Finders Keepers

Jerry Garcia

Live At The Keystone, Merl Saunders / Jerry Garcia / John Kahn / Bill Vitt, 1973
Live At The Keystone Volume 1, Merl Saunders / Jerry Garcia / John Kahn / Bill Vitt, 1988
Keepers, Merl Saunders, 1997
Pure Jerry: Keystone Berkeley, September 1, 1974, Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders Band, 2004

Others

Single: Finders Keepers / Finders Keepers (Inst), Chairmen Of The Board, 1973
Only Hits, The Ventures, 1973
Skin I'm In, Chairmen of the Board, 1974
Save The Planet So We'll Have Someplace To Boogie, Merl Saunders, 1991
Greatest Hits, Chairmen of the Board, 1992
Bittersweet/Skin I'm In, Chairmen of the Board, 1999
Any Other Business: (Life As A) Chairman of the Board, Chairmen of the Board, 1999
The Ventures' 10th Anniversary Album/Only Hits, The Ventures, 1999
Invictus Chartbusters, Various Artists (Chairmen Of The Board), 1999
Twenty Upper Cuts: The Sequel Sampler, Various Artists (Chairmen Of The Board), 1999
Everything's Tuesday: The Best of Chairmen of the Board, Chairmen of the Board, 2000
Funkin' on the 1, Various Artists (Chairmen Of The Board), 2001
Finders Keepers, Chairmen Of The Board, 2002
The Best Of Chairmen Of The Board: Ten Best Series, Chairmen of the Board, 2002
We Got the Funk, Various Artists (Chairmen Of The Board), 2002
Sittin in the Middle of Madness, Earth Quake, 2003
Live On Tour, Merl Saunders & Melvin Seals, 2006

Notes

On the original Keystone double album, released in 1973, the Garcia / Saunders version of this song is called Finders Keepers and is credited to Johnston and Bowen. This is correct. The song was written by General Johnson, a member of the group Chairmen Of The Board, and Jeffrey Bowen, the producer of the Chairmen Of The Board recording. The song was originally released by the Chairmen Of The Board as a single with a vocal version of the song on the A side and an instrumental version on the B-side. The vocal version was subsequently released on the Skin I'm In album.

Subsequent releases of the Garcia / Saunders version and other Merl Saunders versions have confused the issue. On the Live At The Keystone Volume 1 release the song was called Keepers and credited to Merl Saunders and John Kahn. On Save The Planet So We'll Have Someplace To Boogie the song is called (Finders) Keepers and again credited to Merl Saunders and John Kahn. On the Keepers release, which features another version with Garcia, the song is called Keepers (Finders) and credited to Merl Saunders. It is possible that these versions are considered to be rearrangements of the original but still strange that credit is not given to the original composers.