The Zombies - Odessey And Oracle L.P. (original stereo)

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	$		319

The "Odessey And Oracle" L.P. by The Zombies.

CBS S 63280

The record has a few light marks but nothing very serious / the sleeve is mostly excellent apart from a small amount of discolouration on the back.

From Wikipedia: Odessey and Oracle is a Psychedelic rock, Baroque Pop album by The Zombies released in 1968.

Odessey and Oracle was recorded in 1967 after the Zombies signed to the CBS label, and was only the second album they had released since 1965. As their first LP, Begin Here, was a collection of singles, Odessey can be regarded as the only true Zombies album. While their first album included several cover versions, Odessey consisted entirely of original compositions by the group's two main songwriters, Rod Argent and Chris White.

The group began work on the album in June 1967. Some songs were recorded at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, where earlier in the year the Beatles had recorded Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Pink Floyd recorded The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. This was the first time Abbey Road would be used for an independently produced (non-EMI) release. By the time the recording was finished, in late 1967, the Zombies were effectively disbanded, due to lack of financial success. Odessey and Oracle was released in the UK in April 1968 and in the United States in June. The single "Time of the Season" became a surprise hit in early 1969, and Columbia Records (in the United States) re-released Odessey in February, with a different album cover that severely cropped the original illustration.

The gap in time between the UK and US record release dates owes to the Zombies having not prepared a stereo mix initially, a condition the American label insisted on. At the urging of staff producer, Al Kooper, the U.S. CBS/Columbia Records label was belatedly persuaded to release the album on their small Date Records subsidiary label. Argent and White spent their accrued royalties to book studio time and remix the album for stereo specifically for that US release. However, the ninth song "This Will Be Our Year" was not mixed into stereo in 1969 owing to a "missing" horn overdub not on the original 4-track tape.

The first song on the album, "Care of Cell 44" has been covered by a number of artists including Elliott Smith and Of Montreal .

Velvet Crush's singles compilation, A Single Odessey, is misspelled in dedication to the Zombies' album.

Odessey consistently ranks in the top 40 on the constantly changing Rate Your Music greatest ever albums list.

The album sleeve contains a short text written by keyboard player Rod Argent quoting William Shakespeare's The Tempest.

The famous misspelling of "odyssey" in the title was the result of a mistake by the designer of the LP cover,[citation needed] Terry Quirk (who was the flatmate of bass player Chris White). The band tried to cover this up at the time of release by claiming the misspelling was intentional.[citation needed]

   Track listing

   1. "Care of Cell 44" (Rod Argent) – 3:56
   2. "A Rose for Emily" (Argent) – 2:19
   3. "Maybe After He's Gone" (Chris White) – 2:33
   4. "Beechwood Park" (White) – 2:43
   5. "Brief Candles" (White) – 3:30
   6. "Hung up on a Dream" (Argent) – 3:01
   7. "Changes" (White) – 3:19
   8. "I Want Her, She Wants Me" (Argent) – 2:51
   9. "This Will Be Our Year" (White) – 2:08
  10. "Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)" (White) – 2:47
  11. "Friends of Mine" (White) – 2:17
  12. "Time of the Season" (Argent) – 3:33

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