ELMER GANTRY'S VELVET OPERA Original LP

	£		55
	$		73

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ELMER GANTRY'S VELVET OPERA

Direction S8-63300 Stereo (1967)

This Coventry band are best remembered for hard rock single, Flames, a cut from their first album which narrowly missed the charts in 1967. The track was also featured on The Rock Machine Turns You On compilation LP. Featuring Richard Hudson and John Ford of The Strawbs and Hudson-Ford fame the album was full of variety spanning Motown, pop-psych and harder rock genres. Other tracks which catch the ear include the laid back Oscar Brown song I Was Cool, the instrumental Walter Sly Meets Bill Bailey, the Eastern-influenced sitar-based Air, the Beatlesque What's The Point Of Leaving, the melodic Long Nights Of Summer and two tracks - Dream Starts and Reactions Of A Young Man - which veered towards psychedelia.

Vinyl is in excellent condition, with barely a mark on it. The sleeve is also very nice, with slight creasing at a couple of the corners.

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