Description

Type:  DOUBLE LP         Condition: cover EX (age discoloration and marks with some wear to edges)/vinyl EX (some minor surface wear and scratches)

Label: N/A   Year: 1969    Cat no: N/A

Rocolian label, Dupre and His Miracle Sound

Blank label (22643 matrix) (1 marked in pen on label)
Tracks: Candy Man, Ramblin Round, Ezekiel

Dupre and his Miracle Sound Vol II Side B, cat 22645
(22645 matrix) (2 marked in pen on label)
Tracks: I Shall Be Released, Open the Door Rachel, Say Hello to Valerie, Nothing Was Delivered, Tears of Rage, Livin' the Blues

Dupre and his Miracle Sound Vol I Side A, cat 22642
(22642 matrix) (3 marked in pen on label)
Tracks: Baby Please Don't Go, Fare Thee Well, See That My Grave is Kept Clean, East Orange New Jersey (Talk), Man of Constant Sorrow

Dupre and his Miracle Sound Vol I Side B, cat 22643
(no matrix) (4 marked in pen on label)
Tracks: 103, If You Gotta Go, Only a Hobo, Something Else, Mighty Quinn, Wheel's on Fire

See below for history.

Great White Wonder or GWW is a Bob Dylan bootleg double album, released in July 1969. Some of the tracks came from Dylan's and The Band's legendary Basement Tapes sessions, recorded in the cellar of The Band's upstate New York home, while others were taped in Minneapolis on December 22, 1961. The recording was never authorised by Dylan or his record company. The only identifying mark on the album cover was the text GF 001/2/3/4, and later, after a repressing, gwa 1Aa version 2, leading to the nickname "Great White Wonder".

Content

Released by the infant TMQ label ("Trademark of Quality"), created by two Los Angeles-based men, one a military deserter, Ken and Dub, it was compiled from multiple sources. Sides one and three of Great White Wonder were entirely given over to songs from an informal ninety-minute tape that Dylan recorded in the apartment of Bonnie Beecher in Minneapolis in December 1961. Side two was a miscellany of studio outtakes. However, it was seven basement-tape cuts that filled up the end of side two and all of side four that aroused the greatest interest.

Radio Broadcasts

"The west coast radio stations were first to pick up on Great White Wonder. Five radio stations – KCBS [sic – should be KCSB-FM] in Santa Barbara, KNAC in Long Beach, KRLA in Pasadena and KMET-FM and KPPC-FM in Los Angeles – immediately began playing the album. KRLA was the first. Unconcerned with legal niceties, these LA radio stations were quite willing to fuel demand for both Great White Wonder and the spate of bootlegs that soon followed its metal-stamped heels."

Originally, the cover was a simple white sleeve, until the nickname "Great White Wonder" began to take effect. Later 1970s pressings included a poorly hand-stamped title, or a picture of Dylan playing at the Isle of Wight festival. Others gave the false artist name "Dupre and his Miracle Sound", along with false track titles.

Sales

It has been claimed that the bootleg sold nearly 350,000 copies, but there is no way to verify this.[2]

Track listing

All tracks written by Bob Dylan, except when noted.

1. "Candy Man"
2. "(As I Go) Ramblin' 'Round" (Woody Guthrie)
3. "Black Cross"
4. "I Ain't Got No Home" (Woody Guthrie)
5. "The Death of Emmett Till"
6. "Poor Lazarus" (trad.)

1. "Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag"
2. "If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got to Stay All Night)"
3. "Only a Hobo"
4. "Sitting On a Barbed Wire Fence"
5. "Mighty Quinn" (take 1)
6. "This Wheel's on Fire" (Bob Dylan, Rick Danko)

1. "Baby Please Don't Go"
2. Interview by Pete Seeger
3. "Dink's Song" (trad.)
4. "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"
5. "East Orange New Jersey"
6. "Man of Constant Sorrow" (trad.)

1. "I Shall Be Released"
2. "Open The Door, Homer" (take 1)
3. "Too Much of Nothing" (take 2)
4. "Nothing Was Delivered" (take 1)
5. "Tears of Rage" (take 2)
6. "Living the Blues" (Live, The Johnny Cash Show)

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Grading

MINT - the record itself is in brand new condition with no surface marks or deterioration in sound quality. The cover and any extra items such as lyric sheet, booklet or poster are in perfect condition.  Sealed or Unplayed will be mint.

EXCELLENT - the record shows some signs of having been played, possibly with light surface marks but there will be very little lessening in sound quality. The cover and packaging might have slight wear and/or creasing.

VERY GOOD + - the record may have scuff marks and signs of some wear but will still play almost perfectly throughout, with only barely detectable crackles or pops. A slight noise at the beginning is allowable, but the remainder must be nearly flawless. Definitely no scratches or gouges that a touch with a dry finger can feel. The cover may only have the slightest signs of normal wear.

VERY GOOD - the record has obviously been played many times, but displays no major deterioration in sound quality, despite noticeable surface marks and the occasional light scratch. Normal wear and tear on the cover or extra items, without any major defects, is acceptable.

GOOD - the record has been played so much that the sound quality has noticeably deteriorated, perhaps with some distortion and mild scratches. The cover and contents suffer from folding, scuffing of edges, spine splits, discoloration, etc.

+ or - will be used to denote slightly higher or lower grades.

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