CREAM Fresh Cream 1st LP 1966 REACTION 1st Press EARLIEST MONO EVER
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On offer here is a very VERY rare LP (especially in this condition!!!!) by Cream called "Fresh Cream" and is an ORIGINAL 1966 UK MONO 1st Pressing on the 1st Press Reaction label!!!! THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!!!! THIS WAS CREAM'S FIRST & RAREST LP EVER - AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE!!!! JUST TRY AND FIND ANOTHER ONE!!!! IT IS ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER LPs ON THE REACTION LABEL - AND IS INCREDIBLY HARD TO LOCATE TODAY!!!! BUT WHAT MAKES THIS LP REALLY SPECIAL IS THAT IT IS THE 'EARLIEST' & RAREST MONO 1ST PRESSING EVER MADE!!!! THIS IS QUITE LITERALLY THE 'EARLIEST' & RAREST MONO 1ST PRESSING OF THIS LP EVER MADE - AND IS BY SOME DISTANCE THE RAREST CREAM LP ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD TODAY!!!! I WILL EXPLAIN:-
MANY PRESSINGS OF THIS LP WERE MADE THROUGHOUT THE 1960s AND THIS IS NOT HELPED BY THE FACT, THAT ALL LOOK ALMOST IDENTICAL!!!! SO YOU CAN MISTAKENLY BUY A 1969 3RD OR 4TH PRESSING OF THIS LP (MADE 3 OR 4 YEARS AFTER RELEASE, AND WELL AFTER CREAM SPLIT UP!) WITHOUT KNOWING IT!!!! AND TO BE FAIR, 99% OF THE TIME, THE PERSON SELLING WOULDNT KNOW EITHER - AS THERE IS VERY LITTLE INFORMATION ON THE SUBJECT!!!! AND THIS IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT, AS THIS IS A MONO 1ST PRESSING!!!! AS MOST PEOPLE ALREADY KNOW - MONOs DOMINATED IN 1966, WITH 99% OF COPIES ON THE DAY OF RELEASE BEING SOLD IN MONO. AND LETS BE HONEST, THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO BOUGHT THIS 'HEAVY' RECORD ON RELEASE BACK IN 1966, WASNT EXACTLY GOING TO BE A 'HI-FI' ENTHUSIAST WERE THEY???? NO, THIS TYPE OF MUSIC WAS MEANT TO BE PLAYED - AND THATS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED IN ALMOST EVERY CASE!!!! HOWEVER, BECAUSE 99% OF 'DAY OF RELEASE' PRESSINGS WERE BOUGHT IN MONO - THEY WERE THE MOST LIKELY TO BE ABSOLUTELY PLAYED TO DEATH!!!! THOSE WHO SPECIALLY ORDERED A STEREO, NEARLY ALWAYS HAD 'PROPER HI-FI SYSTEMS' AND TREATED THEM VERY CAREFULLY INDEED!!!! THEREFORE THERE IS ALWAYS A CHANCE OF FINDING A STEREO 1ST PRESSING IN NICE CONDITION - BUT ALMOST NEVER WITH A MONO!!!! WHAT THIS ALL MEANS - IS THAT FINDING A 'DAY OF RELEASE' MONO 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE. AND IT IS VERY LIKELY THAT ONLY 1 BATCH OF 'EARLIEST' MONO 1ST PRESSINGS (500 COPIES ONLY!) WERE EVER MADE!!!! TO DEMONSTRATE THE SHEER RARITY OF THIS LP (AND AS INFORMATION ON THE SUBJECT IS NON EXISTENT!) - I HAVE LISTED ALL THE PRESSINGS OF THIS LP BELOW (AND I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THE CHANGES AS THEY HAPPENED ON EACH PRESSING BY UNDERLINING THE DIFFERENCES ON EACH ONE!):-
1) 'EARLIEST' MONO 1ST PRESSING EVER MADE (THIS ONE!) WHICH WAS MADE 'PRE-RELEASE' ONLY AND AVAILABLE ON THE 'DAY OF RELEASE':- WITH 'FULLY TEXTURED' LABELS, 'DOUBLE RIDGED' LABEL CENTRE, A1/B1 MATRIXES, 111/111 STAMPERS (ALL STAMPERS ARE '1'!), 'JEWEL' LABEL CREDITS FOR SIDE 1, 'DRATLEAF/COPYRIGHT CONTROL/JEWEL/M.P.C.S.' LABEL CREDITS FOR SIDE 2, AND AN 'ERNEST J. DAY' LAMINATED 'PATENTS PENDING' COVER WITH VERTICAL '593 001' CAT NUMBER IN THE TOP RIGHT ON THE REVERSE!
2) 2ND PRESSING (STILL IN 1966) NOW WITH:- TEXTURED LABELS, 'DOUBLE RIDGED' LABEL CENTRE, A1/B1 MATRIXES, HIGHER STAMPER NUMBERS, 'JEWEL' LABEL CREDITS FOR SIDE 1, 'DRATLEAF/COPYRIGHT CONTROL/JEWEL/M.P.C.S.' LABEL CREDITS FOR SIDE 2, AND AN 'ERNEST J. DAY' LAMINATED 'PATENTS PENDING' COVER WITH VERTICAL '593 001' CAT NUMBER IN THE TOP RIGHT ON THE REVERSE!
3) 3RD PRESSING (STILL IN 1966) NOW WITH:- SMOOTH LABELS, 'DOUBLE RIDGED' LABEL CENTRE, A1/B1 MATRIXES, HIGHER STAMPER NUMBERS, 'DRATLEAF/JEWEL' LABEL CREDITS FOR SIDE 1, 'DRATLEAF/COPYRIGHT CONTROL/JEWEL/M.P.C.S.' LABEL CREDITS FOR SIDE 2, AND AN 'ERNEST J. DAY' LAMINATED 'PATENTS PENDING' COVER WITH VERTICAL '593 001' CAT NUMBER IN THE TOP RIGHT ON THE REVERSE!
4) 4TH PRESSING (EARLY 1967) NOW WITH:- SMOOTH LABELS, 'DOUBLE RIDGED' LABEL CENTRE, A1/B1 MATRIXES, MUCH HIGHER STAMPER NUMBERS, 'DRATLEAF/JEWEL' LABEL CREDITS FOR SIDE 1, 'DRATLEAF/COPYRIGHT CONTROL/JEWEL/ESSEX MUSIC' LABEL CREDITS FOR SIDE 2, AND AN 'ERNEST J. DAY' LAMINATED 'PATENTS PENDING' COVER WITH VERTICAL '593 001' CAT NUMBER IN THE TOP RIGHT ON THE REVERSE!
5) 5TH PRESSING (MID 1967) NOW WITH:- SMOOTH LABELS, 'DOUBLE RIDGED' LABEL CENTRE, A2/B1 MATRIXES, 'DRATLEAF/JEWEL' LABEL CREDITS FOR SIDE 1, 'DRATLEAF/COPYRIGHT CONTROL/JEWEL/ESSEX MUSIC' LABEL CREDITS FOR SIDE 2, AND AN 'ERNEST J. DAY' LAMINATED 'PATENTS PENDING' COVER WITH VERTICAL '593 001' CAT NUMBER IN THE TOP RIGHT ON THE REVERSE!
6) 6TH PRESSING (LATE 1967) NOW WITH:- SMOOTH LABELS, 'SINGLE RIDGED' LABEL CENTRE, A2/B1 MATRIXES, 'DRATLEAF/JEWEL' LABEL CREDITS FOR SIDE 1, 'DRATLEAF/COPYRIGHT CONTROL/JEWEL/ESSEX MUSIC' LABEL CREDITS FOR SIDE 2, AND AN 'ERNEST J. DAY' LAMINATED 'PATENTS PENDING' COVER WITH VERTICAL '593 001' CAT NUMBER IN THE TOP RIGHT ON THE REVERSE!
7) 7TH PRESSING (VERY LATE 1967 THROUGH TO LATE 1968) NOW WITH:- SMOOTH LABELS, 'SINGLE RIDGED' LABEL CENTRE, A2/B1 MATRIXES, 'DRATLEAF/JEWEL' LABEL CREDITS FOR SIDE 1, 'DRATLEAF/GETAWAY SONGS/JEWEL/ESSEX MUSIC' LABEL CREDITS FOR SIDE 2, AND AN 'ERNEST J. DAY' LAMINATED 'PATENTS PENDING' COVER WITH VERTICAL '593 001' CAT NUMBER IN THE TOP RIGHT ON THE REVERSE!
AND AS YOU CAN SEE - THERE WAS A MULTITUDE OF DIFFERENT PRESSINGS IN A TINY AMOUNT OF TIME!!!! OBVIOUSLY THE MOST COMMON VERSIONS ARE THE SMOOTH LABELLED VERSIONS. HOWEVER, FINDING THIS 'EARLIEST POSSIBLE' MONO 1ST PRESSING (THIS ONE!) FROM THE VERY 'DAY OF RELEASE' IN 1966 IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE - AS QUITE LITERALLY ONLY 1 BATCH (500 COPIES!) WAS EVER MADE!!!!
AND ALTHOUGH THIS LP ISNT IN MINT CONDITION (THOUGH IT IS STILL A VERY VERY DECENT EXAMPLE INDEED!) - IT IS STILL IN GREAT CONDITION (WITH A BRILLIANT COVER!), VERY BRIGHT & SHINY, PLAYS THROUGH ABSOLUTELY FINE, AND IS 100% SOLID IN EVERY RESPECT!!!! AND IN THIS CASE - THIS IS ONE LP WHERE RARITY HAS TO BE CONSIDERED WAY OVER CONDITION (THOUGH THE CONDITION OF THIS LP IS STILL VERY DECENT INDEED!), AS THE CHANCES OF EVER FINDING ANOTHER ONE AGAIN IS TRULY VIRTUALLY ZERO (THERE IS BARELY ANY LEFT IN EXISTENCE LIKE THIS ONE!)!!!! JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES!!!! THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1966 UK 'DAY OF RELEASE' EARLIEST POSSIBLE MONO 1ST PRESSING ON THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'FULLY TEXTURED' REACTION LABELS, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'DOUBLE RIDGED' CENTRE HOLES, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS A1/B1 MONO MATRIX ENDINGS, 'EARLIEST POSSIBLE' 1ST PRESS 111/111 STAMPER CODINGS, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS LABEL CREDITS (AS DETAILED ABOVE!), 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS INNER SLEEVE, AND 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'E.J.DAY' LAMINATED 'PATENT PENDING' MONO COVER (WITH 'VERTICAL' MONO TEXT!)!!!! THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO LOCATE (THE CHANCES OF EVER SEEING ANOTHER ONE IS VIRTUALLY ZERO!) - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!! This is the ORIGINAL Reaction UK 1st Pressing from 1966 and is in GREAT condition!!!! The record is pressed on THICK quality vinyl!!!! The Cat. No is 593 001 on the ORIGINAL 1st Press Blue Reaction Labels (see picture) and is a much MUCH rarer UK MONO 1st pressing!!!!
The record labels are in BRILLIANT condition (see pictures) with NO writing, a circular impression on 1 label ONLY, NO wear (apart from a few touches around the centre holes!), and only a few VERY light spindle marks!!!! The vinyl is in GREAT condition!!!! Most of these 60s LPs had been to a lot of wild parties and are usually found totally worn out, and almost unplayable. This one is NOT and has NO nasty concentric marks, only 2 or 3 VERY light scufflines, only 2 or 3 TINY hairline type marks, only 2 or 3 VERY light hairlines, and only a VERY few of the lightest paper scuffs only visible under light!!!! THE RECORD IS STILL VERY BRIGHT & SHINY LOOKING INDEED!!!! It is great to find that the record plays as STUNNINGLY as the visual with NO skips, only a few VERY light clicks (though mostly NONE!), NO sticking, only slight distortion in places, NO jumps, and only some VERY low level background crackle in places!!!! The record must MEGA STRICTLY grade Very Good (PROPERLY graded, NOT trashed!) if not better - and is still a very VERY decent record indeed!!!! Believe me this record is NOT overgraded in ANY way!!!! I use STRICT RC grading standards - it is not in my interest not to!!!! Brillant!!!! The record also comes in its ORIGINAL 1st Press inner sleeve which is in BRILLIANT condition!!!! The ORIGINAL 1st Press 'E.J.Day' Laminated 'Patents Pending' MONO Cover is in BRILLIANT condition!!!! The cover has NO edge wear, NO splits, only VERY slight spinal wear, NO rips, NO tears, only VERY slight corner wear (NOT through the colour!), VERY shiny laminate, only a few VERY light creases (cover is VERY flat looking indeed!), only some VERY minor evidence of 'tipping in' to the corners, NO annotations, and NO writing!!!! The opening edge is beautifully straight with barely ANY feathering AT ALL!!!! Even the unlaminated back of the cover is in BRILLIANT condition with NO yellowing, NO grubbyness, NO rubbing, only 1 TINY sticker in the top right corner (clearly 100% ORIGINAL to the cover - and easily removeable if so wished!), and NO writing!!!! The cover must grade Very Good++ if not better - and is a very VERY nice cover indeed!!!! THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO LOCATE (ESPECIALLY AS THE 'EARLIEST POSSIBLE' MONO 1ST PRESSING EVER MADE - WITH 111/111 STAMPERS & A1/B1 MATRIXES!) - DONT MISS OUT ON THIS INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY!!!!
HAVE A LOOK AT MY PICTURES - I DO MY BEST TO SHOW THE RECORD FROM ALL ANGLES AND MAKE THE PICTURES AS CLEAR AS POSSIBLE - THERE IS NOTHING TO HIDE!!!! It really is a GREAT looking LP and it is truly rare to find any copies of this MEGA RARE LP!!!! THIS WILL BE YOUR ONLY CHANCE TO BUY AN ORIGINAL 1966 UK 'EARLIEST POSSIBLE' MONO 1ST PRESSING OF "FRESH CREAM" BY CREAM, IN GREAT CONDITION!!!! Dont forget to take a look at all my other items including many other TOP LPs and contact me with any queries you may have. Postal discounts for multiple buys are always available - and I guarantee to ALWAYS undercharge on postage! Paypal, Bank Transfers, Cheques, International Money Orders, and Postal Orders accepted. Thanks for looking! Cheers!!!!!--ooOOoo--
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