JIMI HENDRIX PURPLE HAZE/FOXEY LADY RARE ORIG '67 MONO WHITE LBL PROMO 7" SINGLE

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·       JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – PURPLE HAZE c/w FOXEY LADY (ORIGINAL AMERICAN SPELLING OF THE SONG'S TITLE, LATER CHANGED TO "FOXY LADY") – ORIGINAL 1967 REPRISE MONO 45rpm, 7-inch SINGLE 0728 WITH STOCK REPRISE 7" SLEEVE

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       *** ULTRA-RARE WHITE LABEL PROMO ***

·       ORIGINAL REPRISE LABEL WITH THE STEAMBOAT LOGO AND W-7 (SEVEN ARTS) ACRONYM, WHITE PROMOTIONAL VERSION

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-1A/-1A'.  ON SOME LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING)

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"Purple Haze" was an early signature song for Jimi Hendrix and remains his best-known composition. After years as a journeyman musician, the 23-year-old Hendrix was taken to England in September 1966 by his new manager, Chas Chandler, who helped him put together Jimi Hendrix Experience, a power trio. The group released its first British single, Dino Valenti's "Hey Joe," on December 16, and it became a Top Ten hit. According to Chandler, he heard Hendrix playing the riff that became the basis of the music for "Purple Haze" that month and encouraged him to finish writing it for the Experience's second single. Hendrix is said to have completed the composition at a club on December 26. Originally, the lyrics were a long poem headed "Purple Haze -- Jesus Saves", from which Hendrix extracted the three verses used in the song. Some accounts have said that he was on LSD when he wrote the lyrics, but Chandler disputed that. Nevertheless, the words, while nominally referring to a mental disorder caused by a spell put on the narrator by a girl, are easily interpretable as being about a drug experience. Whatever the cause, the narrator is disoriented and upset. But the lyrics are less important than the relentlessly driving, if relatively slow-paced underlying music, which provides a good platform for some of Hendrix's inventive guitar playing. Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded "Purple Haze" on January 11, 1967, and it was released by the newly formed Track Records on March 17, after "Hey Joe" had run its course. It entered the British charts a week later, to peak in the Top Five. Having consolidated their U.K. success, Jimi Hendrix Experience signed to the Reprise subsidiary of Warner Bros. Records in the U.S. Hendrix returned to his native country in June and appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival on June 18; the following day, Reprise released "Purple Haze" as the Experience's debut single in America. The record's unusual sound made it a tough sell, but in late August it finally reached the charts, though it failed to enter the Top 40. In August, Reprise released a revised version of the Experience's debut LP, Are You Experienced?, which, in Britain, had not contained "Purple Haze." The Reprise version put "Purple Haze" on as side one, track one. The album reached the Top Five, eventually selling over two million copies. Jimi Hendrix Experience performed "Purple Haze" in its concerts regularly, resulting in numerous live recordings, most of them issued after Hendrix's early death. But his performance of the song at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969 was featured in the Woodstock movie and on its accompanying LP in 1970, shortly before he died. In addition, according to Harry Shapiro and Caesar Glebbeek in Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990), "Purple Haze" has had more cover recordings than any other Jimi Hendrix composition, 40 by their count (and many more since their book was published). These include one by Dion that was released as a single and made the charts in 1969 and another by the Cure, included on Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix, that earned considerable airplay in 1993, plus versions by Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, Winger, Doug Sahm, Frank Zappa, Melanie, Tangerine Dream, Lonnie Smith, Paul Rodgers, and Ozzy Osbourne. It has also been surprisingly popular with classical performers, frequently used as an encore by the Kronos Quartet and also attracting recordings by Meridian Arts Ensemble, Hampton String Quartet, and Nigel Kennedy.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY WILLIAM RUHLMANN, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

"Foxy Lady" (or alternatively "Foxey Lady") is a song by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It first appeared on their 1967 debut album Are You Experienced and was later issued as their third single in the U.S. with the alternate spelling. It is one of Hendrix's best-known songs and was frequently performed in concerts throughout his career. Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at number 153 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

Music critic Thomas Ward points out "if one song could be said to encapsulate Hendrix’s entire oeuvre, 'Foxey Lady' is certainly closer than most." The song opens with a fingered note "shaken in a wide exaggerated vibrato" so the adjacent strings are sounded. After the amplifier is allowed to feed back, Hendrix slides down to the rhythm figure, which uses a dominant seventh sharp ninth chord, a jazz and rhythm and blues-style chord, often referred to as the "Hendrix chord". According to biographer Keith Shadwick,

                 [Hendrix] casts the whole solo in the blues vernacular, using bent notes and glisses, or slides, between the notes primarily within the blues or pentatonic scales. To that he adds the new melodicism he had been hearing on recent British rock records.

Prior to the recording, the group had not worked out an ending for the song and bassist Noel Redding claimed that using the last IV chord was his idea.[7] Hendrix biographer Harry Shapiro suggests that song's lyrics were inspired by Heather Taylor, who later married Roger Daltrey of the Who.[8] Hendrix later commented that he did not approach women in such a straightforward manner as the lyrics suggested.  Lithofayne "Faye" Pridgon, Hendrix's girlfriend in the mid 1960s, has also been suggested as the inspiration for the song.

Hendrix's American record company Reprise Records issued the song in December 1967, one month before the release of the second Experience album, Axis: Bold as Love. Reprise used the title "Foxey Lady", which also appeared on the North American release of Are You Experienced. It was backed with "Hey Joe", which Reprise had already released as a single in April 1967. Although Hendrix's albums performed quite well on the record charts, "Foxy Lady", along with the other early singles, made a relatively weak showing, peaking at number 67 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. In 1967, Polydor Records issued the single in Germany with "Manic Depression" as the B-side, but it did not appear on the charts.

"Foxy Lady" has appeared on numerous Hendrix compilation albums, including Smash Hits, The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume Two, Cornerstones: 1967–1970, The Ultimate Experience, Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix, and The Singles Collection. It is also one of the few songs to be performed by each of the different Hendrix lineups, including the Experience, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, the Band of Gypsys, and the Cry of Love touring group. Live renditions appear on Live at Monterey, Live at Woodstock, Band of Gypsys 2, Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight, and several other live albums.[3] Rolling Stone magazine ranked "Foxy Lady" at number 153 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

 (WIKIPEDIA)

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·       CONDITION:

·       45-RPM SINGLE RECORD:

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted below, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the normal room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL  AS  (WEAK) NEAR MINT. Some VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL abrasions – mostly sleeve scuffs -  are (barely) visible, but are probably inaudible,  and do not affect visual integrity or beauty of the vinyl. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)            White Promo Label version of this title is much rarer that a regular, commercially released, version of this title. We estimate that stock copies of this album outnumber promo copies by a ratio of at least 200:1.

(c)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       The record comes in Reprise's stock outer sleeve (NOT a picture sleeve);, not separately graded but in very nice condition overall.

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