A list of red vinyl, promotional 45 rpm singles on the Columbia label from 1962-1966.
Followed by other colored vinyl: purple, blue, green, yellow, orange.
Almost all of these have the same song on both sides, but there are a few exceptions (two by Tony Bennett and promo-only singles by Steve Lawrence and Robert Horton).
For a list of colored vinyl on Epic, see the following post.
Any additions or corrections would be appreciated.
Red vinyl:
4-42417 – Jerry Reed & the Hully Girlies – “Goodnight Irene” (July, 1962)
4-42582 – Johnny Mathis – “Gina”
4-42592 – The New Christy Minstrels – “This Land Is Your Land”
4-42593 – Carl Butler – “Don’t Let Me Cross Over”
4-42601 – Steve Lawrence – “Go Away Little Girl”
4-42606 – Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs – “The Ballad of Jed Clampett”
4-42661 – Eydie Gormé – “Blame it on the Bossa Nova”
JZSP 58841 (other versions use 4-42662) – Dion – “Ruby Baby”
4-42666 – Johnny Mathis – “What Will My Mary Say”
4-42699 – Steve Lawrence – “Don’t Be Afraid Little Darlin’”
4-42674 – Andy Williams – “Can’t Get Used to Losing You”
4-42776 – Dion – “This Little Girl”
4-42779 – Tony Bennett – “The Good Life” / “Spring in Manhattan”
4-42788 – Johnny Cash – “Ring of Fire”
4-42791 – Patti Page – “Say Wonderful Things”
4-42815 – Steve & Eydie – “I Want to Stay Here”
4-42827 – Ray Price – “Make The World Go Away”
4-42852 – Dion Di Muci – “Donna the Prima Donna”
4-42865 – Steve Lawrence – “Walking Proud”
4-42880 – Johnny Cash – “The Matador”
4-42888 – The Brothers Four – “The John B. Sails” (Canada only)
4-42950 – Andy Williams – “A Fool Never Learns”
4-42964 – Johnny Cash – “Understand Your Man”
4-42996 – Tony Bennett – “When Joanna Loved Me”
4-43035 – Rip Chords – “Three Window Coupe”
4-43037 – Anita Bryant – “The World of Lonely People”
4-43045 – Rene & Rene – “Angelito”
4-43067 – Linda Hall – “Hugo”
4-43082 – Eydie Gormé – “I Want You to Meet My Baby”
4-43113 – Aretha Franklin – “Runnin’ Out of Fools”
4-43120 – Billy Walker – “Cross the Brazos at Waco”
4-43128 – Andy Williams – “On the Street Where You Live”
4-43131 – Robert Goulet – “My Love, Forgive Me (Amore, Scusami)”
4-43141 – Tony Bennett – “Who Can I Turn To” / “If I Ruled the World”
4-43145 – Johnny Cash – “It Ain’t Me, Babe”
4-43171 – Mongo Santamaria – “El Pussy Cat”
4-43242 – Bob Dylan – “Subterranean Homesick Blues”
4-43271 – The Byrds – “Mr. Tambourine Man”
4-43277 – Chad and Jeremy – “Before and After”
4-43301 – Robert Goulet – “Summer Sounds”
4-43305 – Billy Joe Royal – “Down in the Boondocks”
4-43315 – Statler Brothers – “Flowers on the Wall”
4-43332 – The Byrds – “All I Really Want to Do”
JZSP 110939 / JZSP 110940 (other versions use 4-43346) Bob Dylan – “Like a Rolling Stone”
4-43351 – The Liverpool Set – “Must I Tell You (I Love You)” (Canada only)
4-43375 – Paul Revere & the Raiders – “Steppin’ Out”
4-43389 – Bob Dylan – “Positively 4th Street”
4-43390 – Billy Joe Royal – “I Knew You When”
4-43396 – Simon & Garfunkel – “The Sounds of Silence”
4-43424 – The Byrds – “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)”
4-43437 – Pozo-Seco Singers – “Time”
4-43461 – Paul Revere & the Raiders – “Just Like Me”
4-43465 – Billy Joe Royal – “I’ve Got to Be Somebody”
4-43469 – Barbra Streisand – “Second Hand Rose”
4-43556 – Paul Revere & the Raiders – “Kicks”
4-43589 – The Cyrkle – “Red Rubber Ball”
4-43592 – Bob Dylan – “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35”
4-43595 – Susan Christie – “I Love Onions”
4-43617 – Simon & Garfunkel – “I Am a Rock”
4-43626 – Ray Conniff and the Singers – “Somewhere, My Love”
4-43648 – Tim Rose – “Hey Joe (You Shot Your Woman Down)”
4-43660 – Eydie Gormé – “If He Walked into My Life”
4-43673 – Johnny Cash – “Everybody Loves a Nut”
4-43678 – Paul Revere & the Raiders – “Hungry”
4-43728 – Simon & Garfunkel – “The Dangling Conversation”
4-43729 – The Cyrkle – “Turn-Down Day”
4-43774 – Jerry Vale – “Dommage, Dommage (Too Bad, Too Bad)”
4-43784 – Pozo-Seco Singers – “I Can Make it With You”
4-43792 – Bob Dylan – “Just Like a Woman”
4-43794 – Patti Page – “Almost Persuaded”
4-43907 – Paul Revere & the Raiders – “Good Thing”
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JZSP 78856 / JZSP 78857 (no stock or other promo copies)- Steve Lawrence – “Bluesette / People”
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Other 1960s colored vinyl Columbia 45s:
Purple vinyl:
4-42952 – Steve Lawrence – “Room Without Windows”
4-42965 – Barbra Streisand – “People”
4-43225 – Eydie Gormé – “Do I Hear a Waltz?”
Blue vinyl:
4-42810 – Dion – “Be Careful of Stones that You Throw”
4-42812 – Rip Chords – “Gone”
4-42924 – Lefty Frizzell – “Saginaw, Michigan”
4-42967 – Ray Conniff and his Orchestra And Chorus – “Honeycomb” / “Blue Moon”
4-43138 – Randy Sparks – “Julie Knows”
4-43248 – Barbra Streisand – “Why Did I Choose You”
Green vinyl:
4-42932 – Steve & Eydie – “I Can’t Stop Talking About You”
4-42805 – The New Christy Minstrels – “Green, Green”
4-43000 – The New Christy Minstrels – “Today”
4-43167 – Mel Torme – “Ev’ry Day’s a Holiday” / “One Little Snowflake”
4-43448 – Ray Conniff and the Singers – “The Real Meaning of Christmas”
Yellow vinyl:
4-42784 – Andy Williams – “Hopeless”
4-42921 – Rip Chords – Hey Little Cobra”
4-43015 – Andy Williams – Wrong For Each Other”
4-43215 – The New Christy Minstrels – Chim, Chim, Cheree”
4-43257 – Andy Williams – “‘…. And Roses and Roses'” / “Red Roses For A Blue Lady”
4-43431 – Tony Bennett – “Love Theme From ‘The Sandpiper’ (The Shadow Of Your Smile)”
JZSP 117536/7 – Lotte Lenya, Jack Gilford – “It Couldn’t Please Me More” / “Married”
Orange vinyl:
4-43954 – Tony Bennett – “What Makes It Happen”
JZSP 78864 / JZSP 78865 – Robert Horton – “The Very Thought of You” / “Hey There”
Black vinyl promos with same song on both sides:
4-42928 – Guitar Ramblers – “Surf Beat”
4-42971 – Ray Price – “That’s All that Matters”
4-43302 – Eydie Gorme – “Where Are You Now”
4-43666 – Black Sheep – “It’s My Mind”
4-43903 – Gene Clark – “Echoes”
The last single-sided colored vinyl release I have found is 4-43907 – Paul Revere & the Raiders – “Good Thing”
I have Turn Down Day by the Cyrkle on a double A side black vinyl promo. It is a vinyl pressing and plays Turn Down Day on both sides. I used to have two copies of it but traded one to a friend for his duplicate red vinyl promo of Just Like A Woman by Bob Dylan.
Nice to see this list. I am listless to this day that The YARDBIRDS never had a colored vinyl promo. Almost all the Columbia/Epic Rock acts got them. “Green Green” by the New Christy Minstrels was promo on green wax. Good marketing. You’d think the same would have dawned on someone for “Shapes Of Things” Green wax. “Now the trees are almost green”