SAM & DAVE SELF-TITLED 1st ALBUM RARE ORIG '66 ROULETTE STEREO LP IN SHRINK MINT

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·       SAM & DAVE– THE SELF-TITLED FIRST ALBUM ON ROULETTE LABEL ("SAM AND DAVE")– ULTRA-RARE ORIGINAL 1966 ROULETTE RECORDS STEREO LP SR-25323

·       (NOTE: TECHNICALLY, THIS IS THE DUO'S FIRST ALBUM BECAUSE IT COLLECTS THE EARLIEST KNOWN SAM & DAVE MATERIAL; HOWEVER, WE BELIEVE THE ALBUM WAS RELEASED A FEW MONTHS AFTER THE SAM AND DAVE'S FIRST STAX ALBUM ("HOLD ON, I'M COMING"), PROBABLY TO CAPITALIZE ON ITS CHART SUCCESS)

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       ORIGINAL ORANGE AND YELLOW “CHECKERED” ROULETTE LABEL, MID-60’s STYLE.

·       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)

·       COVER IS STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK (CELLOPHANE) WRAP

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       THE RECORD HAS 'AUDIOMATRIX'  STAMP IN THE TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) AREA, WHICH IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED A PROOF OF AUTHENTICITY OF THE FIRST PRESSING.

·       THE RECORD HAS A DATE STAMP OF 2-17-1966 HAND-ETCHED IN THE TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX)

·       MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

·       This album is currently out of print and unavailable on Compact Disc, or in any other format.

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This album is a genuine anomaly: it's made up of the six singles that they cut in 1962/63 for Roulette before they went to Stax and got known nationally by way of Atlantic Records.. The duo first hooked up in 1961, and it was after being booked locally as Sam & Dave in Miami, and cutting one locally released single that they came to the attention of Morris Levy in New York, who owned Roulette. The gospel influence (especially the organ) runs through much of what's here, and one can also pick out elements of Sam Cooke's stock vocal embellishments (check out "No More Pain"). The best numbers here are the achingly beautiful "It Was So Nice While It Lasted," one of the finest love songs in the duo's early output, "No More Pain," a towering performance by both singers, and "I Got a Thing Going On," which manages to sum up their formative sound, touching on all of their influences and pointing the way toward mid-1960s soul. As with their later material on Atlantic, the duo know how to get the listener's heart pumping and foot tapping, as on "Keep A Walkin'," "You Ain't No Big Thing Baby," and "I Found Out," the latter a powerful, exciting dance number. Some of it doesn't quite work -- "Listening for My Name" needed work as a song, although the singing on the break soars past the limitations in the piece and the arrangement. The stuff here is among the rarest of the duo's work, having only reappeared once on an extremely obscure Roulette album.

(REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

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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 EXCELLENT. This is one of those albums that are somewhat difficult to grade. It is somewhere between VG++ and NEAR MINT, just a notch below NEAR MINT. A few light abrasions ARE visible, but they are extremely shallow, superficial  and only moderately visually distracting (nothing significant).For the most part, the vinyl looks impeccable without any MAJOR visual flaws or imperfections. Much of the original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          The record is 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!

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

·                               THE COVER

COVER IS NEAR MINT,  STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP   ((A SMALL PIECE OF SHRINK WRAP IS MISSING)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-         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.

-         Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on back side, apparently from aging.

-         Cover has two corners slightly worn (nothing significant)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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