Made from Plate

Made From Plate is an album released by tax-scam label Tiger Lily Records as the debut album of a band called Onion. In reality, like Hotgun, released by Guinness Records the album was a composite, created from unpublished demo recordings made by several different unsigned performers. One of the rarer albums released by Tiger Lily Records, only two copies are known to exist.[1]

Made From Plate
Studio album by
Onion
Released1976
GenrePop, country
LabelTiger Lily Records

Album release

As the release of a tax scam label, the album came with minimal documentation beyond songwriting credits and claims that the songs had been published by a company owned by Charles Koppelman and Martin Bandier.[1] However, this may be a false claim, in the same way that the documentation on Hotgun claimed that the original songs on that album had been published by R. Stevie Moore's father.[2]

Record collector Scott Blackerby discovered the album in 2011 and diagnosed it as a composite created from unpublished demo tracks, based on the multiplicity of songwriters, the fact that some of the tracks sounded unfinished, and the differing musical styles involved. This was confirmed in 2013, when Dan Chapman, friend of one of the credited writers, Dennis Wilkerson contacted Blackerby. He revealed that at some point around 1970 he and Wilkerson after having some success with a high school rock band, had been contacted by a producer named John McCauley who offered to professionally produce their music. In the end the project did not result in a recording contract and the pair went their separate ways. Many years later Wilkerson had been contacted by a record collector in Europe who had obtained a copy of Made From Plate and was trying to track down the songwriters.[1]

It is likely, as with the tracks that made up Hotgun, that the recording studios who supplied the tracks for Made From Plate sold them to Tiger Lily Records as a means of recouping the recording costs.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Colorado" [lower-alpha 1]
  2. "Black Cloud" [lower-alpha 1]
  3. "Children Hold On" [lower-alpha 2]
  4. "My, My, My, My" [lower-alpha 3]

Side two
  1. "Believe Me" [lower-alpha 3]
  2. "When Something's Wrong" [lower-alpha 3]
  3. "A Lovely Day" [lower-alpha 4]
  4. "Thanks To All of You" [lower-alpha 4]

See also
  • Hotgun – An album released by Guinness Records as a band's debut album which was in reality a compilation album.

References
Notes
  1. Songwriting credited to C. Waylon.
  2. Songwriting credited to Jim Bucke.
  3. Songwriting credited to Dennis Wilkerson. Actually a joint effort between Dan Chapman and Dennis Wilkerson.
  4. Songwriting credited to Steve Wilson
  1. Blackerby 2013
  2. Bealmear 2015
Sources
  • Bealmear, Bart (2015-11-23). ""Tax Scam Records": R. Stevie Moore, the mysterious 'Hotgun' LP, and the record labels that were born to fail". Night Flight. Archived from the original on 2018-08-06. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  • Bealmear, Bart (2018-04-06). "What's Up Tiger Lily?:The wild story of the tax scam record label run by the notorious Morris Levy (Part 1)". Dangerous Minds. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  • Bealmear, Bart (2018-04-16). "Tiger Lily Records: The wild story of the tax scam label run by the notorious Morris Levy (Part II)". Dangerous Minds. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  • Blackerby, Scott (May 2013). "Album Review: Made From Plate". Bad Cat Records. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
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