FRED NEIL LITTLE BIT OF RAIN/BLEECKER & MACDOUGAL RARE SEALED ORIG'70 ELEKTRA LP

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·       FRED NEIL - LITTLE BIT OF RAIN   (LITTLE BIT OF RAIN IS ELEKTRA'S 1971 REPRESSING  OF FRED NEIL'S SECOND ALBUM (1965 "BLEECKER AND MACDOUGAL") WITH THE SAME TRACK LISTING AND SEQUENCE, BUT WITH A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ALBUM ARTWORK AND TITLE) - ORIGINAL 1971 ELEKTRA STEREO LP EKS-74073

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

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

·       GUARANTEED ORIGINAL “BUTTERFLY” ELEKTRA LABEL WITHOUT WEA LOGO ALONG THE LABEL’S EDGE , SUCH AS THE ONE SHOWN BELOW, FROM OUR PREVIOUS AUCTION

·       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.

·       TWO “BREATHE” (AIR) HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP

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

·       ORIGINAL, THIN CARDBOARD COVER (NO THICK CARDBOARD COVERS WERE EVER PRODUCED FOR THIS TITLE)

·       FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 7.

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

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Ladies and Gentlemen --- we have a privilege of presenting to you the KING of all folk albums of the 1960's. What we have here is ELEKTRA's re-titled and repackaged (with different title and cover, but with the same track listing and song sequence) 1971 pressing of the Fred Neil's first, legendary "Bleecker and Macdougal" album originally issued in 1965. Of all minor-key, Greenwich Village-born 1960's albums, this one has got to be one of the moodiest, minor-key-est and most resonant of them all, certainly in terms of its delicate poetic vibe, overall texture, structure and form (contents, too). It also happens to be one of Fred Neil's most beloved works and one of the true gems of the pre-psychedelic singers/songwriters era. Recorded in a series of tense, convulsive sessions which threatened to tear Elektra label apart during the summer of 1965 (see a truly extraordinary article on Fred Neil in the March 2000 issue of the MOJO magazine for the  description of the sessions), Fred Neil recorded this gorgeous work just months before he would get his first big break with the immortal "Everybody's Talkin'" from 1966, and just as he was contemplating the direction his music and his life were taking at this point. He apparently believed that he was being needlessly pushed into commercialism and he decided to take a 180 -degree turn. Before he exploded into full-fledged hermeticism of the "Sessions" (1967), he managed to record an album that everyone could - and would - love, and relate to. This is the music to drift away by. A timeless piece of meditative, transcendent, luminous poetry, backed by an incredibly talented and competent, but also unobtrusive and subtle bunch of musicians (in which John B.Sebastian and Felix Pappalardi figure prominently) . The original album, recorded for ELEKTRA, sold a meager few thousand copies and promptly disappeared from the stores, never to be seen on vinyl again until this - equally rare - 1971 Elektra pressing, which - unfortunately - has itself become a part of the ancient history and a rarity of the highest order. Finding a still sealed original copy?!?! Forget it – not even a HOPE!!! This may be the last one you will ever see. Grab this great, legendary pre-psych folk album before someone else does!!! Track listing: Bleecker & Macdougal - Blues on the ceiling - Sweet Mama - Little Bit of Rain - Country Boy - Other Side of this life - Mississippi Train - Travelin' Shoes - Water is wide - Yonder comes the blues - Candy Man - Handful of gimme - Gone again.

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·       CONDITION:

·       THE 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 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 RELATIVELY  thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy ('dynaflex' type),  vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either.

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

·                               THE COVER

COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has visible "wrinkles"(creases)  in two (2) corners.

-        Cover has two corners slightly dinged (nothing significant)

-        Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

-        Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine    (nothing significant)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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