B.J. HOOD LP on GUINNESS Tax Scam label SEALED

$ 61

$ 61 Sold For

Nov 9, 2009 Sold Date

Nov 2, 2009 Start Date

$ 10 Start price

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B.J. HOOD

"YOU GOTTA BE KIDDIN' ME" LP

Guinness 36056

CONDITION: STILL FACTORY SEALED, with a stain along the top corner of the cover

B.J. Hood is said to have a versatile blue eyed soul voice, and he/they run through a lot of different styles.
Supposedly there's some wicked good fuzz guitar on "No Thank You", but since I left this album sealed, I have not actually heard it myself.
There's some more information on this album here and here.
I see that a Billy Jay Hood signed with Western World Records in 1972, around the same time as Felix Harp
(another Guinness artist), so there's a good chance these are 1972 tracks that were quietly pulled from the vaults five years later.

On the now-legendary Guinness label, a tax write-off operation that pressed albums they knew wouldn't
be hits, didn't distribute them, and instead let them rot away in a warehouse.
Most of the artists didn't even know that their material was being "released" by this tax scam operation.
Guinness albums had virtually no liner notes, and no photos of the artists themselves.
Ironically, they have become very collectable today.

Includes the following:

OVER UNDER
MOSES
I AM WANTING YOU
I LOVE YOU
LIVING LONG
AIN'T IT STRANGE
NO THANK YOU
YOU GOT TO BE KIDDIN' ME
THE QUEEN IS DYING
IT'S ALL GONE NOW

SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS FOR MORE GUINNESS LABEL GOODIES, ALL IN GREAT CONDITION.