Rockmelons* – Tales Of The City

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Label:	Truetone Records – TLP 790297
Format:	Vinyl , LP, Album , Rockmelon graphic label
Country:	Australia
Released:	May 1988
Genre:	Funk / Soul
Style:	Soul

Tracklist

A1		New Groove
A2		What's It Gonna Be?
A3		Jump Lead Vocals [Guest Lead Vocals] – Wendy Matthews Written-By – Curtis Mayfield
A4		Thief
A5		Dreams In The Empty City
B1		Get Back On The Groove
B2		Rhymes Written-By – Al Green
B3		Boogie Tron
B4		Money Talks Mixed By – The Rockmelons

Companies, etc.

Record Company – EMI Music Group Australasia
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Truetone Records
Copyright © – Truetone Records
Published By – SBK Songs
Published By – MCA
Published By – Warner Bros.
Published By – Rondor
Manufactured By – EMI Music Group Australasia
Distributed By – EMI Music Group Australasia
Recorded At – EMI Studios 301

Credits

Backing Vocals – Wendy Matthews
Cover – Libby Blainey
Dulcimer [Electric Dulcimer], Guitar, Drums, Keyboards, Programmed By [Programming], Talkbox [Voice Box] – Jonathon Jones
Effects [Fx], Performer [T.v.], Vocoder – Raymond Medhurst
Engineer – Barry Rudolph (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2)
Engineer [Assistant Engineer] – Colin Simkins (tracks: A3 to A5, B3, B4)
Keyboards – Vincent Dale
Keyboards, Vocoder, Backing Vocals, Programmed By [Programming] – Bryon Jones
Lead Vocals – John Kenny
Mastered By – Leon Zervos
Mixed By – Jim Taig (tracks: A3 to A5, B1, B3)
Producer – The Rockmelons (tracks: A3 to A5, B3, B4)
Producer [Production Assistance] – Robert Racic (tracks: A3 to A5, B3, B4)
Sleeve [Inner Sleeve By] – Matthew Martin
Written-By – R. Smith* (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B4)

Notes

Released in an outer sleeve, and an inner sleeve with credits on one side. Inner sleeve has cartoon s drawn by Matthew Martin: side with credits has a for each song; the other side has a series of three s titled "A Rockmelon...", with a bird wearing a hat and glasses and holding a cane which breaks out of a rockmelon.
Side A label is orange with the True Tone logo on top of this. True Tone logo comprises the label name in silver over a green diamond. The label name has a black shadow, and the green diamond has a light green "shadow". The side A label has the tracklisting, writing credits and matrix no.s for both sides A and B.
Side B label has a stylised drawing of a rockmelon with a slice cut out of it. There is no text on it.
In the runout matrix no.s, "LEON" is underlined on both sides. In the runout matrix no. on side A, "MASTERED BY STUDIOS 301" is stamped, all other characters are hand-etched.

Outer and inner sleeves:
Manufactured and distributed by the EMI Music Group Australasia
℗ & © 1988 True Tone

Side A label:
THIS SIDE
(P) & (C) 1988 True Tone
OTHER SIDE
(P) & (C) 1988 True Tone
Tracks A1, A2, B1, B4: SBK Songs/MCA
Track A3: Warner Bros
Tracks A4, A5, B3: SBK Songs
Track B2: Rondor
Recorded at 301 Studios, Sydney, Australia

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Text on rear sleeve): 0 77779 02971 6
Matrix / Runout (Side A label): TLP 790297A
Matrix / Runout (Side A label): TLP 790297B
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout groove hand-etched and stamped): TLP790297-A-2 LEON MASTERED BY STUDIOS 301
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout groove hand-etched): TLP790297-B-2 LEON

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	Tales Of The City (CD, Album)	Atlantic	81949-2, 7 81949-2	US	1988
New Submission	Tales Of The City (LP, Album)	Atlantic	81949-1	US	1988
New Submission	Tales Of The City (LP, Album)	Atlantic	781 949-1		1988
Recently Edited	Tales Of The City (CD, Album)	EMI	CDP 790297	Australia	1988
Recently Edited	Tales Of The City (Cassette, Album)	Atlantic	7 81949-4, 81949-4	US	1988