ZAPPA HOW COULD I BE SUCH A FOOL RARE AUSSIE VERVE
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FRANK ZAPPA AND THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
HOW COULD I BE SUCH A FOOL/ HELP I’M A ROCK
AUSTRALIA VERVE V 5122
Incredibly rare withdrawn single from 1966.
Under any light this single has been played a lot. Heaps of small hairlines and small marks.
Plays with a fair amount of even surface noise on both sides but still with very good fidelity throughout.
No serious loud pops, certainly plays better than it looks.
Labels are worn around the edges.
There are small pencil numbers written on one side 3.5/66 Could this be the pressing date? May 3 1966. It fits.
Comes with two very clean Australian Verve factory sleeves that were both used in the day. One brown and one white.
From milesago.com.au
MGM/VERVE
Astor’s short lived licence to distribute the MGM and Verve labels led to at least one early Australian release for Frank Zappa’s group The Mothers of Invention, who recorded for Verve from 1966 to 1970. Astor never released The Mothers debut album in Australia (probably because it was a double LP full of weird music) and they lost the MGM/Verve rights sometime in 1967, but around March(?) 1966 they did release a limited quantity of The Mothers of Invention single ’How Could I Be Such A Fool?/ Help, I’m A Rock (Verve V-5122). It is thought that only about one hundred were pressed and the single--which featured a distinctive orange and yellow label--is now one of the rarest of all Zappa vinyl collectibles.
From zappainaustralia.com
The birth of Frank Zappa vinyl in Australia was probably 1966 due to the withdrawn pressing of ’How Could I Be Such A Fool?/ Help, I’m A Rock Verve V-5122 on the orange and yellow label (jazz series)
During this time Verve/MGM was being pressed and distributed through Astor. The following year saw distribution change to Phonogram where all were the Black and Silver design.
Dispatched from Melbourne’s Astor pressing plant appears one box of 50-60 discs were sent to Adelaide for distribution. Others probably were pressed as 30 to 35 have definitely been documented predominantly from Southern & Eastern States in Australia. Whatever the pressing run it received, there seems no doubt it was very small.
The single is in either a brown or white generic factory sleeve.
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