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http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/ten-years-after-ssssh-misprint.539299/ They were both, to some degree, divisions of or owned by Decca, and I guess in 69 or 70 they were pressing both in the same place and someone screwed up the division label distinctions. So the b-side to this and the A-side to what was actually Telemann chamber music were both 9084 even though the Decca division labels attached to the Cat# itself (the pure number) were different. A minor mystery. Thanks for your help.

Okay then the B-side confusion would make sense. So is mine a 1969 German Deram reissue [in the sense that it either wasn't first run or was just not originally for US market]? I don't expect you to know that I just find some of the discog info pages confusing... such as this one.

Agreed. It's clearly a misprint in the sense that it's not Side B. I think they must have confused the serial numbers and I wonder if mine isn't an early and/or test print. Is your Side A serial number the same or is it ZAL-9084? Because the 9084 makes sense for confusion but if 9083 was the standard Side A label it's even weirder. I wasn't aware of Hoffman's forums so I posted over there too; thanks.

I have a copy of the album Ssssh by Ten Years After. Side 1 is labeled (handwritten/carved) ZAL-9083-6; Side 2 is labeled (printed) MXX-9084A-1A. Side 1 is the correct Side 1; Side 2 is a Bach concerto I'm not specifically familiar with (or it's likely J.S. Bach). I can't find any evidence of this misprint. Any thoughts?