NBC National Broadcasting Company Class Of ‘66 Reference Acetate LP Lesley Gore

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Here’s a very unusual and unique one sided acetate. I found this a an estate of a music / theater producer in the San Fernando Valley, in Los Angeles.

It has a very bizarre piece of audio on it titled “What’s Happening” it’s a long candid (Scripted?) conversation between a young man and woman that’s obviously supposed to be a stoned couple having a meaningless conversation about fake eyelashes, hair and parents being home! Who these people are is unknown to me, must have been some inside joke about all the pot heads working for the company.

The music is an original Peter Nero song called Class of 66, vocal and instro that’s a corny TV show theme type tune. The Barry McGuire tune is Eve of Destruction this song and the others by big name artists are just hits taken straight from the records in a lo-fi transfer. THE PETER NERO AND THE STONER DIALOGUE APPEARS TO BE THE ONLY ORIGINAL CONTENT ON THE DISC.

I wonder what the purpose of producing this elaborate thing was. Some money was obviously spent. It might have been a giveaway at a office party or something. Definitely not a serious promotional item.

CONDITION: visually the record is VG+ light wear and surface marks from storage. The sound is pretty good, of corse acetates are seldom clean clear sounding discs. There are some light pops here and there but no damage but slight edge flaking. The acetate surface is pretty solid and not flaking off otherwise. Plays well for an old acetate in my opinion as a collector/ dealer who buys lots of these mystery discs. No skips. Play tested.

Cleaned on a VPI cleaning machine with only distilled water, no alcohol because that damages old acetates

COVER IS VG+ NO SEAM SPLITTING BUT LIGHT WEAR ZOOM IN ON PICTURES. A LITTLE YELLOWING FROM AGE.

The cover is double sided screen printed with raised two color fuzzy flocking.

This must have been an industry only presentation piece for NBC. It’s a lathe cut acetate with typewriter written labels. Not many were made obviously. The screen printing on the cover probably cost a pretty penny alone.

Ships well packed with extra cardboard flats for protection and poly bagged in a sturdy mailer.