DEAN REED OUR SUMMER ROMANCE CAPITOL 78 RPM VERY RARE CANADA ONLY 1959 RED ELVIS
$
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You are bidding on DEAN REED OUR SUMMER ROMANCE /I AIN'T GOT YOU
This is a 78 RPM on Capitol 4273 Canadian issue
Visually shellac is a very glossy VG++ with a few light scuff marks.
Play graded on my 78 RPM Magnavox Record demonstrator sound is loud and clean-great for your jukebox
Listen to this tune at :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOQEhtVnZ_8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELj1qtkoZ04
To my knowledge this was issued on 78 RPM only in Canada and in 60 years of collecting 1st copy I've come across and have never seen it come on ebay on 78 RPM format.
Bio
Dean Reed (1938-1986) was an American actor and singer who was better known behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany than in his homeland.
Dean Reed pictured on the cover of the DVD American Rebel, a documentary about his life .
Born in Denver, Colorado in 1938, Dean Reed died in a lake on the outskirts of East Berlin in 1986. In the nearly 48 years between those two events Reed led a very unusual life that made him famous in Latin America, the Soviet Union, and East Germany – but virtually unknown in the US.
Reed came to be reviled as a communist traitor by most of the people in the United States who knew of his existence, but he never gave up his US citizenship or joined the East German socialist (SED) party. Although he could sometimes be naive about politics, Reed was a very public opponent of the Vietnam War long before it was a popular position in his home country. He went to Hollywood where he signed a record contract with Capitol Records in 1958, but his third single, "Our Summer Romance" was so popular in South America he went to tour there. More popular than Elvis Presley, he stayed to enjoy his incredible fame in Chile, Peru, Argentina. He made albums, starred in movies and had his own television show in Buenos Aires. He was known as Mr. Simpatia because he worked free in barrios and prisons and protested US policy, nuclear bomb tests etc. His politics moved to the left but he never joined the Communist party. He was deported from Argentina in 1966 and ended up in Rome, where he made "spaghetti westerns" for several years. He made his first concert tour of the Soviet Union in 1966 and became a mega star there and in Eastern Europe. He continually got into trouble with US State Department for protesting Vietnam War and attending International Peace Conferences. He moved to East Germany (GDR) in 1973, made numerous albums, starred in several films, and wrote and directed his own.
His last visit to the States in late 1985 encouraged him to dream of making a career for himself back home, especially if he could return with his current project in hand, a movie about the war between AIM and the FBI at Wounded Knee, 1973. A GDR/Soviet Union co-production, the film had taken years to get off the ground. Just days before shooting was due to start in the Crimea, Dean Reed's body was found in the lake near his home outside of East Berlin. He had been missing for several days. Many close to him in the GDR suspected suicide; his family and friends in America believed he was murdered.
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