One project intended for Zapple, but scrapped due to Allen Klein's antipathy for the label and its rather non-commercial aims, was a recording of William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience," set to music and performed by the poet Allen Ginsberg in the style that he imagined Blake himself performed the poems in the 18th century. Zapple A&R head Barry Miles details the proposed Ginsberg project, as well as its eventual realization in the summer of 1969 (when he produced the sessions resulting in the release of Ginsberg's work on MGM/Verve in 1970) in his book, The Zapple Diaries. Below are scans from the original Verve release.
