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Jose Feliciano Feliciano 1968 NM LP RCA LSP 3957 NM LP

This is a 1968 First  Pressing, Canadian RCA Dynagroove Label made in Canada by RCA Victor Montreal . The Album cover is pretty well NM with some very minor corner wear. Vinyl is NM- with light needle scratches on both sides as it did get lots of play over the years, but still plays Excellent ( on the TT as I write this).
 
Tracks
       
    "California Dreamin'" (John Phillips, Michelle Phillips)
    "Light My Fire" (Robbie Krieger, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore)
    "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" (Gerry Marsden)
    "In My Life" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
    "And I Love Her" (Lennon, McCartney)
    "Nena Na Na" (Jorge Ben)
    "Always Something There to Remind Me" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
    "Just a Little Bit of Rain"
    "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb)
    "Here, There and Everywhere" (Lennon, McCartney)
    "The Last Thing on My Mind" (Tom Paxton)

 Personnel

    José Feliciano - guitar, vocals
    Ray Brown - bass
    Milt Holland - percussion
    Jim Horn - alto flute, recorder
    George Tipton - orchestration, string & woodwind arrangements

  
Album Notes:
Feliciano! is a 1968 album by Puerto Rican guitarist José Feliciano.

It has been the most successful album of his career in the USA. It reached no. 2 and stayed for 59 weeks in the album charts (no. 25 end-of-year charts 1968 and no. 66 end-of-year 1969). It was no. 3 on the R&B charts in 1968 and no. 3 on the Jazz charts as well, and it went up to no. 1 in Canada and to no. 6 in the UK; it was nominated for a Grammy in 1969 as "Best Album of the Year" and producer Rick Jarrard received a nomination as best producer of the year, but Jose Feliciano actually won two Grammys as "Best New artist" and for "Best pop male song of the year" with the song "Light My Fire".

The cover of the album shows a drawing by George Bartell of the blind artist with his guitar.

Feliciano was born in Lares, Puerto Rico, one of twelve children. He is blind because of congenital glaucoma. He was first exposed to music at age three. He would play a tin cracker can while accompanying his uncle who played the Cuatro. When he was five, his family moved to Spanish Harlem, New York City, and, at age nine, he played on the Teatro Puerto Rico.[4] He started his musical life playing accordion until his grandfather gave him a guitar. He reportedly sat by himself in his room for up to 14 hours a day to listen to 1950s rock albums, classical guitarists such as Andrés Segovia, and jazz players such as Wes Montgomery. He later had classical lessons with Harold Morris who earlier had been a student with Segovia.

At 17, he quit school to play in clubs, having his first professional, contracted performance in Detroit.


In 1963, after some live performances in pubs and clubs around the USA and Canada, especially in Greenwich Village, NY and Vancouver, BC, where he played at the same time as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, he was signed at RCA Victor. In 1964, he released his first single "Everybody Do the Click" (which become a hit in Philippines, at nr2 and stayed for 14 weeks in TopTen Hit parade) . Later, in 1965 and 1966, he also released his first albums The Voice and Guitar of Jose Feliciano and A Bag Full of Soul, two folk-pop-soul albums that showcased his talent on radio across the USA, where he was described as a "10 finger wizard". He also was invited to the Newport Jazz festival in 1964.

In 1966, he went to Mar del Plata, Argentina, to perform at the Festival de Mar del Plata. There, he impressed RCA Victor officials who told him to stay there to record an album in Spanish. They were not sure what they wanted to record, but Feliciano suggested they record bolero music. The result was two smash hits with the singles "Poquita Fe" ("Little Faith", a.k.a. "Sin Fe", or "Without Faith"), a song written by fellow Puerto Rican Bobby Capó, and "Usted" (the formal way to say "you" in Spanish).

A year later, Feliciano was due to perform in the United Kingdom, but the authorities would not allow his guide dog into the country unless it was in quarantine for six months. The stringent quarantine measures of those days were intended to prevent the spread of rabies. Feliciano later wrote a song entitled "No Dogs Allowed", which told the story of his first visit to London.

During his British visit, on July 16, 1967, Feliciano gave a live performance on the pirate radio stations Radio 227 and Radio 355, on board the MV Laissez Faire off the British coast, less than a month before the stations were due to be closed by the UK's Marine Broadcasting Offences Act.

After two more successful albums, Feliciano, now a household name all over Latin America, moved to Los Angeles. He got together with Rick Jarrard who was, at the time, also producing Harry Nilsson and Jefferson Airplane. They recorded The Doors' song "Light My Fire" in a Latin style and when released as a single, it reached #3 on the US pop charts in late summer, 1968. It sold over one million copies in the US market alone. However the song became a #1 hit in many countries, including Canada, Brazil, and the UK, and was awarded a gold disc. On the strength of this success he won two Grammy Awards for Best New Artist Of The Year and for Best Pop Song Of The Year in 1969.

In October 1968, at the height of protests against the Vietnam War, Feliciano was given the opportunity by Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Tiger Stadium in Detroit during Game 5 pregame ceremonies of the 1968 World Series. His highly personalized, slow, latin jazz performance proved highly controversial. As a result of his unusual delivery, many radio stations refused to play his songs, and his career was stalled for almost three years. Even so, in an October, 2006 NPR broadcast, he expressed pride for opening the door for later reinterpretations of the national anthem. His World Series rendition, which features him accompanying himself on an acoustic guitar, was released as a single which charted for 5 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #50.
You Will not be disappointed with the quality of this very special  LP in Near Mint- Condition

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