The Wizardo 400 series

Wizardo’s 400 series was a short series of 7 to 8 releases containing a mix of straight copies of bootlegs released by other labels and pirated official tracks, that focused on Beatles and solo-Beatles recordings.

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With the insert – and perhaps the music too – lifted straight from Contraband.

WRMB / KO- 400: The Beatles ‘Complete Christmas Collection’

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WRMB / KO-401: The Beatles ‘Renaissance Minstrels volume 1’ – The Beatles on ed Sullivan, as originally released by TMoQ

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WRMB / KO-402: The Beatles ‘Renaissance Minstrels volume 2’ – – image needed, leave a comment if you can supply this.

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WRMB / KO-403: unknown

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WRMB / KO-404: A collection of Apple single B-sides 1970 – 1975

with ‘Trade Mark of Quantity’ logo and “von Grossenshush/Teufel Folk Songs” green labels found on Wizardo and Ken titles.

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The first sighting of this special “400 Series” label.

Also seen with “Old Glory” labels and probably blank ones as well.

WRMB / KO-405: Mccartney Hot Hits and Cold Cuts – Renaissance Minstrels 4

Pirate LP compiling the single A & B sides for:

Apple 1847 Give Ireland Back To The Irish / Give Ireland Back To The Irish (version)                      Apple 1851 Mary Had A Little Lamb / Little Woman Love                                                                        Apple 1857 Hi Hi Hi / C Moon                                                                                                                         Apple 1861 B-side ‘The Mess’ (to ‘My Love’)                                                                                                 Apple 1863 B-side ‘I Lie Around’ (to ‘Live And Let Die’)                                                                             Apple 1869 B-side ‘Country Dreamer’ (to ‘Helen Wheels’)                                                                             Apple 1876 Junior’s Farm / Sally G.

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WRMB / KO -406: Beatles ‘Sweet Apple Trax’ 3 LP

I believe the entry on the fantastic vinylegs reference website for this bootleg – # 1295 – is incorrect in two ways: 1. “Date: e70s * Format: 3LP-CV” (I do not believe this was ever available in colored vinyl; the WRMB 343 double set, however was). 2. The images show a WRMB 343 double set and not the KO-406 version, as clearly visible on the cover scan (I used this for my Sweet Apple Trax entry found here).

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WRMB / KO-407: The Beatles ‘More Get Back Sessions’

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Confirmed sightings on Dog & Cat and Old Glory labels.

WRMB / KO-408, a straight copy of the 1972 Dittolino Disc release with the original D-1 matrix number still  visible in the copy’s inner groove – and as luck would have it, so it is in the below image of an original.