21
Company: Melvin Records MM-02
Martix Number: 105-1 340 / OVL 105-2 340
Relesae Date: late 1975
Country: USA
SIDE A
1. THE HIPPY HIPPY SHAKE
2. TO KNOW HER IS TO LOVE HER (incomplete)
3. I'M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND CRY (OVER YOU)
4. SOME OTHER GUY
5. LOVE OF THE LOVED
6. LUCILLE
7. CRYING WAITING HOPING
8. A SHOT OF RHYTHM AND BLUES
9. SURE TO FALL (IN LOVE WITH YOU)
10. SHOUT!
11. HAVE YOU HEARD THE WORD
SIDE B
12. HONEY HUSH
13. COMMONWEALTH
14. GET OFF (jam)
15. CAN YOU DIG IT (jam)
16. SUZY PARLOUR
17. BESAME MUCHO
18. COTTONFIELDS
19. MOVE IT/GOOD ROCKING TONIGHT
20. JAZZ PIANO SONG
21. THE WALK
22. WHAT'S THE NEW MARY JANE (incomplete)
sound quality: variable, inferior to the original
source (all tracks taken from previously released records):
1: BBC radio “Saturday Club”, June 29, 1963
2, 3, 7: BBC radio "Pop go the Beatles", August 6, 1963
4: Liverpool Cavern Club, August 22, 1962
5: Decca Studios, Jan 1, 1962
6: BBC radio “Pop Go the Beatles”, September 17, 1963
8: BBC radio "Pop go the Beatles", August 27, 1963
9: BBC radio "Pop go the Beatles", September 24, 1963
10:Associated Rediffusion "Around the Beatles", May 6, 1964
11: the Fut, 1970 (no Beatles involvement)
12 to 15, 19: Twickenham Studios: January 1969
16, 17, 20: from LET IT BE movie Soundtrack
18: EMI Studios, June 5, 1968, Kenny Everett interview
21: Apple studios, January 27, 1969
22: unreleased Plastic Ono Band single, December 5, 1969
COMMENTS
The second release by Melvin Records appeared a few weeks after their first record. Again, a musically useless compilation, taken from many previously released bootlegs, even including several tracks already used for the first Melvin record. See THEIR GREATEST UNRELEASED for some remarks on the company.
RELEASES
The second Melvin record was distributed with the insert pasted on the front cover derived from the White Album inserts, and that pasted on the back cover derived from the Butcher Cover, with the track listing. Three different versions were made, one with covers and labels printed in tan/yellowish paper, one in green paper and one in red paper; one copy seen had green front cover, yellow back cover, and yellow labels. According to the producers of 21, the first pressing had the tan cover and there were 500 copies, the second pressing had the green cover and was pressed in 100 copies; the third pressing had the red cover and was pressed in 100 copies. This last version was from new masters numbered 21 Side “1 340 / 21 Side “2 340.
About 50 copies of Melvin MM-01, THEIR GREATEST UNRELEASED, had, by mistake, the green labels of this record. It seems likely that the company used the wrong stampers when they pressed a batch of copies of MM-02.
A fourth version had white blank labels, and the insert, in a smaller size, used the front cover with the track listing from the back cover of the first version on yellow paper, and was pressed from the original stampers.
INTEREST. Another much sought-after record, even if not as rare as the first item of the Melvin company. ****