BYRDS+STEPPENWOLF CANDY SEALED ORIG O/S/T ABC STEREO LP

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·       THE BYRDS & THE STEPPENWOLF – CANDY (THE ORIGINAL MOVIE SOUNDTRACK) – ORIGINAL 1968 ABC RECORDS STEREO LP ABC-OC-9

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING***

·       BELIEVED TO BE PRESSED ON ORIGINAL “BOXED” BLACK ABC RECORDS LABEL (NO OTHER ABC LABELS EXIST)

·       THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       As far as we know, this album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other way, manner or format.

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Jazz composer David Grusin, who would years later release an album on Epic also entitled Candy, co-writes an orchestrated "Child of the Universe" with Roger McGuinn. The theme to the film Candy certainly doesn't sound like the Byrds; it sounds like Roger McGuinn doing a movie soundtrack and calling it "The Byrds." But that's ok, because this collection of music really works and is of more historical importance than it is given credit for. Coming a year before the groundbreaking Easy Rider musical score, the two main elements of that audio delight are here on ABC records as well. Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" and "Rock Me" augment what is really the debut of Roger McGuinn solo. This goes beyond the Byrds being on the road and the Mamas &the Papas' session musicians cutting their backing tracks, and in a flick with Ringo Starr, John Astin, John Huston, James Coburn, Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Walter Matthau, Richard Burton, and others, it's no wonder poor little sexpot Ewa Aulin got banished to European films -- a fate better than Roger Heron's when he vanished completely after being sodomized by Raquel Welch in that other John Huston film of the day, Myra Breckinridge. As the motion picture Candy boasts the rare McGuinn/Grusin theme, Myra Breckinridge had John Phillips doing the honors, but it is this movie which is the precursor to all that came after, slyly merging stylish rock with the psychedelic excess of Tower Records film albums -- Riot on Sunset Strip, Psych-Out, and Wild in the Streets. Where those discs had hip underground bands like Strawberry Alarm Clock, Chocolate Watchband, and the Seeds pervading the celluloid, jazz musician Dave Grusin ups the ante. His acid-drenched ramblings on side one are superior to the garage rock screwing around on the wonderfully cheesy Tower releases. From the quasi-psychedelic "Birth by Descent" to the rip of Jefferson Airplane's "Volunteers" that is the third track "Opening Night: By Surgery," Dave Grusin proves his pen can paint the electric comic book just fine. Side two gets a little bogged down in sitar, wah-wah, and heavy organ, but it still is first-rate and enjoyable, a long prelude to John Kay's gutsy "Rock Me," the instrumental stuff is just a build to the release that Steppenwolf provides. "Constant Journey" is the Seeds trying to be Pink Floyd, while "Every Mother's Daughter" could be the Velvet Underground meeting Frijid Pink at The Factory. Still, it's the decision to include two choice Steppenwolf hits that proved to be visionary ("Magic Carpet Ride" would end up in how many movies after this?). Snippets of a remake of "Magic Carpet Ride" for the big screen version of Star Trek: The Next Generation as the rocket blasts off was not pioneering, but the inclusion of the full four minutes and 25 seconds of it here is. The percussion toward the end of the three minute and 41 second "Rock Me" complements the Dave Grusin instrumentals very nicely, and Roger McGuinn opening the whole thing up with the elegantly orchestrated "Child of the Universe," including otherworld lyrics like "swirling ions from the stars/streaming down onto the Earth/from a galaxy like ours....leaving man her cosmic well...vision of an untouched grace..." (you get the idea). This stuff is beyond the Byrds "Eight Miles High," and this was most likely the real first solo effort from McGuinn -- as well as being the foundation for ABC's success with the soundtrack to Easy Rider a year later. Just too bad they didn't add some dialogue from Ringo Starr and the other stars, something that will make the DVD all the more worthwhile.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY JOE VIGLIONE, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

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·       CONDITION:

·       RECORD

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(a)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID)

(b)          The record is believed to come in its original stock inner sleeve.

(c)           The record is apparently pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(d)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       COVER

THE COVER IS STILL SEALED; HOWEVER, WE ARE UNABLE TO GRADE IT NEAR MINT DUE TO MINOR FLAWS LISTED BELOW; WE GRADE THIS COVER AS EXCELLENT OR VG++   (A LARGE PIECE OF SHRINK WRAP IS MISSING)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-         Cover has some light ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 1 (front side) and 3 (back side)

-         Back cover has circular tarnish (grayish, dust-covered sections, which closely follow the contour of the record),  probably caused by friction or by rubbing against other covers during the storage. The tarnish is similar in appearance to a common ring wear, but, UNLIKE ring wear, these grayish areas may be possible to clean up with a minor effort and with a right cleansing solution.

-         Cover shows some light yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging

-         Cover has a tiny, barely visible cutout hole in one of the corners.

-         Cover has some tiny, faint writing on its back side (a microscopic price code written in one corner)

-         Cover has two corners slightly worn / frayed / bent (just a beginning of the split seam)

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No writing

-        No stamps

-        No peel-off marks

-        No stains

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        No stickers or labels

-        No water damage

-        No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or  cuts.

-        No warping

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No glue traces or wax residue.

-        No bar codes

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

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