Parlophone Records Ltd.Pink Floyd recently released a limited-edition vinyl EP featuring some of the first songs the band ever recorded. Pink Floyd 1965 — Their First Recordings contains six tracks spread across two seven-inch discs, including four songs written by original frontman Syd Barrett, one penned by Roger Waters and a cover of bluesman Slim Harpo‘s “I’m a King Bee.”
A message on the band’s website explains that the EP was issued to mark the 50th anniversary of the recordings. The Pink Floyd lineup that recorded the tunes included Barrett on vocals and guitar, Waters on vocals and bass, Rick Wright on keyboards, Nick Mason on drums and Rado Klose on guitar. A woman named Juliette Gayle also contributed backing vocals. Klose left Pink Floyd in 1965 before the group recorded its debut album, 1967’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
The four Barrett compositions on Pink Floyd 1965 — Their First Recordings are “Lucy Leave,” “Double O Bo,” “Remember Me” and “Butterfly,” while the song Waters wrote is titled “Walk with Me Sydney.” The tracks were mastered from the original mono analog tapes by Andy Jackson of Tube Mastering and Ray Staff of AIR Studios.
A post on Pink Floyd’s official Facebook page explains that copies of the EP initially were released only to select independent record stores, but notes that the band “hope[s] to make them available in some physical form towards the end of next year.”
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