Fill Your Head with Rock
Fill Your Head with Rock (1970) was the third release in the successful CBS Records Rock Machine UK budget sampler album series. It broke new ground, by extending the format to a double album, and also featured more UK artists than previous samplers. Compiler David Howell (later Managing Director of Pete Waterman's PWL label) stated that while the earlier samplers were merely aimed at promoting specific full-price releases, this record was part of a major push to establish the label as "the top label in contemporary music" in the UK, and also to  establish the market for double albums. Album cover. For once a sampler album cover showed the featured artists, and even provided a key for identification. Laura Nyro can be seen at the top left, Taj Mahal next to her, and Al Kooper & Leonard Cohen at the top right. Four of the artists are not shown: Moondog, Amory Kane, Black Widow and Skin Alley. The front cover features Jerry Goodman of The Flock. Booklet. The included eight-page booklet featured brief descriptions of the artists, their images, and photographs of the relevant albums. It also included publicity for other CBS Records  artists as well as those on related labels such as Dandelion - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Beau, Bridget St John, Mike Hart & Siren; Direction - Chambers Brothers & Taj Mahal; and Straight - Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper, Judy Henske and Jerry Yester, Tim Buckley, & The GTOs. International releases. In Australia, it was pressed and released with unaltered artwork and tracklisting. In France, the album, retitled "Superb Super Pop Session N°2" with different artwork, reached No. 10 in the album chart. In Spain, the title was translated as "Llena Tu Cabeza de Rock". It was listed No. 5 in the "Hits of the  World" chart. Finnish label Finnlevy promoted the record heavily, leading to a "virtual sellout" of a Johnny Winter performance at the Kulttuuritalo. In South Africa, The Gramophone Co. gave the record "massive" promotion, including booking an unprecedented weeklong exposure on the top teenage programme "The Radio Record Club" on Springbok Radio.