SEALED + Sticker ODESSA Bee Gees SGT PEPPER Psych 69

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STILL SEALED!!!  2-Lp VINYL vintage pressing! With song titles STICKER!

best one we've found!!!

                  THE BEE GEES

                     ODDESSA

...USA - Atco - SD 2-702

STILL SEALED old vintage vinyl pressing 2-Lp in thick gatefold cover adornred with gold lettering...

              This was the "Sgt Pepper" album of the BEE GEES ....

best copy we've found as usually, like almost always some of the gold lettering is worn off -- this copy is pristine, being STILL SEALED!

CONTAINS THE RARE SONG TITLES STICKER ON BACK COVER...most folks tore off the shrink wrapper and there went the song listings sticker too -- this sticker is very rare!

The group members may disagree for personal reasons, but Odessa is easily the best and most enduring of the Bee Gees' albums of the 1960s. It was also their most improbable success, owing to the conflicts behind its making. The record started out as a concept album, to be called "Masterpeace" and then "The American Opera," but musical differences between Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb that would split the trio in two also forced the abandonment of the underlying concept. Instead, it became a double LP -- largely at the behest of their manager and the record labels; oddly enough, given that the group didn't plan on doing something that ambitious, Odessa is one of perhaps three double albums of the entire decade (the others being Dylan's Blonde on Blonde and The Beatles "White Album") that don't seem stretched, and it also served as the group's most densely arranged album. Yet, amid the progressive rock sounds of the title track and ethereal ballads such as "Melody Fair" and "Lamplight" were rural-flavored tunes like "Marlery Purt Drive" and the vaguely Dylanesque bluegrass number "Give Your Best," delicate pop-rock ballads like "First of May" (which became the single off the album), and strange, offbeat rock numbers like "Edison" (whose introduction sounds like the Bee Gees parodying Cream's "White Room") and "Whisper Whisper" (the latter featuring a drum break, no less), interspersed with three heavily & lavishly arranged atmospheric instrumemtals . Even the seeming "lesser" numbers such as "Suddenly" had catchy hooks and engaging guitar parts to carry them, all reminiscent of the Beatles' album cuts of the late sixties. Moreover, the title track, with its mix of acoustic guitar, solo cello, and full orchestra, was worthy of the Beatles at their boldest. The myriad sounds and textures made Odessa the most complex and challenging album in the group's history, and if one accepts the notion of the Bee Gees as successors to the Beatles, then Odessa was arguably their Sgt. Pepper album. The album packaged in a red felt cover with gold lettering on front and back and an elaborate background painting for the gatefold interior, makes it a conversation piece just to look at. Ironically, the making of Odessa was to herald a split between the Gibb brothers that would leave the group sidelined for most of the next 18 months, and was the last to be heard from them as a trio for two years.

1. "Odessa (City on the Black Sea)" – 7:33 
2. "You'll Never See My Face Again" – 4:17
3. "Black Diamond" – 3:29
4. "Marley Purt Drive" – 4:26
5. "Edison" – 3:06
6. "Melody Fair" – 3:50
7. "Suddenly" – 2:30
8. "Whisper Whisper" – 3:25
9. "Lamplight" – 4:47
10. "Sound of Love" – 3:29
11. "Give Your Best" – 3:28
12. "Seven Seas Symphony" – 4:10
13. "With All Nations (International Anthem)" – 1:47
14. "I Laugh in Your Face" – 4:10
15. "Never Say Never Again" – 3:29
16. "First of May" – 2:50
17. "The British Opera" – 3:16

CONDITION: The thick gatefold cover with gold lettering is SEALED IN FACTORY WRAP  - NEVER OPENED best one we've found as usually, like almost always  some of the gold lettering is worn off ~ NONE of this copies lettering is worn off, being never opened & still sealed. 

Contains the ((rare)) song titles sticker on back cover!

keeper!

     A  GREAT ADDITION  TO ANYONE'S COLLECTIBLES!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record