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[Fritz The Cat]

Jackie DeShannon - New Arrangement
(1975, Columbia) WLP, -1A/-1B, Artisan symbol in the deadwax




w/ Brian Wilson on background vocals on Boat To Sail, Kenny Rankin, Leland Sklar, Buddy Emmons, Jessie Ed Davis.

Would you please show the front cover of this LP?

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Patti Smith - Easter
(1978, Arista) WLP; ZUG ISLAND (side 2), STERLING in the deadwax





with 4 page insert / Robert Mapplethorpe photographs

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Would you please show the front cover of this LP?

sorry, too lazy to take another picture - here's a link to the allmusic review with a cover photo

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Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
(1970, MCA)

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Linn County - Proud Flesh Soothseer
(1968, Mercury)

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Mannfred Mann - Chapter 3
(1969, Polydor)




Wow, this is great stuff and much evolved from earlier MM. Allmusic calls it a darker Traffic.

[Fritz The Cat]

Mannfred Mann - Chapter 3
(1969, Polydor)




Wow, this is great stuff and much evolved from earlier MM. Allmusic calls it a darker Traffic.

Darker Traffic? But, hey, Traffic had those wonderful vocals.......
IMHO this one is in the brass style of "Colosseum". But Colosseum had Clem and Heckstall-Smith........
Anyway this one is interesting because of the musical development of Manfred Mann in those weird times. No more pop group.
I am listening to this german version. It's a 1979 reissue on Bronze label. (Colosseum had the same label too...)
Good pressing. Look at the different cover.

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Mike Hugg was the mastermind of Chapter Three. Look at Hugg's babys on cover pictures......
Also Vol.2 was in the Colosseum style with powerful brass arrangements.
And a little bit free jazz.
Listen to track B1 "Happy being me" with great organ improvisation by MM.
Happy being me? Yesssss, today is a beautiful sunny sunday.

[Fritz The Cat]

Mannfred Mann - Chapter 3
(1969, Polydor)




Wow, this is great stuff and much evolved from earlier MM. Allmusic calls it a darker Traffic.

Thanx for the tip.
Chapter Three brings a funny sunday morning in the kitchen while washing salad for lunch.

[Fritz The Cat]

Ian Matthews - If You Saw Thro' My Eyes
(1971, Vertigo) mastered by Gilbert Kong




w/ Sandy Denny; Richard Thompson; Gerry Conway; Tim Renwick. His first solo LP after leaving Fairport Convention.

Vertigo Swirl. Cult. The "Blue Note" of rock music labels.....
Two beautiful songs by Richard Farina: track A4 "Reno, Nevada" and track B5 "Morgan The Pirate".
This is the german original issue.
Who created the vertigo swirl?

[Fritz The Cat]

Recorded Los Angeles, october 10, 1957. French mono reissue. Year not known. Anybody knows?
Herb Ellis guitar.
Swings.

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French original pressing.
Listen to great guitar player Charlie Byrd. His solo on "Desafinada" was deleted for the 1962 chart hits single.........
Cool cats for a hot summer day like this.

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French special edition for german, french and english music club Concert Hall. Year of this issue is not identifiable. Jazztone was distributed also in Switzerland in the early 60ies by book and music club ExLibris. Cover picture seems to date back to psychedelic times. Anybody knows?
Though it's a little bit mistreated vinyl, the dynamics are pleasant.
Many samba tunes on this one for a hot summer day like this.
Superb guitar playing by Bola Sete and Jose Paula. Anybody owns vinyl by these two guitarists?
Not an impossible mission for piano player Lalo Schiffrin.
Hot tracks for cool cats!

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Wow, what a superb powerful sound with big classic orchestra on this 1978 US reissue pressing! Perfectly recorded.
Getz plays these Eddie Sauter tunes in front of the orchestra. I am sitting in the first row....
Recorded summer 1961. Produced by Creed Taylor. Extensive liner notes by Steve Lake.
Brilliant.

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Recorded May 1941 at Minton's "Playhouse", Harlem.
Charlie Christian great guitar playing!
Liner notes by Leonard Feather: "This one was recorded before the days of tape. Don't expect present-day sound quality by these tracks".
Music history of the birth of modern jazz.