ARCHIE SHEPP MAMA TOO TIGHT IMPULSE A 9134 1967 1st US ORIGINAL STEREO VG+

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ARCHIE SHEPP

MAMA TOO TIGHT

IMPULSE A 9175 

Tracklist   

A Portrait Of Robert Thompson (As A Young Man) 

Written-By Archie Shepp (18:51)  

A1a Prelude To A Kiss 

Written-By – Ellington, Gordon, Mills  

A1b The Break Strain - King Cotton  

A1c Dem Basses  

B1 Mama Too Tight 

Written-By – Archie Shepp 5:25 

B2 Theme For Ernie 

Written-By – Fred Lacey      3:20 

B3 Basheer 

Written-By – Archie Shepp    10:40 

Companies 

Record Company – ABC Records, Inc. 

Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 

Designed At – Viceroy  

Manufactured By – ABC Records, Inc. 

Mastered At – Longwear Plating 

Published By – Pamco Music Inc. 

Published By – Dawn Of Freedom Pub., Ltd. 

Published By – American Academy Of Music 

Published By – Prestige Music Co. 

Credits 

Bass – Charles Haden 

Clarinet – Perry Robinson 

Design [Cover] – Robert Flynn 

Design [Liner] – Joe Lebow 

Drums – William Godvin (Beaver) Harris 

Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder 

Liner Notes – Archie Shepp 

Photography By [Cover] – Charles Stewart 

Producer – Bob Thiele 

Tenor Saxophone – Archie Shepp 

Trombone – Grachan Moncur III, Roswell Rudd 

Trumpet – Tommy Turrentine 

Tuba – Howard Johnson 

Notes 

Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, August 19, 1966

Catalog number is A-9134 on sleeve (front, rear, spine) and AS-9134 inside the sleeve and on labels. 

Stereo written on cover (front, rear, spine, inside) and on labels. 
Thick cardboard gatefold sleeve externally laminated. 
With IMPULSE factory printed inner sleeve. 
[Rear of sleeve] 
Printed in U.S.A. 
A product of ABC-Paramount Records, Inc. 
[Spine] 
Stereo Mama Too Tight Archie Shepp A-9134 [Logo] IMPULSE! 
 
[Orange/Black Impulse! labels] 
A product of ABC Records Inc. 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
Made in U.S.A. 
Total timing for A-side is 18:51. 
 
A1 - A Portrait Of Robert Thompson (As A Young Man) - Pamco Music, Inc./Dawn Of Freedom Pub., Ltd. - BMI 
A1a - Prelude To A Kiss - American Academy Of Music - ASCAP 
A1b - The Break Strain - King Cotton - (PD) 
A1c - Dem Basses - (PD) 
B1 - Mama Too Tight - Dawn Of Freedom Pub., Ltd. - BMI 
B2 - Theme For Ernie - Prestige Music Co. - BMI 
B3 - Basheer - Pamco Music, Inc.- BMI 

STRICTLY GRADED ACCORDING THE GOLDMINE GRADING SCALE AFTER THOROUGH VISUAL INSPECTION WITH POWERFUL LED LAMP AND COMPLETE LISTENING

RECORD 

 Original 1969 US stereo pressing with super clean orange/black labels and wearless spindle holes

Matrix / Runout (Label A): AS-9134-A 

Matrix / Runout (Label B): AS-9134-B 

Matrix / Runout (A-side, hand-etched): AS 9134 A WI LW 

Matrix / Runout (B-side, hand-etched): AS 9134 B WI LW 

Rights Society: BMI 

Rights Society: ASCAP  

This thick, heavy vinyl retains its original luster intact and appears to have been listened to carefully very few times

SIDE A

VISUAL: VERY GOOD+ to VERY GOOD++ 

Shiny playing surface has a slight, superficial hairline, not audible and a small linear wax defect at the end (see pic). NO other evident signs of wear or handling as scuffs, marks, scratches, groove wear

AUDIO: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD++ 

There's just a more or less accentuated ticking, audible below the music level for 120 seconds at the end, due to the wax defect described above, which does not significantly affect listening (VG).

The large remaining part sounds loud and very clean, WITHOUT noticeable defects as tics, clicks, skips, surface or background noise (VG++)

SIDE B

VISUAL: VERY GOOD++

Shiny playing surface has a slight, superficial hairline, not audible, barely visible under a powerful LED lamp on the 3rd track. NO other evident signs of wear or handling as scuffs, marks, scratches, groove wear

AUDIO: VERY GOOD++ 

Plays loud and very clean with NO noticeable blemishes as tics, clicks, skips, surface or background noise

Cleaned with CLEAR AUDIO VACUUM MATRIX using its PURE GROOVE professional solution

With IMPULSE factory printed inner sleeve in VG+ condition

 COVER : NEAR MINT- to NEAR MINT

The front and back sides retain their glossy and flawless original shape with NO laminate lifting or wear spots

 There are only more or less insignificant creases at the right corners on the front and slight wrinkles on the upper left corner on the back, which does not affect the beauty and integrity of the cover 

Sharp corners, tight edges, intact fully legible spine, immaculate inside gatefod, NO dog-eared corners, NO ring-wear, NO seams splits, NO tears, NO stamps, NO holes, NO stains

SHIPPING COST

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