SAM COOKE SHAKE INSANELY RARE SEALED ORIGINAL '65 RCA VICTOR STEREO LP 1st PRESS

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·       SAM COOKE - SHAKE -  ORIGINAL 1965 RCA VICTOR STEREO LP LSP-3367

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

·       GUARANTEED ORIGINAL BLACK RCA VICTOR LABEL WITH "WHITE TOP" [RCA VICTOR’S NAME IS IN WHITE LETTERS], AND ‘DOGGIE’ LOGO ON TOP CENTER OF THE LABEL

·       THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

·       TWO “BREATHE” (AIR) HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       THICK CARDBOARD COVER, AMERICAN STYLE.

·       ORIGINAL GLOSSY, LIGHTLY LAMINATED COVER

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       As far as we know, this album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other way, manner or format.

(►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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Sam Cooke had been killed the previous month with a current single, "Shake," ready for release. A brilliant up-tempo song with dazzling vocal acrobatics and a great beat, it was issued less than two weeks after Cooke's death and soared into the Top Ten, but there was no accompanying LP, and Cooke had not left behind enough unissued studio material to create one. Instead, starting within days of Cooke's death in order to get this album out for January of 1965, RCA reached back as far as six years, to Cooke's sides for Specialty records and the Keen label ("Win Your Love for Me," "Comes Love"), up through songs from early 1964's A Change Is Gonna Come album and the handful of numbers he'd finished late in the year. They threw on the shortened single version of "A Change Is Gonna Come," as edited for the B-side of "Shake," to create the first in an ever-weaker series of pastiche albums in Cooke's catalog. This actually isn't a bad selection of material, and some of what's here was among his latest sides, thus representing some facet of where his music was heading during his last year alive, in what amounted to an unfinished career in an unfinished life, in an unsettled time. It's just not a terribly relevant album in terms of anything it says about Cooke's music, apart from its diversity over time. Most of the material on this album has reappeared in more recent years on either The Man Who Invented Soul box or the Keep Movin' On CD.

(REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

Oh, well… I love many arts, and many artists, and I listen to many kinds of music, but it is only when it comes to Sam Cooke that I completely loose my critical faculties. So, please don’t ask me anything about Sam Cooke, I am afraid I will come across as a raving lunatic. This is the voice that descends upon us straight from Heaven, pure and simple. In many ways, this is not even a human voice, this is a healing instrument. This is the last studio recording Sam Cooke finished in his lifetime, just days before he was murdered . It was released only posthumously, a few weeks after he died. This album includes some of the most impressive performances Sam Cooke ever recorded, such as legendary "A CHANGE IS GONNA COME". If, by the time this song ends you do not feel misty and teary-eyed, check your pulse and call 911 IMMEDIATELY. This legendary song, which inspired no less than 37 other versions (including the versions by Otis Redding, Gram Parker, Loraine Elison, Jerry Butler and practically every self-respecting black artist that ever lived) became one of the most-performed songs of all times. It is a classic gospel/R&B ballad which also served as an unofficial civil rights movement anthem. Finally, the album also contains "Shake" his posthumous mega-hit (later covered by Otis Redding), "Yeah, Man" (later "borrowed" under different title by Arthur Conley, and one of my favorite Sam Cooke ballads, the little-known "Someone (ease my troubled mind)". Finding a still sealed ORIGINAL PRESSING?!?! Forget it – not even a HOPE!!! This may be the last one you will ever see.

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·       CONDITION:

·       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)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

(b)            The record is  apparently 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)           The record is believed to come in its original stock inner sleeve.

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

·       COVER (THIS IS THE ORIGINAL GLOSSY, LIGHTLY LAMINATED, COVER):

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

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-         Cover shows some light yellowing on back side, apparently from aging.   (nothing significant)

-         Back cover has a few yellowish dust speckles scattered here and there (these tiny spots are not overly obtrusive or distracting)

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

-         Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

-        No split seams

-        No ring wear

-        No cut-out (drill) holes.

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

-        No writing

-        No stamps

-        No tearing: no chips, dents or nicks on the seams

-        No peel-off marks

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        No stickers or labels

-        No water damage

-        No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or  cuts.

-        No warping

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No glue traces or wax residue.

-        No bar codes

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

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