STEELY DAN, The Royal Scam USA 1st press EXC- LP Kid Charlemagne/Haitian Divorce

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Steely Dan ?– The Royal Scam Label: ABC Records ?– ABCD-931 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Santa Maria Pressing  Country: US Released: 1976 Genre: Rock Style: Pop Rock, Jazz-Rock Tracklist  A1 Kid Charlemagne 4:38 A2 The Caves Of Altamira 3:33 A3 Don't Take Me Alive 4:18 A4 Sign In Stranger 4:22 A5 The Fez 3:59 B1 Green Earrings 4:05 B2 Haitian Divorce 5:30 B3 Everything You Did 3:54 B4 The Royal Scam 6:31 Companies, etc. Phonographic Copyright (p) – ABC Records, Inc. Copyright (c) – ABC Records, Inc. Engineered At – ABC Recording Studios Engineered At – A&R Studios Mastered At – Allen Zentz Mastering Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria Lacquer Cut At – Allen Zentz Mastering Credits Art Direction, Design – Ed Caraeff Artwork [Cover Art] – Charlie Ganse, Zox (3) Backing Vocals – Clydie King, Michael McDonald, Sherlie Matthews, Tim Schmit*, Venetta Fields Bass – Chuck Rainey Design [Typographic Design] – Tom Nikosey Drums – Bernard Purdie, Rick Marotta Engineer – Elliot Shiner*  Engineer [Mix Down] – Barney Perkins Engineer, Engineer [Mix Down] – Roger Nichols Guitar – Dean Parks, Dennis Dias*, Elliot Randall*, Larry Carlton Guitar, Bass – Walter Becker Horns – Bob Findley, Jim Horn, John Klemmer, Plas Johnson, Slyde Hyde Horns, Arranged By [Horns] – Chuck Findley Keyboards – Don Grolnick, Paul Griffin, Victor Feldman Keyboards, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Donald Fagen Mastered By – Brian Gardner Other [Nurse] – Karen Stanley  Percussion – Gary Coleman, Victor Feldman Producer – Gary Katz Technician [Techno] – Bob DeAvila, Stuart Dawson*, Warren Wallace Written-By – Griffin* (tracks: A5)  Written-By, Arranged By [Horns] – Donald Fagen, Walter Becker Notes Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria pressing. Engineered at ABC Studios in Los Angeles and at A&R Studios in New York. Lacquer Cut By Brian Gardner [Runout Etching ?] [Runout Etching ?? ??] Special thanks to Larry Carlton and Mr. Garry Sherman. Cardboard inner sleeve Printed in U.S.A. All songs published by ABC/Dunhill Music, Inc. (BMI). ?©1976, ABC Records, Inc.  

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL PRINTED INNER SLEEVE.

MATRIX:  SIDE A: ? ABCD-931-A 1D AZ  A? /  SIDE B: 1 ? ABCD-931-B-1A   AZ ?? ?? A14.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.   INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

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