CBID - Chuck Berry at Walt Disney's Buena Vista Records?

CBID is never complete as new records and CDs appear and some old rarities are discovered. This section presents interesting additions and corrections to CBID.

Today: A Chuck Berry single from Walt Disney's Buena Vista Records?

TAIWAN (?)

Little Queenie / Almost Grown (red vinyl)

Buena Vista BV-1061 • late 1960s or early ‘70s

Now this is an interesting mystery. It turned up in January 2017, and after almost 50 years of collecting Berry records I have never seen or heard about it before. That’s really something!
Red colored vinyl. It looks very much like a bootleg and therefore it’s placed here under Taiwan. The US Buena Vista 45s had three digits, this has four and the label is not the common Buena Vista one.
Buena Vista was the product of the Walt Disney Corporation. And Chuck Berry has not once in the 60s or 70s been a part of that company. Why was this done in the first place? Go figure.

Many thanks to reader John for alerting us about this release.