Zip Records Pressing

[Mike1965]

Does anyone know what this is and who Zip Records was and where?

[Mike1965]

I went ahead and bought it. For $6.00 it is worth a chance of being interesting.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/JAN-amp-DEAN-yellow-balloon-pocket-full-of-rainbows-CLEAR-WAX-12-034-TEST-PRESS-PROMO-/351077008962?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=5j2vNHGctOjwU51iiJU8qa4w3uI%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

[Mike1965]

I received this record in the mail today.  It has a different sound than the released record and the version is slightly different.  It actually sounds better!  Definitely Dean singing.  I guess this would be classified as an early studio cut?  I still do not know who the record company is.  I am unable to find anything out about Zip Records on Google.

[gary Z]

This was a private pressing and one of the earliest Jan & Dean boots. A bargain at $6.

[Mike1965]

Is a private pressing like a studio copy or acetate studio copy? What is the story on what took place in the studio in the mid 1960's when a record was recorded for production?

[Bitman]

It seems to me I once had a copy of this. I'm thinking it would be late 70's and it was the first time I had heard the J&D version of Yellow Balloon, so I wouldn't have noticed any difference. I can't even remember where/how I acquired it. Wow..the memory banks are fading!

[Daring move]

The Columbia mix and the earliest J&D boot