BOB DYLAN, John Wesley Harding [stereo two-eyes] USA 1st pressing T1 EXC- LP

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Bob Dylan?– John Wesley Harding Label: Columbia ?– CS 9604 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: Jan 1968 Genre: Rock Style: Folk Rock, Country Rock Tracklist Hide Credits A1 John Wesley Harding 2:55 A2 As I Went Out One Morning 2:49 A3 I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine 3:51 A4 All Along The Watchtower 2:30 A5 The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest 5:34 A6 Drifter's Escape 2:54 B1 Dear Landlord 3:15 B2 I Am A Lonesome Hobo 3:19 B3 I Pity The Poor Immigrant 4:12 B4 The Wicked Messenger 2:02 B5 Down Along The Cove Steel Guitar – Pete Drake 2:29 B6 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight Steel Guitar – Pete Drake 2:41 Credits Bass– Charles McCoy* Drums– Kenny Buttrey Engineer– Charlie Bragg Photography By [Cover]– John Berg Producer– Bob Johnston Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, Piano– Bob Dylan Written-By– B. Dylan* Notes 1st stereo pressing label variation: Red label, white 'Stereo 360 Sound' with white arrows at bottom of label. Two-eyes logo on label at 3 and 9 o'clock. CS 9604 has 'STEREO' written under it at left of spindle. Thicker, different typeface used for Side 1 (which slants slightly to the right) and XSM 135311 at right of spindle.

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL LP WITH ORIGINAL COLUMBIA INNER SLEEVE.

There are four known label variations of the first USA stereo pressing, probably due to label design depending on where the album was pressed. This copy has a T1 mold code indicating the stampers were created from the very first laquers, and the H (not sure about the K) in the matrix code means it was probably pressed at Columbia's plant in Carrolltown, Georgia.

A note about Columbia first pressings: Columbia Records would often cut six (or more) lacquers at the same time for high demand records. Multiple lacquers would be cut and sent to various pressing plants so that they could have more than one plant pressing the records at the same time. Columbia used XSM, MAL, XLP, and consecutive numbers for each side, or PAL and PBL prefixes for sides 1 and 2 of their albums. The coding of the lacquers with letters allowed the lacquers to be assigned to different pressing plants. A and B suffixes for the Santa Maria, Ca. pressing plant, C and D for Terra Haute, In. and E and F for Pitman N.J. Six (or more) sets of lacquers were usually cut for any big-name artist, so the very first mastering would be 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, and 1F. This changed over the years (pressing plants opened or closed), so A and E lacquers were known to be sent to the Terra Haute, Indiana pressing plant, B and D lacquers the Pitman, New Jersey pressing plant, C laquers were sent to the Santa Maria, California pressing plant, and G and H were sent to the Carrollton, Georgia plant. Thus a record with a 1A in the matrix could easily have been pressed at the same time as a record with a 1B in the matrix. They were just pressed at different pressing plants.

MATRIX NUMBERS IN RUN-OFF GROOVES: SIDE A: XSM135311-1K 1 T / SIDE B: XSM135312-1H.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF,RING AND EDGE WEAR. RED PEN MARK REAR BOTTOM. INNER SLEEVE IS VERY GOOD+.

DISC: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES AND NO NOTICEABLE SPINDLE WEAR, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES AND FINGERPRINTS. THIS DISC HAS NOT BEEN PLAYED MORE THAN A FEW TIMES, IT IS IN SPENDID CONDITION. CLEAN LABELS. A MARVELLOUS PLAYING COPY WITH SUPERB AUDIO.

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