American. In the States the Grateful Dead label served as an outlet for solo and ensemble releases by the group of that name during the mid '70s. It appeared only briefly over here. Despite the fact that WEA awarded it its own catalogue numbering series for its singles (K-19300) only one single was issued in that series: the Grateful Dead's 'Let Me Sing Your Blues Away' (K-19301; 1973). Promo copies were on the standard Atlantic label, and indeed a lot of stock copies can be found on that label too, which suggests that the record was re-pressed and reissued at some point. Later on in the decade records on the US Grateful Dead label were licensed to United Artists in Britain; most of them appeared on the United Artists label, but one, the Dead's 'The Music Never Stopped' (UP-36030; 1975), while having a standard UA catalogue number, had white labels with the band's logo on them. It didn't have 'Grateful Dead Records' on it, so it only qualifies as a United Artists issue under this site's guidelines, but John Timmis has been kind enough to provide a scan of a demo as a comparison, and it can be seen above (2). And that seems to have been the lot, as far as singles are concerned.
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