THE MAUREENY WISHFUL RECORD LP JIMMY PAGE PRE-LED ZEPPELIN 1968 MEGA RARITY FOLK

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THE MAUREENY WISHFUL RECORD LP JIMMY PAGE PRE-LED ZEPPELIN 1968 MEGA RARITY FOLK ORIGINAL PRESSING
This is the ultimate, legendary rarity for Led Zeppelin/Jimmy Page collectors!!
Condition of the vinyl is excellent..There are light marks visible on the vinyl when I look at it in the direct harsh sunlight.It is hard to see any marks under regular inside lighting. The labels are mint & fresh with no wear marks.
 The glossy cover has little wear, there is some writing on the back cover & there is a small spot of damage on front cover as pictured, but cover is otherwise nice & clean.
Can be posted word wide & will be well packaged. please request postage cost!
 Postage to United Kingdom will be $46.10, to the USA will be $36.70 which includes tracking OR signature on delivery, this record will be very well packed!!

Released in 1968 with only 300 copies allegedly pressed and sold, this rare LP was the product of a collaboration between Jimmy Page, folkie John Williams, and Big Jim Sullivan. John Williams was an artist in the mold of Donovan a sort of traditional folk artist with a twist. Not much is known about him today. He hailed from Bedford, England, a town about 30 miles north of London, and in 1964 was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in a band with his brother Brian known as The Authentics. Prior to "The Maureeny Wishfull Album" he had recorded a self titled solo debut in addition to a couple of 45" singles.

Jimmy met Williams when Williams was a member of The Authentics. The band was an early 60's British pop outfit who regularly performed gigs at the famed Marquee Club in London. The group had been signed to a record deal by Jimmy's manager Giorgio Gomelsky. Jimmy would go on to sit in with the band on a few recording sessions, even co-authoring one of their songs, a number titled "Without You". Williams and Page soon struck up a friendship that revolved around their mutual love of folk music, and Jimmy would pass around songs written by Williams to groups he worked sessions for, notably "Little Nightingale" performed by The Mindbenders.
After The Authentics disbanded, largely due to John Williams burgeoning interest in folk music, Williams began to write more extensively, ultimately brought in Jimmy Page and Big Jim Sullivan along with other noted session guitarist Vic Flick to work on an album. Williams' brother Brian told the story of what happened once the album was completed:

"My brother had written a lot of songs. Andrew Oldham took us on, and my brother wrote and recorded a double album called ‘The Maureeny Wishfull Album’ for Immediate Records. I did the cover art - but unfortunately. Andrew Oldham disappeared with the master tapes! John eventually got one of the master tapes back and pressed the record himself...It’s now a collectable item, because Jimmy Page plays sitar and Vik Flic, Big Jim Sullivan (who is now Tom Jones’ guitarist) and all the good session artists of the time are on it. The master tape of the other album, which I’m playing on, was unfortunately never recovered."
Jimmy is credited with playing guitar as well as sitar on the album, with John Williams doing the vocal work. There isn't any credited producer, but one can assume that Page had a large amount of input upon how the sound of the album was crafted.

Today the album can be heard around the internet and downloaded from here or there, but good luck finding a physical copy. Oddly enough, a number of songs on the album are published by James Page Publishing, an entity that seems to have existed for only one venture.

One Saturday Jimmy and I were wandering round the West End guitar shops - Lew Davis’ and the like. He was at a loose end and we were playing the Crawdaddy, so he came along and played harmonica for us. He was really good - sounded like Sonny Boy Williamson.

That happened a couple of times and Giorgio Gomelsky got to hear about it, so when Eric Clapton left the Yardbirds, he said, “You know Jimmy Page, don’t you? Could you bring him to the Marquee, because we’d like to talk to him?”

So I got hold of Jimmy and we went to the Marquee on a Wednesday afternoon, which I’ll always remember because Howlin’ Wolf was rehearsing there and while Jimmy Page went off with Giorgio to talk about the Yardbirds, Howlin’ Wolf and I demolished a bottle of Scotch!

Eventually, Jimmy turned the Yardbirds down, but he introduced them to Jeff Beck, who was a big mate, and then of course Jeff Beck brought Jimmy Page into the band later, and that was the start of Led Zeppelin.