OOPS - typos, bad spelling, the wrong name, etc... Somebody screwed up

There's an interview with Jeff Lynne where he talks about getting his copy of The Idle Race's Impostors of Life's Magazine in the post and him getting excited that his name is going to be on a record for the first time...only for it to end in disappointment when he looked at the label and saw it credited "G. Lynn" as the songwriter.

 

Dinosaur Vacume?

 

Back in 1966, the first album by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 featured their first hit, "Mas Que Nada". Inexplicably, a typo somewhere along the line turned the title into "Mais Que Nada" on both the label and the jacket:





The problem was compounded for years and years as the song appears on many, many compilations and is still, to this day, misspelled as "Mais Que Nada".

 

It's supposed to be Counter Punch...

 

Those cassettes are great, I have one, too:

 

The 'G' might stand for 'Geoff' or 'Geoffrey' which are the ancient English variants of 'Jeff' or 'Jeffrey'...

 

I think that's what whoever typed the credits out on the label probably thought.

 

Planet Waves misspells Richard Manuel’s name

 

Steve Hackett Darktwon on spine

 

I've got the original MFSL CD of Grateful Dead From the Mars Hotel with "Scarlet Begoninas" listed on the back cover and the face of the disc.

I was surprised years ago when I bought a Country Joe and the Fish CD with the word "Rag" tagged on to the end of the real album title: "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die." (The "Rag" was only a part of the title of that song.)

 

I believe the liner notes to The Band's Jehrico misspell it that way once. (His name appears several times, spelled correctly all but once.)

 

Dutch singer George Baker (Quentin Tarantino is a big fan) has a hit called "Little Green Bag".
When he informed the record company of the song titles for his new single (LGB actually was a B side) over the phone it was written as Little Green Bag, but the song is actually called "Little Greenback". It's not about a bag of weed, but about money.

 

This wasn't the only error connected with the group. On their subsequent Fool On The Hill album, the lead vocalist on Track B1, "Lapinho" - Mr. Mendes' future wife Gracinha Leporace - had her surname misspelt "Leporael":

 

Some of RCA's pressing plants had a few ringers over the years. The king of typos, however, would appear to be their Indianapolis, IN plant. First example is this Chordettes' 45 where bandleader (and label founder/head) Archie Bleyer's surname was misspelled:

Then some eight years later, they mangled the title of a Balloon Farm single on Laurie, "A Question Of Temperature":

But Rockaway, NJ did have one that stood out like a sore thumb: taking out the second syllable in the Four Tops' "Standing In The Shadows Of Love":

 

Another "king of screw-ups" was the Alco Research & Engineering facility in Los Angeles. Not for misspellings per se, but switching around lines of type which, in one infamous case, led one to wonder if Yoda was one of their typesetters:

In another case, a Carpenters' single had the producer credit upside down:

Their fonts were very prevalent on Monarch pressings.

 

I seem to recall reading that the "Harding" spelling was intentional - subtle indication that while the music was acoustic, it wasn't 'folk' music.

 

On Dylan's debut a song is listed on the back cover as : ' You're No Good '. On the record label it's called ' She's No Good '
When the album was released on CD the error remained.

 

One wonders if this song title change was in connection with another "You're No Good" that, in the '70's, would be covered by a certain Linda Ronstadt . . . ?

 

Reggae pressings from Jamaica are well know for...eh...interesting spelling.
But this Prince Far I LP is a UK release: Prince Far I - Showcase In A Suitcase
"Meet Veros Artis"
It´s so bad it could be on purpose...

 

Some people do, however, carry money in bags . . .

 

My favorite example here would be the case of Julian Cope. His album Peggy Suicide was obviously a pun on the old Buddy Holly song. For his follow up album, Jehovakill, on the back of the album it said "That'll Be The Decide" which makes no sense, but of course, it was intended to say "That'll Be The Deicide".

 

Early Thin Lizzy concert poster from 1971.

The band was named after the term, Tin Lizzie, used to describe early automobiles. Spelled how it was pronounced by the Irish according to Phil Lynott as they would drop the "H".

 

Re The Bo Diddly label - Does no one remember that after hitting the charts with You' Can't Judge a Book by the Cover, for Yoda a tribute entitled A Book by the Cover, You Can't Judge did he.

 

It's actually Standing on the Edge, and the misspelling is the least of that record's problems

 

On the liner notes of[Meet The Temptations]David Ruffin is listed as.. Davis Ruffin.