(Fake) titles listed on side 1:
1: Sei Gegrusst, O Jungfrau Fuehrer [in corrected spelling]
2: Maria Zu Bequem
3: Wir Beten An
4: O Unbefleckt Empfang’ness Herz
5: Grosser Gott!
(Fake) titles listed on side 2:
1: Braut Lied
2: Schoene Gute Nazi
3: Die Abreis Von Riga
4: Sitzen So Froelich
5: Du, Du Liegst Mir Im Herzen
While the label name is fake, some of these titles were taken from real existing German folk songs (the label was still entirely fake though, meaning no accompanying record ever existed). This has to be one of the wildest fake bootleg labels out there. The producer is credited as “Klaus von Schmidt” and an address of 1009 South Summer Lane, Boise, Idaho is included.
I first stumbled over this label recently while researching Wizardo titles – like KO-404 Bottom Apples – and it immediately reminded me of the perverse sense of humor that Larry Feign and John liked to indulge in, see “Billy Wizard and the K-Mart Studio Orchestra”.
However, this label, which is easiest found on the 1978 Sex Pistols bootleg First US Show! on the ODD label, which I assume to be just another Wizardo Records spin off:
can also be found on TMoQ re-issues (see below). It is safe to say that you will find a bootleg on any of the other known label variations before you will find it with a green VON GROSSENSHUSH / TEUFEL label.
Wizardo titles I have found with this label so far (I suspect there are more:)
– An obscure LP by Cream titled ” TOGETHER AND APART ’64-’68” – “Cream!!! Live in concert, studio outtakes, plus solo efforts. STEREO 366” [However including very different tracks to WRMB 366 – insert showing a cartoon image of Little Orphan Annie reading a newspaper with title of the album as the headline]
Label says: Von Grossenshush
Teufel Folk Songs
1009 S, Summer Lane
Boise Idaho
LP Tracks:
Side 1 –
Anyone For Tennis – [Cream]
Early In The Morning – (live) – [Graham Bond Organisation?]
Highfalootin’ Son Of A Gun – unknown title/best guess – [Jack Bruce?]
Sweet Music – unknown title/best guess – [Jack Bruce?]
N.S.U. – (live) – [Cream]
Side 2 –
The Coffee Song – [Cream]
Take Me Away – [?]
Hear Me Calling Your Name – unknown title/best guess – [?]
unknown title – [?]
Wrapping Paper – [Cream]
Meet Me At The Bottom – (live) – [Cream]
– KO 404 The Beatles ‘Bottom Apples’
– WRMB 507/8: Jefferson Starship ‘Live’ [label image on top taken from this LP] and Kiss unnecessary evil. shown here [almost all copies play Jefferson Starship as the inserts received numbers corresponding to the masters of the other artist]
– WRMB 510: The Runaways ‘Live In Concert’
– WRMB 515: The Monkees ‘Concert’:
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– death 533: Tangerine Dream ‘Netz-Lautstärke!’:
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– A copy of the Beatles As Sweet As You Are album on Pumpkin Eater Wreckords with the matrix #s BBL 513-A & B:
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VON GROSSENSHUSH on TMoQ re-issues:
– Bob Dylan …early sixties revised! – the insert reissue, pressed from the same master plates as the slightly differently titled Early 60s Revisited on TMoQ 71083. “There was a completely different cover with a blue insert that was pressed with the same master plates, but issued by
Teufel Folk Songs ref. # BD-554” [This and all following quotes referring to Dylan titles come from bobsboots.com]
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– Bob Dylan Isle Of Wight : “In 1974 TMOQ issued this piece in a white jacket with a Xerox of the original insert and fake labels thar said ‘Teufel Folk Songs’. “
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– Bob Dylan Let Me Die In My Footsteps : “In 1978, Ruthless Rhymes reissued an abbreviated run of the same LP that had been released by TMQ. The vinyl is translucent red, with yellow Ruthless Rhymes labels. The cover is a blank white sleeve, with a yellow TMOQ-2 insert. “Collector’s Edition Colored Vinyl” is stamped in red on the insert. There was also another release the following year on black vinyl, and one on colored vinyl. The cover is blank white with a yellow TMOQ sideways pig logo. The labels are green fake “Teufel Folk Songs”. Both versions are pressed from the original second “POPO” master plates, and are identical in sound quality.”
Matrix: BD 001 1 / 2 POPO
3-6 stars NMP80 (Teufel color vinyl)
3-6 stars NMP60 (Teufel black)
And here found on the double set BBC BROADCAST – TMoQ 71069
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– Jimi Hendrix GOOD KARMA 2
Seller description: “LIVE JH 549, SCARCE LIVE BOOTLEG, GREEN LABEL READS AS
VON GROSSENSHUSH TEUFEL FOLK SONGS PRODUCED BY KLAUS V SCHMIDT”
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– Frank Zappa 200 Motels – From the eBay seller description: “RELEASED ON THE TRADE MARK OF QUALITY LABEL [ TMOQ ] – FZ-503 AND THIS IS THE ULTRA RARE VARIATION PRESSED ON THE GREEN VON GROSSENSHUSH LABEL – 75001 – BOISE, IDAHO”:
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If you are aware of any others, do let me know.
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I have received the following email, which I would like to add here:
“I have to smile time and again that someone thinks about this nonsense because I do it too 😉
Similar cases exist with ‘Key’ labels found on TMOQ/Vicky Vinyl-titles. “