THE EASYBEATS Easy LP PARLOPHONE/ALBERT PRODUCTIONS 1966 AUST reissue APLP.057

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 DICK DIAMONDE, SNOWY FLEET, HARRY VANDA, STEPHEN WRIGHT, GEORGE YOUNG

The Easybeats occupy a unique place in the pantheon of 1960s British rock acts. 

For starters, they were Australian, except that they really weren't -- they met in Sydney alright,

 and being based in Australia with the talent they had gave them a leg-up over any of the 

local competition. But lead singer Stevie Wright originally came from England

(although he'd been in Australia for some years), and bassist Dick Diamonde hailed 

from the Netherlands, as did guitarist Harry Vanda, 

while guitarist George Young was recent arrivals from Scotland

"EASY"

<reissue, originally published only in Australia in 1966>     

LP     PARLOPHONE/ALBERT PRODUCTIONS RECORDS      APLP.057

MADE IN AUSTRALIA    1982 OFFICIAL REPRESSING

This version: Released in an unlaminated single cover

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LABEL: PARLOPHONE/ALBERT PRODUCTIONS -  ORANGE LABEL with YELLOW LOGO - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine & rear): APLP.057

Catalog on labels: APLP-057 (APLP 057 A / APLP 057 B) 

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): APLP 057-A       DB

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): APLP 057-B-2     DB

On labels: top rim text reads "Made by E.M.I. (Australia) Limited, Sydney, N.S.W."

(All Titles Albert)

Albert Productions

Produced by Ted Albert

Recorded at 2UW Theatre, Sydney

Aust. Comps. Aust. Rec.

? 1966 Albert Productions

On Back Sleeve: Notes by Mike Vaughan,Manager

Copyright Record - All Rights Reserved

Made and Distributed in Australia by E.M..I. (Australia) Limited, Sydney, New South Wales

Manufacturers of World-Famous "His Master's Voice" Record Players, Radio and Television Receivers

? 1966 Albert Productions

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: IT'S SO EASY - I'M A MADMAN - I WONDER

SHE SAID ALRIGHT - I'M GONNA TELL EVERYBODY

HEY GIRL - SHE'S SO FINE

Side B: YOU GOT IT OFF ME - CRY, CRY, CRY - A LETTER

EASY BEAT - YOU'LL COME BACK AGAIN

GIRL ON MY MIND - YA CAN'T DO THAT

  grading

RECORD NEAR MINT but (please, also read above description) 

SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Their first album, not available outside Australia until the 1990s. 

The Vanda/Young songwriting partnership had yet to dominate the band in their early days,

and most of the (entirely original) material here comes from the pens of George Young 

and singer Stevie Wright. It's more Merseybeatish and less oriented toward power-pop 

and staccato guitar attacks than their subsequent releases, which 

isn't really detrimental; it doesn't scale the peaks the band would shortly climb, 

but neither does it havethe overdone good-time mania that made some of their efforts 

hard to take in more than limited doses. A fairly consistent, if not incredibly remarkable, 

relic from the Beat era, with some very Beatlesque tracks, including 

"It's So Easy," "I Wonder" (on which Harry Vanda sounds a lot like a young 

George Harrison circa "Do You Want to Know a Secret"), and cuts that could pass 

for the Searchers ("I'm Gonna Tell Everybody"), 

Gerry & the Pacemakers ("Hey Girl," "A Letter"), the Merseybeats ("Cry Cry Cry"), 

the Kinks ("You'll Come Back Again"), and Peter & Gordon ("Girl on My Mind"). 

Stuck in the middle of all of those delightfully derivative treasures is 

the most defiantly original track off the album, and (not coincidentally) their first big 

Australian hit, "She's So Fine," which doesn't sound like anything else here, pulsing with energy, 

a hot pumping bass part, and a ferocious guitar break...(AllMusic)