Very obscure #vinyl #record query
I work at a number of stations in Alaska. At one station I found this 'unusual' Vince Guaraldi album - Oh Good Grief!
The station manager shared its unusual feature.
Side one is 'normal' but Side two is Grateful Dead, Anthem of the Sun.
(They discovered it one day on the air)
I have searched around, but no one/forum seems to know anything about it.
As a former recording/mastering engineer, a couple of things come to mind.
Good Grief is listed as WS1747
Anthem of the Sun is WS1749
Could be master platters got shuffled?
Also, there are copies of Good Grief listed from 1968 with some coding/ numbering errors, but those have the smaller WB logo, this one is bigger, and presumably later? Also, most Anthem of the Sun dics (that I can find), have an even different WB logo, but I did find a couple listed on line, with the same WB logo as this Good Grief!, and described as being a repress. (not a good picture, from eBay, but shows the same WB logo)
I'm very curious if anyone has run across this - surely they didn't press just one like this.
Thx
Some pics:
One might speculate that somewhere there is a copy of Anthem of the Sun w/ Guaraldi-Good Grief on the flip side ;)
@cajun_cheechako - I like your theories - a simple mfg mistake, like the upside down plane on the stamp. As a Deadhead Peanuts fan … this is like finding the holy grail!
@deadheadned @cajun_cheechako @mrcompletely wow, amazing. especially odd cuz guaraldi is on the back cover of "aoxomoxoa" & garcia played with him. tagging in @andyzax & @Corry342 too!
@bourgwick @deadheadned @mrcompletely @andyzax @Corry342
Wow, I did not know that!
@andyzax @mrcompletely @deadheadned @cajun_cheechako @Corry342 here's the "aoxoxomoxoa" back cover breakdown: http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2015/01/whos-who-in-aoxomoxoa-photo.html
and @Corry342 on the guaraldi/garcia jams: http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2013/03/summer-1972-pierce-street-annex-san.html
@bourgwick @deadheadned @cajun_cheechako @mrcompletely @Corry342 Not that big a deal: somebody pulled the wrong tape when it was time to do a re-press. Cream-colored labels are ‘80s pressings and Burbank labels tend to be ‘70s pressings, but if a plant found old labels left in a storeroom, they’d use them. (I would bet that the mis-pressings, regardless of label, are all from the same run of vinyl.)
@cajun_cheechako the combo makes for a pretty dope LP
@cajun_cheechako have you looked through Discogs? Collectors catalog this kind of thing pretty extensively there
@cajun_cheechako type in the number etched into the vinyl into Discogs
@nedwharton next time I am there I will try that!
Sorry, to be clear, the first two pictures are the 'odd' Good Grief! disc, the bottom two are different Anthem of the Sun disc pictures I found online.