JACKSON HEIGHTS 1972 LP RAGAMUFFINS FOOL ORIG UK VERTIGO SWIRL 6360 077 VG+EX-

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JACKSON HEIGHTS - 1972 LP RAGAMUFFINS FOOL  - ORIGINAL FIRST PRESS - MANUFACTURED IN UK ON VERTIGO 6360 077 WITH SWIRL LABELS - REAL RARITY - RARITY SCALE INDEX R2 - ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER VERTIGO SWIRL RELEASES - EMBOSSED COVER IS VERY WELL-PRESERVED NO HOLES NO CUTS NO SPLITS - SOME RUB DUE TO BROWN COLOR AND CARDBOARD TEXTURE - SPINE IS VERY SOLID AND INTACT - OVERALL VG+ CONDITION - RECORD HAS A FEW SMALL SUPERFICIAL MARKS NOT AFFECTING AUDIO EXCELLENT MINUS CONDITION - SWIRL INSERT IS THERE IN NICE VG+ CONDITION BUT NO POSTER SORRY ABOUT THAT - AMAZING COLLECTIBLE ITEM (SEE PICTURES) 
SOME INFORMATION FROM INTERNET ABOUT THIS RELEASE: 
Line-up: Brian Chatton, voc, keyb/ Mo Fletcher, cb/ Mike Giles, dr/ Keith Harris, banj/Laurie Jay, dr/ Lee Jackson, voc, bsgtr, gtr, harm/ John McBurnie, voc, gtr, keyb/ Race McCleod, dr/ Oli Oliver, vl.
Production: Lee Jackson.
Cover-art by Grahame Berney.
Photography by Keith MacMillan
Liner notes: none.
Cover manufactured by Howards Printers .
Recorded at Phonogram Studios.

Track listing A-side: Maureen (Jackson Heights)/ Oh You Beauty (John McBurnie)/ As She Starts (John McBurnie + Brian Chatton)/ Bebop (John McBurnie + Brian Chatton)/ Catch A Thief (Brian Chatton + Lee Jackson). Track listing B-side: Ragamuffin's Fool (John McBurnie + Brian Chatton)/ Chorale [Five Bridges Suite] (Keith Emerson + Lee Jackson)/ Chips And Chicken (John McBurnie + Brian Chatton)/ Poor Peter (Lee Jackson)/ Bellyfull Of Water (John McBurnie + Brian Chatton).

The Vertigo logo on front is beige.
There are no running time indications anywhere.
The composer credits are on the backcover, not on the label.

Matrix number A-side:
6360077 1Y//2 ?420 1 1 3

Matrix number B-side:
6360077 2Y//2 ?420 1 1 6

Rarity scale: R2 
The formula of the previous effort is being continued here and again the results are ambiguous. It seems almost impossible, but this album has exactly the same flaw as the other one: a strong A-side opposed to a weak B-side.The whole of side A balances somewhere between King Crimson, Yes and pop-music, no mean feat. Maureen may sound like Yes trying a pop song, it's still a succesfull attempt. Harmonically inventive on As she starts, etherical on Oh you beauty, this is a great start. Best track is to follow, the classical-tainted and mellotron-loaded Bebop. The Canterbury-styled To catch a thief is agreeable too. We also appreciate the interest in cinematic history that the title of this track betrays, especially when the label is called Vertigo. On side B it's all downhill, the Nice cover is superfluous, Poor Peter is even fake-country, the worst style imaginable, the other tracks are a grey mass. Only the title track escapes the malaise more or less. How can people capable of the first side produce such substandard tracks?
Now this is a nice drawing, straight from the nursery rhyme book. It may be a single cover, but it is beautifully embossed by a cap and bells motive (see scan above). Looks lovely! The backcover has another drawing, just as great. For good measure a poster is thrown in too. It shows the three main members before an excerpt of the drawing, but the photograph is much too dark and poorly posed, too.
The lettering is just as nice as the drawings are.
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