THE DAVE CLARK FIVE GLAD ALL OVER RARE ORIG '65 EPIC MONO PROMO LP IN SHRINK N/M

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·      THE DAVE CLARK FIVE – GLAD ALL OVER -  ORIGINAL 1965 EPIC RECORDS MONO LP LN-24093

·      ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·      *** PROMOTIONAL COPY; THE RECORD HAS STOCK LABELS; HOWEVER, THE PROMOTIONAL STICKER ON THE RECORD LABEL CLEARLY IDENTIFIES THE ITEM AS PROMOTIONAL ***

·      ORIGINAL YELLOW EPIC LABEL  WITH BLACK PRINT.

·      RARE MONO PRESSING, MANY TIMES RARER THAN FAKE (“ELECTRONICALLY RECHANELLED”) STEREO

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

·      ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE) (SECOND, REVISED VERSION OF THE COVER; THE SO-CALLED 'INSTRUMENTS" COVER)

·      COVER IS STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK (CELLOPHANE) WRAP

·      MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-1A/-1D'.  ON SOME LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING)

·      MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

·      CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·      THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

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

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The Dave Clark Five's American debut album is a joyous, bouncy, high energy set that showed considerable promise in a band that was viewed at the time as the first real threat to the supremacy of the Beatles. They also wrote a lot of their own material and recorded hits that burned up the charts, even supplanting the Fab Four at the #1 position at one point. But this was to be their best non-greatest-hits album, and there are a few notable missteps here that prevented DC5 from being taken seriously enough, and over time would diminish their impact and longevity.

Side 1 of the original vinyl starts very promising though. The title track was as good as anything the Beatles were doing at that time, and its a high energy tune that remains timeless. All of the Time is a great under-appreciated tune with unusual musical structures and great harmonizing. It's one of the best deep cuts in their entire catalog. The cover tunes Stay and Do You Love Me are decent run-throughs; maybe a little stiff-sounding, but easily competent. And Chaquita threatens to blow up the group's "clean cut" image with its mystifying guitar and sax under heavy reverb.

Side 2 is where it falls apart. Bits and Pieces is another major deserved hit, but I Know You starts the downhill slide. It's a decent enough track, but it's straightforward pop that isn't as adventurous as anything you've heard up to this point. Now, here's where their limitations scream out to you. No Time to Lose is indeed nothing more than a cheap rewrite of Twist and Shout that should've made the Isley Brothers bring a lawsuit against them, and Doo Dah? A rewrite of an old Stephen Foster chestnut that I can't figure out if it's a parody or just a joke. You almost have to skip this one. Time recovers the proceedings a little with an unexpected jazzy arrangement, and She's All Mine closes the album with a decent if unremarkable flair.

At the time this was one of the hottest British Invasion albums around;  no mean feat during the first half of 1964 if you weren't the Beatles. In spite of its glaring flaws, it's still a pretty excellent set in a time when album making hadn't quite yet matured. It's a shame the band couldn't maintain even this quality over the next three years, but this was as respectable a start as you could expect by anyone. And they still wrote some pretty enduring hits.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY RUSSELL NEWTON, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

As is the case with other Dave Clark Five albums from the mid-60's, Mono versions of the group's albums are much more sparkling, raw, direct and otherwise gratifying than the fake "electronic" stereo versions (true stereo versions do not exist). The only serious competitor to the Beatles (except, possibly, for Stones), Dave Clark Five provided some of the most creative "Beat" sounds of the British Invasion wave and this, one of the group's finest works, contains two of its greatest charting hit singles: Glad all over and Bits and Pieces. It is unbelievable how well their music has aged.

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 RECORD

(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)         WE GRADE THE VINYL  AS  (WEAK) NEAR MINT. Some VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL abrasions – mostly sleeve scuffs -  are (barely) visible, but are probably inaudible,  and do not affect visual integrity or beauty of the vinyl. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)         The record is 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)         Mono pressing of this title is much rarer, and by far more  preferable to its FAKE ("electronically rechannelled") stereo counterpart. We estimate that FAKE stereo copies of this album outnumber monos by a ratio of at least 3:1.  (NOTE: electronically rechannelled versions with this, withdrawn, cover probably do not exist; only monos appear to have been produced; we are not entirely certain)

(d)         The record comes in the original (ALL-YELLOW) stock inner sleeve.

(e)         True Stereo copies of this album are NOT known to exist.

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

·                          THE COVER

COVER IS STRONG NEAR MINT,  STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-       Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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