Jay & Americans PSA Things... Spector Brian Wilson Hear It
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Jay & the Americans Things Are Changing b/w same EEOC Plays at 33 1/3 VG+ with some light surface marks ... plays great! Listen here to the actual disc... /jayamericans.mp3 Here is the history of the disc from the Spectropop.com website: THINGS ARE CHANGING This number, published in 1966, was a song for the campaign "to correct the inequality in employment opportunities between whites and minorities including blacks in the U.S.", one of the policies issued by the 36th American President Lyndon B. Johnson. Three different groups - the Blossoms, the Supremes and Jay & the Americans recorded the campaign song using the same back track although the Blossoms' version is best known. According to some unconfirmed information, a Spanish version of the song was also made by Julio Angel & Lucecita. The version by Jay & the Americans is included in their best hit CD album released by America EMI in 1990 as one of the Legendary Master Series. As it is widely known, the number was originally "DON'T HURT MY LITTLE SISTER" written by Brian Wilson for the Ronettes. Under the direction by Phil Spector, the chorus and the overall arrangement for this "DON'T HURT". were made by the help of Brian. Suddenly, however, the work on the song came to a deadlock. At the session, Brian is said to have been playing the piano.
Sometime later, Spector was asked by some government officials to write a song for the equal employment opportunities campaign .
He then thought it a good idea to use the shelved song for this purpose. Since he wanted to avoid the troublesomeness in corresponding with the government officials, he left the task to Jerry Riopell. Jerry was the first and the last producer under exclusive contract with Philles Records. He also participated in the recordings for the Righteous Brothers, the Ronettes and lke & Tina Turner as a keyboardist He acted for Spector taking over almost all of his duties from correspondence by phone, supplementation of the tune, booking of the musicians and production of the back track to recording of the Blossoms. For the Supremes and Jay & the Americans, Jerry made the back track but did not take part in the producing itself
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My Grading System: Mint (M) I do not use this grade ever. Mint- (M-) Near perfect record. Very Good +++ (VG+++) Close to M-. May have a minor mark or two. Very Good ++ (VG++) Clean copy. A few scuffs and surface marks may be apparent. Very Good + (VG+) Decent copy. Will have a few scratches and scuffs, some light noise. Very Good (VG) Your average used record. Many marks and scratches but disc can still be enjoyed with some background noise apparent. Very Good- (VG-) Heavily used record. A lot of scratches. Will play with a good degree of background noise. Good + (G+) Rough copy. Will play through without skips. Good (G) Trashed. Good for skeet shooting! Keep in mind some discs were pressed on cheap vinyl, especially certain 1950's R&B indies and even near mint copies can play with surface noise. I always try to post a sound clip so that you can hear how the actual disc plays.
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