KING CURTIS & THE KINGPINS, King Size Soul USA 1st pressing LP Memphis Soul Stew

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King Curtis & The Kingpins – King Size Soul Label: ATCO Records – SD 33-231 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Terre Haute Pressing Country: US Released: 1967 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul, Funk Tracklist A1 Ode To Billie Joe 2:48 A2 A Whiter Shade Of Pale 3:52 A3 For What It's Worth 2:33 A4 To Sir, With Love 2:37 A5 Memphis Soul Stew 2:55 B1 When A Man Loves A Woman 2:54 B2 I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) 2:45 B3 Live For Life (Vivre Pour Vivre) 2:51 B4 C.C. Rider 3:04 B5 I Was Made To Love Her 2:26 Companies, etc. Mastered At – Customatrix Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute Credits Arranged By [Horn & Strings] – Arif Mardin, Ralph Burns Design [Cover] – Loring Eutemey Engineer – Chips Moman, Darryl Carter Photography By – Stephen Paley Producer – Tom Dowd, Tommy Cogbill Supervised By – Jerry Wexler Notes Original 1st pressings have Pink and Gold/brown labels with Stereo in bold black print on left side.

USA FIRST STEREO PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL COMPANY INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, SOME LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.  INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC: VERY GOOD+. ONE LIGHT SCRATCH SIDE ONE THAT WILL CLICK BUT PLAYS THROUGH, OTHERWISE REST OF DISC IS EXCELLENT MINUS WITH JUST A FEW HAIRLINES. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are clearer, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

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