PINK FLOYD OFF THE WALL INSANELY RARE ORIG'79 WHITE LBL PROMO-ONLY LP w/DIFF MIX

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·       PINK FLOYD – OFF THE WALL: SPECIAL RADIO CONSTRUCTION  – INCREDIBLY RARE  ORIGINAL 1979 WHITE LABEL PROMO-ONLY SINGLE-DISC RADIO SAMPLER FROM 'THE WALL' ALBUM WITH SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT MIXES OF SOME TRACKS NEVER BEFORE (OR AFTER) RELEASED IN THIS FORM;  IN UNIQUE SINGLE-POCKET COVER AND WITH UNIQUE ARTWORK;  ORIGINAL 1979 COLUMBIA STEREO LP AS-736

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       *** WHITE LABEL PROMO (STOCK COPIES OF THIS SAMPLER DO NOT EXIST; ALL COPIES OF THIS RECORD ARE WHITE LABEL PROMOS)  ***

·       *** IN ADDITION, , THE PROMOTIONAL STAMP ON THE COVER CLEARLY IDENTIFIES THE ITEM AS PROMOTIONAL ***

·       ORIGINAL COLUMBIA LABEL,  MID-'70s STYLE, WHITE  PROMOTIONAL VERSION

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

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE);

·       UNIQUE PROMO-ONLY COVER, RADICALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE COMMERCIALLY RELEASED, COMMON, 2-LP SET

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-1A/-1B'.  ON SOME LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING)

·       FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least thick, and  10 being the thickest), 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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Pink Floyd – Off The Wall is a rare 1979 US eight track, radio-friendly white-label promo sampler LP for The Wall album that was distributed mainly to radio stations in 1979 and the early 80’s. The album featured extended versions of several tracks, along with clean intros and outros. Rather than blend track-to-track, the album was banded with gaps between the tracks. A shorter running time allowed the vinyl to to be mastered with deeper-cut grooves for better sound quality.

Among the cool stuff contained in this sampler’s eight tracks were a longer version of “Run Like Hell” with a clean opening and cold fade without crowd noises, a version of “Young Lust with a clean outro without the phone call dialog on top of it, and a version of “Goodbye Blue Sky” that had a clean intro with no sound effects.

One of the FM stations I worked at in Los Angeles back in the day had a copy of this beauty. Currently, it is one of the better Pink Floyd vinyl rarities out there. Expect to spend $$$$ when you find one, as you just did, right here and now (consider yourself lucky!).

So...what was different about this disc from any other? Here’s the track-by-track rundown:

Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 — The “hit.” Nothing special here. This version lacked the 9-second extended instrumental intro of the single version. It had the same ending as the single version — a fade out towards the end of David Gilmour’s guitar solo.

Goodbye Blue Sky — It lacked the pastoral sound effects at the beginning of the track. The acoustic guitar intro was clean for about the first 9 seconds. On the album/CD version, sound effects of birds and bomber fleets could be heard until the synths kicked in. The outro was a wash. On this LP, the song faded out completely at the same spot in the music where we would have heard the first notes of “Empty Spaces” on the CD.

Young Lust — The track started with the same the pickup beat and went straight into the vocal as the album/CD release. It clocked in at 3:25 on this release. Basically, it was the same running time as the original LP version, but the pick-up note at the beginning lacked the crossover from “Empty Spaces” and the outro was clean, lacking the dialog of phone call back home on top of the music.

One Of My Turns — A clean version of the track with nothing obscuring the beginning or the the end. The opening synth was unobscured and had a faster attack that faded in quicker. The first 6 seconds of the track was clean and lacked the dial tone sound effects of the album version. At the end of the track, the echo and reverb of Roger Waters’ vocal “Why are you running away…?” sustained for about 3 seconds longer than the album version.

Hey You — No different than the album version. The vocal echo of “…we fall” faded out just before the opening sound effects would have started on the album version of “Nobody Home”.

Nobody Home — No different than the album version.

Comfortably Numb — No different than the album version.

Run Like Hell — This extended album version of “Run Like Hell” had a clean opening and cold fade without crowd noises. This version had the complete, extended 8-bar intro with additional guitar “flair.” The outro was extended and had the full guitar refrain which repeated twice (instead of once) for the full 16 bars.

Pink Floyd Off The Wall – Special Radio Construction LP Track Listing

All songs written and composed by Roger Waters, except where noted.

Title  / Writer(s) / Lead vocals / Time

Side 1

1 “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)”  Gilmour, Waters 3:19

2 “Goodbye Blue Sky”  Gilmour 2:24

3 “Young Lust”   Waters, Gilmour Gilmour 3:27

4 “One of My Turns”   Waters 3:41

Side 2

1 “Hey You”  Gilmour, Waters 4:38

2 “Nobody Home”  Waters 3:32

3 “Comfortably Numb” Gilmour, Waters Waters, Gilmour 6:20

4 “Run Like Hell” Gilmour, Waters Waters 4:43

Total Time: 19:13

THE WHITE LABEL PROMO, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were often distributed to the radio stations before the record was released to the public, sometimes as much as four months ahead. These records are generally considered to be the "first among equals": the VERY FIRST generation and the VERY FIRST pressings of the particular title; a PROTOTYPE and the earliest known official pressing of the record.  In this case, though, this is a rather moot point,  since this rare promo-only MONO version of the album was never commercially released to begin with.

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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)          WE GRADE THE VINYL AS NEAR MINT. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          Edited Promo advance single-disc sampler pressing of this album is much rarer that a regular, commercially released, version of this title. We estimate that stock copies of this album outnumber promo copies by a ratio of at least 500:1.

(c)           The record is 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

THE COVER IS NEAR MINT !

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine  (VISIBLE ON BACK SIDE ONLY)

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

-         Cover has one corner slightly dinged (BARELY VISIBLE)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS AND IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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