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The Beatles - Kum Back (1970)

Track listing:
  1. Get Back 2:49
  2. Can He Walk 0:59
  3. Let It Be 3:49
  4. Teddy Boy 5:37
  5. Two Of Us 3:31
  6. Don't Let Me Down 3:36
  7. I've Got A Feeling 2:45
  8. Long And Winding Road 3:31
  9. For You Blue 2:11
  10. I Dig A Pony 3:53
  11. Get Back 2:34

Notes

KB-10 (first issued in 1969) plain white sleve and label - paper insert as cover
Original vinyl
Most probably a late 70's-early 80's reissue.

Summary: from "A History of Beatles Bootlegs" compiled by DinsdaleP (1998)

Even before they had broken up and ceased issuing official material, the first Beatles bootleg appeared on the market. Kum Back offered a full album’s worth of rough stereo mixes of never-before heard songs, plus two takes of Get Back and an alternate take of Don’t Let Me Down.

The tapes themselves come from an acetate prepared by Glyn Johns on March 10, 1969 which somehow made its way to the northeastern USA by late that summer. One long-standing rumor has John himself bringing either his copy or a tape thereof with him to Canada on 13 Sep. Within a week, by whatever means, tapes of this were wending their way slowly south and west. The entire acetate was aired on WKBW in Buffalo, NY; a WBCN Boston broadcast followed suit on 22 Sep, and by fall every underground station and its brother had a copy. Reviews began appearing in college papers and music publications such as Rolling Stone.

By year’s end, a limited run of Kum Backs were pressed - the song order was changed from the acetate itself and the quality left a bit to be desired (as did the packaging). Nonetheless, the release created quite a buzz and the first knock-off was also available by December.