DIALOGUE V Rare Orig 1974 Private US LP Cold Studio Signed Psych Sunshine Pop
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Dialogue
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Very Rare original Private US LP released on Cold Studio Records in 1974. 1974 US pressing complete with the Purple insert and is signed by them both on the side one label.
DIALOGUE - Same, originally released 1972 in the US as a private press on Cold Studio Records DM-68425. Totally rare and great psych album from Philadelphia. Fantastic songwriting with a strong beatlesesque feeling. Superb album.
One of those obscurities that's rather difficult to track down; let alone adequately describe. Interestingly we've seen various reviews that label the LP everything from "psychedelic masterpiece" to comparing it to The Beatles and Badfinger.
Kurt Shore and Jim Stanton were apparently from the Philadelphia suburb of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. As Dialogue the pair recorded their 1972 debut "Dialogue" in Birmingham, Alabama's New London Studios. Co-produced by Rick Matos and the duo, the album featured a surprisingly commercial and polished set of pop ballads. Written by Shore, (Stanton arranging), tracks such as "Think Father Think", "Aslon the Lion" and "It Scares Me So" are largely keyboard-propelled ballads. Full of pretty melodies and gorgeous harmony work (the one notable exception being the cloying "Sandbox"), the overall effect is more "sunshine pop" than psych. That does nothing to diminish the album's appeal to our ears. The short back story on the different cover versions is that after the initial small press run (reportedly only 200 copies), they realised that they failed to provide anyone with information about how or where to obtain additional copies of the record. So when they decided to reissue it a couple of years later, they added a mailing address to the back. This second cover version had a completely different rear than the original. First press in orange sleeve.
There are apparently at least three versions of the LP; the 1972 original that doesn't mentioned Cold Studio, and a pair of 1974 pressings, one with an address on the back, the other without and insert. There's supposedly a non-LP 45, but we've never seen details on it.
Tracks Are :-
Side One
1 Think Father Think
2 Aslon The Lion
3 I'm Not Coming Home
4 Tell Me Mother
5 Back In The Cold
Side Two
1 It Won't Happen Again
2 You've Got Your Nerve
3 The Ballad
4 I Came So Near
5 Sandbox
6 On Every Shore
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Released on Cold Studio Records in 1974
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Catalogue Number DIA 5-1
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Record is in Ex + condition (few light surface marks)
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Sleeve is in Ex + condition (some shelf wear)
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