Every time the song was played the station received phone calls asking where to buy the record. Donna Halper, a DJ working at the station, selected "Working Man" for her regular play list. The album was soon picked up by WMMS, a radio station in Cleveland, Ohio. The first version of the LP has a cream-coloured label with a blue Moon Records logo and black type. Only 3,500 copies of the original Moon Records LP (catalog number MN-100) were pressed. The band and its management formed their own company, Moon Records, and released the album in Canada. This version of the song, known as "Working Man (Vault Edition)", was released as a downloadable song for the game, and later, on July 22, 2008, it was made available to the public through iTunes. They allowed the makers of the popular rhythm game Rock Bandto use the master tapes for the song's inclusion. In July 2008, Rush discovered an old version of "Working Man" with an alternative guitar solo. Both studios used 8-channel multitrack recorders, which was quite primitive for 1973, but the group quickly learned to make the best use of the technology that was available.
These new songs took the place of recordings from the earlier sessions. The tracks with the most advanced production were recorded entirely at Toronto Sound: "Finding My Way", "Need Some Love" and "Here Again". They added new overdubs to existing backing tracks of "What You're Doing", "Before and After" and " Working Man". They moved to Toronto Sound Studios and produced the next sessions themselves while achieving a significant improvement in recording quality. However, Rush were unhappy with the quality of the first sessions. Two of the Eastern Sound recordings, " In the Mood" and "Take a Friend" were included on the final album. "You Can't Fight It" was to be included on the album but was scrapped. Stock had also worked on the band's debut single (a cover of Buddy Holly's " Not Fade Away", with an original composition, "You Can't Fight It", on the B-side).
They were scheduled late at night during the 'dead' time in studios because of the band's low budget and the rates during this period were the cheapest. Originally the recording sessions were produced by Dave Stock at Eastern Sound in Toronto.
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