Spain "Grandes Exitos De Simon & Garfunkel"
Hallmark issued this album
in Spain, under the title Grandes Exitos de Simon & Garfunkel. The cover art is rather cheekily adapted from the photo used on Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water album, with Paul Simon standing right in front of his partner.
It is not clear whether this album was released in 1973 or 1974.
It is not clear whether this album was released in 1973 or 1974.
Two different cassette editions
The above cassettes are both Spanish issues. The top one is the cassette equivalent of the original Spanish LP. The top of the cassette shell can be seen, and there is clearly an orange Hallmark label.
The lower edition looks more familiar to us, being virtually identical to the UK cassettes in terms of the cover design. The catalogue number is CA-10.065 and it dates to 1974. The Hallmark label is used in conjunction with Palobal, who were a small budget label based in Spain, and seemed to cross paths with Top of the Pops in the mid-1970s. (The Palobal label also issued their own series called "Pop of the Pops" (subtle, eh?), which ran to twenty or so volumes in the early 1970s.)
It is not currently known whether a vinyl equivalent of this edition exists.
The lower edition looks more familiar to us, being virtually identical to the UK cassettes in terms of the cover design. The catalogue number is CA-10.065 and it dates to 1974. The Hallmark label is used in conjunction with Palobal, who were a small budget label based in Spain, and seemed to cross paths with Top of the Pops in the mid-1970s. (The Palobal label also issued their own series called "Pop of the Pops" (subtle, eh?), which ran to twenty or so volumes in the early 1970s.)
It is not currently known whether a vinyl equivalent of this edition exists.