RICHIE HAVENS MIXED BAG RARE '67 VERVE FORECAST STEREO LP IN SHRINK BEAUTIFUL

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·      RICHIE HAVENS - MIXED BAG - VERVE FORECAST RECORDS 1967 STEREO  LP FTS-3006

·      GENUINE  U.S. PRESSING

·      (PLEASE NOTE: TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, THIS IS THE SECOND PRESSING CIRCA LATE 1967/EARLY 1968 ON VERVE FORECAST, NOT VERVE FOLKWAYS LABEL, BUT BECAUSE THE TWO PRESSINGS HAVE THE EXACT SAME CATALOG NUMBER,THE SAME MATRIX NUMBER,  PRACTICALLY IDENTICAL LABELS AND COVERS AND BECAUSE THEY ARE VIRTUALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM EACH OTHER AND WERE ISSUED ONLY A FEW WEEKS APART, MOST COLLECTORS WILL ACCEPT FORECAST PRESSING AS A LEGITIMATE FIRST PRESSING; PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A THIRD PRESSING ON MGM LABEL, WHICH HAS A DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT VARIATION OF THE COVER AND A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CATALOG NUMBER

·      MGM RECORDS, BLOOMFIELD, IN  PRESSING

·      ORIGINAL TAN (MUSTARD) VERVE FORECAST LABEL

·      THIS IS NOT AN IMPORT, RECORD CLUB RELEASE OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·      ORIGINAL COVER WITHOUT THE BANNER PLUGGING THE SONG JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME FROM THE WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL, WHICH IS FOUND ON THE THIRD (MGM) PRESSING OF THIS TITLE

·      THICK CARDBOARD COVER, AMERICAN STYLE.

·      COVER IS STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK (CELLOPHANE) WRAP

·      CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·      THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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Richie Havens' finest recording, Mixed Bag captures the essence of his music and presents it in an attractive package that has held up well. A close listen to lyrics like "I Can't Make It Anymore" and "Morning, Morning" reveals sadness and loneliness, yet the music is so appealingly positive that a listener actually comes away feeling uplifted. In fact, on most of the songs on this album, it's the sound of Havens' distinctive voice coupled with his unusual open-E guitar tuning, rather than the specific lyrical content of the songs, that pulls the listener in. The six-and-a-half minute "Follow" is structured like a Dylan composition in the "Hard Rain" mode, with its memorable verse-ending refrain, "Don't mind me 'cause I ain't nothin' but a dream." Both "Sandy" and "San Francisco Bay Blues" have a jazzy feel, while the aforementioned "I Can't Make It Anymore" would not have been out of place in a movie soundtrack or pop radio playlist of the time. "Handsome Johnny," one of Havens' best known songs as a result of the Woodstock film, is a classic anti-war ballad, stoked by the singer's unmistakable thumb-chorded guitar strumming. Mixed Bag winds up with a soulful cover of Dylan's "Just Like a Woman" and an electric piano-propelled take on the Lennon-McCartney classic, "Eleanor Rigby."

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY JIM NEWSOM, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

More than FORTY years from the inception of the digital era, we are still (patiently) waiting for the arrival of this classic Richie Havens album – probably his finest and best loved work – on a decent,  24-BIT remastered and restored HDCD, SACD,DVD-audio or similar digital medium…and, yes: heaven knows we could use a few bonus tracks from the original sessions (not that anyone at Universal Music - OR WHATEVER THAT CORPORATE BEHEMOTH IS CALLED THESE DAYS - really cares). The only version that can currently be found on the market is now almost 35 years old, produced from what is now considered medieval and totally obsolescent technology, and sounding like a piece of …~NM LD. Yes, folks, the attitude of record labels reeketh to high heavens, and with the entire recording industry up the you-know-what creek, it is only going to get worse. Compare the sound of this original vinyl pressing to the compact disc, and you will  find out what you’ve been missing all these years…

For its extraordinary contribution to the modern music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship, revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, writers and general public, or for some other innate quality, this album was voted one of top-200 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted by Paul Gambaccini, legendary BBC Radio A&R man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals (including Roy Carr, Jonathan Cott, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Greil Marcus, Murray the K., Lenny Kaye, Bruce Morrow (a/k/a "Cousin Brucie"), Tim Rice (of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita" fame), Lisa Robinson, Robert Shelton (who wrote liner notes for Bob Dylan's first album), Ed Ward, Joel Whitburn, Pete Wingfield, etc.). For more details, see: "Critics Choice: Top-200 albums" compiled by Paul Gambaccini, Omnibus Press, Library of Congress Catalog No.7855565.

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·      CONDITION:

·      THE RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)         WE GRADE THE VINYL AS EXCELLENT. This is one of those albums that are somewhat difficult to grade. It is somewhere between VG++ and NEAR MINT, just a notch below NEAR MINT. A few light abrasions ARE visible, but they are extremely shallow, superficial  and only moderately visually distracting (nothing significant).For the most part, the vinyl looks impeccable without any MAJOR visual flaws or imperfections. Much of the original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(c)         Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                          THE COVER

COVER IS NEAR MINT,  STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-       Cover has a slight warp bottom left corner; this has absolutely no effect on the record.

-       Cover has a light "wrinkle" (crease)  in one of the corners.

-       Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine  (nothing significant)

-       Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on back side, apparently from aging.

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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 (1) The year indicated in the title bar is the year of the original release,  NOT necessarily the year of the actual pressing; for the actual generation of the pressing, please see our item description (top section, the text in red letters). (2) Please do NOT bid based on the title bar, subtitle bar or item specifics box alone; instead, please read the entire description before bidding; (3) Absolutely NO order cancellations after the auction closes. ever, under any circumstances. We can ONLY cancel bids before the item closes. (4) We are unable to provide matrix-, stamper- or other pressing  information in the final 24 hours of the auction. (5) All disagreements and miscommunications can be - and will only be - solved in a civil and mutually respectful manner; please avoid puerile, offensive, abrasive or menacing language (6) This seller will accommodate all reasonable requests and - unless seriously molested - is generally a flexible, pragmatic and agreeable person.

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