BOB DYLAN Great White Wonder UNOFFICIAL 2 LP Set ROCOLIAN LABEL First TMOQ

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BOB DYLAN Great White Wonder
Used Vinyl 2 Record Set
Sleeve/Vinyl: VG+/VG+

Record Label: Rocolian  

Unofficial 1970 2 LP Release. Eggshell white gatefold jacket with "GREAT WHITE WONDER" stamped in purple in the top right corner. Labels are faked to resemble a release by DUPRE and his MIRACLE SOUND.

Condition: Light to moderate wear on the record jacket. Corners have wear but are still sharp. Spine, top and bottom of the gatefold sleeve are solid. Vinyl looks as if it's been played but well cared for. Clean but with minor paper scuffs and light hairlines. Plays well. Surface noise and crackle in spots but nothing serious.

Side One
1. Baby please don't go
Interview by Pete Seeger
Dink's song
See that my grave is kept clean
East Orange New Jersey
Man of constant sorrow

Side Two
7. Candy Man
Ramblin' 'round
Black cross
Ain't got no home
Death of Emmett Till
Poor Lazarus

Side Three
13. New Orleans rag
If you gotta go, go now
Only a hobo
Sitting on a barbed wire fence
Mighty Quinn (take 1)
This wheel's on fire

Side Four
19. I shall be released
Open the door, Homer (take 1)
Too much of nothing (take 2)
Nothing was delivered (take 1)
Tears of rage (take 2)
Living the blues  

Review: The Great White Wonder was the very first Trademark of Quality issue in 1970.

In that same year, the TMOQ Great White Wonder was copied by a label called 'Rocolian'.  They used various combinations of the TMOQ matrix number not only as their matrix, but by logical extension, their reference or catalog number.  The relationship between POPO, TMOQ, CBM, and Rocolian is not quite clear; but, at least in the beginning, there were ties of some  type.

Just as with the other labels, Rocolian released several variations of this album. The cover was a blank white or eggshell gatefold.  Some issues were stamped in the TMOQ style, some in small print in the upper right corner.  Some have a small 'flower girl' stamp.  Some labels were blank, but most were the standard Rocolian label.  (this label has fake song titles with the heading "Dupre and his miracle sound"). It has long been rumored that disc two was released as a single called 'Approximately'.

Sources:
Sides 1 & 2: All 'Minnesota Hotel tape' material (Minneapolis, Dec. '61) except:
Interview from Broadside show 3-62
Side 4: All Basement tape material except:
'Living' - Johnny Cash Show May 1 1969
Side 3: The six songs here, in order, are from:
'Another Side' outtake June '64
'65 outtake released as single
'Times' outtake '63
'Highway 61' outtake '65
Basement tape '67
Basement tape '67