CHUCK BERRY MORE CHUCK BERRY RARE ORIG '63 PYE INTERNATIONAL UK MONO LP MINT

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·       CHUCK BERRY –  MORE CHUCK BERRY – ORIGINAL 1963 PYE INTERNATIONAL (UK) MONO LP NPL-28028

·       ORIGINAL U.K. PRESSING

·       NOTE: THE BRITISH VERSION OF THE ALBUM HAS PRACTICALLY NOTHING IN COMMON WITH THE CORRESPONDING AMERICAN RELEASE OF THE SAME NAME EXCEPT FOR THE COVER ARTWORK AND THE TITLE. NAMELY, THIS ALBUM WAS ORIGINALLY RELEASED ONLY IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1960 AS “CHUCK BERRY TWIST”;  THREE YEARS LATER,  PYE INTERNATIONAL (UK) RELEASED "MORE CHUCK BERRY"  IN THE U.K. , AN ALBUM WORTH OF MATERIAL PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE ON AN LP IN GREAT BRITAIN, A TITLE THAT WOULD BECOME CHUCK BERRY'S SECOND U.K. STUDIO ALBUM (HENCE THE TITLE). THE TWO RELEASES (AMERICAN "CHUCK BERRY TWIST" AND THE BRITISH "MORE CHUCK BERRY") INITIALLY CAME WITH COMPLETELY DIFFERENT COVERS AND TOTALLY DIFFERENT TRACK LISTING (ONLY TWO TRACKS  OVERLAP). AFTER THE BRITISH RELEASE NEARLY TOPPED THE CHARTS IN U.K. , CHESS RECORDS REPACKAGED THE REMAINING U.S. COPIES OF “CHUCK BERRY TWIST” RECORDS INTO THE NEW COVERS  – WHICH MIRRORED THE BRITISH COVERS -  AND RENAMED THE ALBUM “MORE CHUCK BERRY” AFTER THE BRITISH RELEASE. ESSENTIALLY, WHAT CHESS DID WAS HIJACK THE DISTINCT BRITISH RELEASE'S TITLE, CONCEPT AND COVER ART AND GRAFTED IT ONTO AN ALREADY EXISTING, BUT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, AMERICAN RELEASE. CRITICS AND PUBLIC ALIKE SEEM TO AGREE THAT THE BRITISH RELASE IS MASSIVELY SUPERIOR TO THE AMERICAN RELEASE, PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THE MORE MEANINGFUL AND INTELLIGENT (AND LESS FRAUDULENT) CONCEPT AND PACKAGING, DESPITE HAVING TWO TRACKS LESS THAN THE AMERICAN RELEASE.

·       ORIGINAL RED AND YELLOW PYE INTERNATIONAL (UK) WITH THE STYLIZED "GLOBE" LOGO

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.K. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL, THIN CARDBOARD COVER (EUROPEAN STYLE)

·       ORIGINAL LAMINATED COVER

·       ORIGINAL FLIP-BACK COVER (1/2-INCH MARGINS OF THE FRONT PANEL ARE FOLDED AND PASTED ONTO THE BACK PANEL)

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

·       MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-1M/-1M'.  ON SOME LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING).

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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More Chuck Berry (A/K/A Chuck Berry Twist) was a compilation album that made perfect sense in England. England's Decca label had held the distribution rights to the Chess label in England until 1958, and had gotten exactly one LP of his material out — the rights shifted to Pye Records in 1960, who rushed out his then current album and a 14-song LP (Chuck Berry) of some of his best songs from the years up to 1960, and then followed it up with this. Drawn on earlier singles and material off of albums up through Rockin' at the Hops (which Pye had missed out on), it wasn't much less coherent a record than most of Chess' own releases, though one wishes they'd found a track other than "Anthony Boy" (one of Berry's weaker LP cuts) to include among the dozen tracks here. Still, the overall thrust, amid solid rockers like "Little Queenie" and "Carol," included not only a fair amount of blues but some Berry rockers with more adult suggestiveness and serious overtones, such as "Brown Eyed Handome Man" and "Reelin' and Rockin'." You can bet your bottom dollar that Keith Richards and Brian Jones wore out the grooves on at least one copy, learning "Carol" and "Beautiful Delilah."

 (REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

For its extraordinary contribution to the modern music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship, revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, writers and general public, or for some other innate quality, this album was voted one of top-200 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted by Paul Gambaccini, legendary BBC Radio A&R man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals (including Roy Carr, Jonathan Cott, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Greil Marcus, Murray the K., Lenny Kaye, Bruce Morrow (a/k/a "Cousin Brucie"), Tim Rice (of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita" fame), Lisa Robinson, Robert Shelton (who wrote liner notes for Bob Dylan's first album), Ed Ward, Joel Whitburn, Pete Wingfield, etc.). For more details, see: "Critics Choice: Top-200 albums" compiled by Paul Gambaccini, Omnibus Press, Library of Congress Catalog No.7855565 (or ►click here  for the complete album listing).

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               THE RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL AS EXCELLENT. This is one of those albums that are somewhat difficult to grade. It is somewhere between VG++ and NEAR MINT, just a notch below NEAR MINT. A few light abrasions ARE visible, but they are extremely shallow, superficial  and only moderately visually distracting (nothing significant).For the most part, the vinyl looks impeccable without any MAJOR visual flaws or imperfections. Much of the original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)            The record comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve, which has - apparently with success - shielded the vinyl from the harmful impact of elements over many years!

(c)             The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(d)          True Stereo copies of this album are NOT known to exist.

(e)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       THE COVER (THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, LAMINATED, GLOSSY COVER):

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD++ (VG++).

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the seams  (nothing significant)

-         Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 2  (VISIBLE ON BACK SIDE ONLY) .

-         Cover shows some light yellowing on back side, apparently from aging.   (nothing significant)

-         Cover has a MINOR  wrinkle (crease) in the cardboard base on the front panel

-         Minor shelf wear noted on the opening side (nothing significant)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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