Peter Townshend* – Who Came First

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Label:	Decca – DL 79189
Format:	Vinyl , LP, Album , Pinckneyville Pressing
Country:	US
Released:	Nov 1972
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Folk Rock

Tracklist

A1	Pure And Easy Written-By – Townshend*	5:25
A2	Evolution Lead Guitar [Lead Accoustic], Acoustic Guitar [Lead Accoustic] – Pete Townshend Vocals [Sings], Guitar – Ronnie Lane Written-By – Lane*	3:33
A3	Forever's No Time At All Performer [Everything Else] – Caleb Quaye Vocals [Sings], Acoustic Guitar [Accoustic] – Billie Nicholls* Words By – Katie McInnerny* Written-By – McInnerny*	2:50
A4	Nothing Is Everything (Let's See Action) Written-By – Townshend*	6:15
B1	Time Is ing Written-By – Townshend*	3:25
B2	There's A Heartache Followin' Me Written-By – Baker*	3:15
B3	Sheraton Gibson Written-By – Townshend*	2:40
B4	Content Music By [Put It To Music], Vocals [Sing It] – Pete Townshend Words By [A Poem By] – Maud Kennedy Written-By – Townshend*	2:30
B5	Parvardigar Written-By, Adapted By – Townshend*	6:43

Companies, etc.

Record Company – MCA Records, Inc.
Manufactured By – MCA Records, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – MCA Records, Inc.
Copyright © – MCA Records, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Track Records (9)
Recorded At – Eel Pie Sound
Mixed At – Olympic Studios
Pressed By – MCA Pressing Plant, Pinckneyville
Published By – Track Music, Inc.
Published By – WB Music Corp.
Published By – Tuckahoe Music, Inc.

Credits

Design, Photography By [Cover Photography] – Graham Hughes (2)
Instruments [All Instruments], Vocals, Recorded By [Recording], Engineer [Engineering], Mixed By [Mixing], Synthesizer [Synthesisers] – Pete Townshend
Painting – Micheal McInnerney*
Photography By [Of Baba Courtesy Of] – Louis Van Gasteren
Producer [Also Produced By] – Pete Townshend

Notes

MCA Pressing Plant, Pinckneyville, pressing denoted by five-pointed star ("★") in side B label matrix and "2" etched in runouts. Remainder of runouts etched.

Label variation to other Pinckneyville pressings Who Came First.

Issued on silver Track Record / Decca labels, Decca only on jacket.

Issued in gatefold jacket, with 11" × 22" foldout poster.

Sticker on back cover with "℗ 1972 Track Records" covering "℗ 1972 MCA Records, Inc."

Catalog number DL 7-9189 on jacket.
Catalog number DL 79189 on labels.

Track title variations on back cover:
A1: Pure & Easy
A3: Forevers No Time At All
B2: Heartache (song known as "Theres a Heartache following me" (Baker USA) recorded by J. Reeves)

B5: Adapted from Meher Baba's Universal Prayer.

All instruments, vocals, recording, engineering, mixing, synthesisers in fact everything except making the tea. In one gynormouse ego trip by Pete Townshend.

Recorded at Eel Pie Sound, London, England (our second bathroom)
Mixed at Olympic Reduction Room (our second garage)

Recorded In England

Track publishers:
A1, A3 to B1, B3 to B5: Track Music, Inc. - BMI
A2: Warner Brothers Music Corp. - ASCAP
B2: Tuckahoe Music, Inc. - BMI

© 1972 MCA Records, Inc. ℗ 1972 MCA Records, Inc.
℗ 1972 Track Records

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Rights Society (A1, A3 to B5): BMI
Rights Society (A2): ASCAP
Pressing Plant ID (Side B label): ★
Matrix / Runout (Side A label): 7-13082
Matrix / Runout (Side B label): 7-13083★
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): MG 7-13082 (W-3) III 2
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): MG 7-13083 (W-4) 2 II

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	Who Came First (LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold)	Track Record	2408 201, 2408-201	UK	1972
New Submission	Who Came First (LP, Album)	Polydor	2408 201		1972
	Who Came First (LP, Album, Gloversville Pressing)	Track Record	DL 7-9189, DL 79189	US	1972
New Submission	Who Came First (LP, Album, Club Edition, Capitol Record Club)	Track Record	DL 7-9189, SMAS-94896	US	1972
	Who Came First (LP, Album, Gloversville Press)	Decca	DL 7-9189, DL 79189	US	1972