I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT, Arista, 1978

Release date: Oct 1978 (US)

UK vinyl?

US vinyl

Canada vinyl

Other vinyl

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I've not seen this and I'm not certain whether it really does exist. The single is listed in M.C. Strong's excellent "Great Rock Discography" but not in any of the Music Master directories (which is not conclusive as they fail even to list the album Deadlines). The discography in the Record Collector article on Strawbs lists it as ARIST 183, (which Music Master thinks to be a single by Raydio).

US VINYL

US promo release
"I Don't Want To Talk About It [stereo]" (Cousins/Cronk)/
"I Don't Want To Talk About It [mono]" (Cousins/Cronk)
(AS 0327, Arista promo, 1978)

A different choice of B-side for US Arista execs. There seem to have been two printings of the promo stereo/mono version. Both appear in light blue Arista US company sleeves. Only difference is different wording on the label.

There seem to have been two variants of the promo release.

Variant 1

Variant 2

US full release
"I Don't Want To Talk About It" (Cousins/Cronk)/
"Words Of Wisdom" (Cousins)
(AS 0327, Arista, 1978)

Canada vinyl

Canadian release (*)
"I Don't Want To Talk About It" (Cousins/Cronk)/
"Words Of Wisdom" (Cousins)
(AS 0327, Arista, 1978)

Spotted online.

Other vinyl

Guatemalan release (AB)(*)
"I Don't Want To Talk About It (No quiero hablar acerca de esta)" (Cousins/Cronk)/
"Words Of Wisdom (Palabras de sabiduria)" (Cousins)
(4422, Arista, Guatemala, 1978)

What is it that compels Guatemalans to scribble all over their records??? For a while Strawbsweb had scans from Alison's copy and a further set of images spotted online, both defaced. Finally found a copy on Discogs, but that too has black felt tip aplenty. Anyone have a clean copy they can scan for me? Song titles translated on labels.

My copy

Alison's copy

Spotted online

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