Rakow's original scam was to sell the records from ice-cream trucks...seriously impractical. In the end, we settled on a more traditional model: the Dead would finance and produce the recordings, and United Artists Records would manufacture and distribute." Two singles were released: "Let Me Sing Your Blues Away (b/w "Here Comes Sunshine"), followed by single edits of "Eyes of the World" (b/w "Weather Report Part I"). Neither charted. The Dead's ex-label responded to the loss of the band by compiling "best-of" and archive albums, beginning with Skeletons from the Closet, just months after the release of Wake of the Flood. All of the songs but "Let Me Sing Your Blues Away" and the first parts of "Weather Report Suite" remained in setlists throughout the existence of the band (though "Here Comes Sunshine" was absent from 2/23/74 to December 1992). Weir had played the finger-picked "Prelude" for months before attaching it to "Weather Report Suite", ultimately dropping all but the "Let it Grow" section after 1974. Though the album's version is concise, "Eyes of the World" in particular had already become an extended-jam set piece and would remain so. With the collapse of the band's label in 1976, Wake of the Flood was in and out of print for many years. Exercising an active contract, United Artists made a one-off pressing on their Liberty label in 1979. The album went back into publication when it was released on CD in 1988, again on the Grateful Dead Records imprint. It was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the Beyond Description box set in October 2004. The expanded version was released separately in 2006. Track listing Notes: Live version of "Eyes of the World" is an edited version of performance. "China Doll" has a coda of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", written by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin. Personnel Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia – guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals Keith Godchaux – keyboards, vocals Phil Lesh – bass guitar Bill Kreutzmann – drums Bob Weir – guitar, vocals Additional musicians Bill Atwood – trumpet Vassar Clements – violin Joe Ellis – trumpet Martín Fierro – saxophone (alto, tenor) Sarah Fulcher – vocals Matthew Kelly – harmonica Frank Morin – saxophone (tenor) Pat O'Hara – trombone Doug Sahm – bajo sexto Benny Velarde – timbales Reissue personnel Tom Anderson – engineering, liner notes James Austin – production Hugh Brown –