EYES OF BLUE / PHIL RYAN - LARGO - JAPAN JAPANESE 7" VINYL - VERY RARE
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Description
ARTIST: - EYES OF BLUE
TYPE/SIZE: 7" VINYL - JAPANESE PRESS
CATALOGUE NUMBER: - SM 1072
CONDITION USING RECORD COLLECTOR GRADING SYSTEM: (PICTURE SLEEVE / VINYL) : VG / VG
TRACKS: - LARGO / CROSSROADS OF TIME
COMMENTS:
THIS IS THE RARE JAPANESE PRESS 7" VINYL
UNIQUE RARE PICTURE SLEEVE FROM JAPAN
VARIOUS INFO IN JAPANESE ON THE BACK OF THE PICTURE SLEEVE
AND WHO IS "EYES OF BLUE" ?
In 1966 Ryan and Hopkins - together with the drummer John Weathers - joined The Eyes of Blue, who then turned professional. They won the 1966 Melody Maker Beat Contest, winning a one-year record contract, but had to record songs chosen for them, rather than their own material, and neither of their singles, "Heart Trouble" / "Up And Down" and "Supermarket Full of Cans" / "Don't Ask Me To Mend Your Broken Heart", sold well.
The Eyes moved from Decca to Mercury Records and recorded their first album Crossroads of Time in 1968, which was produced by Lou Reizner. The album included two tracks written by Graham Bond "Crossroads of Time" and "Love is the Law", who was a major influence on Ryan.[2] and who also wrote the album sleeve notes.[3] Despite poor sales, the album was "acknowledged as a major influence on the nascent Yes"[2] Reizner then used The Eyes as the backing band for American singer-songwriter Buzzy Linhart's album Buzzy.[4] They collaborated with Quincy Jones on the score of the movie Toy Grabbers, some tracks of which appear on their second album In Fields of Ardath (1969) and they also appeared in the movie Connecting Rooms.[5]
Through producer Lou Reizner, Ryan began getting work as an arranger, and wrote the string arrangements on Caetano Veloso's third self-titled album called either his 1971 album or A Little More Blue.
The Eyes of Blue's third and final album, Bluebell Wood, was released under the pseudonym Big Sleep, and the band broke up shortly afterwards.
In 1970 Ryan and Weathers joined Pete Brown & Piblokto! playing on one single, "Flying Hero Sandwich" / "My Last Band". When bassist Steve Glover broke his wrist, he was replaced by Michael "Will" Youatt,[6] and when Piblokto disbanded Ryan and Youatt, together with Clive John, who had just left Man, formed the first incarnation of Iorworth Pritchard and the Neutrons.
THE VINYL LOOKS EX AND PLAYS VG TO EX
THE PICTURE SLEEVE HAS MINOR "FOXING" AND WEAR, OTHERWISE, VG+
I CAN ONLY FIND ONE COPY SOLD HERE ON EBAY, BACK IN 2006, PRICE BASED ON THIS:
https://www.popsike.com/EYES-OF-BLUELARGOJAPAN-7/4865483001.html
PLEASE STUDY THE PICTURES CAREFULLY, USING THE ZOOM FACILITY
POST AND PACKAGE:
AS PAYPAL REQUIRE SELLER TO OBTAIN PROOF THAT BUYER HAS RECEIVED THEIR ITEM, ALL RECORDS WILL BE DESPATCHED BY RECORDED DELIVERY
UK: £8.50 (guaranteed following day and insured for full amount)
EUROPE: £10.50 (signed for, registered and insured)
REST OF WORLD: £12.50 (signed for, registered and insured)
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