FAMILY - MUSIC IN A DOLL'S HOUSE - ORIGINAL REPRISE RSLP 6312 - VERY GOOD PLUS

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FAMILY - MUSIC IN A DOLL'S HOUSE - ORIGINAL REPRISE RSLP 6312 - VERY GOOD PLUS.

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Artist or Band: FAMILY

Album Title: Music in a Doll’s House.

Producer(s): David Mason.

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: The Chase; Mellowing Grey; Never Like This; Me My Friend; Variation on a Theme of Hey Mr Policeman; Winter; Old Songs New Songs; Variation on a Theme of The Breeze.

Side 2: Hey Mr Policeman; See Through Windows; Variation on a Theme of Me My Friend; Peace of Mind; Voyage; The Breeze 3 x Time.

Label/Format: Reprise – First pressing on the new tan label. One of the very few I have seen on this label that does NOT include Kinny matrixes. The first pressing was issued on the tri-coloured steamboat label.

Cat Number: RSLP 6312.

Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.

Warps: Assume all records I offer have no warping of any significance and all tracking is easy and effortless and should play on all turntables and even ‘budget’ decks.

Weight of this Record: A highly substantial 156 grams. [These days, many modern Audiophile reissues are pressed on super-heavyweight 180 gram vinyl. Only a small percentage of ‘vintage vinyl’ was ever pressed this heavy. Records pressed in the 1960s averaged around 140 to 150 grams. Records pressed in the 1970s were usually lighter and averaged more around 115 – 125 grams. Some records pressed around 1973 were very thin and light due an oil crisis and shortage around this time. Some records were even issued on recycled vinyl from this period and sounded poor with crackle and surface noise evident from the very first play. If any record I buy is deemed ‘recycled’, I will never offer it, I have a very simple test to detect these records if I suspect this to be the case other than audible imperfection. Some records from this period were even pressed on other materials the most notable was ‘Dynaflex’, used by RCA around this time. Although inferior to vinyl, this at least mostly sounded reasonably acceptable but pressings on this material were wafer thin and flimsy. Beyond the 70s, records often became thinner and lighter still but most played fine but were never quite the quality as from the ‘Golden Era’]. (This was based on ‘average’ weights for 20 records from these eras. Later pressings were usually lighter still).

Country of Manufacture: England.

Rarity: The originals are quite rare in anything like top conditions. This very first tan RSLP repress is equally difficult to find and possibly even rarer with the RSLP matrixes on the tan label.

Original Year of Release: 1968. This copy would have been pressed in mid to late 1970 before the Kinney numbers took over. This example only very briefly available and even lesser a time than the first pressed on the tri-colour label.

Matrix Nos: RSLP 6312 A-3G / RSLP 6312 B-3G. These are scripted format.

Musicians: Roger Chapman - lead vocals, harmonica, tenor saxophone; John Whitney - lead guitar, steel guitar; Jim King - tenor, soprano saxophones, harmonica, vocal; Ric Grech - bass guitar, violin, cello, vocals; Rob Townsend - drums, percussion.

Brief Info: Originally ssued in the UK in 1968 to great acclaim but it only peaked at 35 here and it failed to even chart in the US at all. ‘Doll’s House’ is a classic album and in my mind, one of the greatest UK debuts ever. Blending powerful rock with psychedelia and superbly produced by Traffic’s Dave Mason. Fronted by the slightly eccentric Roger Chapman, with one of rock’s most powerful and inventive voices, his vibrato voice remains almost unique. A highly inventive and thrilling debut, the use of saxophones, cello and violin at this time was highly inventive and gave Family extra profile – an album that never flags throughout and still sounds as fresh and exciting as it did on issue. Can you imagine if a modern band issued such wonderful inventive and innovative album today what type of reaction it would get? Hardly likely is it?, no wonder real music fans still only want to listen to the classics from the golden era of quality, ever-lasting music – where innovation came as standard and sounds that stimulated the mind and entertained with musicianship, skill and excellence. What a lovely copy this is too, being a slightly later pressing means it avoided record-wrecking heavy tracking weight record players and this beauty plays practically like new. This is no inferior later pressing, in fact it’s still very early and heavier pressed than many first-mades. If early groundbreaking progressive rock-psych is for you, they rarely get more exciting or better than this title.