Description
Offered for sale is an original Japanese pressing of The Nightfly by Donald Fagen, including the original obi.
This pressing was pressed from American stampers, and was mastered by highly-regarded mastering engineer Robert Ludwig, whose “RL” initials are etched in the dead wax.
About this copy: This copy of The Nightfly is an original 1982 Japanese pressing on the Warner Brothers label.
The cover is VG++ and close to M-, with slight edge and corner wear. The obi is M-. Both inserts are M-.
The disc is M- with a number of spindle marks on the labels but no marks on the vinyl. Clean disc!
A nice-sounding copy of a highly regarded LP and one that we rarely have in stock for very long.
Background: The Nightfly was Donald Fagen’s first solo album, and it offered a modest hit with “IGY.” The album reached #11 on the U.S. album chart.
AllMusic.com gave The Nightfly 4 1/2 stars:
A portrait of the artist as a young man, The Nightfly is a wonderfully evocative reminiscence of Kennedy-era American life; in the liner notes, Donald Fagen describes the songs as representative of the kinds of fantasies he entertained as an adolescent during the late ’50s/early ’60s, and he conveys the tenor of the times with some of his most personal and least obtuse material to date. Continuing in the smooth pop-jazz mode favored on the final Steely Dan records, The Nightfly is lush and shimmering, produced with cinematic flair by Gary Katz; romanticized but never sentimental, the songs are slices of suburbanite soap opera, tales of space-age hopes (the hit “I.G.Y.”) and Cold War fears (the wonderful “The New Frontier,” a memoir of fallout-shelter love) crafted with impeccable style and sophistication.
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| Country of origin: | Japan |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | Warner Brothers |
| Catalog Number: |
P-11264 |
| Year of Release: | 1982 |
| Format: | Stereo |
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