Barry Humphries-Sandy Agonistes-RARE 1960 Vinyl LP Score Australia POL 024

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Description:

Barry Humphries-Sandy Agonistes (RARE 1960 Australian 12” Vinyl LP Album housed in flip-back picture sleeve with light to moderate corner wear top and bottom RH corners with a couple of light creases erstwhile sleeve is in overall excellent condition with and old price sticker on rear showing 59/6 – The vinyl shows a few light scuffs/marks and plays thru fine – Score Australia POL 024)

Tracks:

A1 Buster Thompson

A2 Debbie Thwaite

A3 Colin Cartwright

B4 Sandy Agonistes

"From Barry Humphries"

SANDY STONE

This monologue was written and recorded in the basement of 2a Pembridge Gardens, Notting Hill Gate, London, in the winter of 1960. I had borrowed a tape recorder from a friend and discovered that it was possible, at the touch of a button, to superimpose one performance over another, giving an eerie translucent effect. The tape was sent back to Melbourne with several others similarly recorded, and issued by Ruth and Peter Mann on the Score label.

Sandy Agonistes was not a huge success, though I now regard it as by far the best recording I have ever made. It is, I understand, a collector's item these days. It was certainly recorded under the most rudimentary, even primitive, conditions, and one does not have to listen too carefully to hear the rumble of the big red double-deckers outside my Notting Hill basement window."

DEBBIE THWAITE

"This recorded falsetto monologue of 1960 portrayed a type of Australian girl I kept meeting during my early weeks in London at the end of the 1950s. Often they succeeded in returning to Australia - always by steamer, in that far-off epoch - without having once met an English person.

The Debbies I knew - before the early days of jeans, duffle coats, backpacks and hitchhiking - all wore twin-sets, Black Watch tartan skirts, sockettes and sensible suede brogues. Beneath their bouncing pageboys they pronounced all that they admired 'superb'. Nice upper-middle-class Debbies' term of modish approbation would now be 'unreal', or 'am-aa-zing'; last year it was 'stunning' and before 'brillianf, before that 'super' and before that 'superb'.

Debbie's monologue was re-recorded in the late sixties and updated for decimal currency during her 'brilliant' period."

COLIN CARTWRIGHT

One of the monologues recorded in London for the Sandy Agonistes disc, is this Melbourne businessman intent on purchasing the affection of his children. On the recording the character suffers from attacks of flatulence induced by ulcers and apoplexy. Colin Cartwright has never appeared on stage.

Glossy jacket with light to moderate corner and edge wear, very slight split beginning bottom edge, light ring back jacket.  Record stored in clear plastic inner sleeve, looks quite playable in the VG+ to VG++ range, I'll grade VG+.

VINYL GRADING SCALE

MINT (M)

The record is in brand new condition with no surface marks or deterioration in sound quality. The sleeve and any extra items are in perfect condition.

EXCELLENT (EX)

The record shows signs of having been played but there is negligible loss in sound quality. The sleeve may have slight wear or creasing.

VERY GOOD (VG)                          

The record has been played many times but shows no significant deterioration in sound quality, despite noticeable surface marks. Sleeve has normal wear and tear without any major defects.

GOOD (G)

The record has been played enough that the sound quality has deteriorated noticeably and may have pops and skips. The sleeve may suffer from scuffs, spine splits, ring wear and/or discolouration.

CONDITION: This item is in excellent or mint condition unless stated above.

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