VAN MORRISON, Tupelo Honey [with poster] USA 1st presssing EXCELLENT- LP

$

59

Van Morrison ?– Tupelo Honey Label: Warner Bros. Records ?– WS 1950 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Pitman Pressing  Country: US Released: 1971 Genre: Rock Style: Blues Rock, Folk Rock Tracklist Hide Credits A1 Wild Night 3:29 A2 (Straight To Your Heart) Like A Cannonball Arranged By [Flute] – Boots Stuart Houston 3:37 A3 Old Old Woodstock 4:14 A4 Starting A New Life 2:06 A5 You're My Woman 6:40 B1 Tupelo Honey Arranged By [Flute] – Bruce Royston 6:53 B2 I Wanna Roo You (Scottish Derivative) 3:22 B3 When That Evening Sun Goes Down 3:02 B4 Moonshine Whiskey 6:45 Companies, etc. Record Company – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Produced For – Caledonia Productions Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman Recorded At – Wally Heider Studios Recorded At – Columbia Studios Published By – Caledonia Soul Music Published By – Wb Music Corp. Credits Arranged By [Horns] – Jack Schroer, Van Morrison Art Direction – Ed Thrasher Backing Vocals – Boots Stuart Houston, Ellen Schroer, Janet Planet, Ronnie Montrose, Van Morrison Bass – Bill Church Composed By – Van Morrison Drums – Connie Kay (tracks: A3, A4, B1, B3), Rick Schlosser* (tracks: A1, A2, A5, B2, B4)  Engineer – David Brown (14), Doc Storch, Steve Barncard*  Flute – Boots Stuart Houston, Bruce Royston Guitar, Harmonica – Van Morrison Guitar, Mandolin – Ronnie Montrose Mastered By [Runout Etch] – SG*  Organ – Ted Templeman Photography By – Mike Maggid*  Piano, Electric Piano – Mark Jordan Producer – Ted Templeman, Van Morrison Remix – Donn Landee, Lee Herschberg Saxophone – Jack Schroer Steel Guitar – John McFee Trumpet – Luis Gasca Vibraphone [Vibes], Percussion – Gary Mallaber Notes Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman pressing per P stamped in runout. Release comes in a gatefold cover. Recorded at Wally Heider, San Francisco and Columbia Studios, San Francisco Comes with a full size fold-out poster of Van Morrison holding his guitar. Green WB labels. 

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH POSTER AND ORIGINAL COMPANY INNER SLEEVE.

MATRIX:  SIDE A: WS-1950 39987-1 SG 9 4 P /  SIDE B: WS-1950 39988-1 SG .

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. MINOR CORNER BUMPS.  POSTER EXCELLENT MINUS, INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW VERY LIGHT HAIRLINES. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

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