Quality Gold Collection GC-318X - Rare tracks on budget single

Morten Reff's book series "The Chuck Berry International Directory" documents and describes all Chuck Berry records ever released world-wide. The first volume contains all the US American and British releases plus most of the records officially released in other countries. Since the book was printed, additional records have been released. And collectors from all over the world reported additional obscure records. All these will be listed in a future volume of this series. Until then, we will report on some of the more interesting additions here.

One record missing from the Canadian discography is number GC-318X of the Quality Gold Collection of singles. The record is shown below. The interesting bit about this single, as Morten told, is that it looks like ordinary hit versions. However, they are not. Sweet Little Sixteen is the demo version and Reelin' And Rockin' is the alt. take, both of which first heard on the American Hottest Wax bootleg. The labels say (c)1981, but this is very unlikely as the first legal releases of these takes were in 1983 (UK) and 1986 (US).

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