THE TROGGS Best Of Volume 2 RARER ORIG UK PAGE ONE 1968 NEAR MINT LP – SUPERB

	£		51
	$		68

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Artist or Band: THE TROGGS

Album Title: Best Of The Troggs Volume 2

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: I Can Only Give You Everything; Meet Jacqueline; Jingle Jangle; I Want You To Come Into My Life; Cousin Jane; Louie Louie.

Side 2: Love is all Around; From Home; Jaguar and the Thunderbird; Hi Hi Hazel; Evil; Mona.

Label/Format: Page One with matt, gently textured surfaces. Side one has the embossed ‘K T’ tax codes, both letters are immaculate unworn.

Label Conditions: Two fantastic examples of this famous vintage label. Both very clean, fresh and attractive with only one or two very light, fine and faint spindle marks and no wear around the hole area. This beautiful mono record appears hardly played and sounds amazing.

Catalogue Number: FOR 007

Mode / Speed: Mono / 33.3 rpm.

Warps: Assume all records I offer have no warping of any significance and all tracking is easy and effortless and should play on all turntables and even ‘budget’ decks.

Lateral Movement (Side-to-Side): Barely a trace.

Weight of this Record: 147 grams.

Country of Manufacture: England

Rarity: Scarce, in this condition more so. Seen far less often than the first Best Of album.

Original Year of Release: 1969

Matrix Nos: FOR 007 1L 1 420 4 / FOR 007 2L 1 420 4

Musicians: Reg Presley – lead vocals; Chris Britton – lead guitar, backing vocals; Pete Staples – bass, backing vocals, Ronnie Bond – drums.

Brief Info: The second volume of classic Troggs songs covering 1966 and 1967. The band were fronted by the charismatic Reg Presley and played a blend of pop and garage rock, they had several hit singles from the mid-1960s and this collection is superb. A copy played only a couple of times and rarely seen in such impressive clean condition. Mono records of this type were usually subjected to heavy treatment and most found now are unlistenable. This record and cover come quite close to reminding of new.

Cover Grade and Format: EXCELLENT(+): arguably better. A single format with front laminate, this covers all the folds and end on three rear flipbacks. The main back panel is matt and smooth. Printed and made in England by Garrod & Lofthouse with ‘Patents pending’ text. The polylined white date-coded 1968 inner is also included.

Lamination & Front: A few mostly light edge surface creases apart – that few can hope to avoid totally – this front is superb. The laminate retains excellent shine, freshness and clarity with minimal hint of dulling, no lifting or peeling. Overall, it gives scant hint of its 50-years-of-age and will not prove easy to find better.

Cover Back: Clearly very prone to wear being so dark, but the main matt rear panel is practically unworn with any traces of handing minimal and light. It has avoided creasing and rubbing with no marks, sticker issues or writing. A small few fine surface creases on the flipback laminate, again rarely avoided, but all are solidly, crisp and clean with no end burring or lifting.

Top & Bottom Edges: Both quite straight, very smooth and unworn.

Right Edge(s), and Type: Clean, mostly sharp with any thickening little and light as seen viewed end-on. Record enters on this edge.

Spine and Text: An immaculate spine, Solid, straight with minimal compression, the ends are gently pinched in manufacture. All text is perfect and unworn under the solid and uncracked laminate, also nicely centred on a quite narrow depth.

Corners: Any tip rubs tiny and minuscule, better than excellent shape retained with no knocks.

Cover Summary: A very strong all-round example of this wear-prone 1960’s cover, one that will prove very difficult to find much better. This beautiful item should please many collectors.

The Inner Sleeve: EXCELLENT(–): just moderately darkened with age with a couple of creases to one corner. Two crisp untorn window circles and the polylining intact as are the edges. This has the 018 date-code, so manufactured during 1968.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: MINT(–): an amazing visual copy for a mono record now 50-years-of-age. Very clean with equally fine shine and solidly pressed. A copy appearing hardly played on all the evidence with any surface traces very light, wispy and faint as seen critically under bright light. No penetrating stylus scratches, viewed in average room light, barely anything even registers. Visually a super record that should please many, if not most collectors.

Album Played For Grading: Yes. [I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its entirety unless clearly stated otherwise. I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness – I play from the beginning to end via clinically revealing equipment, all listed further down.]

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This lovely set plays up to, and even beyond it’s high visual grading with barely anything to fault. Offering strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear – sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound. Any surface sounds are minimal indeed and this is a very clean pressing with no tracking issues* or inherent pressing noises. Few available copies will outperform this early first pressing I feel sure. Both channels are clean and sharp when played on a stereo system*, I am certain this record has been played very lightly and has been generally well stored and carefully handled. Nothing spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this lovely record. It will prove very difficult to find significantly better and can be strongly recommended.

* As played-graded on a high-end Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracking at 2 grams. Records are a ‘contact’ format, and few will avoid the odd minor sound blemish.

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