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Mislabeled Vinyl

able.baker

able.baker

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Picked up some really excellent vinyl at a tag sale yesterday. Opened but hardly played, very clean. Got Joe Jackson, Cindy Lauper and Randy Newman all for $1 each. I should have bought more. So last evening I wind up the old turntable and go to put the Randy Newman album on, and the label says Emmylou Harris!! So I'm thinking maybe the record was just in the wrong jacket. But the music is definitely Randy Newman. The number scratched on the blank area in the center of the record matches the cover number. Any one else ever run into something like this?
 
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able.baker said:
Picked up some really excellent vinyl at a tag sale yesterday. Opened but hardly played, very clean. Got Joe Jackson, Cindy Lauper and Randy Newman all for $1 each. I should have bought more. So last evening I wind up the old turntable and go to put the Randy Newman album on, and the label says Emmylou Harris!! So I'm thinking maybe the record was just in the wrong jacket. But the music is definitely Randy Newman. The number scratched on the blank area in the center of the record matches the cover number. Any one else ever run into something like this?
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Not exactly. I have a jazz album on Prestige titled "Wardell Gray". It's one of those overviews of an artist's recorded work so he's featured with a variety of artists. The track listing and sideman information on the album jacket is totally scrambled. None of the tracks is in the correct sequence and most of the sideman info is out of order too. On the labels the information is also wrong - and different from the jacket. All the info is correct, just scrambled.

This is a 2-record set. Prestige later reissued this on 2 separate discs as "The Wardell Gray Memorial Album, Vols. 1 & 2". I guess that was easier than sorting out the mistakes on the original. ;)

Sounds like yours is a case of someone loading the wrong stack of labels into the machine at the pressing plant. I would imagine yours is fairly rare. Someone probably caught it eventually or it corrected itself the next time the labels were loaded. Mine is a case of someone sequencing the listings incorrectly for the whole print run for the labels and jackets.

John
 
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I have a Queensryche EP that has a side 2 label on both sides. But I have never seen a completely wrong label on a disc. Might be worth something!
 
I have a split 7" somewhere with the labels on the wrong side. I also have some CDs with the track listing printed incorrectly
 
I bought a Dream Theater album on vinyl and the last track is actually the second last track. They recorded the same song on the album twice, and left out a song.

Track 7 is Ministry of Lost Souls
Track 8 is also Ministry of Lost Souls. They left out In The Presence of Enemies Part II.

I'm gonna keep it because it's pretty weird and I have the album on CD anyway (the vinyl copy is basically just a CD recording :( )

Like anything, I guess there were quite a few manufacturing defects. :scratch2:
 
Not mislabeled but an odd one, Fleetwood Mac's album Then Play On was released on vinyl with two different track lists but under the same number. After the success of the hit single "Oh, Well", Warner pulled four tracks from the original album and substituted the two-part, nine minute "Oh, Well" as a continuous track. Sorta weird, IMO, that they would release a very signifficant revision without giving it a different catalog number.

John
 
The Mac album is not that uncommon. Lots of times LPs have been re-released almost immediately due to a song getting airplay that wasn't on the lp, or was not intended as a single. A couple of examples would be XTC with Dear God, or the first Them lp. Then Play On is fairly common in both variations, although most fans would prefer to have Oh Well on there!

The mis-labeling is also fairly common. Sometimes the odd disc gets a wrong label, or two different labels, or same on both sides. Sometimes they press the correct lp on one side, and another artist on the other. I have a few oddities like this. In a nutshell, if it ain't The Beatles, it ain't worth much! But they are fun to dig up.
 
eb2jim said:
The Mac album is not that uncommon. Lots of times LPs have been re-released almost immediately due to a song getting airplay that wasn't on the lp, or was not intended as a single. A couple of examples would be XTC with Dear God, or the first Them lp. Then Play On is fairly common in both variations, although most fans would prefer to have Oh Well on there!
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I have both. :) The thing I thought might be unusual was not that there are two versions but the fact that the two versions have the same catalog number. You'd think that Warner would have wanted a way to differentiate between them but maybe it's not so uncommon. :dunno:

John
 
boreas said:
I have both. :) The thing I thought might be unusual was not that there are two versions but the fact that the two versions have the same catalog number. You'd think that Warner would have wanted a way to differentiate between them but maybe it's not so uncommon. :dunno:

John
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Aren't the covers a little different? I think the CD version combines the two versions. I know that "Oh Well" ended up pretty big on album rock stations in it's long form. Of course original versions of the first Buffalo Springfield album did not have "For What It's Worth".
 
TAGO MAGO said:
Aren't the covers a little different? I think the CD version combines the two versions. I know that "Oh Well" ended up pretty big on album rock stations in it's long form. Of course original versions of the first Buffalo Springfield album did not have "For What It's Worth".
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Working from memory since that box of LPs is in storage :(, there are two designs that I'm aware of. One has a gray border where the title/artist info appears. The other has a black border. Both of mine have the gray border but on one, the "Oh, Well" version, the background is more toward yellow and the other more toward amber. I never thought of them as different versions of the cover, just different print runs but maybe I'm wrong. I don't know what to say about the black border. Maybe it's a reissue like the black border on Music From Big Pink.

John
 
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I have an lp in my collection that has a completely blank label on one side. Don't remember who it is thought.
 
I got a Focus record for a dollar that was in mint condition. It was the Dutch Masters one with the picture of them like that brand cigars. It was labeled as Dutch Masters! hhahahahaha
 
I've got an "Animals" album that actually turned out to be one of Herman's Hermits greatest hits. I checked, and it's not worth anything, but I've kept it. :)
 
Some of the labels on my copy of Have a Nice Life's "Deathconsciousness" are on the wrong sides. They're the right labels otherwise though.
 
I have a copy of Black Sabbath - Paranoid witch is labeled wrong way around. In other words Side 2 labeled as Side 1 and vice versa.
 
I have the same thing on a brand-new, never opened until recently copy of Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure. Played side 1, only to be surprised it was actually side 2 :)
 
On my copy of "her name is Julie" by Julie London, the songs are listed by side on the back cover, but the sides are reversed on the actual LP
 
Was just spinning Motörheads Another perfect Day and realized the back of the cover says the track list is

1-back at the funny farm
2-shine
3-dancing on your grave
4-rock it
5-one track mind
6-another perfect day
7-marching off to war
8-i got mine
9-tales of glory
10-die you bastard

however the real tracklisting on the LP is
1-i got mine
2-one track mind
3-rock it
4-marching off to war
5-tales of glory
6-back at the funny farm
7-dancing on your grave
8-shine
9-another perfect day
10-die you bastard

not a single song is correct
 
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