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Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazlewood - Nancy & Lee
(1968, Reprise)

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Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
(1967, Columbia) Mono pressing - KCL 2663



Happy 70th Birthday Mr. Dylan. I picked up this copy a couple of years ago from a nice collection of a woman who had purchased a lot of mono pressings in the 60s. Quite a collection of hits here:

"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"
Columbia single 43592 released March 22, 1966 — chart peak #2
"Blowin' in the Wind"
Columbia single 42856 released August 13, 1963 — did not chart
"The Times They Are a-Changin'"
"It Ain't Me Babe"
"Like a Rolling Stone"
Columbia single 43346 released June 28, 1965 — chart peak #2
"Mr. Tambourine Man"
"Subterranean Homesick Blues"
Columbia single 43242 released March 8, 1965 — chart peak #39
"I Want You"
Columbia single 43683 released June 10, 1966 — chart peak #20
"Positively 4th Street"
Columbia single 43389 released September 7, 1965 — chart peak #7
"Just Like a Woman"
Columbia single 43792 released August 18, 1966 — chart peak #33

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Sly And The Family Stone - Anthology
(1981, Epic)



2 LPs in a gatefold cover. I'm listening to sides 1/2. a $1 pickup at a record show a couple of weeks ago.

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Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
(1966, Columbia) Mono; first pressing with the women pictured in the gatefold

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The Doors - Waiting For The Sun
(1968, Elektra)

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Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
(1970, Columbia)



Happy Birthday, Mr. Miles Davis!

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earlier...

Pentangle - Cruel Sister
(1970, Reprise) Canadian pressing



John Renbourn, Danny Thompson, Bert Jansch, Jacquie McShee, Terry Cox. inspired after watching early 70s performances by The Pentangle on youtube earlier today.


now...

The Doors - Strange Days
(1967, Elektra)

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Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
(1966, Columbia) Mono; first pressing with the women pictured in the gatefold




listening to record #2, Nashville session musicians, great songs, free association lyrics. Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands on side 2.

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The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
(1966, Capitol) Mono pressing



released just over 45 years ago this month, on May 16, 1966. This one never gets old for me. especially after years ago reading about how Brian Wilson worked in the studio on this record, working with L.A. session musicians including Barney Kessel, Carol Kaye, and Hal Blaine, and hearing the studio outtakes when the Pet Sounds box set was released. There is a wall of sound here, layers of instrumental backing tracks from live ensembles, combined with echo, reverb or doubled instrument tracks or unusual instruments, and it's pretty amazing to hear these parts within this record's sound stage in mono, as Brian mixed it.

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The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
(1967, Capitol) Mono pressing MAS 2653

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Gil Scott-Heron, pioneering musician of ‘Revolution Will Not Be Televised,’ dies in NYC at 62

By Associated Press, Published: May 27 | Updated: Saturday, May 28, 1:08 AM


NEW YORK — Musician Gil Scott-Heron, who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry on songs such as “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” died Friday at age 62.


A friend, Doris C. Nolan, who answered the telephone listed for his Manhattan recording company, said he died in the afternoon at St. Luke’s Hospital after becoming sick upon returning from a European trip.


“We’re all sort of shattered,” she said.


Scott-Heron’s influence on rap was such that he sometimes was referred to as the Godfather of Rap, a title he rejected.


“If there was any individual initiative that I was responsible for it might have been that there was music in certain poems of mine, with complete progression and repeating ‘hooks,’ which made them more like songs than just recitations with percussion,” he wrote in the introduction to his 1990 collection of poems, “Now and Then.”


He referred to his signature mix of percussion, politics and performed poetry as bluesology or Third World music. But then he said it was simply “black music or black American music.”


“Because Black Americans are now a tremendously diverse essence of all the places we’ve come from and the music and rhythms we brought with us,” he wrote.


Nevertheless, his influence on generations of rappers has been demonstrated through sampling of his recordings by artists, including Kanye West.


Scott-Heron recorded the song that would make him famous, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” which critiqued mass media, for the album “125th and Lenox” in Harlem in the 1970s. He followed up that recording with more than a dozen albums, initially collaborating with musician Brian Jackson. His most recent album was “I’m New Here,” which he began recording in 2007 and was released in 2010.


Throughout his musical career, he took on political issues of his time, including apartheid in South Africa and nuclear arms. He had been shaped by the politics of the 1960s and the black literature, especially of the Harlem Renaissance.


Scott-Heron was born in Chicago on April 1, 1949. He was raised in Jackson, Tenn., and in New York before attending college at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.


Before turning to music, he was a novelist, at age 19, with the publication of “The Vulture,” a murder mystery.


He also was the author of “The Nigger Factory,” a social satire.

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Enter Sandman via YouTube over my iMac through a Technics SA-AX920 in Dolby Prologic into five JBL SAT10S speakers and a Music20 sub.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVehc..._order&list=UL

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Enter Sandman via YouTube

3:20 - 3:35

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3:20 - 3:35

You don't hear that everyday!

I think she's sensational.

Others' mileage may vary.