrysalis 112 489

Year: 1989

Country: Germany

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Title: I beliebe in miracles/All screwed up

Number: Chrysalis 112792

Year: 1989

Country: Germany 

Note: Promo only

The single comes with n inlay, an infosheet.