ERIC CLAPTON/DEREK+DOMINOS LAYLA RARE ORIG '70 ATCO WHITE LBL PROMO-ONLY MONO 7"

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·       DEREK AND THE DOMINOS (ERIC CLAPTON WITH DUANE ALLMAN AND STELLAR CREW OF SOUTHERN ROCK MUSICIANS AND FEATURING DUANE ALLMAN ON SECOND LEAD) - LAYLA – ORIGINAL 1971 ATCO DOUBLE-SIDED (SAME-SIDED) STEREO AND MONO 45rpm SINGLE 45-6809 (STEREO SINGLE EDIT ON SIDE 1, MONO SINGLE EDIT ON SIDE 2; BOTH EDITS CLOCK IN AT MERE 2:43; MUCH OF THE GUITAR SOLO AND ALL OF THE EXTENDED PIANO FADE HAVE BEEN TRUNCATED; STEREO MIX WAS MASTERED BY GEORGE PIROS; MONO MIX WAS MASTERED BY DENNIS KING)

·       SPECIAL TWO SIDED PROMOTIONAL SINGLE (SAME SONG ON BOTH SIDES) WITH ULTRA-RARE MONO VERSION OF THE SONG ON ONE SIDE AND REGULAR STEREO VERSION ON THE OTHER SIDE    

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       *** WHITE LABEL PROMO ***

·       THIS IS A LOUD MIX; NOT SURE IF THIS IS A DEDICATED MIX OR NOT, BUT BASED ON THE 1971 DATE STAMP, IT APPEARS THAT THE MIX WAS DONE AFTER THE FACT (I.E., AFTER BOTH THE SINGLE AND THE ALBUM HAD ALREADY CRESTED ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS, AND WAS PROBABLY MADE SOLELY FOR THOSE RADIO STATIONS THAT WERE STILL BROADCASTING ON AM BANDWIDTH AND NEEDED A MONO RECORD IN ORDER TO DO SO)

·       This classic song was never commercially released as a mono 45 single in any way, shape or format!

·       SPECIALTY RECORDS, OLYPHANT, PA  PRESSING

·       ORIGINAL ATCO 45 SINGLES LABEL, LATE '60s STYLE, WHITE PROMOTIONAL VERSION

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

·       NO PICTURE SLEEVE WAS EVER PRODUCED FOR THIS TITLE, EXCEPT FOR SOME VERY LATE REISSUES..

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       THE RECORD HAS A DATE STAMP OF 2-18-1971 HAND-ETCHED IN THE TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX)

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Derek & the Dominos' album Layla was Eric Clapton's dark night of the soul, and the title song was its masterpiece -- an anguished plea to a forbidden love that was Clapton's barely disguised letter to Patti Boyd, the wife of his best friend, George Harrison. Clapton had never sounded as pained as he did here, and he never sounded as tortured again -- not even on "Tears in Heaven," written after the tragic death of his young son. "Layla" is pure catharsis, followed by a coda written by Jim Gordon that is nothing less than bliss, the sound of love fulfilled. Even though that coda was used to terrific effect in Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece Goodfellas, most listeners remember "Layla" for the incendiary, fiery riff that fuels the first section of the song. Easily one of the best-known guitar licks in rock history, the riff was ironically borrowed from a T-Bone Walker vocal riff, which may be the reason Clapton phased it out in his acoustic shuffle reworking in 1991. As pleasant as that version is -- and it is quite nice -- it excised the pain that surges through the original recording, while eliminating the masterful coda that ends the song on a grace note. In other words, he changed the very meaning of the song -- the juxtaposition of the intense blues of the body of the song and the sweetness of the coda was at the heart of the song. Nobody else could figure out a way around that juxtaposition until Clapton reinterpreted it for his Unplugged recording. It was an admirable reworking, but Derek & the Dominos' original recording remains one of the towering moments in rock & roll history.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE SONG REVIEW BY STEPHEN THOMAS ERLEWINE, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

The WHITE LABEL PROMO, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were routinely distributed among the radio stations before the record was released to the public, sometimes as much as 4 months ahead. These records are generally considered to be the "first among equals", which is to say the VERY FIRST generation and the VERY FIRST pressings of the particular title

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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)          WE GRADE THE VINYL AS EXCELLENT. This is one of those albums that are somewhat difficult to grade. It is somewhere between VG++ and NEAR MINT, just a notch below NEAR MINT. A few light abrasions ARE visible, but they are extremely shallow, superficial  and only moderately visually distracting (nothing significant).For the most part, the vinyl looks impeccable without any MAJOR visual flaws or imperfections. Much of the original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(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)             White Promo Label version of this title is much rarer that a regular, commercially released, version of this title (which was released with a different B side). We estimate that stock copies of this album outnumber promo copies by a ratio of at least 200:1.

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

·       SLEEVE

THE RECORD COMES IN ITS GENERIC ATCO STOCK 45 SINGLE SLEEVE (NOT SEPARATELY GRADED BUT IN A VERY NICE CONDITION OVERALL)

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