World Top 12 - spin-off EPs
The Flag label issued a run of EPs which totalled at least 25. Only a few of them are currently known to us, but several took tracks from the "World Top 12" albums, and these are detailed below.
These EPs were usually issued in illustrated Flag label company sleeves, which are visually striking, and which are documented further down the page. It is not possible for us to determine which record was sold in which, and so the EPs themselves are treated separately from the sleeves. A couple (See below) were additionally issued in extremely rare illustrated picture sleeves - how many, we can't be sure but at least two of them.
Part of the appeal of these EPs is the label design, which (rarely) is printed in full colour, and even had a female model depicted. Since they are visually impressive too, we have opted to show them below. We expect to find more in the fullness of time.
These EPs were usually issued in illustrated Flag label company sleeves, which are visually striking, and which are documented further down the page. It is not possible for us to determine which record was sold in which, and so the EPs themselves are treated separately from the sleeves. A couple (See below) were additionally issued in extremely rare illustrated picture sleeves - how many, we can't be sure but at least two of them.
Part of the appeal of these EPs is the label design, which (rarely) is printed in full colour, and even had a female model depicted. Since they are visually impressive too, we have opted to show them below. We expect to find more in the fullness of time.
EP 10
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep / Don't Let It Die / Pied Piper
Co-Co / I Am... I Said / When You Are A King
Comments: All tracks from Volume 34, except "When You Are A King" which does not feature in the series.
Co-Co / I Am... I Said / When You Are A King
Comments: All tracks from Volume 34, except "When You Are A King" which does not feature in the series.
Banner Man / Black And White / I Did What I Did For Maria
Me And You And A Dog Named Boo / Knock Three Times / If You Could Read My Mind
Comments: Issued in picture sleeve. All tracks from Volume 34.
Me And You And A Dog Named Boo / Knock Three Times / If You Could Read My Mind
Comments: Issued in picture sleeve. All tracks from Volume 34.
Hey Girl Don't Bother Me / Let Your Yeah Be Yeah / Bangla-Desh
What Are You Doing Sunday / It's Too Late / Move On Up
Comments: Issued in a picture sleeve utilising the artwork from the Boulevard LP, Million Seller Hits of the Sixties (see also below) . All tracks from Volume 35.
What Are You Doing Sunday / It's Too Late / Move On Up
Comments: Issued in a picture sleeve utilising the artwork from the Boulevard LP, Million Seller Hits of the Sixties (see also below) . All tracks from Volume 35.
EP Sleeves
Illustrated below are all the Flag EP sleeves we have discovered. There is no knowing which EPs appeared in which sleeves, or indeed, if all the sleeves shown housed EPs from the LP series at all, since Flag issued other EPs as well.
These sleeves are a little like picture sleeves, albeit in a sense, generic. They tend to illustrate artwork from Flag and Boulevard's LPs, and we have added an image of the relevant LP for each one - by which we mean the LP with the same cover photo. (In some cases, the associated LP cover is not part of the "World Top 12" series.) On the backs, the EP sleeves have the Flag company information, and the same full colour artwork - but in mirror image!
We have numbered the sleeves below, but only for convenience. It should not be assumed that this represents the order in which they were issued.
EP sleeve 7 back
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Associated LP cover
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