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MANTICORE ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
Number - Title - Artist [Release Date] (Chart) Contents
ELP-66666 - Pictures at an Exhibition - Emerson, Lake and Palmer [1971] (1-72, #10)
Promenade/The Gnome/Promenade/The Sage/The Old Castle/Blues Variation//Promenade/The Hut Of
Baba Yaga/The Curse Of Baba Yaga/The Hut Of Baba Yaga/The Great Gates Of Kiev/The
End/Nutrocker
MC 66667 - Still - Pete Sinfield [1973] (10-73, #190) The Song of the Sea Goat/Under
the Sky/Will It Be You/Wholefood Boogie/Still//Envelopes of Yesterday/The Piper/A House of Hopes and
Dreams/The Night People
MC 66668 - Photos Of Ghosts - Premiata Forneria Marconi [12/73] Italian progressive
group. River Of Life/Celebration/Photos Of Ghosts/Old Rain//Il Banchetto/Mr. 9 Till Five/Promenade The
Puzzle
ELP 66669 - Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer [1973] (12-73, #11)
Jerusalem/Toccata (1st Piano Concerto, 4th Movement)/Still... You Turn Me On/Benny The
Bouncer/Karn Evil 9/1st Impression-Part 1//Karn Evil 9 - 1st Impression-Part 2/2nd Impression/3rd
Impression
MC-66670 - Now Hear This - Hanson [1973] Traveling Like A Gypsy/Love Knows
Everything/Mister Music Maker/Catch That Beat/Take You Into My Home//Gospel Truth/Rain/Smokin' To
The Big M
MC 66671 - Stray Dog - Stray Dog [1973] Tramp (How It is)/Crazy/A
Letter/Chevrolet//Speak Of The Devil/Slave/Rocky Mountain Suite (Bad Road)
MC-66672 - Magic Dragon - Hanson [1974] Rocking Horseman/Modern Day
Religion/Down Into The Magic/Rock Me Baby//Love Yer, Need You/Boy Meets Girl/American Beauty
Rose/Looking At Tin Soldiers/Magic Dragon
MC 66673 - The World Became The World - Premiata Forneria Marconi [1974] The
Mountain/Just Look Away/The World Became The World//Four Holes In The Ground/Is My Face On
Straight/Have Your Cake And Beat It
Manticore Three Record Set
SD 3-200 - Welcome Back, My Friends, To The Show That Never Ends-Ladies And Gentlemen -
Emerson, Lake & Palmer [1974] (9-74, #4) (3-LP set) Hoedown/Jerusalem/Toccata (1st Piano
Concerto, 4th Movement)//Tarkus (Eruption - Stones Of Years - Iconoclast - Mass - Manticore -
Battlefield (Including Epitath))//Tarkus (Aquatarkus) (Conclusion)/Take A Pebble (Including Still... You
Turned Me On - Lucky Man)//Piano Improvisations (Including Fugues - Little Rock Getaway)/Take A
Pebble (Conclusion)/Jeremy Bender - The Sheriff (Medley)//Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression (Includes
Percussion Solo))//Karn Evil 9 (2nd Impression/3rd Impression)
In 1975 Manticore switched distribution to Motown, the following Manticore records were
distributed by Motown.
MA 6-501 S1 - While You're Down There - Stray Dog [1974] Calamity Jane/Bits And
Pieces/Pieces/I Would/Words To Say Goodbye//Junkyard Angel/Very Well/Dreams And
Junk/Worldwinds
MA 6-502 S1 - P.F.M. Cook - Premiata Forneria Marconi [1974] Four Holes In The
Ground/Dove... Quando.../Just Look Away/Celebration (Including The World Became The World)//Mr.
Nine Till Five/Alma Loma Five Till Nine (Including William Tell Overture)
MA 6-503 S1 - Brighter Day - Keith Christmas [5/75] Brighter Day/Foothills/Country
Farm/The Bargees//Lover's Cabaret/Robin Head/My Girl/Could Do Better/Song Of A Drifter
MA 6-504 S1 - Thee Image - Thee Image [2/75] Group includes Mike Pinera, former
guitar player with Iron Butterfly, Blues Image and Cactus, as well as Duane Hitchings, former keyboard
player with Cactus and Buddy Miles. Good Things/For Another Day/Drift Off Endlessly/Love Is Here/So
Hard To Say//It Happens All The Time/Come To You/Temptation/Show Your Love
MA 6-505 S1 - Banco - Banco [8/75] Italian progressive group. Chorale (from Traccia's
Theme)/L'Albero Del Pane (The Bread Tree)/Metamorphosis//Outside/Leave Me Alone/Nothing's The
Same/Traccia II
MA 6-506 S1 - Inside the Triangle - Thee Image [11/75] Fly Away/Far Away Places/High
Time Feeling/I.O.U.'s/All Night Long//Good To You/Alone With You/Rapture Of The Deep/Nobody Wins
Till The Game Is Over
K53 508 - Chocolate Kings - Premiata Forneria Marconi [1976] From
Under/Harlequin/Chocolate Kings/Out Of The Roundabout/Paper Charms
Thanks to Claus Simonsen, Chris Wilson, and Eamonn Keane.
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