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THE MONKEES COS-101 Album with misspelled PAPA JEAN'S BLUES RARE vinyl record

Condition: MINT CONDITION (inside and out)

• Record cover is fantastic condition
• LP is fantastic condition without scratches

THE MONKEES ~ First Album, also known as MEET THE MONKEES

Original 1966 COLGEMS Stereo LP COS-101 release with the

MISSPELLED song title PAPA GENE'S BLUES as JEAN'S.

·      ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·      VERY RARE FIRST VERSION OF THE ALBUM WITH THE TITLE OF THE SONG "PAPA GENE'S BLUES" MISTITLED AS "PAPA JEAN'S BLUES" ON THE COVER AND THE LABEL

·       DEEP GROOVE PRESSING

·       ORIGINAL RED AND WHITE COLGEMS LABEL

·       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)

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       STEREO version of this album. 

PLEASE SEE PICTURES OF THE COVER AND LABEL OF ALBUM

Note: the image shown is from the actual album being offered in this listing. 

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This 1966 Monkees set was one of their finest works from the early, peak period of their career and is becoming increasingly scarce, particularly THE ORIGINAL pressings such as the one we are presenting here. What makes this album particularly rare is the misspelling of the title of "Papa Jean's Blues" (the correct title is: Papa Gene's Blues) on BOTH cover and label. Only the very first batch of pressings has this misprint; these have later been withdrawn, possibly because of the, um… "transgender" implications…these copies are tens, possibly hundreds of times rarer than the common, correct version. 

To put things in perspective, the year 1966 was a big year for corporate cover censors: mind you, in that  same year, Mamas and the Papas had to endure humiliating retraction of their “Toilet Seat” cover,  Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons survived no less than three encounters with the artwork police (on their “Four Seasons sing Bacharach-David and Dylan” album), Jefferson Airplane’s first album was altered in both content and form (cover had to be changed, too) , Frank Zappa’s first album (Freak Out) had a hippie hot-spot “blurb” excised from the cover; Bob Dylan (presumably on his own volition?) changed the layout on his “Blonde on Blonde” album, deleting the image of Claudia Cardinale; the Fugs’ first album underwent no less than 4 (four !!!) alterations, the cover of the Monkees’ first album had to be changed because of misperceived “transsexual” reference, Buffalo Springfield’s first album had to have a song deleted from BOTH record AND the cover; Simon and Garfunkel’s second album (The Sounds of Silence)  underwent no less than three cover revisions; Velvet Underground’s first album had to have back cover significantly modified because of a legal dispute. In other words, corporate censors and self-censors were out in full force back in 1966, doing the devil’s work in earnest.

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