If I Didn’t Love You – USA – 5″ – red vinyl – picture sleeve

Description

AM 1616 USA 5″ Red Vinyl Picture Sleeve
If I Didn’t Love You / Another Nail In My Heart

Here’s what the advert said about it:

Here’s a very rare Squeeze collectible – a red vinyl prototype of their 5″ A&M Single If I Didn’t Love You / Another Nail In My Heart. This was issued as a limited edition black vinyl single, but never released on red vinyl. Recordmecca’s Jeff Gold is a former Vice President of A&M Records and obtained this from a former co-worker, who had it in his collection since it was made in 1980. To our knowledge, the two red vinyl copies found in this collection are the only copies ever discovered on red vinyl.

I love the idea of record company employees making rare coloured vinyl copies of singles just for their own amusement (and personal gain once of pensionable age).

RECORDMECCA’S Jeff Gold was named by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 5 “Top Collectors of high-end music memorabilia” Gold is a frequent consultant to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and the Experience Music Project in Seattle, was a featured appraiser on the VH1 television show “ROCK COLLECTORS,” and was profiled in the book “Vinyl Junkies” by Brett Milano.