Pulled this out last night. RIP Hunter... "Just like crazy Otto, just like wolfman Jack/ Sitting plush w a royal flush, aces back to back..."
(Not my picture) This is the only one I have. Great album. The spine reads Fire Down Below but the cover and vinyl read the album's proper title.
Sorry to be the guy to tell you, but that's just a plain old stock copy Canadian Da Capo. That's what the Canadian Electra label looked like then. My stock copy of Forever Changes looks just the same, just with the different cat. number and track listings. They did not get the "Love" custom font or the white "E" in Canada.
No problem. Another guy told me also. Thanks for the last word....it does play beautifully. It has a PROMO stamp, which I like. So did the distributor/pressing plant get the stock USA Elektra album cover also? As mine is not printed in Canada--it the standard USA cover..
My copy of forever changes is a Canadian label in a US sleeve. The same SHF member I bought it from said he had other Love records like this that he purchased in Canada in the early 70s at a record store.
How does your Canadian Da Capo sound? I've got this Canadian FC and a slightly groove warn, G+ Monarch US copy and I cant really decide if one is better than the other.
That's the matrix number, there are a lot of folks here who can describe it better than me but it's kind of like a catalog# that was assigned to each individual master.
Ah, okay. It's like that thing that's stamped in the run-off of an LP that some collectors are willing to pay hundreds of extra dollars for.
Here's a Richard Berry promo Give It Up/I Want You To Be My Girl on Gary Paxton and Kim Fowley's Paxley Records distributed by Liberty Records from early 1961. I won this in a radio station trivia contest around 1966 or 1967 from KFAR in Fairbanks, Alaska. It seems that's how they disposed of 45's they didn't need or want anymore. Berry is much better known for the original Louie, Louie, but these are rocking rhythm and blues/soul sides that could have been contenders maybe at a different time.
BTW, this wlp with Days Of The Week etc. also exists in stereo. Super rare, I've only seen one copy of it in 45+ years of collecting.
My Grateful Dead white label promo acquisition campaign is progressing nicely: An America Beauty popped on on my want list email today for a nice price so I anticipate another posting shortly!