CLEAN 1966 GOLD Elektra BUTTERFIELD BLUES CLAPTON WINWOOD LOVIN SPOONFUL

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                    1966 GOLD ELEKTRA ORIGINAL!

                            UNRELEASED TRACKS!

     THE BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND

              LOVIN' SPOONFUL

  and ERIC CLAPTONS POWERHOUSE 

                   WHAT'S SHAKIN'               

                          USA - GOLD Elektra - EKS 74002 

Original 1966 first pressing of unreleased tracks by SUPERGROUPS who recorded for Elektra Records - most never released - and are exclusive to this album only!

              Contains the original GOLD Elektra inner sleeve

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       What's Shakin' did not dilly-dally around -- it is all electric rock.

ELEKTRA Records accumulated a bunch of intriguing unreleased rock recordings by artists who never made an album for the label, as well as some interesting never used tracks by artists who did. Rather than keep them locked up in a vault, Elektra generously made 14 of the 'rare' songs available to the public with the 1966 album: What's Shakin'. Every cut was by an artist of note - The Lovin' Spoonful were, in '66, the hottest group around. Also on board were Elektra's hottest group at the time, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, as well three recordings by the British supergroup POWERHOUSE with Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Stevie Winwood, and lead Manfred Mann singer Paul Jones... all said, you get an LP of truly interesting never released material. All the tracks on "What's Shakin' do not sound like rejected tunes, not at all, infact they could have all easily been strong cuts on Lp's of the day....

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band were prominently featured with five tracks, all of which, as Holzman notes, date from around the time they recorded their debut album. The four Lovin' Spoonful tracks on What's Shakin' -- never to be released - anywhere - in this form or as re-recorded versions, on subsequent releases by the band -- also took a circuitous route to commercial availability. The group had come close to signing with Elektra in early 1965, although they ultimately decided to go with Kama Sutra. The four cuts that made it onto What's Shakin' are, a little surprisingly, more 'rock' than folk-rock which they were known for.

Clapton and Winwood's POWERHOUSE were not known in the United States when What's Shakin' came out. Cream had only just formed and had yet to put out a record; Clapton had not toured in the United States; his pre-Cream band, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, were virtually unknown in America; and he'd left his pre-Mayall band, the Yardbirds, before they'd chalked up their first hit. As for Winwood, while the Spencer Davis Group were already huge in Britain, they wouldn't have their first significant Stateside hit until early 1967. Still, they clearly influenced TEN YEARS AFTER on this album, as Ten Years After's first album was released a year later (in '67) with eerily a similar sound... 

CONDITION: The cover: all around solid, "EX" (excellent) ... colors are perfect as released in 46 years ago, no bends, no split seams, no writing....

The vinyl: very clean, "EX" (excellent) only a soft hairline or two that does nothing as the audio is total clean over both sides and the gold Elektra labels are both clean 

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