SIMON & GARFUNKEL BOOKENDS ULTRA-RARE ORIG MONO LP
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Description
Simon & Garfunkel
Bookends
MONO
In a Mono Cover
on
Columbia
KCL 2729
Increasingly rare album with all the bells and whisltes
*Still in Shrink wrap (not sealed)
*Has Sticker advertising Mrs. Robinson
*Has poster that has never been used
* In incredibly Rare Mono Cover
(The Cover clearly identifies the pressing inside as mono and also has a mono catalog number. As far as I know, this is only the second time this particular version has been posted on ebay.)
This album does not exist. Well, ALMOST, anyway. If you open Tim Neely's "Standard Catalog of American Records 1950-1975", first edition (Krause publications, 1998) on page 997, the wise book will tell you that there are "no stock copies" of this album in mono, and that only white label promo mono pressings exist. Yeah, right. Sure…unfortunately for Tim, we have a picture here to prove otherwise (please see the picture of the label, shown below). Not only is this album by far the rarest of all Simon and Garfunkel albums, but it is also the very best (in our modest view). But this is just a beginning: some of the mixes of the songs on this album are dramatically different from the standard stereo versions. A few tracks, in particular, stand out: "Save the life of my child" sounds like a completely different take – or at least radically remixed version - from the one we remember from the stereo version. The difference is most palpable on uptempo numbers, such as 'Fakin' it" and "Hazy Shade of Winter" where Simon and Garfunkel, apparently in conjunction with Roy Halee (the co-producer of the album), attempt some very unorthodox, almost psychedelic ornamentation and tape loop effects, which are completely lost - or are near-inaudible - on the stereo version. This is a much, much more natural and humane, more direct mix, which will leave you begging for more. A critical missing piece in every self-respecting S&G collection
For its extraordinary contribution to the modern music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship, revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, writers and general public, or for some other innate quality, this album was voted one of top-200 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted by Paul Gambaccini, legendary BBC Radio A&R man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals (including Roy Carr, Jonathan Cott, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Greil Marcus, Murray the K., Lenny Kaye , Bruce Morrow (a/k/a "Cousin Brucie"), Tim Rice (of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita" fame), Lisa Robinson, Robert Shelton (who wrote liner notes for Bob Dylan's first album), Ed Ward, Joel Whitburn, Pete Wingfield, etc.). For more details, see: "Critics Choice: Top-200 albums" compiled by Paul Gambaccini, Omnibus Press, Library of Congress Catalog No.7855565
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