SIMON & GARFUNKEL Wednesday Morning 3 a.m. LP CBS 1st Press MONO

	£		28
	$		37

On offer here is a VERY rare LP (especially in this condition!!!!) by Simon & Garkfunkel called "Wednesday Morning 3 a.m." and is an ORIGINAL UK MONO 1st Pressing on the 1st Press 'Textured' Orange CBS label!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!!!!  THIS IS ONE OF SIMON & GARFUNKEL'S ALL TIME RAREST UK LPs EVER (AS A 1ST PRESSING!) - AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE (ESPECIALLY IN MEGA RARE MONO!)!!!!  JUST TRY AND FIND ANOTHER ONE!!!!  IN THE UK THIS LP WAS NEVER GIVEN A RELEASE UNTIL NOVEMBER 1968, AND BY THIS TIME - WHEN THIS LP WAS FIRST RELEASED IN THE UK, IT ONLY EVER SOLD IN ABSOLUTELY TINY AMOUNTS (IN MONO!), AND WAS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY CHANGED!!!!  AS A RESULT IT IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND INCREDIBLY HARD TO LOCATE TODAY!!!!  BUT WHAT MAKES THIS LP REALLY SPECIAL IS THAT IT IS 1ST PRESSED IN MEGA RARE MONO!!!!  AND THIS IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ON THIS LP!!!!  WHEN THIS LP WAS FIRST RELEASED IN THE UK BACK IN NOVEMBER 1968, NEARLY EVERY 1ST PRESSING WAS MADE IN COMMON STEREO - WITH VIRTUALLY NONE IN MEGA RARE MONO AT ALL!!!!  MOST SHOPS HAD EVEN STOPPED STOCKING MONOs ALTOGETHER BY THIS POINT - AND THEY WERE ONLY AVAILABLE BY 'SPECIAL ORDER' ONLY!!!!  AS A RESULT, FINDING A 1ST PRESSING OF THIS INCREDIBLE LP IN MEGA RARE MONO IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE - AS BARELY ANY WERE EVER MADE!!!

BUT WHAT MAKES THIS LP EVEN RARER STILL, IS THAT IT IS THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING EVER MADE - AND WAS ONLY EVER MADE LIKE THIS FOR 2 OR 3 MONTHS ONLY!!!!  THIS LP WAS ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 1964 IN THE U.S.A. ONLY - AND WAS NEVER GIVEN A UK RELEASE UNTIL NOVEMBER 1968!!!!  AND SO - WHEN CBS DID EVENTUALLY FIRST RELEASE IT IN THE UK IN NOVEMBER 1968, MOST BUYERS AVOIDED IT (AS THEY HAD ALREADY BOUGHT U.S. IMPORTS!) AND IT BARELY SOLD AT ALL (COMPARED TO THEIR OTHER LPs!)!!!!  IN FACT, IT ONLY SCRAPED THE LOWER REACHES OF THE ALBUM CHARTS, AND DROPPED OUT ALTOGETHER AFTER ONLY 6 WEEKS!!!!  AND IT WAS ONLY WHEN THE PRICE DROPPED ON RE-ISSUES IN THE EARLY 1970s, THAT THIS LP THEN BEGIN SELLING IN LARGER AND MORE CONSISTENT NUMBERS!!!!  AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT MAKES THIS LP SO INCREDIBLY RARE!!!!  BECAUSE - ALTHOUGH YOU DO SEE A FEW COPIES OF THIS LP BEING OFFERED FOR SALE QUITE REGULARLY - ALMOST NONE OF THEM ARE 100% GENIUNE 1968 MONO 1ST PRESSINGS (LIKE THIS ONE!), AND ARE ACTUALLY MUCH LATER RE-ISSUES!!!!  I WILL NOW EXPLAIN WHAT MAKES THIS LP A 100% GENIUNE UK 1ST PRESSING - AND THIS WILL SHOW JUST EXACTLY WHY THIS LP IS SO VERY VERY RARE!!!!  HERE ARE THE 1ST PRESS ONLY DETAILS:-

1) THIS LP HAS A LAMINATED COVER (ALL LATER ONES FROM 1970 ONWARDS DID NOT!) 

2) THIS LP HAS NO 'STEREO' TEXT ON THE LABELS (BECAUSE IT IS MONO!) - WHEREAS ALL LATER ONES FROM EARLY 1969 ONWARDS DID!

3) THE RECORD HAS 1ST PRESS ONLY A1/B1 MONO MATRIX ENDINGS (ALL LATER ONES DID NOT - AND IN ANY CASE ALL MONOs WERE DELETED FOREVER IN MARCH 1969!)

4) THE LABELS ARE 'TEXTURED' (LATER ONES ARE NOT!)

5) THE COVER IS MADE BY 'E.J.DAY' AND CARRIES THE ALL IMPORTANT 'PATENT PENDING' TEXT (LATER ONES DID NOT!)

6) AND LASTLY & MOST IMPORTANTLY - IN THE TOP LEFT CORNER OF THE COVER FRONT, IT HAS A 'SINGLE' CBS BOX LOGO - WITH '63370' ABOVE IT!!!!  AND THIS ONLY HAPPENED ON THE 'DAY OF RELEASE' 1ST PRESSINGS ONLY - WITH ALL LATER ONES HAVING A LONG 'RECTANGUAR' LOGO IN ITS PLACE, WITH 'STEREO' PRINTED ABOVE IT (AFTER MONOs HAD BEEN DELETED!)!!!!

SO THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT AT ALL - THAT THIS IS THE 'EARLIEST' & RAREST UK MONO 1ST PRESSING YOU CAN POSSIBLY GET - WITH BARELY ANY BEING MADE LIKE THIS!!!!

NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS LP IS IN GREAT CONDITION - AND IS STILL A VERY DECENT EXAMPLE INDEED!!!!  JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES!!!!  THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1968 UK MONO 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING ON THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'TEXTURED' ORANGE CBS LABEL, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS A1/B1 MONO MATRIXES, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'SHAPED' PLAIN INNER SLEEVE, AND 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'E.J.DAY' LAMINATED 'PATENT PENDING' COVER!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!!  This is the ORIGINAL CBS UK 1st Pressing from 1968 and is in GREAT condition!!!!  The record is pressed on THICK quality vinyl.  The Cat. No is BPG 63370 on the ORIGINAL 1st Press Orange CBS label (see picture) and is a much MUCH rarer UK MONO 1st Pressing!!!!

The record labels are in SUPERB condition (see pictures) with NO wear, NO writing, and only a few light spindle marks!!!!  The vinyl is in GREAT condition - and still VERY bright & shiny looking indeed!!!!  Most of these 60s LPs had been to a lot of wild parties and are usually found totally worn out, and almost unplayable. This one is NOT and has NO scratches, only 2 or 3 MEGA light hairlines, only 2 or 3 VERY light scufflines, only 1 VERY small surface mark (this looks to be a TINY pressing mark from maufacture!), only some MEGA faint 'bag sweat' traces under light, and only a VERY few of the lightest paper scuffs only visible under light!!!!  THE RECORD STILL RETAINS ITS ORIGINAL 'JUST PRESSED' LOOK AND SHINES LIKE NEW!!!!  It is also great to find that the record plays as STUNNINGLY as the visual with NO skips, only a few clicks at the VERY beginning of 1 track (barely ANY elsewhere AT ALL!), NO sticking, NO jumps, barely ANY crackle AT ALL, and only some slight background sound on the run on grooves & gaps - NOT in the music AT ALL!!!!  The sound quality is simply SUPERB with NO distortion and NO groovewear either!!!!  The record must grade Very Good (PROPERLY graded, NOT trashed!) if not better - and is still a very VERY decent record indeed!!!!  Believe me this record is NOT overgraded in ANY way!!!!  I use STRICT RC grading standards - it is not in my interest not to!!!! Brillant!!!!  The record comes in its ORIGINAL 1st Press 'shaped' plain inner sleeve which is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  The ORIGINAL 1st Press 'E.J.Day' Laminated 'Patent Pending' Cover is in GREAT condition!!!!  It has NO edge wear, only VERY slight spinal wear (NO splits!), only VERY slight corner wear (NOT through the colour!), NO rips, NO tears, only a few VERY light creases (cover is VERY flat looking indeed!), NO nasty edge splits, only some very VERY minor evidence of 'tipping in' to the EXTREME corner tips, VERY shiny laminate, NO annotations, and NO writing!!!!  The opening edge is beautifully straight with barely ANY feathering AT ALL!!!!  Even the unlaminated back of the cover is in GREAT condition with NO grubbyness, an almost INVISIBLE thin residue trace along the spinal edge, NO yellowing, NO ringwear, NO rubbing, only 2 or 3 ULTRA faint 'age traces', and NO writing!!!!  The cover must grade Very Good+ if not better!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO LOCATE (ESPECIALLY AS THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING IN MEGA RARE MONO!) - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY!!!!

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