It Was (unreleased) Twenty Years Ago Today...

Girl / You're Going To Lose That Girl

Twenty years ago, this Capitol single (# 4506) was going to be released as a single from the Love Songs album, but was withdrawn at the last minute. Thousands of picture sleeves and a small quantity of promotional copies of the record were already made up, and quickly found their way onto the collectors market. The stock labels had already been printed up as well.
In late 1978 two west coast USA dealers purchased the entire lot of 16,000 pictures sleeves for $3,200.00 ($.20 each!). They were initially sold at retail prices of around $30-$40.00, and wholesale for around $2-$5.00 each. Throughout the years the retail price gradually declined to $8.00, and now, twenty years later, they are back up to $20.00 as most of the supply has finally been depleted. Both dealers hesitated in their purchase - even though .20 each was a bargain, it was a lot of money when multiplied by 16,000. They had some idea that it would take "forever" to sell all of the sleeves, and recently stated that they would have never guessed it was to take twenty years!

Issued in October 1977, only a small quantity of promotional copies ever turned up, and today are worth nearly $200.00. In 1978, a few months after the single was withdrawn, bootleggers cleverly ran off stock copies of the single, which never had originally existed. They were pressed using several different colors of vinyl. Close inspection of the labels reveals slightly less detail, and they are also lighter.

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The clear vinyl stock issue bootleg.

The ONLY Girl singles that are real are the promotional copies on black vinyl - all color vinyl "stock" issues are fake.

Uncut label for the stock issue Girl single.