David Smith, It's Time for, Gospel LP, GREAT cover of Mosrite factory, RARE
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Little David Smith
It’s Time…for David Smith
Giant Sounds Records 32498
LP
Front cover photo in the Mosrite factory
Little David Smith was another one of these gospel guitarists that Semie endorsed for a long time.
This album, however, features a photo from what appears to be the 1973-era incarnation of the "P" Street Mosrite factory!!!.
And what about the "antigua" burst Gospel in the front? I've never seen another like that one.
Little David is pictured with Semie on the back cover....gotta love the big wide white leather belt!
Panama Lane is a country road just outside metropolitan Bakersfield, California. Around 1959-60 Semie was renting a tin sided barn from a farmer on Panama Lane. At this location he along with his apprentice/helper Bill Gruggett, were building guitars one at a time. There Semie came up with a guitar shape that eventually evolved into the Mosrite Mark1/Ventures model.
From the Panama Lane barn to the huge P Street factory in the middle of Bakersfield, Mosrite guitars became a million dollar operation. Most Mosrite guitars commonly encountered from the 60's era are production assembly line guitars. Obviously the pre production '63 and earlier are most valuable and in great demand simply because they were hand made one at a time by Semie and not all that many were made.
In the Mosrite factory photo there is a lot of cool stuff going on worth talking about. It's very interesting that the two Gospels are quite different from each other. The one on the left does not have the "cross in the circle" part of the logo but the one on the right does. The one on the right has the two phase buttons, but the one on the left does not. I would love to know what year this picture was taken!
Condition
Cover: VG+, slight split on lower right corner, slight wear ring
Vinyl: VG+, slight scuffs that do not affect play…One large scratch across “The Answer’s On the Way”.
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