MARK FRY Dreaming With Alice LP IT 1972 ITALY orig+promo ZSLT 70006 Stereo RARE
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MARK FRY
English psychedelic folk songwriter Mark Fry is best known
for his 1972 acid folk classic Dreaming with Alice,
his debut recording and an album widely considered
one of the brightest creations of the acid folk genre in its early days
"DREAMING WITH ALICE"
1972 LP IT RECORDS ZSLT 70006 Stereo
MADE IN ITALY ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
PROMOTIONAL COPY
This version: "6/72" on labels
White Labels Promotional Copy with 'Campione Non Commerciabile' printed on
Barcode and Other Identifiers
LABEL: IT - WHITE PROMO LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (front) ZSLT 70006
Catalog on labels: ZSLT 70006 (BKAY 26596 / BKAY 26597)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): BKAY 26596 1S- (Etched) 1A 1 P ?
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): BKAY 26597 1S- (Etched) 1A 1 P ?
On labels: Campione Non Commerciabile
6/72 ?
All songs composed by Mark Fry
Ed. IT/RCA
rim text reads '......Fabbricato e Distribuito dalla RCA SpA......"
Rights society: SIAE
On Back Sleeve: Produced by Laura Papi
Recorded partly in London Partly in Rome
Corporazione Arti Grafiche - Roma
Printed in Italy
from my records collection
tracklisting
Side 1: DREAMING WITH ALICE (Verse 1) - THE WITCH
DREAMING WITH ALICE (Verse 2) - SONG FOR WILD
DREAMING WITH ALICE (Verse 3) - ROSES FOR COLUMBUS
A NORMAN SOLDIER - DREAMING WITH ALICE (Verse 5)
Side 2: DREAMING WITH ALICE (Verse 6) - LUTE AND FLUTE
DREAMING WITH ALICE (Verse 7) - DOWN NARROW STREETS
DREAMING WITH ALICE (Verse 8) - MANDOLIN MAN
DREAMING WITH ALICE (Verse 9-10) - REHTORB YM NO HCRAM
grading
RECORD from VG to VG+ but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG but (please, see pictures and read above description)
After attending school in the U.K. he went on to study painting in Italy,
where he met producer Vincenzo Micocci. Micocci was taken with Fry's compositions
and immediately signed him to his IT Dischi label, an Italian subsidiary of RCA.
A session band was assembled to record the songs that became Dreaming
with Alice in the summer of 1971, and Fry did a few gigs around Italy shortly after the sessions.
The album came out in 1972 and Fry continued to play music and travel,
eventually returning to London in the early '80s to pursue a career as a visual artist.
While he grew his profile as a painter, his sole record achieved an enormous cult following,
with lovers of obscure psych folk spreading the word about this rare gem, only ever available in Italy.
As the album became more and more emblematic of the acid folk genre,
prices for original copies rose, some online auctions finding single copies
of Dreaming with Alice going for thousands of dollars...(AllMusic)