The first Asylum issues used a white label, with a wooden cage logo within a circle at the
top. After the first fifteen issues or so, the background changed to sky and clouds, with the same logo
but the circle gone. Promotional labels were white with black print, and quadraphonic discs had a
"quadra Disc" logo to the left of the cage. In 1976, the label changed briefly to a blue label with a white
"A" logo, quite similar to the elektra labels of the late 1960s. In 1984, the label changed again, with
"ASYLUM" in stylized block print at the top, similar to the Elektra labels of the time.
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ASYLUM RECORDS ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY, PART 1
Record Number - Album Title - Artist [Issue date] (Chart) Contents
SD 5000 Series (Distributed by Atlantic):
*SD 5050 - Judee Sill - Judee Sill [1972] Abracadabra/Archetypal Man/Crayon
Angel/Enchanted Sky Machines/Jesus Was A Cross-Maker/Lady-O/Lamb Ran Away With The
Crown/Lopin' Along Thru' The Cosmos/My Man On Love/Phantom Cowboy/Ridge River
SD 5051 - Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne [1972] (3-72, #53) Original copies of this
album came in a simulated burlap cover, first issues opened from the top. Later issues had the
simulated burlap cover but opened from the side. Jamaica Say You Will/A Child In These Hills/Song For
Adam/Doctor My Eyes/From Silver Lake//Something Fine/Under The Falling Sky/Look Into You/Rock Me
On The Water/My Opening Farewell
*SD 5052 - Stories - David Blue [1972] Abracadabra/Archetypal Man/Crayon
Angel/Enchanted Sky Machines/Jesus Was A Cross-Maker/Lady-O/Lamb Ran Away With The
Crown/Lopin' Along Thru' The Cosmos/My Man On Love/Phantom Cowboy/Ridge River
SD 5053 - Jo Jo Gunne - Jo Jo Gunne [1972] (2-72, #57) California band included Jay
Ferguson (former lead singer with Spirit) and brothers Mark (also from Spirit) and Matthew Andes. Run
Run Run/Shake That Fat/Babylon/I Make Love/Barstow Blue Eyes//99 Days/Academy Award/Take It
Easy/Flying Home
SD 5054 - Eagles - Eagles [1972] (6-72, #22) Take It Easy/Witchy Woman/Chug All
Night/Most Of Us Are Sad/Nightingale//Train Leaves Here This Morning/Take The
Devil/Earlybird/Peaceful Easy Feeling/Tryin'
SD 5055 - John David Souther - John David Souther [1972] The Fast One/Run Like A
Thief/Jesus In Time/Kite Woman/Some People Call It Music//White Wing/It's The Same/How
Long/Out To Sea/Lullaby
SD 5056 - Batdorf & Rodney - Batdorf & Rodney [1972] (10-72, #185) Poor Man's
Dream/Oh, Can You Tell Me/Between The Ages/Home Again//By Today/Happy Town/All I Need/Under
Five/Let Me Live The Life
SD 5057 - For The Roses - Joni Mitchell [1972] (12-72, #11) Banquet/Cold Blue Steel
And Sweet Fire/Barangrill/Lesson In Survival/Let The Wind Carry Me/For The Roses//See You
Sometime/Electricity/You Turn Me On I'm A Radio/Blonde In The Bleachers/Woman Of Heart And
Mind/Judgement Of The Moon And Stars (Ludwig's Tune)
SD 5058 - Byrds - Gene Clark, Chis Hillman, David Crosby, Roger Mcguinn & Michael
Clarke [1973] (3-73, #20) Reunion album of all five original members. Full Circle/Sweet
Mary/Changing Heart/For Free/Born To Rock 'N Roll//Things Will Be Better/Cowgirl In The Sand/Long
Live The King/Borrowing Time/Laughing/(See The Sky) About To Rain
SD 5059 - Ned Doheny - Ned Doheny [1973] Fineline/I Know Sorrow/Trust Me/On And
On/Lashambeaux//I Can Dream/Postcards From Hollywood/Take Me Faraway/It Calls For You/Standfast
SD 5060 - Steve Ferguson - Steve Ferguson [1973]
SD 5061 - Closing Time - Tom Waits [1973] Ol' '55/I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With
You/Virginia Avenue/Old Shoes (And Picture Postcards)/Midnight Lullaby/Martha//Rosie/Lonely/Ice
Cream Man/Little Trip A Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love)/Grapefruit Moon/Closing Time
SD 5062 - Rod Taylor - Rod Taylor [9/73] Double Life/Making a Way/Something Old/The
Last Song/others
SD 5063 - Heartfood - Judee Sill [1973]
SD 5064 - Don't Cry Now - Linda Ronstadt [9/73] (10-73, #45) I Can Almost See It/Love
Has No Pride/Silver Threads And Golden Needles/Desperado/Don't Cry Now//Sail Away/Colorado/The
Fast One/Everybody Loves A Winner/I Believe In You
SD 5065 - Bite Down Hard - Jo Jo Gunne [1973] (3-73, #75) Ready Freddy/Roll Over
Me/60 Minutes To Go/Rock Around The Symbol/Broken Down Man//Special Situations/Take Me Down
Easy/Wait A Lifetime/Rhoda
SD 5066 - The Nice Baby and the Angel - David Blue [1973]
SD 5067 - For Everyman - Jackson Browne [9/73] (11-73, #43) Take It Easy/Our Lady
Of The Well/Colors Of The Sun/I Thought I Was A Child/These Days//Red Neck Friend/The Times
You've Come/Ready Or Not/Sing My Songs To Me/For Everyman
SD 5068 - Desperado - Eagles [1973] (5-73, #41) Doolin-Dalton/Twenty-One/Out Of
Control/TEQuila Sunrise/Desperado//Certain Kind Of Fool/Doolin-Dalton (Instrumental)/Outlaw
Man/Saturday Night/Bitter Creek/Doolin-Dalton (Reprise) - Desperado (Reprise)
SD 5069 - Chris Jagger - Chris Jagger [9/73] (11-73, #186) Mick Jagger's brother.
Handful Of Dust/My Friend John/Let Me Down Easy/Going Nowhere/Something New//Riddle Song/All
Souls/King Of The Fishes/Hold On/Joy Of The Ride
SD 5070 - Land's End - Jimmy Webb [1974] Ocean Of His Eyes/Feet In The
Sunshine/Cloudman/Lady Fits Her Blue Jeans/Just This One Time//Crying In My Sleep/It's A Sin/Alyce
Blue Gown/Land's End - Asleep On The Wind
SD 5071 - Jumpin' The Gunne - Jo Jo Gunne [1973] (12-73, #169) I Wanna Love
You/To The Island/Red Meat/Getaway/Before You Get Your Breakfast//At The Spa/Monkey
Music/Couldn't Love You Better/High School Drool/Neon City/Turn The Boy Loose
AB 200 Series (2-LP sets):
AB 201 - Before The Flood - Bob Dylan & The Band [7/74] (7-74, #3) (2 LPs) Also
manufactured in the United States as Island IDBD-1 for export. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll
Go Mine)/Lay, Lady, Lay/Rainy Day Women #2 And 35/Knockin' On Heaven's Door/It Ain't Me,
Babe/Ballad Of A Thin Man//Up On Cripple Creek/I Shall Be Released/Endless Highway/The Night They
Drove Old Dixie Down/Stage Fright//Don't Think Twice, It All Right/Just Like A Woman/It's Alright, Ma
(I'm Only Bleeding)/The Shape I'm In/When You Awake/The Weight//Along Along The
Watchtower/Highway 61 Revisited/Like A Rolling Stone/Blowin' In The Wind
AB 202 - Miles Of Aisles - Joni Mitchell & The L.A. Express [1/75] (12-74, #2) (2 LPs)
You Turn Me On I'm A Radio/Big Yellow Taxi/Rainy Night House/Woodstock//Cactus Tree/Cold Blue
Steel And Sweet Fire/Woman Of Heart And Mind/A Case Of You/Blue//The Circle Game/Peoples'
Parties/All I Want/He Played Real Good For Free/Both Sides Now//Carey/The Last Time I Saw
Richard/Jericho/For Love Or Money
Note: Asylum Album Discography is continued as part of the Elektra/Asylum Album Discography,
Part 5.
Thanks to Gert Nielsen and Peter Ammondt.
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