SPOOKY TOOTH 1st album Rare Orig Pink+logo

	£		78
	$		103

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Artist or Band: SPOOKY TOOTH

Album Title: It’s All About

Cat Number: ILPS 9080 Stereo.

Label and Condition: Island original full Pink with round orange and black logo and outline large Island lettering. Beautiful clean rough textured originals. Deep rich colour and only very light spindle traces. Astonishing to find vintage Island originals in this very lightly played conditions. (Please see label scans for all information needed).

Country of Manufacture: England, UK

Rarity: Very scarce and probably approaching rare in this condition.

Original Year of Release: 1968

Matrix Nos: ILPST A and B. These are quite hard to read.

Genre Type: Progressive blues/rock with a more than a hint of psychedelia

Brief Artist & Album Info: Formed in 1967 as a blues band but soon drifted more into progressive rock. This very scarce debut album was not a strong seller and finding copies in top condition will never be easy. The initial sales were more disappointing because this is a strong debut, the band sounding a little similar to Traffic. On the very early version of the famous Island Pink label with the ‘eye’ logo this should be of particular interest to the serious collector and vinyl connoisseur.

Cover Condition and Details: EX+, single, laminated front and back, E. J. Day example, UK. One of the classic late-60s psych cover and this is a lovely example.

Cover Lamination: Clean and shiny, no peeling. Two dry areas on back near the right hand edge and one tiny one on the front near the top left. As the laminate is so clear and clean these show little. No unpleasant indentations and only very light surface marks when viewed under angled lighting.

Cover Front: Very attractive indeed, clean with deep rich colour and only a couple of very light creases.

Cover Back: Similar to front, just a couple of slightly heavier creases but they still show little due to the rich colour.

Cover Edges/Corners: Top: unworn. Bottom: unworn. Record entry edge (right): unworn, clean and sharp. Spine: Solid and square and unworn, all text is pristine under the uncracked laminate. Corners: All four show little wear at all and are still nicely shaped. Summary: A fine all round example of this scarce original 60’s cover, one that would prove hard to find much better. This super cover should please most collectors.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: Mint(-), clean and shiny and pressed on very heavy vinyl. Just a tiny surface mark near the edge of Side 2 but no sound. Other than that it’s as clean as you would be likely to ever find.

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: EX++ a super record that plays beautifully with great clarity and strong sound and production. Virtually zero surface noise and no more than an odd tick per side, this copy is magnificent and should please any collector. I would think from all the evidence this has been very lightly played and almost certainly on a decent turntable too.

Track Listing:It’s all about a roundabout; Tobacco Road; It hurts you so; Forget it, I got it; Bubbles.

Album Played For Grading: Yes.

Final Summary: A superb copy of this vintage gem, very close to connoisseur quality, bar the light blisters on the cover this would grade near the highest level - for a album some 35 years of age its still in pretty remarkable shape anyway and I strongly recommend this great album - Mike.

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