GEORGE MARTIN & ORCHESTRA Help VG 1965 RARE MONO United Artists THE BEATLES

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Vinyl:  VG Play Graded.  Sounds Very Good!  United Artists Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the Original 1965 United Artists MONO 1ST Pressing!  UAL 3448.  A particularly unique record in the Beatle/Related genre, this is the Lads' Producer having a go with their tunes and developing scores for songs from the Soundtrack from their second movie, Help!  Of Course he had done a few on the Original U.S. Soundtrack, but these are more devloped pieces and fascinating to hear what their talented producer would do when untethered from the "constraints" of Pop record production.  Also of interest to Beatle-philes is the inclusion of some Lennon/McCartney songs under their working titles:  (e.g Scrambled Eggs for Yesterday, Auntie Gin's Theme for I've Just Seen A Face, etc).  Way cool Beatles Obscurio...in breathtaking MONO (The Beatles' preferred way of mixing their albums).

In the Dead Wax:  On both sides, matrices, etched.   Complete dead wax information cheerfully provided upon request.

Cover: VG+  (see photos)  This cover has a larger and more detailed still photo of the band in their Help! garb than either the UK nor the US versions did!!  The artwork and text is bright and clear, with some shelf wear. The corners, spine and seams are solid and clean, with some wear.  No splits. No writing.   Spine print is mostly clear.  

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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?  First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.  First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.   On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.   George Martin, by virtue of his work as the Beatles' producer, had something of an inside track in terms of getting an early look at new songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Coupled with his intimate knowledge of the group's way of working, Martin's own interpretations of Beatles songs are a compelling listen, a superior offering compared to other instrumental outfits, such as the 101 Srings et al.  Martin's recordings of what were the Beatles' latest songs are tasteful and uncanny renderings that give you an insight into the Beatles secret sauce:  their Producer's discerning ear for hooks and tempo changes and key signatures. A fascinating experience. Another thing that distinguishes this album is the cover that had a better still from the movie than Capitol Records' notorious official U.S. soundtrack.  Also, the early access that Martin had to the group's songwriting catalog resulted in three of the songs here, "Yesterday," "It's Only Love," and "I've Just Seen a Face," going out under their working titles as, respectively, "Scrambled Eggs," "That's a Nice Hat," and "Auntie Gin's Theme," little details that Beatles fanatics of the time simply devoured. And, of course, the title here revealed more than it probably meant to, to American audiences, who had no inkling that the U.K. Help! album had all of those additional songs on them (and why would UA have cared if it tipped Capitol's hand to U.S. listeners who had the latter label's third-rate package foisted off on them?).