THE BEATLES R&R MUSIC RARE SEALED ORIG '76 PROMO 2-LP SET w/GEORGE MARTIN MIXES

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·      THE BEATLES – ROCK’N’ROLL MUSIC - ORIGINAL,(LONG OUT-OF-PRINT IN ANY FORMAT) 1976 CAPITOL RECORDS STEREO 2-LP SET (DOUBLE ALBUM) SKBO-11537 (PLEASE NOTE THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1976 DOUBLE ALBUM, NOT ONE OF THE TRUNCATED SETS (VOLUMES 1 & 2) RELEASED CIRCA 1980 AS SINGLE-LP ALBUMS)

·      ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

·      *** PROMOTIONAL COPY; THE RECORDS (PROBABLY) HAVE STOCK LABELS; HOWEVER, THE EMBOSSED PROMOTIONAL STAMP ON THE BACK PANEL CLEARLY IDENTIFIES THE ITEM AS PROMOTIONAL ***

·      GUARANTEED ORIGINAL, CUSTOM “COCA COLA  GLASSES” CAPITOL LABEL, UNIQUE TO THIS TITLE (NO OTHER PRESSINGS OR LABELS EXIST)

·      UNAVAILABLE IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORMAT IN ALMOST 50 YEARS!

·      THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

·      TWO “BREATHE” (AIR) HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP

·      THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·      ORIGINAL REFLECTIVE (“FOIL”) COVER

·      ORIGINAL "TEXTURED" (RAISED) COVER: THE SECTIONS OF THE COVER ARE “RAISED” (EMBOSSED) FOR ADDED 3-D EFFECT.

·      ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER

·      COVER HAS A NIFTY 'HYPE' (ADVERTISEMENT) STICKER STILL AFFIXED TO THE SHRINK WRAP.

·      THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·      This album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other way, manner or format.

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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On toward the mid-'70s, it dawned on the powers-that-were at Capitol/EMI that millions of listeners had come of age since the breakup of the Beatles in 1969 and, thus, had never experienced the group except in a historical context (this notion was aided by true tales of younger Wings fans discovering -- to their amazement -- that Paul McCartney had been "a member of another group"). All of the Beatles' albums were still in print and easily available (and routinely stocked by most record stores), but it was thought that some new excitement was needed, some fresh exposure, to re-introduce their work to these younger listeners. The label could have launched a new advertising and promotion campaign, but more of an effort seemed in order -- especially as the same company had recently seen a huge resurgence of interest in its catalog of Beach Boys material, owing to the chart-topping Endless Summer compilation and its nearly as successful follow-up, Spirit of America. And so the company decided to try a similar repackaging/re-marketing scheme with the Beatles. And the result was Rock & Roll Music, complete with an accompanying single release of "Got to Get You into My Life." One of the harder rocking songs off of Revolver, the decade-old track was released in June of 1976 with a B-side of "Helter Skelter"; the latter (likely chosen at all because of the song's renewed topicality in a then-recently shown and widely watched made-for-television movie about the Manson killings) rode the charts for 11 weeks, peaking at number seven. Given the title and focus of the collection, a lot of the emphasis on the double-LP set was on the group's pre-psychedelic period; it also emphasized -- more than anything seen from them since 1965 -- their joyous renditions of other songwriters' work, especially old rock & roll standards like "Long Tall Sally," "Slow Down," "Dizzie Miss Lizzie," "Twist & Shout," etc., which had been a significant part of their output before their in-house songwriting came to dominate their recordings.

Even focusing on their originals, the results were impressive, with the first LP appearance of the Paul McCartney-authored Little Richard homage "I'm Down," originally a single B-side that had also been their concert closer on the 1965 tour; "Anytime at All"; and the delightful late-era "Birthday," which was an opposite of sorts to the darker "Helter Skelter" from the same original album. Of course, for anyone who had been around for the group the first time, none of this was new, despite original producer George Martin's remixing of five of the early songs, owing to the poor sound of the existing masters; additionally, the Beatles U.S. catalog already had one magnificent rock & roll album for fans to savor in The Beatles' Second Album, one of those thrown-together American releases from their early days that was perfect from beginning to end and never slowed down for a ballad, except when they did a Motown song. And the packaging and graphics here seemed curiously irrelevant, seemingly equating the Beatles and their music with distinctly 1950s-oriented images and symbols, including Marilyn Monroe; indeed, thinking about it now, one wonders if this record's jacket wasn't made up of images rejected at some point for some Beach Boys compilation. But Rock & Roll Music did work as a marketing concept, the album rising to number two on the U.S. charts (and kept out of the top spot only by -- rather fittingly -- Wings at the Speed of Sound). The record was divided into two separate, notably unsatisfying budget-priced single LPs in the 1980s, before being deleted later in that decade. And neither the original album nor its supporting single release, "Back in the U.S.S.R." b/w "Twist and Shout," were as successful in England -- then in the throes of booms related to glam rock and punk rock, where the Top Ten and Top 20, respectively, were as high as each got.

(REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

A word on stereo mixes on this album (PLEASE NOTE: some of the information found in  Wikipedia's article on the album is misleading and incorrect or poorly worded and confusing; I have corrected the inaccurate details below).

Instead of approving the album as it was presented to him (in the original, crude, wide-channel 2-track stereo which he found extremely lacking), George Martin completely reworked the already mixed tapes for every song, reversing the left and right channels and slightly narrowing the stereo on the tracks "Twist and Shout", "I Saw Her Standing There", "I Wanna Be Your Man", "Boys", "Roll Over Beethoven", "Drive My Car" and "I'm Down". Some of the song editing is not clean: for instance, the beginning of the crossfade of "Dear Prudence" can be heard during the fade of "Back in the U.S.S.R.", as originally issued on the White Album.

In the Great Britain, EMI (UK) had refused to use Martin's modified Capitol tapes, citing the Beatles' strict instructions that any reissues had to be exactly as originally recorded, however, in the U.S. the album WAS released with the remixed George Martin's versions, thus essentially creating two versions of the album: American version with unique George Martin mixes and the UK version with the original, crude, wide channel stereo mixes (which included five tracks never before released in stereo in the UK: the Long Tall Sally EP and "I'm Down"). In the UK, George Martin's mixes would not be released until 1980, when the local budget subsidiary of EMI records (MFP Records) decided to split the album into two separate volumes. both of which utilize George Martin's remixes.

Rock'n'Roll Music (American version) is THE ONLY Beatles release where you can find all these classic Beatles songs in the rare George Martin's stereo remixes, all gathered in one place.. To these ears, George Martin's stereo remixes of these tunes sound WAY better than any other stereo versions of these tracks and it is unfortunate that his mixes were never reissued in digital format in any shape, manner or form.

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What else needs to be said? Unavailable in any way, manner of format in almost 33 years, this set, lovingly compiled nearly 50 years ago  (1976) is easily the best "concept" album Beatles ever made. The analog pressing is truly stunning, and the sound is incredible. You will hear some of the songs you (think you) know for the first time.

The PROMOTIONAL, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were often distributed among the radio stations before the record was released to the public, sometimes as much as four months ahead. These records are generally considered to be the "first among equals", which is to say the VERY FIRST generation and the VERY FIRST pressings of the particular title; a PROTOTYPE and the earliest known official pressing of the record.

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·      CONDITION:

·      THE RECORDS

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)         THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them.

(b)          The records are  apparently  pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(c)         Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                          THE COVER

COVER IS (WEAK) NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP  (A SMALL PIECE OF SHRINK WRAP IS MISSING)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-       Cover has all four corners slightly dinged (nothing significant)

-       Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the seams   (nothing significant)

-       Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 1.

-       Cover has a light "wrinkle" (crease)  in one of the corners.   (nothing significant) (VISIBLE ON FRONT SIDE ONLY)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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 (1) The year indicated in the title bar is the year of the original release,  NOT necessarily the year of the actual pressing; for the actual generation of the pressing, please see our item description (top section, the text in red letters). (2) Please do NOT bid based on the title bar, subtitle bar or item specifics box alone; instead, please read the entire description before bidding; (3) Absolutely NO order cancellations after the auction closes. ever, under any circumstances. We can ONLY cancel bids before the item closes. (4) We are unable to provide matrix-, stamper- or other pressing  information in the final 24 hours of the auction. (5) All disagreements and miscommunications can be - and will only be - solved in a civil and mutually respectful manner; please avoid puerile, offensive, abrasive or menacing language (6) This seller will accommodate all reasonable requests and - unless seriously molested - is generally a flexible, pragmatic and agreeable person.

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