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Dee Dee Sharp – All the Hits sealed mono 1963 LP

Offered for sale is a still sealed mono copy of the 1963 LP All the Hits by Dee Dee Sharp.

About this copy: This copy of All the Hits is an original still sealed mono pressing from 1963 (there was no stereo issue.) While the shrink wrap has been removed from the cover, the record is still sealed in its polyethylene inner sleeve. The record is presumably new and unplayed.

The cover is VG++, with a bit of yellowing and some minor wear at the covers.

A nice copy of a scarce 1960s pop LP.

Background: Dee Dee Sharp had six songs reach the American Top 40 in 1962-1963, and while she regularly recorded through 1981, nothing she did ever achieved the success of her debut single, “Mashed Potato Time.”

Her 1963 LP titled All the Hits is an album with a misleading title. You’d think that an album called “All the Hits” would have all of her hit singles on it. In fact, All the Hits not only doesn’t have all of her hits on it, it doesn’t have any of her hits on it.

Titled as though it were a compilation album, All the Hits is actually an album of new material, albeit one where Sharp covers songs that were hits for other artists.

Track listing:

Twist and Shout
Party Lights
Snap Your Fingers
Seven Day Weekend
Any Day Now
The Wah-Watusi

The Loco-Motion
Village of Love
You’ll Lose a Good Thing
Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)
Playboy

You can hear Dee Dee’s version of “Twist and Shout” here:

James Brown – Showtime sealed 1964 stereo LP

Offered for sale is a still sealed original pressing of Showtime by James Brown, released by Smash Records in 1964.

About this copy: This copy of Showtime is an original still sealed stereo pressing on the Smash label, released in 1964. While the shrink wrap has been removed from the cover, the disc is still sealed in its original polyethylene sleeve and is presumably new and unplayed. Stereo copies are much harder to find than their mono counterparts, as most copies sold when this album was new were in mono.

The cover is VG++, with a tiny bit of wear at the edges. It’s hard to find any James Brown LPs from the 1960s in good condition, and it will be hard to find a nicer copy of Showtime than this one.

Background: James Brown was not only a good entertainer, but he was a smart businessman, too. Due to a loophole in his contract with King Records, Brown found a way to record simultaneously for Smash Records, though his titles for Smash didn’t generate the hits that his King LPs did.

Showtime, released in 1964, presents itself as a live album, though the cover never claims that it’s a live album. It’s not; it’s a “fake” live album consisting of new studio recordings with an overdubbed audience.

AllMusic.com gave Showtime this review:

A transition album. James Brown’s contract with King Records had a few more legs, and the Godfather of Soul was handicapped in what he could wax for Smash Records, his new label. Hence, an album of remakes enhanced — or marred — by overdubbed applause. Some apparently don’t have a problem with overdubbed applause, judging from the lofty prices record collectors ask and get for a copy. Brown does his best retooling on Louis Jordan’s “Caledonia,” “Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens,” and “Somebody Changed the Lock on My Door.”

Ike & Tina Turner – Live sealed stereo 1965 LP

Offered for sale is a still sealed stereo pressing of the 1965 LP Live! by the Ike & Tina Turner show.

About this copy: This copy of Live! is an original still sealed 1965 stereo pressing on the gold Warner Brothers label. The album has been removed from its shrink wrap, but the record is still sealed in its original polyethylene inner sleeve and is presumably new and unplayed.

The cover is VG++, with a small tear at the edge of the lower left hand corner.

A gorgeous copy of a terrific LP.

Background: Their lives may have been volatile, but so was their stage show. Ike & Tina Turner’s live performances in the 1960s were terrific, and between 1964 and 1966, there were no fewer than three live albums (all with similar titles) released by the duo on three different labels.

The LP issued by Warner Brothers in 1965, simply titled Live!, may be the best of the bunch. Allmusic.com gave Live! 4 stars:

In late 1964, Kent Records released the live album The Ike and Tina Turner Revue Live, which gave the group its first placing on a national LP chart in January 1965. Warner Bros. Records, which had just acquired rights to a similar recording by the label-hopping duo, quickly countered with this similarly titled album, which did even better than the Kent release, placing in the Top Ten of the R&B charts in February 1965. The recording is primitive and raw, with considerable distortion, but that only adds to the excitement as Tina Turner shouts and screams her way through standards like Sam Cooke’s “Good Times” and the Isley Brothers’ “Twist and Shout.”

Tracks:

Finger Poppin’
Down in the Valley
Let the Good Times Roll
You Are My Sunshine
Having a Good Time
Twist and Shout
Something’s Got a Hold on Me
I Know (You Don’t Want Me No More)
Tight Pants (High Heel Sneakers)
My Man, He’s a Lovin’ Man
I Can’t Stop Loving You
To Tell the Truth

Yardbirds – Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page sealed withdrawn 1971 Epic LP

Offered for sale is a still sealed original copy of the withdrawn 1971 album Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page by the Yardbirds.

This is an original pressing and not the common counterfeit.

About this copy: This copy is a still sealed original withdrawn 1971 pressing on Epic. We acquired this copy from a former record company employee, and it’s absolutely genuine. As the album is sealed, the record is presumably new and unplayed.

The cover does have a cut corner in the lower left. Aside from that, the wrap is completely tight with no tears, rips or holes. There are a couple of breathe holes in the shrink wrap, as one would expect to find on an original pressing.

A stunning copy of a rare and classic live album, and the first sealed pressing of this version of the album that we’ve ever seen.

Background: The Yardbirds are perhaps best remembered for who played with them – Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page all played guitar for the band at one time and for a brief time, Beck and Page were in the band together. In 1968, Page was the band’s lead guitarist, and Epic Records recorded a performance at the Anderson Theater in New York on March 30, 1968 for possible release as a live album.

The band wasn’t happy with the recording, and decided not to release it. In 1971, after Page had gone on to Led Zeppelin and that band had become successful, Epic dusted off the then three-year-old tapes and released the recording as Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page.

Page promptly threatened to sue, and the album was quickly withdrawn and became rather rare. In 1976, Epic’s parent label Columbia again released the album on their Columbia Special Products label, and again, Page threatened to sue, and the album was again withdrawn.

Both versions of the album have been counterfeited; the most common counterfeit is of the Epic pressing. That version has a black and white cover instead of a color one and a white label instead of the proper yellow. Those black and white counterfeit copies are often sold as “white label promotional” copies, though there were no official white label promotional issues of that album. All proper promotional copies had stock labels with a timing strip attached to the front cover.

Though Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page is rare, it’s also quite good, and AllMusic.com gave it 4 1/2 stars:

Arguably the most famous lost live album in history, Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page, cut at the Anderson Theater in New York on March 30, 1968, has been issued twice on vinyl legitimately (only to be suppressed by legal action) and innumerable times since as a bootleg. Page’s guitar (which goes out of tune several times) is the dominant instrument, alternately crunchy and lyrical, but always loud and dexterous; the roughness of Keith Relf’s singing is also more apparent, but his shortcomings don’t really hurt the music. The performance also reveals just how far out in front of the psychedelic pack the Yardbirds were by the spring of 1968; Page had pushed the envelope about as far as he could, in terms of high-velocity guitar pyrotechnics.

Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page is probably best known for the song “I’m Confused,” which was later reworked by Led Zeppelin and released as “Dazed and Confused” on that band’s first album.

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Cream – Live Cream sealed 1970 Atco LP

Offered for sale is a still sealed copy of Cream’s live album, Live Cream, released in 1970.

About this copy: This copy of Live Cream is an original, still sealed copy of the original 1970 Atco release. The record is presumably new and unplayed. The shrink wrap is tight and fully intact except for a small 1″ square near the lower right hand corner of the cover. There is a small saw mark in the cover near the tear, and a small bend in the upper right hand corner.

An outstanding copy of a terrific live album by an iconic band.

Background: Cream broke up in 1969 after releasing just four albums, and the band’s popularity continued long after their breakup. In order to cash in on continued interest in the band, Atco released two live live albums, Live Cream, and Live Cream, Volume II, in 1970 and 1972, respectively.

Like most of the Cream catalog, these albums weren’t in print long, and were out of print for a number of years before being reissued later in the 1970s. (Live Cream was reissued as Live Cream, Volume I.)

Live Cream is peculiar, as it doesn’t have any hits on it, though it does include a then-unreleased studio track, “Lawdy Mama.” That said, it’s a terrific record, and AllMusic.com gave Live Cream 4 1/2 stars:

Cream was a band born to the stage, a fact that the band and their record label realized and the public fully understood by the number one U.S. chart placement for Wheels of Fire, with its entire live disc, and the number two chart peak for Goodbye, the posthumous release that was dominated by concert recordings. And in response to those success, we got Live Cream, Vol. 1 (originally known simply as Live Cream) in the spring of 1970, nearly 18 months after the trio’s breakup. This could well be their most consistently brilliant album for sheer musicianship, though it is also a peculiar one on a couple of counts, some of which probably prevented it from reaching quite as wide an audience as it might have otherwise. Released in April 1970 and derived from tapes made at three May 1968 California shows, all of the live tracks here consist of songs originally featured on the group’s least ambitious and most rudimentary album, Fresh Cream, dating from 1966 — and as it happens, there’s not a hit represented among the five songs, a fact that probably made this release seem more appealing to hardcore fans than to casual and curious listeners (who didn’t know what they were missing). Performances like this single-handedly raised the stakes of musicianship in rock.

Miss Toni Fisher – The Big Hurt sealed 1960 stereo LP

Offered for sale is an original, still sealed copy of the 1960 LP, The Big Hurt by Miss Toni Fisher.

About this copy: The copy of The Big Hurt offered for sale is a still sealed “stereomonic” pressing, with the cover fully sealed in a loose poly bag, as was the custom at the time of its manufacture. The record is presumably new and unplayed.

A beautiful copy of a scarce pop album and the only copy of this album, sealed or otherwise, that we’ve ever seen.

Background: Toni Fisher, credited as Miss Toni Fisher on this LP, had a couple of chart hits, but she’s best remembered for her 1959 song, “The Big Hurt.” That tune went to #3 on the Billboard charts, and was distinctive as being the first hit record ever to use the special effect known as “flanging” in the recording process.

This resulted in an odd, sweeping “whoosh” sort of sound that could be heard throughout the entire record.

The album, released on the tiny Los Angeles-based Signet Records, was hard to find even when released in 1960.

It’s also quite hard to find in playable condition today, as the record label opted not to press records in both stereo and mono, as was standard practice, but to release them in stereo only. The cover claimed that the recording was “stereomonic,” and that it could be played on both mono and stereo players, but that wasn’t true.

You could play it on stereo players, but if you played it on a mono phonograph, the wider and less flexible mono stylus would damage the grooves. Since most people at the time had mono players, most of the copies of this album were damaged from play and are in pretty rough condition today, if you can find one at all.

We’re not sure about the actual stereo content of the album; it may or may not be in true stereo.

You can listen to The Big Hurt here:

Outsiders – Album #2 sealed 1966 mono LP

Offered for sale is a sealed mono copy of the second album by The Outsiders, released in 1966 and titled Album #2.

About this record: The copy offered for sale is an original U.S. mono copy, and the album is still sealed. The record is presumably new and unplayed. The shrinkwrap is fully intact, with no rips or tears. There is a cutout hole in the upper right hand corner of the cover. The original price sticker is still attached.

A nice copy of a terrific record that will be hard to upgrade.

Background: The Outsiders had a big hit in 1966 with “Time Won’t Let Me.” While they’re best remembered for that song, they also had three other songs reach the American Top 40, including “Respectable,” which was included on their second album.

AllMusic.com gave Album #2 four stars:

The Outsiders launched themselves on the world with a killer single (“Time Won’t Let Me”) and an accompanying album that was one of the best debuts ever to come out of Capitol Records, at least from a U.S. band. The acid test was this, their second album which, as it turns out, was only marginally less impressive than their debut. . This album peaked at number 90 on the U.S. charts, which isn’t half as well as it ought to have done, based on the music it contained.

Video for “Respectable” here:

Priscilla Paris – Priscilla Loves Billy sealed 1969 LP

Offered for sale is a sealed copy of Priscilla Loves Billy, by Priscilla Paris.

About this copy: The copy of Priscilla Loves Billy offered for sale here is still sealed; the record is presumably new and unplayed. While there are no cutout marks, cut corners or drill holes, there is a 5″ split in the shrink wrap at the mouth of the cover. We’ve secured that with cellophane tape. A couple of the corners are slightly pushed. Otherwise, there are no rips or tears in the wrap.

A beautiful copy of a terrific album.

Background: Priscilla Paris is best known as a member of the Paris Sisters, a talented pop group that had limited success in the 1950s and 1960s. Their biggest hit was the Phil Spector-produced “I Love How You Love Me.” They released three pretty good albums over the years, and all of them are quite scarce.

Priscilla Paris had the most successful career of the three sisters, releasing three solo albums between 1967 and 1978. Perhaps the best of them was 1969’s Priscilla Loves Billy, which, despite the misspelling in the title, was a tribute album to Billie Holiday. It didn’t sell particularly well, partly because the album was released on the short-lived Happy Tiger label, which didn’t have the best distribution.

That’s a pity, as Priscilla Loves Billy is a terrific record. AllMusic.com gave it four stars:

Girl group alumna Priscilla Paris may not seem the logical candidate to record a collection of jazz standards identified with Billie Holiday, but listen closer to the Paris Sisters’ records and beneath her breathy vocals exists a potent undercurrent of loneliness and loss. Priscilla Loves Billy does real justice to Holiday’s spirit and brilliance, largely because Paris doesn’t even attempt to match the matchless; instead, she favors the kind of light, airy pop arrangements that serve her best, teaming with arrangers Sid Feller and Don Peake to create a sweetly romantic record informed by genuine pathos and poignancy.

Country of origin:	U.S.
Size:	12″
Record Label:	Happy Tiger
Catalog Number:	HT 1002
Year of Release:	1969
Format:	Stereo
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Bernie Wayne (Jayne Mansfield) – And Then I Wrote sealed 1956 LP

(Jayne Mansfield) Bernie Wayne - And Then I Wrote sealed 1956 LP

Offered for sale is a sealed copy of the 1956 LP, …And Then I Wrote by Bernie Wayne and His Orchestra and Chorus, featuring Jayne Mansfield on the cover.

About this copy: This album pops up for sale from time to time, but this is likely the nicest example you’ll ever find. The album is still sealed and the record is presumably new and unplayed. There are no rips, tears, holes or cutout marks; the wrap is fully intact. An original price sticker is attached to the shrinkwrap.

A beautiful copy of an album with a great cover.

Background: Jayne Mansfield is best remembered as a Playboy playmate and an actress, but she also did some modeling early in her career. During this time, she appeared on a number of album covers, many of which are quite obscure. While she did do a bit of recording on her own, her only contribution to most of these records is her appearance on the cover.

One of her earliest album cover appearances is on this easy listening album by composer and conductor Bernie Wayne. Wayne worked for many years in Hollywood and on Broadway, and is best remembered for the songs “Blue Velvet” and “There She Is,” the latter song being featured in the Miss America pageants.

Wayne’s 1956 LP …And Then I Wrote is an easy listening LP, featuring an orchestra and chorus performing a dozen numbers written by Wayne. It’s also one of the earliest releases on the ABC-Paramount label and a throwback to the days when record companies would try to sell more records by putting an attractive woman on the cover.

Neil Diamond – Do It! sealed 1971 LP

Offered for sale is a sealed copy of Neil Diamond’s 1971 LP, Do It! issued on Bang Records.

About this record: The copy of Do It! offered for sale is new and still sealed; the record is presumably unplayed. The wrap is fully intact with no rips or tears, though the cover does have a cut corner in the lower right hand corner.

A nice copy of a somewhat scarce compilation album.

Background: Neil Diamond only recorded two albums for Bang, The Feel of Neil in 1966 and Just For You the following year. After the release of the second album, Diamond had a falling out with label chief Bert Berns and moved on to sign a contract with Universal City Records, where he saw great success.

To take advantage of Diamond’s success at his new label, Bang repackaged earlier material no fewer than four times. Do It! was the third release of such material, issued in 1971, and it’s somewhat hard to find today.

Tracks include:

Do It
Solitary Man
Red Red Wine
I’ll Come Running
Love to Love
Some Day Baby
Shot Down
Crooked Street
The Boat That I Row
I’m a Believer
You’ll Forget
The Long Way Home (cover lists “Hanky Panky” by mistake)