Frank Zappa

Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow/Cosmik Debris

1974

Runout A: DSS 1312 RCA 4739-V1-S 1B (A) SS (etched, (A) is stamped)
Runout B: DSS 1312 RCA 3998-S 1A (A)  SSS (etched, (A) is stamped)
Pressing Plant: Columbia Records, Santa Maria, California
Material:
Vinyl
Lacquer Cut At: Artisan Sound Recorders (A)
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Generic white sleeve.

Above is a sealed copy with a cardboard sheet. It was wraped like this so that it could be hung by retailers and placed in the racks together with LP’s. This wrapping was done by the distributors and not the manufacturers.

Title strip 1 image from Ton van Mierle.

Title strip 2 image from Eelco Janzen.

Runout A: RCA 4739 V1S-1A (stamped)
Runout B: RCA 3998S -1B P (stamped)
Pressing Plant: Columbia Records, Pitman, New Jersey
Material: Styrene
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Generic white sleeve.

Runout A: 00602465639896-A / ZR 20046-1B-LP03-E BO16413-01 E1 =1 6563989 BG ▽ (etched)
Runout B: 00602465639896-B / ZR 20046-1B-LP3-F ZAPPA.COM BO16413-01 F1 =1 6563989 BG ▽ (etched)
Pressing Plant: Optimal Media GmbH, Röbel/Müritz
Material: Vinyl
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Generic white sleeve.

Runout A: RCA-4739S-1A-2G: S1 O (etched, O is stamped)
Runout B: RCA-3998S-1A-2G: O (etched, O is stamped)
Pressing Plant: Columbia Records, Don Mills, Ontario?
Material: Vinyl
Lacquer Cut At: Columbia Records, Don Mills, Ontario (1A-2G:)
Mastered At: Customatrix (O)
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Notes:
Please be advised that Columbia Records, Don Mills, Ontario might not be the correct pressing plant.

My copy came had a white generic sleeve with the sticker shown above.

The label has a misprint. Cosmik Debris is spelled Cosmick Debris.

Factory sleeve images from Eelco Janzen.

Runout A: RCA 4739S KM (etched)
Runout B: RCA 3998S KM (etched)
Pressing Plant: EMI (Manufacturing) NZ Ltd., Wellington
Material: Vinyl
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Label and factory sleeve images from BengoFury.