Earliest non-descriptive album title.

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My mind went in a weird direction this morning. The Grateful Dead’s Aoxomoxoa was playing on the radio and it got me thinking - that was a meaningless album title. It isn’t the title of a song, a phrase in a song on the album, the artist’s name or nickname, nor was it in any way descriptive of the album itself. Then I started thinking of other such album titles, and couldn’t come up with any. I’m sure they are out there.

So, Doper music buffs - what is the earliest album title you can find that is the least descriptive?

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Zep 4?

ETA: Beatles White album.

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Ummagumma came to mind immediately, but it turns out to be 4 months younger than the OP’s offering.

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Surrealistic Pillow, Jefferson Airplane, February 1, 1967?

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Disraeli Gears—Cream
Rubber Soul—Beatles

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Elvis released “Something for Everybody” on 6/17/1961, although I guess that is still descriptive.

Dennis

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Both Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde” and Zappa’s “Freak Out” came out in 1966, and both titles seem to fit.

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“Voice of the Xtabay” by Yma Sumac, 1950/

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Sinatrahad “Poit of No Return” in 1962.

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The Beatles “White Album” was actually titled “The Beatles”.

Led Zeppelin’s fourth album technically has no title, so I don’t know if that fits the bill for the OP or not.
How about Blue Cheer’s Vincebus Eruptum (released 1/16/68)?

Does In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida count? :smiley:

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The Bonzo Dog Band did “Gorilla” in 1967 and “The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse” the next year.The former did have a gorilla on the cover.

Their third album, “Tadpoles,” also had nothing to do with anything on the album.

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No, because there’s a song on the album with the same name.

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I wonder when the first recording of Erik Satie’s “Trois morceaux en forme de poire” (Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear) was.

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The Kinks’ 1966 album Face To Face also, I think, qualifies (with the added bonus that the album cover doesn’t show the artist or anything related to the album’s musical content).

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Also in 1950 “Souvenir Album” by Ella Fitzgerald

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An older sister, who was in college in 1968, bequeathed me a day-glo pink pin-on button reading “The Beatles is Coming.”

Confused the hell out of me for years until I realized it was a promotional button for the White Album.

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Correction: It’s Freak Out! by the Mothers of Invention.

Of the well known albums mentioned so far, Rubber Soul has the lead: December 3, 1965.

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In the UK Donovan released his 1st album, What’s Bin Did and What’s Bin Hid, in May 1965, 7 months ahead of the aforementioned Rubber Soul!
In the US, though, it was re-titled after one of the songs on it, Catch the Wind.

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Okay, what about “Point of No Return” by Frank Sinatra, in 1962?

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It dawned on me that hip jazz artists must have used odd titles before the rock era.

How about the 1959 “Ah Um” album by Charles Mingus?