LP - MOODY BLUES - ' LOST CHORD ' (1968) 1st Press Withdrawn Cover RAREST Issue
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This is a VERY rare LP (especially in this condition!!) by The Moody Blues called "In Search Of The Lost Chord" and is an ORIGINAL 1968 UK 1st Pressing on the 1st Press 'Large' 'DSS' Deram label! - Cat Number SML 711 - Stereo - with rare withdrawn Garrod & Lofthouse laminated gatefold sleeve, centre opening design and original polylined blue inner sleeve
THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND! THIS IS ONE OF THE MOODY BLUES RAREST LPs EVER AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE! BACK IN 1968 WHEN THIS LP WAS FIRST RELEASED IT ONLY EVER SOLD IN ABSOLUTELY TINY AMOUNTS AND WAS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY DELETED! AS A RESULT IT IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND INCREDIBLY HARD TO LOCATE TODAY! BUT WHAT MAKES THIS LP REALLY SPECIAL IS THAT IT IS THE ALL TIME RAREST 1ST PRESSING OF THIS LP EVER MADE! WHEN THIS LP WAS DUE TO BE RELEASED, DECCA (WHO MADE DERAM) WHERE HAVING A FACTORY REFIT AS WELL AS HAVING THEIR PRESSING MACHINES UPGRADED. THEY WERE ALSO EXPERIMENTING WITH DIFFERENT COVER MANUFACTURERS. THIS MEANT THAT SOME RECORDS HAD 'GROOVED' LABELS AND SOME DID NOT (THIS WAS THE LAST DERAM LP EVER TO HAVE THE 'GROOVED' LABEL - AND BOTH 'GROOVED' LARGE LABELS & 'NON-GROOVED' LARGE DERAM LABELS WERE MADE PRIOR TO THE RELEASE DATE). HOWEVER WHAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT IS THE COVER! DERAM HAD 'GARROD & LOFTHOUSE' PRINT A FEW BATCHES OF COVERS FOR THEM - INTENDING TO USE THEM FOR COVERS AS WELL THEIR USUAL SUPPLIERS ROBERT STACE & CLOUT & BAKER. HOWEVER, THE 'GARROD & LOFTHOUSE' COVERS WERE RECIEVED VERY POORLY. THEY LOOKED OLD FASHIONED (FOR THEIR TIME) - USED INTERNAL FLIPBACKS, ONLY HAD A SINGLE THICKNESS FRONT FLAP AND WORSE STILL USED A CENTRE OPENING DESIGN (MAKING ACCESS & PACKING MUCH HARDER & MORE TIME CONSUMING) SO AFTER ONLY A FEW HUNDRED COPIES - THIS COVER WAS QUICKLY REJECTED & WITHDRAWN IN FAVOUR OF THE MORE CONVENTIONAL 'ROBERT STACE' STANDARD DOUBLE THICKNESS GATEFOLD (WHICH OPENED AT THE EDGE - AND MADE FOR EASY PACKING) SO ONLY A FEW HUNDRED COPIES WERE EVER MADE WITH THIS ULTRA RARE 'CENTRE OPENING' FLIPBACK GATEFOLD COVER.
Tracklist :
A1 Departure A2 Ride My See-Saw A3 Dr. Livingstone, I Presume A4 House Of Four Doors A5 Legend Of A Mind A6 House Of Four Doors (Part Two) B1 Voices In The Sky B2 The Best Way To Travel B3 Visions Of Paradise B4 The Actor B5 The Word B6OM
Matrix numbers: Side 1 ZAL-8270-3W --- Side 2 ZAL-8271-2W
Most of these 60s LPs had been to a lot of wild parties and are usually found totally worn out - this one is not ! - SLEEVE, LABELS, VINYL and SPINE all in SUPERB undamaged condition - Absolute Top Copy of this rare LP - please see pictures.
UK Buyers to pay postage & packing costs of £3.25 - Abroad at extra.Any questions please feel free to ask
Happy to combine postage for multiple purchases.
* Please see other equally good MOODY BLUES I have listed *
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