Pink Floyd - See Emily Play - Promo With Pic Sleeve
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Apr 7, 2009 Sold Date
Mar 31, 2009 Start Date
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PINK FLOYD

See Emily Play / Scarecrow 

GERMAN ISSUE 7" SINGLE, WITH ORIGINAL COLOUR PICTURE SLEEVE & FACTORY SAMPLE STICKER ON DISC

Auction Starts At Just 99p With No Reserve.

Condition :-

Sleeve -

Legendary "Pink Train" colour sleeve (Designed By Syd Barret), generally in very good order, there is a couple of dates written in biro on the sleeve (see scans of actual item for more details) there is also a small split on the right side (around 1" long), it's a wonder any of these have survived over 40 years in any condition considering the thin paper they are made of, this is as good as I have seen it would look great framed and can only go up in value.

Record -

In great condition with no scratches (looks almost like new !!), I have played both sides and it still sounds superb on both sides, with no clicks, skips or other deterioration in sound, I doubt if you will find this record in better condition.

Release Date - 4/8/67 (Germany)

Label - Columbia.

Matrix Side 1 - 7XCA-30214-1

Matrix Side 2 - 7XCA-30215-1

Cat No - C 23 754

This record has been in my collection for many years and has been very well looked after, it has been carefully stored out of the original sleeve to avoid any damage and will be carefully packed to guarantee safe arrival to it's new owner.

UK P+P IS BY RECORDED & INSURED DELIVERY @ £4.00

WORLDWIDE P+P RECORDED & INSURED @ £9.99

I am also selling a copy of "Arnold Layne" in similar condition, I will only charge one postage charge if won by same bidder.

Record Review :-

The song was reportedly about a girl named Emily, whom Barrett claimed he saw while sleeping in the woods after taking a

hallucinogenic drug. Barrett later stated that the story about sleeping in the woods and seeing a girl before him was made up "...all for publicity." According to A Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey, by Nicholas Schaffner, Emily is the Honourable Emily Young (b. March 13, 1951), daughter of Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, and nicknamed "the psychedelic schoolgirl" at the UFO Club. An article in Mojo magazine called "See the Real Emily" supposedly shows a picture of Barrett's Emily.

Barrett, reportedly, wasn't happy with the final studio cut. He protested against its release, which

producer Norman Smith has speculated was based on Barrett's fear of commercialism. During the sessions for the song, David Gilmour was a visitor to the studio, after being invited by Syd. He was shocked by what he perceived as a change in Syd's personality, and Syd did not appear to even recognise his old friend, despite having invited him there in the first place. For many years Gilmour would recall this encounter with the saying, "I'll go on record as saying, that was when he changed."

The US single (Tower 356) was released by

Tower Records 3 times between July 1967 and late 1968. Each time it failed to duplicate its UK success.

The

slide guitar work on the song is said to have been done by Barrett with a Zippo lighter. The train depicted on the single's sleeve was actually drawn by Barrett himself.

The song only stayed in the band's set list for a few months. It was last played on the 25th November 1967 in

Blackpool. In 1968, Pink Floyd travelled to Belgium where they filmed an odd lip-synched promotional film for "See Emily Play", as well as for "Astronomy Domine", "The Scarecrow", "Apples and Oranges", "Paint Box", "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun", and "Corporal Clegg". Syd Barrett did not go to Belgium; he was replaced by David Gilmour, with Gilmour and Wright lip-syncing Syd's role in the songs.

In

Switzerland, the song has been released on 7" Single and has been marked with two special attributes, the record's label "CH 01" and the icon of Swiss crossbow in the record's stamper code

"See Emily Play" is also known as "Games for May," and sometimes "Free Games for May," after a free concert in which Barrett's Pink Floyd performed.

Part of the vocal melody was played on a

Mini Moog at the very end of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)" at the end of the Wish You Were Here album, as a tribute to Syd.

The bass riff from the song is similar to the one used in "

Goodbye Cruel World", from the 1979 Pink Floyd double album The Wall.

"The Scarecrow" is a song on

Pink Floyd's debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). It first appeared as the B-side of their second single "See Emily Play" (as "Scarecrow") two months before. It was written by original frontman Syd Barrett and recorded in March 1967.

The song contains nascent

existentialist themes, as singer Syd Barrett compares his own existence to that of the scarecrow, who, while "sadder" is also "resigned to his fate". Such thematic content would later become a mainstay of the band's lyrical imagery.

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