CHUCK BERRY TWIST RARE 1961 CHESS WHITE LABEL PROMO LP

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·       CHUCK BERRY –  CHUCK BERRY TWIST (also known as “MORE CHUCK BERRY”) – ORIGINAL 1960 CHESS RECORDS MONO LP 1465

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       *** WHITE LABEL PROMO ***

·       NOTE: THIS ALBUM WAS ORIGINALLY RELEASED AS “CHUCK BERRY TWIST” IN 1960;  A FEW WEEKS LATER, IT WAS RELEASED IN U.K. WITH SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGED TITLE (MORE CHUCK BERRY), DIFFERENT COVER, AND SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TRACK LISTING. AFTER THE BRITISH RELEASE NEARLY TOPPED THE CHARTS IN U.K. , CHESS RECORDS REPACKAGED THE REMAINING U.S. COPIES OF THE “CHUCK BERRY TWIST” RECORDS INTO NEW COVERS AND RENAMED THE ALBUM “MORE CHUCK BERRY”. ALL FIRST PRESSINGS OF “MORE CHUCK BERRY” ON BLACK LABELS (AND WHITE LABEL PROMOS) HAVE A “CHUCK BERRY TWIST” RECORDS PACKAGED INSIDE.  “CHUCK BERRY TWIST” IS THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS ALBUM. “MORE CHUCK BERRY” IS THE SECOND PRESSING -  EXCEPT IN GREAT BRITAIN, WHERE “CHUCK BERRY TWIST” WAS NEVER RELEASED UNDER THIS TITLE. 

·       DEEP GROOVE PRESSING

·       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)

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       THE RECORD HAS A ‘SHELDON’ STAMP IN THE TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) AREA, WHICH IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED A PROOF OF AUTHENTICITY OF THE FIRST PRESSING.

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

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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When the Twist hit the fans (circa Chubby Checker-mania of 1961/62) and Chuck Berry got hauled off into a federal slammer for, um…transporting the streetwalker across the state line,  the Chess brothers suddenly decided to reopen the box of old Chuck Berry studio material (by then, he'd already started serving his 5-year prison sentence) and - you guessed it - market his old Rock & Roll material as…gasp!…TWIST! What a twisted notion!! But then, many a black artist was robbed of their royalty in this fashion. On the bright side, though:  this is a very young Chuck Berry at his bounciest, raunchiest R&R mood ever.

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More Chuck Berry (A/K/A Chuck Berry Twist) was a compilation album that made perfect sense in England. England's Decca label had held the distribution rights to the Chess label in England until 1958, and had gotten exactly one LP of his material out — the rights shifted to Pye Records in 1960, who rushed out his then current album and a 14-song LP (Chuck Berry) of some of his best songs from the years up to 1960, and then followed it up with this. Drawn on earlier singles and material off of albums up through Rockin' at the Hops (which Pye had missed out on), it wasn't much less coherent a record than most of Chess' own releases, though one wishes they'd found a track other than "Anthony Boy" (one of Berry's weaker LP cuts) to include among the dozen tracks here. Still, the overall thrust, amid solid rockers like "Little Queenie" and "Carol," included not only a fair amount of blues but some Berry rockers with more adult suggestiveness and serious overtones, such as "Brown Eyed Handome Man" and "Reelin' and Rockin'." You can bet your bottom dollar that Keith Richards and Brian Jones wore out the grooves on at least one copy, learning "Carol" and "Beautiful Delilah."

(REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

For its extraordinary contribution to the contemporary music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship, revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, songwriters and general public, or for some other inherent quality, this album was voted one of top-200 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, show business professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted by Paul Gambaccini, the legendary BBC Radio A&R man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals (including Roy Carr, Jonathan Cott, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Greil Marcus, Murray the K., Lenny Kaye, Bruce Morrow (a/k/a "Cousin Brucie"), Tim Rice , Lisa Robinson, Robert Shelton, Ed Ward, Joel Whitburn, Pete Wingfield, etc.). For more details, see: "Critics Choice: Top-200 albums" , Omnibus Press, Library of Congress Catalog No.7855565 (or ► click here  for the complete album listing)

THE WHITE LABEL PROMO, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were often distributed to the radio stations before the record was released to the public, sometimes as much as four months ahead. These records are generally considered to be the "first among equals": the VERY FIRST generation and the VERY FIRST pressings of the particular title; a PROTOTYPE and the earliest known official pressing of the record.

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·       CONDITION:

·       RECORD

 (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          THE VINYL IS IN DECENT, VERY GOOD (VG) CONDITION. CAUTION: The vinyl is NOT MINT or NEAR MINT, but is nevertheless in clean, playable condition. There are a few surface marks and abrasions, mostly light and superficial, although some may be longer than 1.1/4 inches  (1 inch = 2.5 centimeters) and a few others that might cause short periods of pops and clicks, specially during the low, quiet passages.

(b)          The record is 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!

(c)           The record has a "deep groove" (an indent in the label about 1/2-inch from the edge of the label, which on SOME labels is associated with very early or first pressings).

(d)          White Promo Label version of this title is much rarer that a regular, commercially released, version of this title. We estimate that stock copies of this album outnumber promo copies by a ratio of at least 100:1.

(e)           Stereo copies of this album are NOT known to exist.

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

·       COVER

THE COVER IS ABOUT VERY GOOD- / very good minus /  (VG-).

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has a partially split bottom seam, taped along the entire length with a  1-inch wide paper packaging tape

-        A visible water stain affects the area about ¼  inch wide along the top seam and  the spine  there is no damage to the cover, and both cardboard base and paper slick are intact, however, the stain is visible

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

-        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 3 (front side) and 5 (back side)

-        Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine

-        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.

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

-        No cut-out (drill) holes.

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No writing

-        No stamps

-        No tearing: no chips, dents or nicks on the seams

-        No peel-off marks

-        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 bar codes

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

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