This record, NUE 76, is an edition of the 1969 pictured EP below. But check out the details: the price on the front is 30p - in decimal. The UK didn't adopt decimal until 1971, and Avenue didn't include picture covers, let alone those selling for 30p, until late-1970 - which is also when the NUE catalogue number system came into being. So, can there be any real doubt that this is a reissue?
This is the original copy, with no picture sleeve, and with the AVE catalogue number:
Significantly, this is not a one-off. Consider the EP below, which was released concurrently with the Avenue album AVE 058 of circa October 1970...
Although you can't see it, thanks to someone, presumably a retailer, blotting it out with ink, the price point is 25p. And here is another edition, with the price up to 30p:
What we seem to have here are two reissues which, judging by their retail prices, date to well inside 1971. And look at the similarities between these two late editions - both printed on pale coloured paper, both with single-coloured ink overprinting, and both with one song - the first on the EP - given as a title track "plus". Both feature the later Avenue logo and both retail at 30p.
I rest my case, m'lud. Avenue must have reissued at least two of their soundalike EPs in 1971. Why??
And were there any others, I wonder...
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