I was watching a lot of young mind's being wasted at a certain time, that was the reality of what I saw. In the ghetto, but not just in the ghetto - a lot of kids turned onto things they couldn't deal with. 'Like going through the jungle fighting lions with a toothpick'. - Don Covay
Don Covay : Checkin' In With Don Covay USA, 1988 - LP - Mercury 836 030-1 - compilation incl. the previously unreleased track 'There's Something On Your Mind'
Don Covay : Checkin' In With Don Covay USA, 1988 - CD - Mercury 836 030-2 - Compilation incl. the previously unreleased track 'There's Something On Your Mind' and bonus CD-track 'I Was Checkin' Out She Was Checkin' In' [alt. version]
Don Covay : Hot Blood USA, 1974 - LP - Mercury SRM-1-1020 - promo white & blue labels
Don Covay : Checkin' In With Don Covay USA, 1988 - LP - Mercury 836 030-1 - compilation incl. the previously unreleased track 'There's Something On Your Mind' - test pressing, pressed by HRM / Hauppauge Record Manufacturing, Hauppauge, Long Island, NY
'A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste' was written and recorded by Don Covay in 1974. 
UK, 1974 - LP - Mercury 9100010 - the British version of this album only credits The Jefferson Lemon Band
Japan, 1974 - LP - Mercury RJ-6030 - white promo labels
Europe, 2005 - CD - Shout SHOUT 20 - reissue of the Mercury album with the bonus track 'Dungeon #3'
USA, 1988 - LP - Mercury 836 030-1 - compilation incl. the previously unreleased track 'There's Something On Your Mind'