MOTHERS/ZAPPA - RARE WITHDRAWN - HOW COULD I BE SUCH A FOOL-OZ 1966 VERVE 7"
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  $   728

 


A$ 1099 Sold For
Mar 31, 2012 Sold Date
Mar 21, 2012 Start Date
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  Australia Country Of Seller
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MOTHERS OF INVENTION / FRANK ZAPPA
HOW COULD I BE SUCH A FOOL
VERY RARE WITHDRAWN AUSTRALIAN 7" ON VERVE 1966

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milesago.com mentions this single:
MGM/Verve Astor's shortlived licence to distribute the MGM and Verve labels led to at least one early Australian release for Frank Zappa's group The Mothers, 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 very limited quantity of the Mothers' single "How Could I Be Such a Fool?" / "Help, I'm A Rock" (Verve V-5122). It is thought that only about one hundred copies were pressed and this single -- which featured a distinctive orange-and-red label -- is now one of the rarest of all Zappa vinyl collectibles.

zappainaustralia.com also mentions it as follows:
How Could I Be Such A Fool/Help I’m A Rock- Verve  V 5122.
The birth of Frank Zappa vinyl in Australia was probably in 1966 due to the withdrawn pressing of How could I be such a fool? /Help I’m a rock (Verve V5122) on the yellow and orange label (jazz series).
During this time Verve/MGM was being pressed and distributed through Astor. The following year 1967 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 was sent to Adelaide for distribution. A well known Distributor employed in Adelaide during the sixties verified the discovery of this 7” single in 1982. Others probably were pressed, as 30-35 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 either in a brown or white generic factory sleeve. Promotional releases of Verve vinyl at this time have a publicity sheet housed with a stock single. Verve test pressings usually have typed or handwritten information on a plain white label. To this date neither have been documented for 7” V5122.

Side A : HOW COULD I BE SUCH A FOOL
Side B: HELP I'M A ROCK

Vinyl: Lots of marks, plays with pops and crackles, A side sounds better, NO SKIPS OR JUMPS on my turntable; G

Labels: A side and, B side clean

(repaired) company sleeve

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