BOOKER T & The MG's "Green Onions" 1964 UK 1st *MONO*

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	$		56

BOOKER T & The MG's "Green Onions" 1964 UK 1st *MONO*
LONDON/STAX Original PRESS, James Upton Sleeve TOP COPY
BOOKER T. & The MG's
Green Onions

HERE WE HAVE A SUPERB!!! AND MASSIVELY RARE UK LONDON RECORDS (HA-K 8182) ORIGINAL 1964 *MONO* PRESSING OF BOOKER T AND THE MG'S CLASSIC DEBUT LP!!!!
THIS COPY IS THE SCARCE 1964 ORIGINAL LONDON RECORDS PRESSING WHICH HARDLY EVER COMES UP FOR SALE!!! THE 1966 ATLANTIC PRESSING IS RARE ENOUGH BUT THIS ORIGINAL 1964 ISSUE IS IMPOSSIBLY SCARCE!! SO DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS ONE AS IT'S ALSO IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION!!
PRESSED ON QUALITY HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL WITH DEEP CUT GROOVES WHICH DELIVER ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING AUDIO!!! THE FIRST ISSUE PURPLE LONDON LABELS CARRY THE FIRST *MONO* MATRICES: AML-2556-3A / AML-2557-1A AND THE ALBUM IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FRONT LAMINATED, DEEPLY GLOSSY SLEEVE "Made in England by James Upton Ltd., Birmingham & London"
THIS REALLY IS A TREMENDOUS COPY OF AN ABSOLUTE CLASSIC!!! PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY THROUGHOUT AND SOUNDS AMAZING!!!! I GUARANTEE YOU WOULD BE HARD PRESSED TO FIND ONE MUCH BETTER!!!

There's not a note or a nuance out of place anywhere on this record, which is 35 minutes of the most exciting instrumental music you could imagine.
"I Got a Woman" is the single best indicator of how superb this record is and this band was -- listening to this track, it's easy to forget that the song ever had lyrics or ever needed them, Booker T. Jones' organ and Steve Cropper's guitar serving as more-than-adequate substitutes for any singer.
Their version of "Twist and Shout" is every bit as satisfying. Even "Mo' Onions," an effort to repeat the success of "Green Onions," doesn't repeat anything from the earlier track except the tempo, and Jones and Cropper both come up with fresh sounds within the same framework.
"Behave Yourself" is a beautifully wrought piece of organ-based blues that gives Jones a chance to show off some surprisingly nimble-fingered playing, while "Stranger on the Shore" is transformed into a piece of prime soul music in the group's hands. "Lonely Avenue" is another showcase for Jones' keyboard dexterity, and then there's the group's cover of Smokey Robinson's "One Who Really Loves You," with a ravishing lead performance by Jones on organ and Cropper's guitar handling the choruses. Just when it seems like the album has turned in all of the surprises in repertory that it could reasonably deliver, it ends with "Comin' Home Baby," a killer jazz piece on which Steve Cropper gets to shine, his guitar suddenly animated around Jones' playing, his quietly trilled notes at the crescendo some of the most elegant guitar heard on an R&B record up to that time.

Track Listing:
SIDE 1: Green Onions / Rinky Dink / I Got a Woman / Mo' Onions / Twist and Shout / Behave Yourself
SIDE 2: Stranger on the Shore / Lonely Avenue / One Who Really Loves You / You Can't Sit Down There Boy! / A Woman, a Lover, a Friend / Comin' Home Baby

LABELS: The labels are in SUPERB condition - CLEAN, BRIGHT and UNMARKED with just some light spindle traces!!!!
VINYL Visual: The surfaces have one or two light superficial marks but NOTHING of any major audio consequence WHATSOEVER!!
VINYL Audio: The audio is absolutely OUTSTANDING!! - CRYSTAL CLEAR, BEAUTIFUL, VIBRANT SOUND!! There are NO scratches, NO sticks, NO jumps, barely ANY clicks/pops or surface noise at all (really hardly ANY!!!) The sound quality is simply SUPERB!!! with NO discernible groove-wear and NO distortion!!!! This must be strictly graded EXCELLENT for audio!!!! A BEAUTIFUL COPY!!! NOT over-graded in ANY way as I use STRICT RECORD COLLECTOR grading standards!!!
SLEEVE: The front laminated sleeve is also in LOVELY condition. The front laminated surface has a BEAUTIFUL DEEP GLOSSY SHEEN with just a light crease to the top opening corner!! The untreated back of the sleeve shows a little ring marking and one or two spots but overall a beautiful original sleeve now almost 45 years old!!! The original 'pinched' spine is straight and true with all text CLEAR and SHARP!! THIS REALLY IS A TOP COPY!!!


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THIS REALLY IS A FANTASTIC COPY!! IN SUPERB CONDITION!! AND AS THE UK ORIGINAL LONDON RECORDS *MONO* PRESSING - VERY, VERY SCARCE!!!
BELIEVE ME, YOU WOULD BE HARD PRESSED TO FIND ONE BETTER!!!
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THANKS FOR LOOKING, CHEERS


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