SALE CRABBY APPLETON Rotten to the Core Original 1970’s Sealed Copy USA Pressing

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New CRABBY APPLETON - Rotten to the Core Original 1970’s Sealed Copy of USA Pressing

This item is brand new and shrink wrapped.

This listing is for a new copy of CRABBY APPLETON “Rotten to the Core Sealed USA Vinyl LP on the Elektra label This is a Sealed Original copy with cut corner on the sleeve (see photo)

This item is one of a batch of SEALED ORIGINAL LPs from 1960's and 1970's from a warehouse find by one of our distributors of! These are original sealed copies of some juicy semi-obscurities!! Since we cannot see through the shrink-wrap to ensure perfection inside the record jackets after (in some cases) 55 years, we cannot take any opened copies back in return—sealed copies are fine—but once they’re opened, that’s it. The risk is minor, we believe, as these were all stored in an operational warehouse until we purchased them. They appear to be in excellent condition. Very few copies remaining on these gems, please act fast!

CRABBY APPLETON “Rotten to the Core” (ELEKTRA 74106): Crabby Appleton's first album had established them as one of the more promising new American bands at the dawn of the 1970s. It had yielded a Top Forty single, ‘Go Back,’ and unveiled a diverse group that combined pop-rock smarts and artier inclinations. Lester Bangs gave the album an enthusiastic thumbs-up in Rolling Stone, and (with Andrea di Guglielmo) co-authored a lengthy profile of the band in Creem. When they opened for the Doors at the San Diego International Sports Arena Center on August 22, 1970, according to the band's principal singer-songwriter (ex-Millenium member) Michael Fennelly, ‘Go Back’ stood at #3 on the local charts. Crabby Appleton would not rise any higher, commercially speaking.

The follow-up non-LP single ‘Grab On’ had flopped. There would be an opportunity, at least, to do a second album: “Rotten to the Core”. If Crabby Appleton had initially, as Bangs and di Guglielmo wrote in Creem, sounded "like a cross between the Everly Brothers and the Rascals, with tasty hints of off-shoots like the Troggs, and occasional interludes of soft, wistful bossa nova for balance," the band’s second LP took the band into a decidedly harder-rocking direction, with far stronger rootsy blues and country influences. Boogie and bluesy hard rock came to the fore on track such as ‘You Make Me Hot’ and ‘Lucy,’ sometimes garnished by accomplished blues slide guitar. Such outings were a reflection of the band's live sound. "We were playing a lot of outdoor gigs, a lot of arena gigs, and had developed into a band that could play 40 minutes of big crowd-pleasing stuff," elaborates Fennelly. "We wanted to be able to do that in a studio, or at least capture some of the impact and power of that.” The tastiest detour from Crabby Appleton's prior sound was 'Make No Difference,' with its effective combination of organ, slide blues guitar, and superb gospel-soul backup vocals from a trio of session singers, including Clydie King (best known for her work with Bob Dylan in the early 1980's). For all its eclecticism, some of the album's strongest tracks were ‘Tomorrow's a New Day’ and ‘Love Can Change Everything,’ the ones most reminiscent of the buoyant pop optimism that had colored much of the group's debut album. As it turns out, those were the oldest Fennelly compositions on “Rotten to the Core,” with ‘Love Can Change Everything’ having been written back in the late 1960s when he was with the Millennium, and ‘Tomorrow's a New Day’ shortly after his stint with that group.

An album ripe for rediscovery.

Sealed original, with cut corner

Track Listing:

Side One

1. Smokin' in the mornin'

2. Tomorrow's a new day

3. it's so hard

4. makes no difference

5. you make me hot

6. one more time

Side Two

1. Lucy

2. Paper to write on

3. Lookin' for love

4. Love can change everything

5. Gonna save you (from that)

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