Relocution

More acetates on Ebay, this time US 10 inch acetates from c. 1971-1972 of Lennon’s Power To The People, McCartney’s Another Day and Oh Woman Oh Why (one acetate for each side of Paul’s 1971 single), and Ringo’s 1972 glam-rock offering, Back Off Boogaloo. The seller claims the discs are 78 RPM: can that really be true?

I haven’t captured the images for them all as they’re pretty dull specimens (for one thing the “Broadway” acetate labels aren’t as special as the “Savile Row” labels), but you can see them for a limited time here.

Now here’s a funny thing. We all know, don’t we, that the last proper Apple single release was R6012, George Harrison’s rather dour This Guitar (Can’t Keep From Crying) (no doubt unintentional, but sounding like a deeply ironic valediction to the label that George later said was his biggest waste of money).

And so what’s this we have here? R6015, Let ‘Em In by Wings, on Apple?!

It’s an Irish mispressing - nothing more to it than that, alas - just a tiny glimpse of what might have been. Someone’s flogging it on Ebay right now, and surely going to do rather nicely out of it (Record Collector have, elsewhere, claimed it’s one of McCartney’s rarest singles).

Having been off Ebay for a while (“Cold Turkeeee….”), just a quick post to note the passing of an acetate of Doris Troy’s single Jacob’s Ladder (Apple 28 in UK). Who knows, maybe it was Doris’s, or George’s, own test cutting.

Seems a shame Jacob’s Ladder didn’t do better, back in the Autumn of 1970: as I’ve commented elsewhere, there was a lot of spritual stuff going down, from Spirit In The Sky to Let It Be to Hare Krishna - to name but a few. Jacob’s Ladder is a very fine bit of punchy soul. However, for me, the standout track on Doris’s Apple album is still her thundering version of Buffalo Springfield’s Special Care: interesting to see how, playing the song live in 1974, Stephen Stills sticks closer to Doris’s rendition, than the slower and more bluesy original on Last Time Around.

Just too quiet here lately, so it’s nice to know, through the amazing power of the pingback, or somesuch, that “Dear Angie” is also favoured by Armour of Rod. Cheers, Rod!

There may have been a bit of confusion with Dear Angie over time, since we moved from Blogger central. Though all of the posts were successfully imported, I’m sure the place is littered with broken links. I also regret the loss of the earlier design, when DA moved into Relocution, and might do something about that, over time. Meanwhile here is the original Dear Angie logo (based on the scans sent by Han Schomaker).