Th is EP, Universal Soldier (Pye Records # NEP 24219), focused entirely on war. It included the "Ballad of a Crystal Man" discussed immediately below, as well as two songs about war in general - "Do You Here Me Now" from the 1965 album Bert Jansch and "Universal Soldier" by Buffy Sainte-Marie from It's My Way!. Finally, it included Mick Softley's Vietnam War song "The War Drags On" from Songs for Swingin' Survivors.
Mono, solid centre. First cat# on label (NEP.24219), second on cover (NEP 24219); 'Extended Play' printed on left side of labels. Several UK pressings/represses. An original composition on the Pye EP 'Universal Soldier' (NEP 24219), which also has 'Do You Hear Me Now', 'Universal Soldier' and Mick Softley's 'The War Drags On'. Pye Extended Play NEP.24219 (sleeve NEP 24219, monaural), "Recording first published 1965", pink Pye labels, made in England. Side 1: Universal Soldier (Buffy St. Marie), The Ballad of a Crystal Man (Donovan), publisher Southern; Side 2: Do You Hear Me Now (Bert Jansch), The War Drags On (Mick Softley), publishers Pied Piper / Southern. "Produced by Eden-Stephens and Terry Kennedy — An Iver Recording"; © Pye Records Ltd 1965, distributed by Pye Records (Sales) Ltd, A.T.V. House, Gt. Cumberland Place, London W.1. Front cover by Dave Murphy: a collage of toy Guardsmen and a fallen soldier over a pen-and-ink drawing of a gun-carriage and a weeping soldier. Back cover carries a prose-poem by Donovan dated "Summer 1965" — "I've seen the advertisement 'It's a good life in todays' modern army' beside photographs of mutilated Vietnamese children … I've seen the dream of Freedom … a sometimes fading image." A dealer sticker on the Side 1 label reads "Universal 9-25-65 53-7W." [From the record sleeve and labels]
Mono, solid centre. First cat# on label (NEP.24219), second on cover (NEP 24219); 'Extended Play' printed on left side of labels. Several UK pressings/represses. A Bert Jansch song about war in general, from the war-themed EP Universal Soldier (Pye NEP 24219) alongside Universal Soldier, The War Drags On and Ballad of a Crystal Man. Cover of Do You Hear Me Now – Bert Jansch. Pye Extended Play NEP.24219 (sleeve NEP 24219, monaural), "Recording first published 1965", pink Pye labels, made in England. Side 1: Universal Soldier (Buffy St. Marie), The Ballad of a Crystal Man (Donovan), publisher Southern; Side 2: Do You Hear Me Now (Bert Jansch), The War Drags On (Mick Softley), publishers Pied Piper / Southern. "Produced by Eden-Stephens and Terry Kennedy — An Iver Recording"; © Pye Records Ltd 1965, distributed by Pye Records (Sales) Ltd, A.T.V. House, Gt. Cumberland Place, London W.1. Front cover by Dave Murphy: a collage of toy Guardsmen and a fallen soldier over a pen-and-ink drawing of a gun-carriage and a weeping soldier. Back cover carries a prose-poem by Donovan dated "Summer 1965" — "I've seen the advertisement 'It's a good life in todays' modern army' beside photographs of mutilated Vietnamese children … I've seen the dream of Freedom … a sometimes fading image." A dealer sticker on the Side 1 label reads "Universal 9-25-65 53-7W." [From the record sleeve and labels]
Mono, solid centre. First cat# on label (NEP.24219), second on cover (NEP 24219); 'Extended Play' printed on left side of labels. Several UK pressings/represses. Cover of Mick Softley's Vietnam War song from Songs for Swingin' Survivors, on the war-themed EP Universal Soldier (Pye NEP 24219). Cover of The War Drags On – Mick Softley. Pye Extended Play NEP.24219 (sleeve NEP 24219, monaural), "Recording first published 1965", pink Pye labels, made in England. Side 1: Universal Soldier (Buffy St. Marie), The Ballad of a Crystal Man (Donovan), publisher Southern; Side 2: Do You Hear Me Now (Bert Jansch), The War Drags On (Mick Softley), publishers Pied Piper / Southern. "Produced by Eden-Stephens and Terry Kennedy — An Iver Recording"; © Pye Records Ltd 1965, distributed by Pye Records (Sales) Ltd, A.T.V. House, Gt. Cumberland Place, London W.1. Front cover by Dave Murphy: a collage of toy Guardsmen and a fallen soldier over a pen-and-ink drawing of a gun-carriage and a weeping soldier. Back cover carries a prose-poem by Donovan dated "Summer 1965" — "I've seen the advertisement 'It's a good life in todays' modern army' beside photographs of mutilated Vietnamese children … I've seen the dream of Freedom … a sometimes fading image." A dealer sticker on the Side 1 label reads "Universal 9-25-65 53-7W." [From the record sleeve and labels] "The War Drags On" was also issued in the USA as a Hickory single, 45-P-1417 (matrix 45-PY-179), Southern Music BMI, 3:43, "A Pye Records U.K. Recording", Hickory Records Inc., Nashville. [From the record sleeve and labels]