PETER & GORDON HOT COLD & CUSTARD FACTORY SEALED 1968 PROMO POP/PSYCH LP RARE
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PETER & GORDON~HOT COLD & CUSTARD~FACTORY SEALED 1968 PROMO POP/PSYCH LP~RARE!!
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PETER AND GORDON "HOT COLD & CUSTARD" CAPITOL ST 2882 FACTORY SEALED ORIGINAL PRESSING FROM 1968! PETER AND GORDON'S LAST OFFICIAL ALBUM! ADDING TO ITS RARITY, THIS IS A PROMOTIONAL COPY WITH THE WORD "FREE" PUNCHED INTO THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER! EXTREMELY RARE CONDITION FOR THIS 45 YEAR OLD LP! FROM A PREVIOUS SELLER'S REVIEW: With Peter Asher and Gordon Waller, you know you’re getting classy pop music – that’s a given. But you also know – at least you might EXPECT – that, after sixteen albums between 1964 and 1967 (let’s see today’s groups produce like that) and hit singles like “A World Without Love” and “I Go to Pieces”, you’ll be getting squeaky clean, early British Invasion sounding pop music, and that’s that. So by 1968, the Peter and Gordon sound would seem to be rather outdated, at least among the Carnaby Street and Haight/Ashbury crowds. So what’s a couple of clean-cut nice young boys with a knack for pop to do? Does the world expect them to drop a couple tabs of acid in their English tea and try their hands at this new “psychedelic” sound? Well, that’s pretty much exactly what they did on THIS, their final 60’s album, “Hot Cold and Custard”. Now don’t go expecting Peter and Gordon’s “Saucerful of Secrets” – but with all the backwards instruments, George Martinesque orchestration and whimsical Carnaby Street arrangements, this really DOES sound right in line with the Hollies “Butterfly” and “Evolution”, the Kinks “Something Else” and “Village Green Preservation Society”, and any of the much-revered 1967-1968 Beatles long players. Popsike fans shouldn’t be shocked that the SONGS here are so great – Asher/Waller have ALWAYS been the Lennon/McCartney of the pure pop hook – it’s just that here, FINALLY, they’ve managed to trip out their pop sensibilities with a little bit of the “hip”, psychedelic flavorings. Case in point – “I Feel Like Going Out” – which, at its core, is superbly catchy pop with all the sumptuous harmonies you’d expect. Now, however, Peter and Gordon throw in some backwards drums, so the song shuffles along on a trippy “Are You Experienced” rhythm. Add in some subtle orchestration ala the Beatles “Sergeant Pepper” and go for some SEVERE stereo separation in the mix, and now you’ve got not only a song you can sing along to on the radio, but also one mesmerizing little mind trip when you’re cranking it up on your new Koss stereo headphones. Likewise songs like “Greener Days’, “She Needs Love” and “Uncle Hartington” all bounce along like the finest English popsike – easy matches for anything the Kinks, Hollies or even the Beatles were recording around the same time – but now, for the first time on a Peter and Gordon album, they came spiked with some psychedelic sonic surprises. Like the 50 seconds of dissonant sawing cello that breaks up an otherwise beautiful Ray Davies-like toytown popsike song with the ungainly title “The Magic Story of the Park Keeper and His Fairy Godmother” (and you thought the Fire’s “Magic Shoemaker” was iffy). Or the creepy backwards calliope poking through the Hollies on a Magical Mystery Tour homage “Uncle Hartington”. Of course, the Beatles had been doing this sort of thing since 1966, spiking their pop with backward tapes and loops, off-kilter orchestras and trippy sound effects. But the world wasn’t ready for Peter and Gordon to do the same, and so this masterpiece of an album didn’t sell a lick, and sank without trace, as did Messrs. Asher and Waller for a long, long time. Which makes “Hot Cold and Custard” EASILY their hardest original album to track down, and even more valuable when you realize that it STILL hasn’t come out on CD! Which means a LOT of potential HUGE fans of this album aren’t getting to hear it, and that’s a BIG shame. But if you’re a fan of the late 60’s Beatles, Hollies and Kinks sound, or the complex orchestrated pop sounds of the Left Banke, Sagittarius, Jan and Dean’s “Save for a Rainy Day” or Del Shannon’s “Further Adventures of Charles Westover” to name a few. If those names mean a lot to you, then you owe it to yourself to discover this buried treasure – Peter and Gordon’s one and only TRUE psychedelic pop album – “Hot Cold and Custard”, from the fall of 1968.The image included with the auction is a scan of the actual item but, due to size limitations of the scanner, the edges of the item may have been cropped.
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