The First Gear - A Certain Girl RARE Jimmy Page 7" 45

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Printed on A-Side:
Mar-Mar (logo)

Travis Music                                315
                  BMI                                     13508             
     DJ COPY                              Time 2:20

A CERTAIN GIRL
(Naomi Neville)
THE  FIRST  GEAR

A Pye Cerise Recording

Matrix number etched into vinyl:
Jm 1074         13508

Printed on B-Side:
Mar-Mar (logo)

Travis Music                                315
                  ASCAP                                  13509             
     DJ COPY                              Time 2:20

LEAVE MY KITTEN ALONE
(John, Turner, McDougal)
THE  FIRST  GEAR

A Pye Cerise Recording

Matrix number etched into vinyl:
Jm 1075         13509

The First Gear
A Certain Girl  b/w  Leave My Kitten Alone

Format
7" 45rpm Phonograph Record

Original Release Information / Track Listings
1964 Mar-Mar Records 
         Mar-Mar  315
     A Certain Girl (Naomi Neville) 2:20  b/w  Leave My Kitten Alone (John, Turner, McDougal) 2:20

Country of Origin
US Pressing

Condition
Good+

Description
ULTRA RARE! Deleted, discontinued, and long since out of print. Rare domestic release of one of the very first recordings with Jimmy Page on guitar. Released in October 1964, Jimmy Page was one of England's most reknowned session musicians... on bass guitar and on lead electric guitar. This recording predates Jimmy's debut with The Yardbirds by a full year and a half. When The Beatles broke onto the charts in England in 1963, a lot of bands tried to emulate their mix of hard rocking guitar and harmony vocals. Others likely understood that they would have a better shot at breaking onto the charts with sheer muscle. That was The First Gear's approach on "A Certain Girl", and it went double on "Leave My Kitten Alone." And in this case... their main guitarists Phil Birkenshaw and Raymond Wafer just couldn't pull it off... so producer Shel Talmy had Jimmy Page stand in to play electric lead guitar that wiped out the band's beat... but must've boggled the mind of anyone who heard this band's debut single. A very cool record in strong Good+ condition. Various minor surface marks (very very light marks) running from the centre of the record out towards the edges on the A-side are more just storage scuffs than anything else. No audible scratches on this one. Side B is close to NM- shape. Both sides of this record PLAY EXTREMELY QUIET as though it has not seen much turntable use. These marks are obviously just from storage wear. Both labels are clean with only a couple of surface smudges visible on Side A, the worst one being through the "FI" of FIRST GEAR. The label on Side B is absolutely perfect. Not bad at all for a record which is almost 50 years old.

THIS IS ONE ULTRA RARE RECORD!!! It is usually the UK pressings which turn up, and once in a blue moon a UK copy will come up for auction on eBay. The last one which came up for auction was listed in Good+ to VG- condition and fetched over $300 USD. The domestic copies of this one NEVER TURN UP, and this is the first domestic copy of this single I have ever had my hands on, let alone seen!

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RECORD GRADING

Still Sealed: Original factory seal. Never opened. Never played. Perfect condition.

Mint: As stated. Like new with no defects

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