Editing Roger the Engineer (section)

==Release==
''Yardbirds'' was released by the [[Columbia Graphophone Company]] in the UK on 15 July 1966 and by [[Epic Records]] in the US on 18 July 1966.<ref name="Ultimate"/> It is the only Yardbirds album to appear in the [[UK Albums Chart]], where it reached number 20.<ref name="OCC">
{{cite web
| url = http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/11456/yardbirds/
| title = Yardbirds – Albums
| publisher = [[Official Charts Company]]
| access-date = 30 October 2017
}}</ref> In the US, it reached number 52 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] album chart, making it the band's highest-charting studio album in that country.<ref name="Ultimate">
{{cite AV media notes
| first1 = Cub
| last1 = Koda
| author-link1 = Cub Koda
| first2 = Gregg
| last2 = Russo
| title = [[Ultimate!]]
| others = [[The Yardbirds]]
| type = Boxed set booklet
| year = 2001
| location = Los Angeles
| publisher = [[Rhino Entertainment|Rhino Records]]
| id = R2 79825
| OCLC = 781357622
| pages = 46, 51
}}</ref> It reached number 8 in Finland.<ref>{{cite book |last=Nyman |first=Jake |title=Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja |publisher=Tammi |year=2005 |isbn=951-31-2503-3 |edition=1st |location=Helsinki |page=140 |language=fi}}</ref> 

The original American version (issued with a different album cover and titled ''Over Under Sideways Down'' after the hit song of the same name) omitted the songs "The Nazz Are Blue" (sung by Jeff Beck) and "Rack My Mind" and is mixed differently than the British editions. Regardless, record collectors have sought out both the mono (LN 24210) and stereo (BN 26210) versions since several tracks are featured with slight differences in the mixes (see US album listing below). [[Epic Records|Epic]]'s 1983 reissue (simply titled ''The Yardbirds'') featured the original UK album cover, the two missing tracks, duplication of the British mixing, and two additional tracks: the October 1966 single "[[Happenings Ten Years Time Ago]]" backed with "Psycho Daisies" which feature both Jeff Beck and [[Jimmy Page]] on guitar.

In 2021, [[Demon Music Group|Demon Records]] released a "super deluxe" version of ''Roger the Engineer'' including the mono and stereo versions on LP and CD with extra tracks and plethora of outtakes (including a working version of "Turn Into Earth" with a lost guitar solo) along with a replica of the "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago"/"Psycho Daises" single.