SEALED SS MINT LP Laura Nyro STONED SOUL PICNIC Promo

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SEALED SS MINT LP Laura Nyro / Eli and the Thirteenth Confession with the original STONED SOUL PICNIC and SWEET BLINDNESS promo ad sticker + title banner !!!!!!!

 

AMAZING SELECTION OF INVESTMENT GRADE AUDIOPHILE QUALITY ALBUMS THIS WEEK. MANY FIRST OR EARLY PRESSINGS, BOTH STEREO AND MONO.  ALL FROM AN ESTATE COLLECTION WHICH I PURCHASED. RECORDS ARE FROM A DRY NONSMOKING PET FREE HOME.  >>>> NOTE :  I AM LISTING MANY ITEMS FOR 3 or 5 DAYS ONLY WITH LOWER THAN USUAL PRICES.  IF I NEED TO RELIST THEM, THE PRICE AND DURATION MAY INCREASE OR STAY THE SAME.  NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO GET THEM CHEAP !!!

Welcome to our sales of fine vintage records and music related items. We are back after a break from the selling side of the hobby and will be bringing you many more high grade, hard to find LP's, 45's, and 78's as time permits. Please note that the feedback %  you see is based on one comment from a foreign customer whose package was delayed in Customs. We have always been at or near 100% positive. Unless known to us, Foreign bidders will now be required to pay Priority postage with insurance and signature tracking for all items over $50. (about $15 extra).  USPS First Class still available for items under $50.

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>>> THIS AUCTION  :

Winner shall receive an amazingly well preserved  MINT FACTORY SEALED PROMOTIONAL  LP :       LAURA NYRO / ELI AND THE THIRTEENTH CONFESSION,  Columbia Records CS9626......Should be the 360 labels from 1968 (most Promos up to 1968 were MONO but cannot tell since never opened ) not sure if they are white/red print,  white/black print, or standard labels with promo stamp.....}....HAS THE RARE AD STICKER AND TITLE BANNER INTACT.,  PLUS THE PROMO STICKER REAR OF COVER..............FLAWLESS EXAMPLE...... No cutouts, creases, tears, writing, or splits....... PERFECT VINTAGE EXAMPLE OF THIS HISTORIC LP by this great, late, voice of the 1960's and 70's.  (SEE BIO BELOW FOR MORE INFO ABOUT THIS ARTIST.).   ......................   From the library of a former Disc Jockey that I purchased.  As is often the case with radio stations, the DJ's received at least 2 advance copies of an album, with the second or third copy never being played, only as a backup.  MORE  HIGH GRADE,  FIRST ISSUE VINTAGE ROCK, JAZZ,  COUNTRY, AND OLDIES THIS WEEK ALSO  ................. See  photos for more details.  ...........   Always happy to combine multiple items won to reduce shipping costs. Add $1 for each extra record won within USA, outside USA email for quantity shipping discount.........LOW minimum and no reserve for immediate sale.........

 

AUCTION DETAILS : 

SHIPPING RATES .........USA lower 48 states USPS Media $3.95 or USPS Priority  $7.95 ,   +  USPS Delivery Confirmation tracking Required at cost of $.80 ........***** Records shipped in reusable heavy duty corrugated cardboard mailers with record outside of cover in sleeve (unless sealed) to prevent any splitting.  Larger lots shipped in 14 x 14 x 7 USPS approved boxes. *****.............. INTERNATIONAL SHIPMENTS (only If offered in auction) :  Canada $10.00......., other countries as listed. >>>>  Postal INSURANCE  is $1.75 for the first $50 , etc. according to USPS rates (optional for items under $50, REQUIRED for items $50 and up.) ........... DELIVERY CONFIRMATION TRACKING REQUIRED (.80) for the benefit of both parties. Shipping prices are flat rates and estimated for average costs of shipping nationwide; however in some cases rates may need to be adjusted for large or difficult to ship lots.  PLEASE WAIT FOR EBAY INVOICE BEFORE MAKING PAYMENT..... Most items shipped the next week payment clears; if there is a delay beyond this time you will be notified.

PAYMENT must be received within 5 days of auction close. Paypal is your payment choice at this time.  After 7 days item will be re-listed and Nonpaying bidder form filed.   For higher priced items Paypal does offer types of financing. That is your responsiblility.

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GRADING : Based on industry standards and 20 years experience buying and selling the above items. Most of our records are Near Mint or better, and we rarely sell anything graded lower than VG+ unless it is a scarce or hard to find title. More expensive items are play tested; all items visually inspected under 100 Watt bulbs. All items well documented with photographs from different angles and even videos of selected merchandise.

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Thank you and happy bidding !!!!

R.I.P. Laura

Laura replies:
“I’m not interested in conventional limitations when it comes to my songwriting. For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that’s how I see life. I’m interested in art, poetry, and music. As that kind of artist, I can do anything. I can say anything. It’s about self-expression. It knows no package - there’s no such thing. That’s what being an artist is.”

By age 17, she had written the classic “And When I Die,” popularized by Peter, Paul and Mary, and later Blood, Sweat and Tears. The radio airwaves of the late ‘60’s and ‘70’s were filled with her songs. “Wedding Bell Blues,” “Stoned Soul Picnic,” “Blowin’ Away,” “Save The Country,” and “Sweet Blindness,” a bouquet of compositions, all became hits for The Fifth Dimension, as did “Eli’s Comin’” for Three Dog Night, and “Stoney End” for Barbra Streisand. “She wrote the most unexpected songs,” observer Stereo Review, “a dazzling display of lyrical and musical innovation that gave her music a fresh feeling….”

Laura’s work draws from soul, jazz, blues, R&B, and folk-rooted music, along with a modern classical influence. Her songs have been recorded by artists as diverse as Carmen McCrae, Suzanne Vega, Phoebe Snow, Roseane Cash, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Jane Siberry, Mongo Santamaria, Junior Walker and the All Stars, Chet Atkins, Frank Sinatra, Linda Ronstadt, George Duke, Maynard Ferguson, Thelma Houston, Patti Larkin, The Roches, and many, many others. The prestigious Alvin Ailey Dance Company includes Laura’s music in their performance piece “Cry.” And the Canadian Ballet has danced to “Emmie.”

Born in New York on October 18, 1947, Laura was brought up on city life and summers spent in the lush greenery of the Northeast. She began playing music very early, and enjoyed a wide range of influences through her high school years at Manhattan’s Music and Art. Laura listened to the late ‘50’s and ‘60’s girl groups, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions, Mary Wells, Dusty Springfield, and the early Burt Bacharach-Hal David songs of Dionne Warwick, among many others. Laura read poetry and at home her mother played records by Leontyne Price and impressionist classical composers such as Ravel, Debussy and Persicetti.

Throughout high school Laura also listened to the protest music of Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, early Bob Dylan the Beatles and others. Laura always "adored" the music of Van Morrison. “I was always interested in the social consciousness of certain songs. My mother and grandfather were progressive thinkers, so I felt at home in the peace movement and the women's movement, and that has influenced my music.”

Laura made her first extended professional appearance at age 18, singing at the legendary Hungry i coffeehouse in San Francisco Sound.” The following year (1966) saw the release of her debut album More Than A New Discovery on the Verve/Folkways label. It’s still interesting to note that her Verve label-mates then included The Blues Project, Tim Hardin, Richie Havens, Janis Ian, and Dave Von Ronk; other seminal New York peers included Tim Buckley and Kenny Rankin.

Laura joined Columbia Records in 1968 and released Eli And The Thirteenth Confession, “the work of an original and brilliant young talent,” (as Jon Landau wrote in Rolling Stone). The summer of 1969 brought New York Tendaberry followed by Christmas And the Beads of Sweat at the end of 1970. These three albums represent a litany of songwriting craft to this day. One year later came Gonna Take A Miracle, Laura’s impressionistic cover album of the soul songs of her youth. In 1973, her Verve debut album was acquired and reissued by Columbia as The First Songs.

“When I was working on this anthology, and listening back to that music,” Laura says of these early recordings, “I thought ‘Oh my God - what a madcap energy. I don’t know if I can deal with this.’ (laughs) But it’s funny because soon I started to get into it and it was very energizing. And a lot of fun. I cried when I heard New York Tendaberry.”