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[eBay] Badfinger - Name of the Game 7" Acetate - Al Kooper Dub

Badfinger - Name of the Game 7" Acetate - Al Kooper Dub - Only Known Copy RARE ! 
Badfinger - Name of the Game 7'' Acetate - Al Kooper Dub
Starting price: C $275.00 
September 27, 2024 at 2:10:29pm PDT 
Duration: 10 days 
Time Ended: October 7, 2024 at 2:10PM PDT 
Bids: 1   Bidders: 1 
Winning bid: C $275.00 
 
Badfinger - Name of the Game – 7" Acetate 
Al Kooper Organ & Piano Overdubs 
 
In Short:  In January of 1971 the members of Badfinger went into the studio with Geof Emerick to record their follow up Lp to “No Dice” which was to be called “Straight Up”. Twelve songs were recorded by March 1971 and presented to George Harrison / Apple Records for release approval.  Surprisingly the release request was denied and the project was shelved. It is believed that Allan Steckler, head of Apple’s U.S. operations was responsible for the Emerick recordings being shelved. 
 
On April 23rd, Phil Spector and George Harrison submitted a remixed version of the song “Name of the Game” to be considered as the 1st single from the forth coming Lp. It was also rejected. 
 
While the band was touring the U.S. they attended a session in New York City for “Name of the Game”  at Bell Studio, where Al Kooper overdubbed swirling organ and piano onto the track. This mix was similarly unsuccessful.  Apple then decided to shelve the Emerick produced album. 
 
At some point it was decided that George Harrison would produce the new Badfinger Lp and work began on the project on May 30th, 1971.  Six songs would be reworked from the Emerick sessions and six new songs were added to the Lp. Unfortunately George was unable to finish the project due to commitments made to the Concert for Bangla Desh (Concert and Lp). 
 
In September of 1971 Todd Rundgren was engaged to complete the project which he did with a December 1971 U.S. release and a January 1972 U.K. release. 
 
This auction is for the "Name of the Game" 7" acetate with the Al Kooper over dubbed organ and piano.  I believe only 1 acetate was cut from the master tape and I believe this is that acetate. Incredibly rare. 
 
The acetate has numerous marks on the surface and plays with some surface noise and the odd pop and crackle.  The number 244AA is stamped into the center of the acetate on the blank side.  I had the acetate transferred to CD and had it declicked so the CD plays amazing and sounds very good.  The winning bidder will get a CD of the acetate (declicked). 
 

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[Newspaper] The Palm Beach Post / Dayton Daily News (June 1971)

Music Machine: 
Al Kooper will do a Badfinger session in Britain this summer. 
 
The Palm Beach Post (June 6, 1971) 
The Palm Beach Post June 6, 1971 Al Kooper
 
 
Dayton Daily News (June 20, 1971) 
Dayton Daily News June 20, 1971 Al Kooper
 

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Al Kooper (April/May 2004)

Al Kooper (April/May 2004) 
 
271 :ホワイトアルバムさん:04/04/20 00:54 ID:76k1DdP+
ほんの、つい最近アル・クーパーがバッドフィンガーについて短く語った 
文章がアルので貼っておきます。(とあるMLより抜粋) 

2004年4月8日 0:02 
I did work on a great version of Name Of The Game that I don't have 
a copy of but I'm sure a 'popper does. It's unreleased (of course) 
and it has Al's organ and remix. I toured with them a lot (we played 
Carnegie Hall together) They were great guys. 

Al "Goodfinger" Kooper 
Badfinger Carnegie Hall
289ホワイトアルバムさん:04/05/25 08:17 ID:GYsHLpLr
とあるMLで又、アル・クーパー御大がバッドフィンガーについて語っております。 


2004年5月24日 12:17 
Badfinger & I were managed by Stan Polley. We were also both booked by Jeff 
Franklin at ATI, so we toured together a great deal and even co-headlined Carnegie 
Hall. Their record company asked me to remix and add organ to a track they did 
so it could be released as a single. I went to the studio and worked all night on that 
project. It was a version of Name Of the Game that had a full orchestra on it. I 
overdubbed an organ and spent all night remixing it. Never came out. It was pretty 
darn good, too! 

Stan Polley is quite a character. He "manged" us, The Tokens, Lou Christie, 
Charlie Calello, Irwin Levine, Neil Bogart, Kenny Kerner & Richie Wise, and a 
few others. He extracted zillions of dollars from us, and then quietly disappeared 
to Palm Springs, where he resides today, in his late '80s. He got most of my Lynyrd 
Skynyrd money, all of Badfinger's, and probably a lot of the others mentioned. He 
was NOT a stupid man, he just had no regard for the human condition. In retrospect, 
he ruined my life financially until I got away from him and pulled myself up off the 
ground in the late '80s. He was not the only villain in my life, but a memorable one. 


G'night for now, 
Old Al Kooper 
 
 
 
 [Magazine] Cash Box (January 16, 1971) 

 

[Magazine] Cash Box (January 16, 1971)

Cash Box (January 16, 1971) 
Cash Box 19710116 Kooper
Al Kooper 
For the past month or so he's been in London, cutting a new album [New York City (You're a Woman) A1/A5/B5] at Trident Studios. His backup men included some of the guys [Caleb Quaye, Roger Pope and Herbie Flowers] who worked and waxed with Elton John, plus a few Badfinger [気配は感じられない] musicians.  
 
 
 
 Al Kooper (April/May 2004) 

 

[Magazine] Badfinger Carnegie Hall - Cash Box / Billboard (March 1972)

Cash Box / March 25, 1972 
Cash Box 19720325 Badfinger
Cash Box / March 11, 1972 
Cash Box 19720311 Carnegie
Billboard / March 18, 1972 
Billboard 19720318 Carnegie

BADFINGER - Carnegie Hall, March 1, 1972 
Badfinger Carnegie Hall
Badfinger / Live Carnegie Hall 1972 
(Photos: March 8, 1974 Badfinger concert in Vancouver) 
Badfinger Live Carnegie Hall NYC 3-1-1972 back
Badfinger Live Carnegie Hall NYC 3-1-1972
 
Steve Sherry / Seeing Badfinger at Carnegie Hall (March 1, 1972

 
 
 
 [Magazine] Melody Maker (March 11, 1972) 

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