'68 SEALED Orig STEPPENWOLF BIRTHDAY PARTY Hard psych

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  1968 ORIGINAL ~ CLASSIC HARD ROCKER IN DIE CUT GATEFOLD   

                 STILL FACTORY SEALED AFTER 42 YEARS!!!         

                      STEPPENWOLF

      At Your Brithday Party

                    ...USA - Dunhill Records - DSX 50053  

ORIGINAL 1968 first pressing of just the third STEPPENWOLF ...amazing copy:

                STILL SEALED gatefold "window" cover ...

Never opened in over 40 years...The 1968 first pressing in specially designed die-cut gatefold cover, the inside reveals the charred remnants of amplifiers and equipment that had belonged to Canned Heat before a 1969 fire ripped through Canned Heat's house and rehearsal studio on Lookout Mountain Ave in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California....

The third great Steppenwolf album, smack in the height of their powers ... the band soaring in popularity from their then recent hits "Born To Be Wild" & "Magic Carpet Ride" ....keeping with the same hard gritty formula, At Your Birthday is filled with the cool rocked-out prime Steppenwolf sounds like Jupiter Child, Rock Me, Chicken Wolf, Cat Killer, Mango Juice, etc etc...

At Your Birthday Party was the first Steppenwolf album to feature bass player Nick St. Nicholas from the LA psych band T.I.M.E. Although it was less critically acclaimed than their successful first two albums, Steppenwolf and Steppenwolf the Second, it contained well-known hits, such as "It's Never Too Late" and "Jupiter's Child", as well as the colossal "Rock Me" - a top 10 hit. The album showcases Steppenwolf at their peak, coming out of, but not yet completely abandoning, the psychedelia of Steppenwolf the Second and stepping into the distinctive hard rock of their later releases, but with less weight here than later, meaning it slides faster and rocks-out more furiously....

1. "Don't Cry"  – 3:11
2. "Chicken Wolf"  – 2:58
3. "Lovely Meter"  – 3:10
4. "Round And Down"  – 3:19
5. "It's Never Too Late"  – 4:07
6. "Sleeping Dreaming"  – 1:07
7. "Jupiter's Child" – 3:28
8. "She'll Be Better"  – 5:32
9. "Cat Killer"  – 1:37
10. "Rock Me"  – 3:45
11. "God Fearing Man"  2:16
12. "Mango Juice"  – 3:01
13. "Happy Birthday"  – 2:16

CONDITION:  Ssquare, flat, STILL FACTORY SEALED 1968 pressing in die-cut gatefold cover ...no bends, no splits, no writing...tiny (small) shelf wear on a couple corners (not bent) and light abrasion on outer cellophane plastic from being around so long, cover underneath is TOP level, never opened in 42 years....This is 1968 all over again ! 

                keeper copy!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record