Single Title Label
aka White Cover Folks (WCF)

A 'Single Title Label' was a very prolific West Coast Bootlegger in the early 1970's, progressing from stamped to printed folder sleeves and finally in 1975 a more commercial looking Berkeley Records.

Hot Wacks gave them the inappropriate name 'White Cover Folks'/'WCF', which may describe their pre 1974/75 output of Gate-folder releases mainly with records having blank or recycled labels. However earlier releases seem to have had a new record company for every release usually related to the album title and a different font for each. The record labels were usually coloured with silver text and the matrices regularly copying the source format .

As you would expect trying to unpick the releases of a label like this is very difficult, especially with the number of reissues and there has been a greater than usual necessity to rely upon non Beatles titles for dating purposes.

A rough chronology could be:

1970       Stamped Covers ? TBC'd

197x        Slicks

1973/74   Gatefolder Covers

1974        Printed Gatefolder Covers with Artist themed rear

1974/74   B/W A4 Slick reissues

1975        B/W printed Sleeves on Berkeley Records, Image, Wonderland, and TBC labels.

Single Title Label



 

Label

Catalogue No.

Title

Comments

Date

*
Silver
Greatest
LB-1
Let It Be - Live  
1970
             
 
The World's Greatest

KB

Kum Back  
1970
*
Kum Records

KB

Kum Back  
1971
 
N/A
  Kum Back  
1973
     
01971
No Title    
 
IPF
RP-23
ILF-1
Get Back To Torronto (v1)  
1971
   
IPF
RP-23
ILF-1
Get Back To Torronto (v2)    
*
Toronto
23
Get Back To Torronto (v3)  
1972
*
Battle
RP24
Battle (v1) with The Rolling Stones
1971
   
Battle
RP24
Battle (v2) with The Rolling Stones
1972
*
Live Records
Live #501
101
Last Live Show (v1)  
1970
 
Live Records
Live #501
101
Last Live Show (v2)  
1971
 
Yellow Records
YMC101
Yellow Matter Custard  
1971
*
Whiskey Records
510
Live Concert At Wiskey Flats  
1971
*
725
Renaissance Minstrels
Volume I
 
1971
*
726
Renaissance Minstrels
Volume II
 
*
Zapple
999
Live at Nassau Colleseum  
1972
 
BBJ
BBJ1
British Blue Jam with The Rolling Stones
1973?
   
999
Live From Germany  
1973
     
999
Top of The Pops / Live In Germany Gate folder only?  
 
Battle
24
Battle with The Rolling Stones
1974 or 5
*
Bang Records
4022
Bangladesh  

Folder Releases

In 1973/74 releases appeared in Gate Folders, which were primarily folded printed sheets. with large inner flaps but no artwork, some of which were recycled from earlier releases.

When looking at Beatles titles included an amended version of the copied title with an artist themed montage of images on the rear.


Catalogue No.

Title

Comments

Date

 
YMC101
Yellow Matter Custard  
1973
   
LB1
Let It Be Live
   
 
Kum Back    
 
501/101
Last Live Show    
*
725
Renaissance Minstrels
Volume I
 
*
726
Renaissance Minstrels
Volume II
 
 
999
Top Of The Pops    
 
3624
 
1974
 
3626
L.S. Bumble Bee    
           
   
3640
Studio Sessions Volume 1    
 
3641
Studio Sessions Volume 2  
1973/4
           
 
2008
Some Other Guy  
 
2009
Peace Of Mind  
1974
 
2027
Hollywood Bowl  
 
2028
James Paul McCartney  
 
2033
Renaissance Vol 3    
 
2043
Yesteday And Today  
1974


White Cover Folks
Recycled Labels



Catalogue No.

Title

Comments

Date

 
999
Top of The Pops / Live In Germany Gate folder only?  
 
2009
Peace Of Mind  
1974 or 5
2027
Back In 1964 At The Hollywood Bowl    
2033
   
3624
Have You Heard The Word
TBC
1974 or 5
 
Mary Jane    
3626
L.S. Bumble Bee  
1974 or 5
         
3641
Studio Sessions // 2  

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The collated information is from hundreds of sources, I am unable to verify the accuracy of any information implied or provided .

I neither own these discs or know how to obtain them , so any Corrections or New material is always appreciated.

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