Beatles O.P.D. from the Get Back WKBW ACETATE vinyl bootleg @1970

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425

See history below for what this VERY RARE/OBSCURE LP represents.

I've had had this for some time - I just never looked at it to see what it was until recently.

The record is what it is - it does play/track and is not warped. It needs a cleaning. there is a small
amount of writing of a song listings on the essentially white/blank label from a previous owner.

Mostly a one of kind rarity these days.

Buyer pays all postage/shipping and handling

THERE WILL BE NO RETURNS OR REFUNDS - If you don't like it you may resell it.
I DON'T MEAN TO BE RUDE - I'VE JUST DEALT WITH TOO MANY ODDBALLS HERE ON EBAY :)

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Tracks -

SIDE ONE

1. One After 909
2. Rocker-Save The Last Dance For Me-Don't Let Me Down
3. Don't Let Me Down
4. Dig A Pony
5. I've Got A Feeling
6. Get Back

SIDE TWO

1. For You Blue
2. Teddy Boy
3. Two Of Us-Maggie Mae
4. Dig It
5. Let It Be
6. Long and Winding Road
7. Get Back (Reprise)

History:

This could be considered the proverbial "lost" Beatles album. Although originally available in late 1969,
until recently, this version of Glyn's compilation had almost been lost in time.

A few months after the end of the "Get Back Sessions", in early March 1969 (this might further the original March date theory for compilation 1), Glyn was finally given the task of compiling an actual album. He set about
this task throughout April and early May 1969. This would be Glyn's second compilation and was constructed with the intent for future release but, essentially, it became the prototype for compilations 3 and 4. Apparently, The Beatles disapproved of this compilation. In late May 1969, Glyn did some editing on this version and produced compilation 3.



On Saturday September 20, 1969, WKBW in Buffalo broadcast a tape this compilation.
The tape was sourced from an early production acetate that leaked out of Apple's hands.

The Apple master tape is surely stereo and it can be assumed that the acetate is, too. But the tape copy
used for the broadcast features only one side of the stereo image. Evidence of this is provided by the recording itself. Besides Get Back, the recording also features an "exclusive" airing of "Across The Universe" from The World Wildlife Fund December 1969 release, No One's Gonna Change Our World. This song is not part of the actual Get Back broadcast. It appears as though WKBW broadcast the song sometime in December 1969
and the taper recorded it over a portion of the Get Back broadcast. WKBW was on 1520 AM and, thus, broadcast in mono. The broadcast of "Across The Universe" features the full audio. In other words, it's the full stereo image broadcast in mono. This demonstrates that WKBW's actual source tape for the Get Back broadcast featured only one channel of stereo.



Shortly after the broadcast, around January 1970, two bootlegs surfaced that contained recordings of the exact same acetate that was used for the WKBW broadcast. The first release was titled O.P.D. (label unknown) and featured the entire acetate. The second release was titled The Silver Album Of The World's Greatest (Jarris Records) which featured several songs but not the entire acetate. It appears that The Silver Album Of The World's Greatest utilized the same source recording as O.P.D. but it was a higher tape-generation copy. Since they feature none of the DJ dialog heard in the broadcast, the bootlegs can surely be sourced directly back to the acetate. As with WKBW's tape, both bootlegs feature only one channel of stereo. The reason for this is unclear. Perhaps the person who taped the acetate didn't realize it or it was done intentionally to preserve the unique integrity of the original acetate.

  Excerpt 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAOp9zowyR0
Excerpt 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRGd6-86Cw0