I've seen it around. It's a bootleg and was issued without a jacket in a plain white cover.

victoravalentine, March 3, 2008; 12:27 PM

Dear Victor,
Thanks for this info! This is very important information to me.
Can you please elaborate a bit more? Do you mean it came in a plain white inner sleeve without any outer sleeve or did it actually come in a white outer (carton) sleeve? Also, do you know when this was pressed? It looks from the 60s, but I'm not sure. Do you have more information on the label Jason?
I wrote an article on this specific pressing in UK magazine Record Collector. I put a price of 50 UK pounds on it (around 100 Dollar).
Any more information you might have, would be most appreciated!
Thanks so much, Freek

info, March 4, 2008; 5:09 AM

I don't have any specifics on the recording or label. I've seen it listed on ebay without an outer jacket with artwork ect and saw another copy years ago in a plain white sleeve. I'm just adding 1 plus 1.

A legit release will usually have address info and or date info on label. The Bootlegs never do.

The original vinyl pressing of "Birdman Of Alcatraz" considered a bootleg gives a label of BOA (Birdman Of Alcatraz). There are no other LP's with that label although the same unidentified people did produce some other score recordings on the sly.

I don't care for the term "bootleg" when applied to these recordings. I think they're too good to be considered that. When I think of bootlegs I usually associate the term with pirated versions of commercially released popular music such as those el cheapo 8 track tapes sold at truck stops years ago.

Read a crazy story once about country singer Jerry Lee Lewis spotting 8 track bootlegs of his records at a gas station. He went to his car, came back with a baseball bat and began smashing the entire display.

victoravalentine, March 6, 2008; 10:20 PM