Black Sabbath Released Friday February 13

	Black Sabbath Released Friday February 13, 1970
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Track Listing

Well, this depends on what version you have. The different versions vary insofar as the names of the songs go, but only one main difference exists that I'm aware of. The European version has "Evil Woman" as the first song of side two, whereas the US version has Wicked World instead. The 1996 Castle Remaster has both of these songs on it.

European

Black Sabbath (6:18)
The Wizard (4:21)
Behind the Wall of Sleep (3:37)
N.I.B. (6:04)
Evil Woman (3:22)
Sleeping Village (10:43)
Warning (3:31)

US/Warner

Black Sabbath (6:18)
The Wizard (4:21)
Behind the Wall of Sleep (3:37) *
N.I.B. (6:04) @
Wicked World (4:43)
Sleeping Village (10:43) %
Warning (3:31)

Remaster

Black Sabbath (6:18)
The Wizard (4:21)
Behind the Wall of Sleep (3:37)
N.I.B. (6:04)
Evil Woman (3:22)
Sleeping Village (10:43)
Warning (3:31)
Wicked World (4:43)

* - The intro to Behind the Wall of Sleep is called Wasp.
@ - The intro to N.I.B. is called Basically.
% - The intro to Sleeping Village is called A Bit of Finger.

Writing Credits

All selections written by Iommi/Osborne/Butler/Ward
except Evil Woman by Wiegard/Wiegard/Waggenor*
and Warning by Dunbar
*originally done by a band called Crow from Duluth, Minnesota

Other Credits

Tony Iommi - lead guitar
Geezer Butler - bass guitar
Bill Ward - drums
Ozzy Osboune - vocals, harmonica *
Roger Bain - Producer (for Tony Hall Enterprises)
Tom Allom & Barry Sheffield - Engineers

* - Spelled Ossie Osbourne

Catalogue Numbers

       LP  Warner           1871-2 (US 1970)
       LP  Vertigo            V06       (UK 13 Feb 1970)*
       LP  Warner Bros        WS 1871   (Canada)
       LP  WWA                WWA 006   (UK Dec 1973)
       LP  Nems               NEL 6002  (UK Jan 1976)**
       LP  Nems               NEL 6017  (UK 1980)
       LP  Vertigo            832702-1
       MC  RCA                MC F7420  (1980)
       MC  Vertigo            832702-4
       CD  Vertigo            832702-2
       CD  Warner Bros        1871-2
       CD  Essential/Castle   ESMCD301  (UK - Mar 1996) - Remastered

Notes

The original release is somewhat rare. It was done on double LP sleeve, with the left sleeve glued up. Inside, the background is black. On the left hand side are the words Black Sabbath (the Sabbathspills over on to the right sleeve.) On the right sleeve is an inverted cross. On the inside of the cross is a short poem that appears below.
On the second release, the sleeve is the same as the original release, except that the sleeve background is white.

POEM:

Still falls the rain, the veils of darkness shroud the blackened trees, which contorted by some unseen violence, shed their tired leaves, and bend their boughs towards a grey earth of severed bird wings. among the grasses, poppies bleed before a gesticulating death, and young rabbits, born dead in traps, stand motionless, as though guarding the silence that surrounds and threatens to engulf all those that would listen. Mute birds, tired of repeating yesterdays terrors, huddle together in the recesses of dark corners, heads turnedfrom the dead, black swan that floats upturned in a small pool in the hollow. there emerges from this pool a faint sensual mist, that traces its way upwards to caress the chipped feet of the headless martyr's statue, whose only achievement was to die to soon, and who couldn't wait to lose. the cataract of darkness form fully, the long black night begins, yet still, by the lake a young girl waits, unseeing she believes herself unseen, she smiles, faintly at the distant tolling bell, and the still falling rain.

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