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·       RINGO STARR (WITH ALL THE BEATLES' MEMBERS!) – RINGO! – ORIGINAL 1973 APPLE RECORDS STEREO LP SWAL-3413

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

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

·       THE ALBUM INCLUDES THE ORIGINAL 16-PAGE BOOKLET (WE CAN SEE IT THROUGH THE OPENING).

·       GUARANTEED ORIGINAL APPLE/CAPITOL LABELS WITH STARR-IN-A-STAR PHOTO, UNIQUE TO THIS ALBUM , SUCH AS THE ONE SHOWN ABOVE, FROM OUR PREVIOUS AUCTION

·       NOTE: SOME VERSIONS OF THIS ALBUM CONTAINED A RARE 6+ MINUTE VERSION OF THE SONG "SIX O’ CLOCK" WHICH WAS NOT AVAILABLE ON A REGULAR VERSION OF THIS ALBUM. THESE RARE MISPRESSINGS ARE INORDINATELY RARE. WE ESTIMATE THAT THE ODDS THAT YOU WILL FIND THIS RARE MISPRESSING INSIDE ARE NOT BETTER THAN 5%,  AT BEST.

·       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.

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

·       ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER, MADE OF THICK CARDBOARD (AMERICAN STYLE) 

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

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

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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With Ringo, Ringo Starr finally put his solo career in gear in 1973, after serving notice with back-to-back Top Ten singles in 1971 and 1972 that he had more to offer than his eccentric first two solo albums. Ringo was a big-budget pop album produced by Richard Perry and featuring Ringo's former Beatles bandmates as songwriters, singers, and instrumentalists. On no single track did all four appear, though George Harrison played the guitars on the John Lennon-penned leadoff track "I'm the Greatest," with Lennon playing piano and singing harmony. But it wasn't only the guests who made Ringo a success: Ringo advanced his own cause by co-writing two of the album's Top Ten singles, the number one "Photograph" and "Oh My My." The album's biggest hit was a second chart-topper, Ringo's cover of the old Johnny Burnette hit "You're Sixteen." Songs like "Have You Seen My Baby," a Randy Newman song with guitar by Marc Bolan, and Ringo and Vini Poncia's "Devil Woman" were just as good as the hits. Ringo's best and most consistent new studio album, Ringo represented both the drummer/singer's most dramatic comeback and his commercial peak.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY WILLIAM RUHLMANN, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

Believe it or not, Let it Be was not the last Beatles album. Although not credited to The Beatles, Ringo’s self-titled 1973 album was the last album on which ALL FOUR BEATLES APPEAR, whether  individually or in some combinations. This is by far the single greatest Ringo Starr recording and the only one that can really measure up to the other classic solo works by John, Paul and George and/or all four. And you are not going to believe the list of other Rock stars that play on this album. The list reads like Noah`s Ark of Rock`n`Roll. I mean, practically the only Rock star missing is Elvis, and he’d probably just left the building when this was recorded.

See for yourself:

David Bromberg (of David Bromberg Band)  -  Banjo, Fiddle, Guitar, Violin

Steve Cropper  (of Booker T. & The MG’s) -  Guitar, Guitar (Electric)

George Harrison  (played with an obscure Band: The Beatles) -  Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Vocals (bckgr), John Lennon  -  (also played with an obscure Band: The Beatles) Piano, Vocals, Harmony Vocals

Paul McCartney  - (also played with an obscure Band: The Beatles)  Synthesizer, Piano, Keyboards, Harry Nilsson  -  (oh, you know him…can’t live, if living is without him…)Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)

Billy Preston  -  (played with Beatles, Stones, Leon Russell, Sam Cooke…) Organ, Piano, Keyboards

Robbie Robertson  (of THE Band) -  Guitar

Ringo Starr  -  (the worlds most underrated Rock drummer) Percussion, Drums, Vocals

James Booker  -  (played with everyone, and his mother, and her uncle, and…) Piano

Rick Danko  -   (of The Band) Fiddle, Violin

Nicky Hopkins  - (The `sixth` Rolling Stone)  Piano, Guitar (Electric), Piano (Electric)

Jack Nitzsche  -  (worked with Neil Young, Phil Spector) Arranger

Jim Keltner  -  (of the Plastic Ono Band) Drums

Marc Bolan  -  (you know, the kinky-haired Electric Warrior) Guitar

Merry Clayton  - (sung backing vocals on the Rolling Stones `Gimme Shelter`) Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)

Levon Helm  -  (of The Band) Mandolin

Milt Holland  -  Percussion, Marimba

Garth Hudson  - (of The Band)   Accordion

Bobby Keys  -  (remember that sax solo in “Brown Sugar”? Well, that was Bobby Keys) Saxophone, Sax (Tenor)

Linda McCartney  -  (not only a great photog, but a vocalist extraordinaire) Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)

Richard Perry  -  Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer

Vini Poncia  -  (the legendary songwriter/producer who worked with Phil `shoot-‘em-all` Spector) Guitar Martha Reeves  -  (yes, the Heatwave girl – the Motown legend) Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)

Klaus Voormann  -  (The fifth Beatle) Bass, Vocals (bckgr), Bass (Upright), Lithography

(plus tens of others…the list goes on and on…)

For additional historical or discography information on this album, including track listing ►click here

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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 album comes with its original booklet.

(c)           The record is believed to come in its original, custom, inner sleeve, which is UNIQUE to this album.

(d)          The record is apparently 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!

(e)           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 two corners slightly dinged (nothing significant)

-        Cover has a light "wrinkle" (crease)  in one of the corners.

-        Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 1.   (VISIBLE ON BACK SIDE ONLY)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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