THE VILLAGE FUGS *1st* RARE orig.1965 Broadside-304 Folk/Psych NM LP w/Booklet

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Selling numerous FOLKWAYS, ASCH, BROADSIDE, Library of Congress, etc. original Folk, Blues/Gospel, Socio-political protest, Americana and other eclectic Vinyl LPs; primarily from the 1950's and 1960's. A few 1970's and a few other labels within the genres. Many very cool and quite rare items included.

Artists include
WOODY GUTHRIE, LEADBELLY, THE FUGS, KILBY SNOW, SMILEY HOBBS, DON STOVER, HARRY McCLINTOCK, MONTGOMERY GOSPEL TRIO, NASHVILLE QUARTET, LANGSTON HUGHES, KAREN JAMES, NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS, DEREK LAMB, PAUL CLAYTON, PETE SEEGER, MIKE SEEGER, PEGGY SEEGER, EWAN McCOLL ...and various Field Recordings, Folk and Fiddle Festivals, Science recordings, etc.

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This auction is for:
THE FUGS
THE VILLAGE FUGS Sing Ballads of
Contemporary Protest, Point of Views and General Dissatisfaction
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.BROADSIDE Records BR 304
Original 1965 issue • MONO LP
The First issue of their First album

NOTE: LAST PHOTO (back Cover)
is sideways, for easier readability.

VINYL is NM
Full gloss vinyl shows 2 very faint, very short hairlines under hard bright light. Plays superb, Like New throughout. Labels are immaculate both sides.
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COVER is VG+
Thick, textured past-over (Folkways style) cover is generally very strong; vibrant, unfaded and super clean front and back. a close look at left side, front shows name written in ink, also small tatter to b.l. corner-tip of paper slick only. Otherwise only a few very minor spots of wear at top edge front and very few tiny spots on back of slick. Overall extremely clean. All edges straight, all corners sharp. Light wear to spine. No splits.

STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

Legendary 1st PRESS issue of THE FUGS radical, highly irreverent and explosive First album?.?
Contains original versions of "SLUM GODDESS", "I COULDN'T GET HIGH", "BOOBS A LOT" and 7 others.

BY FAR THE RAREST FUGS ALBUM IN EXISTENCE – LESS THAN 2,000 COPIES ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN PRESSED, PROBABLY LESS THAN 500 SURVIVE IN PLAYABLE CONDITION.

ORIGINAL BEIGE BROADSIDE LABEL WITH BELL-RINGER LOGO.

The most abrasive, crude, subversive, in-your-face, nihilist, anarchist, way-way-left-of-Trotsky, assault on establishment known in U.S. history. Compared to this, MC5 and Stooges sound like Mantovani on Prozac...

MATRIX NUMBERS
?Side One: BR 304 A
?Side Two: BR 304 B x
"MK" also etched in trail-off wax both sides.

Original 4-page Lyrics insert included; very clean?
-behind inner pocket divider.?

QUITE HARD TO FIND LP IN TOP CONDITION
...rarely found, with most copies being pretty well trashed.

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Disc inside anti-static V.R.P. inner sleeve.
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve.
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Hooking up with the Greenwich Village poets Tuli Kupferberg and Ed Sanders and drummer Ken Weaver, Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber (a/k/a Holy Modal Rounders) became - along with Electric guitar: Vinny Leary and Electric Bass: John Anderson - the new VILLAGE FUGS, who were at least as strange as the Holy Modal Rounders, but more interested in playing rock music.

The Village Fugs' debut album, The Village Fugs Sing Ballads of Contemporary Protest, Point of Views, and General Dissatisfaction, was released by the Broadside subsidiary of Folkways Records in 1965 (this is the pressing we have here). The group lsoon simplified its name to The Fugs, and the album was reissued by the iconic, independent jazz label ESP as 'The Fugs First Album'.

ESP initially rejected the band's second recording as obscene, and they followed instead with an album simply called 'The Fugs', which somehow broke into the pop charts in July 1966 and actually reached the Top 40 during a six-month chart stay. ('The Fugs First Album' then belatedly reached the charts and peaked in the Top 100.) With that, ESP created one of the first advisory stickers ever made for a record ("For Adult Minds Only") and finally issued the intended second release as the Fugs' third album, 'Virgin Fugs'. [information taken from the Stampfel & Weber / Holy Modal Rounders web site].

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Collectible Folkways, related and other Americana LPs
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