NANCY PRIDDY YOU’VE COME THIS WAY BEFORE FEMALE PSYCH

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You are bidding on NANCY PRIDDY YOU’VE COME THIS WAY BEFORE

This is on Dot 25893 Canadian issue released in 1969. Includes original DOT INNER SLEEVE

Gatefold cover is VG+ with bullet hole thru the middle. Vinyl is a very glossy near mint with some minor scuff marks and a few minor superficial hairline scratches. Play graded on my Goldmund Reference TT with a Titan cartridge sounds excellent.

 Tracks are : EPITAPH , WE COULD HAVE IT ALL, EBONY GLASS, YOU’VE COME THIS WAY BEFORE, AND WHO WILL YOU BE THEN?, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER, CHRISTINA’S WORLD, MY FRIEND FRANK, O LITTLE CHILD, MYSTIC LADY.

At the end of  1967 Priddy and aspiring producer Phil Ramone initiated work on You’ve Come This Way Before, a dreamy far-reaching acid-folk effort featuring contributions from jazz arranger Manny Albam and funk drummer Bernard “ Pretty “ Purdie.

It was her only  album, but what an album it is! A fine, low-key psych folk pop masterpiece, funky and folky and psychy-rocky and Lord knows what else all at once, with the Big Apple's finest.There are elements of folk, pop, soul, gospel, even children¹s music here, a unique sound and atmosphere which has made this one of those mysterious albums which commands top dollar without being obviously by any kind of "rock legend".

Over startling arrangements centred around spare basslines, folk changes, experimental touches and DJ-enticing drum breaks, she sings lyrics far beyond the usual pop-romantic platitudes.

Issued with virtually no fanfare on Dot Records in  late 1968, it quickly disappeared.

 Buyer pays $8.00 shipping to the US or $16 overseas for airmail.

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Here's some info on Nancy:
Priddy is the mother of actress Christina Applegate, and has appeared with her in several projects, including the television series 'Married...with Children' and the film 'The Sweetest Thing'. She was also a regular on the soap opera Days of our Lives.  Nancy had been a mover and shaker on the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s, as a member of The Bitter End Singers and is the subject of the Stephen Stills-penned Buffalo Springfield classic, 'Pretty Girl Why' (think 'Priddy Girl Why').

 Here's a review from the All Music Guide: Although better known to the public at large as an actress, Nancy Priddy also enjoyed a sporadic recording career, in 1968 releasing her lone LP, You've Come This Way Before, a minor classic of psychedelic folk. Born and raised in South Bend, IN, Priddy later studied liberal arts at Oberlin College, eventually graduating from the Northwestern School of Drama. Her fledgling theatrical career included a stint doing cabaret, and in 1964 she relocated to Greenwich Village, joining the folk combo the Bitter End Singers and making her recorded debut on the 1964 Mercury release Discover the Bitter End Singers. Priddy exited the group a year later to resume her acting career, eventually returning to the Chicago area. There she began writing her own songs, recording a series of now-lost demo sessions; upon landing back in New York City in 1967, she also contributed backing vocals to the classic Songs of Leonard Cohen.. During a subsequent visit to Dot's Los Angeles headquarters, Priddy met her future husband, staff producer Bob Applegate. (The couple's daughter Christina Applegate later co-starred in the long-running television sitcom Married...with Children before mounting a feature film career.) During her SoCal stay Priddy also cut a single with producer Harry Nilsson, the 1969 release "Feelings." After contributing to composer Mort Garson's multi-volume opus Signs of the Zodiac, she effectively retired from music, renewing her focus on acting and later appearing in films (Short Walk to Daylight, The Aliens Are Coming) and television (Bewitched, The Waltons, and Barnaby Jones). Following a lengthy but triumphant battle with breast cancer, Priddy returned to music in the early '90s, self-releasing a series of LPs including Can We Talk About It? and Mama's Jam. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide