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The Rolling Stones - Can I Get A Witness - Decca 45-GD 5090 • Greece discography: The Decca years [1964-1971]UK FFRR Twenty-two singles and one EP were produced by Decca Greece from 1964 to 1973, about half being inspired from the British catalogue.
All issues are on dark blue labels, with the curved Decca logo until 1967 - boxed afterwards - and distributed into local company sleeves, firstly brown & red, then blue & white, as for the UK.
Only one picture sleeve has been documented so far, for 'Not Fade Away'.

The 'Stones' misspelling on the flip of the first single is no surprise but the B-side of 'Not Fade Away', 'Bye Bye Johnny', is exclusive to Greece.
The next 2 singles 'Money' [GD 5058] and 'It's All Over Now' [GD 5060] also were unique couplings.
In total, 6 singles were issued in 1964 only.

The fifth single 'Route 66' / 'Tell Me' [GD 5065] was incidentally also issued in Belgium, but 'Time Is On My Side' happened to be a new B-side for 'The Last Time' [GD 5073] and the 'Heart Of Stone' / 'Around & Around' [GD 5074] combination that immediately followed was as unique.


Decca singles information
# view cat.# year titles a-side / b-side labels - record
1 45-GD 5040 1964 I Wanna Be Your Man / Stones type I - misspelled 'Stones'
2 45-GD 5053 1964 Not Fade Away / Bye Bye Johnny type I - some in PS
3 45-GD 5058 1964 Money / I Just Want To Make Love To You type I
4-a 45-GD 5060 1964 It's All Over Now / Carol type I - narrow B-side title
4-b 45-GD 5060 1964 It's All Over Now / Carol type I - wide B-side title
5 45-GD 5065 1964 Route 66 / Tell Me type I
6 45-GD 5069 1964 Little Red Rooster / Off The Hook type I
7-a 45-GD 5073 1965 The Last Time / Time Is On My Side type I - misspelled 'Time Is No My Side'
7-b 45-GD 5073 1965 The Last Time / Time Is On My Side type I
8 45-GD 5074 1965 Heart Of Stone / Around & Around type I
9-a 45-GD 5080 1965 Satisfaction / The Spider And The Fly type I - unboxed 'C.C', narrow authors
9-b 45-GD 5080 1965 Satisfaction / The Spider And The Fly type I - unboxed 'C.C', wide authors A-side
9-c 45-GD 5080 1965 Satisfaction / The Spider And The Fly type I - unboxed 'C.C', wide authors
9-d 45-GD 5080 1965 Satisfaction / The Spider And The Fly type I - unboxed 'C.C' - mislab.: 2 B-sides
9-e 45-PL 5080 1965 Satisfaction / The Spider And The Fly type I - 'PL' prefix
9-f 45-GD 5080 70's Satisfaction / The Spider And The Fly type II - 'STEREO' note - push-out center l.
9-g 45-GD 5080 70's Satisfaction / The Spider And The Fly type II - no 'STEREO' - poc - 'CC' boxed
9-h 45-GD 5080 70's Satisfaction / The Spider And The Fly type II - no 'STEREO' - 'CC' unboxed
10 45-GD 5083 1966 Get Off Of My Cloud / I'm Free type I - misspelled 'Im' Free'
11-a 45-GD 5088 1966 As Tears Go By / 19th Nervous Breakdown type I
11-b 45-GD 5088 1966 As Tears Go By / 19th Nervous Breakdown type I - misspelled 'Oldman'
12-a 45-GD 5090 1966 Can I Get A Witness / Walking The Dog type I - narrow band name
12-b 45-GD 5090 1966 Can I Get A Witness / Walking The Dog type I - wide band name
13-a 45-GD 5097 1966 Paint It, Black / I'm A King Bee type I - misspelled 'Paint It' Black'
13-b 45-GD 5097 1966 Paint It, Black / I'm A King Bee type I
13-c 45-GD 5097 1966 Paint It, Black / I'm A King Bee type I - 'XRD' misspelling
14-a 45-GD 5102 1966 Mother's Little Helper / Lady Jane type I - 'XARL 7209' matrix numbers on l.
14-b 45-GD 5102 1966 Mother's Little Helper / Lady Jane type I - 'XARL 79/80' matrix numbers on l.
15-a 45-GD 5110 1966 Have You Seen Your Mother... / Who's... type I - 'Look' vs 'Eoog' misspelling
15-b 45-GD 5110 1966 Have You Seen Your Mother... / Who's... type I - 'Look' misspelling
16-a 45-GD 5120 1967 Let's Spend The Night... / Ruby Tuesday type I - multicol. vinyl - push-out center l.
16-b 45-GD 5120 1967 Let's Spend The Night... / Ruby Tuesday type I - multicol. vinyl
16-c 45-GD 5120 1967 Let's Spend The Night... / Ruby Tuesday type I - black vinyl - 'Rolling Stone' error
16-d 45-GD 5120 1967 Let's Spend The Night... / Ruby Tuesday type I - black vinyl - short matrices #s
16-e 45-GD 5120 1967 Let's Spend The Night... / Ruby Tuesday type I - black vinyl - long matrices #s
17-a 45-GD 5129 1967 We Love You / Dandelion type I - multicol. vinyl
17-b 45-GD 5129 1967 We Love You / Dandelion type I - black vinyl - 'prouuced' misp.
17-c 45-GD 5129 1967 We Love You / Dandelion type I - black vinyl
18-a 45-GD 5136 1967 She's A Rainbow / 2,000 LYFH type I - push-out center labels
18-b 45-GD 5136 1967 She's A Rainbow / 2,000 LYFH type II - push-out center labels
19-a 45-GD 5144 1968 Jumpin' Jack Flash / Child Of The Moon type II - multicolored vinyl
19-b 45-GD 5144 1968 Jumpin' Jack Flash / Child Of The Moon type II - black vinyl
20 45-GD 5157 1969 Honky Tonk Women / YCAGWYW type II - push-out center labels
21 45-GD 5175 1970 Little Queenie / Love In Vain type II - push-out center labels
22 45-GD 5180 1971 Street Fighting Man + 2 type II - push-out center labels
23 Decca 5209 1973 Sad Day / You Can't Always Get What You Want type II - push-out center labels

Five different labels variations attest the success of 'Satisfaction' [GD 5080] in Greece as well, curiously coupled here with the original UK B-side 'The Spider & The Fly'.

The Greek discography offers other curiosities like the single 'Can I Get A Witness' / 'Walking The Dog' [GD 5090] issued in 1966, or 'I'm A King Bee' as the B-side of 'Paint It, Black' [GD 5097].

Its major rarities though remain the three multicolored vinyl editions of the singles 'Let's Spend The Night Together' [GD 5120], 'We Love You' [GD 5129], and 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' [GD 5144].
No more than 200 copies each of these gorgeous singles would have been made, 'Let's Spend The Night Together' existing both with a large hole or with push-out center labels.

The Rolling Stones - Let's Spend The Night Together - Decca 45-GD 5120 • Greece discography: The Decca years [1964-1971]

Of course, these 3 singles were also released on black vinyl.
Only Iran and possibly Pakistan produced colored vinyl of the Rolling Stones during the 60s.

Greek singles are generally much sought-after. Apart from the colored vinyl issues, exclusive couplings are more valuable than the usual ones, but the last three releases seem to have been issued in very limited runs - especially the 3-track EP 'Street Fighting Man' [GD 5180].

'Satisfaction' [GD 5080] was the only reissue from Greece and exists with three different 'boxed Decca' labels.

The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction - Decca 45-GD 5080 • Greece discography: The Decca years [1964-1971]The Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man - Decca 45-GD 5180 • Greece discography: The Decca years [1964-1971]


The Rolling Stones - She's A Rainbow - Decca 45-GD 5136 • Greece discography: The Decca years [1964-1971]

Note that the 70s 'Äge d'Or' reissues series were only issued on LP in this country.