Stealin' / Don't Ease Me In

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Release Date: 1966

Label: Scorpio

Information about the original release, from Ihor W. Slabicky's Complete Grateful Dead discography - https://tcgdd.freeyellow.com/tcgdd.txt

The label has black lettered text on a red label. The "Stealin'" side is cataloged as "003/201" and the "Don't Ease Me In" side is "002/201". This was the Dead's first recording contract. Both "Don't Ease Me In" and "Stealin'" are credited to Garcia. The original run was about 250 singles. It was recalled soon after release, possibly because the band did not like the tracks. Pressed around the hole are a flowing-script handwritten "Commercial Recorders Inc.", lock-lettered hand-printed matrix numbers "002/201" and "003/210" (on the corresponding sides), the full song titles for each side, and a handwritten symbol that resembles two "SS" with an "L" through them. On the "Don't Ease Me In" side, the ratio between grooves and wax is about even. The recording sessions probably took place on May 29, 1966, after the band's appearance at California Hall.

This Scorpio label was a very tiny Bay Area label (not to be confused with the Fantasy subsidiary with the same name (located in San Francisco). Info from deaddisc website (http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_Scorpio_Records.htm): The presence of two companies with this name has led to confusion. The Grateful Dead recorded with the smaller of the two. They did not record with the Scorpio Records which was a subsidiary started by Fantasy Records to break into the market created by the 'British Invasion' following the success of the Beatles.

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