KEVIN AYERS - JOY OF A TOY - RARE UK LP IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - SOFT MACHINE

£ 88

$ 117

£ 88 Sold For

Dec 4, 2012 Sold Date

Nov 27, 2012 Start Date

£ 5 Start price

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Netherlands Country Of Seller

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DEAR COLLECTOR AND VINYL LOVER,

TODAY WE ESPECIALLY OFFER SOME HIGHLY IN DEMAND UK AND US LP RECORDS FROM THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES.

THE RECORDS COME FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION AND WERE HANDLED WITH CARE. IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

GOOD LUCK BIDDING.

WE START OFF FROM 5 GBP, NO RESERVE!!

about the AUCTION:

A LOOKED AFTER UK ALBUM FROM THE SIXTIES AND IN WONDERFUL CONDITION!

SLEEVE CONDITION: EXCELLENT

VINYL CONDITION: EXCELLENT -

wonderful VINYL both records play EXCELLENT, NO POPS, CLICKS, SCRATCHES ETC............

The labels are clean, no names, drawings or anything.

RARITY: I determine rarity based on two key factors – one is the estimated quantity in circulation and the other is condition – in my opinion they are equally important. The result of testing this album with these criteria is that it achieves exceptional rarity status. THIS IS A 1969 UK ORIGINAL FIRST & COMPLETE HARVEST PRESSING, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION THROUGHOUT. This KEVIN AYERS debut album sold in small quantity on first release in the UK and the relatively few early originals which have survived the passage of time in a worthwhile condition are rarely seen these days. IT ALSO FEATURES THE ‘NO BOXED EMI’ LABELS - WHICH IS ANOTHER UNIQUE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE VERY EARLIEST PRESSINGS BECAUSE THESE ONLY EXISTED FOR A SHORT PERIOD IN THAT STYLE BEFORE EMI IMPLANTED THEIR LOGO IN THE 9 O’CLOCK POSITION. THESE LABELS ALSO HAVE THE EARLIER GRAMOPHONE TEXT AROUND THE TOP PERIMETER WHICH CHANGED TO EMI TEXT WHEN THE LOGO WAS ADDED. Another ‘hallmark’ of this being the earliest UK original variant is the FIRST RELEASE DATED ‘6911’ (November 1969) ERNEST J. DAY OUTER LAMINATED GATEFOLD. Put all these factors together and you have an album which is at the extremely rare end of the rarity spectrum.

AN EXPLANATION OF THE HARVEST COMPANY INNER SLEEVE: There is some confusion from time to about the original Harvest Company inner sleeve and its inclusion, or not, with the earlier Harvest albums. In my experience the first issue examples of the earlier albums from the Harvest catalogue were not distributed with Harvest Company inners, and there is a logical explanation. The original Harvest inner features 26 albums from catalogue number SHVL 751 (Deep Purple – The Book Of Taliesyn) to SHVL 775 (Quatermass) – which is 25 albums, plus Pink Floyds ‘Ummagumma’ separately catalogued as SHDW 1 / 2. These albums were released between July 1969 and May 1970. It is most unlikely that when Harvest released the earlier albums they knew not only which albums they would be releasing up to a year ahead, but also which catalogue number they would be given. For this reason I doubt whether in November 1969 when ‘Joy Of A Toy’ was released they knew that ‘Quatermass’ would be released in May 1970 with a catalogue number 775 – therefore the very earliest pressings could not have included an inner which accurately predicted future releases and their catalogue numbers. Later albums and later examples of extended first releases could, and did, have the Harvest inner – but almost certainly the very first pressings had plain inners. As one of the first off the press this album comes with the original plain white inner BUT I am also including a Harvest Company inner for enthusiasts and collectors who like to retrofit their albums in the record company livery.

Artist(s): KEVIN AYERS with guest musicians – Robert Wyatt, Rob Tait, Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge, David Bedford, The Soft Machine and ‘Jean & Mary’ who had to sing in Malay, and I quote, “which is a fair achievement for two Scots girls”

Produced By: Kevin Ayers & Peter Jenner

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