Willie Nelson Stardust Vinyl LP Sealed Columbia JC 35305 Blue Skies All of Me

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Willie Nelson Stardust Vinyl LP - Columbia JC 35305 Sealed First Pressing (1978)
Condition: New, Still Factory Sealed. Still has a Hype Sticker and a vintage price sticker. No cutout marks.
Stardust is the 22nd studio album by Willie Nelson, released in April 1978. Its ten songs consist entirely of pop standards that Nelson picked from among his favorites. Nelson asked Booker T. Jones, who was his neighbor in Malibu at the time, to arrange a version of "Moonlight in Vermont". Impressed with Jones's work, Nelson asked him to produce the entire album. Nelson's decision to record such well-known tracks was controversial among Columbia executives because he had distinguished himself in the outlaw country genre. Recording of the album took only ten days.
Stardust was met with high sales and near-universal positive reviews. It peaked at number 1 in Billboard's Top Country Albums and number 30 in the Billboard 200. The singles "Blue Skies" and "All of Me" peaked at numbers 1 and 3 in Billboard's Hot Country Singles.
In 1979, Nelson won a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for the song "Georgia on My Mind". Stardust was on the Billboard's Country Album charts for ten years—from its release until 1988. In 2012, the album was ranked number 260 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was originally certified platinum by the RIAA in December 1978. By 1988, the album was certified quintuple platinum, and it was later inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame class of 2015.
Tracklist
A1 Stardust A2 Georgia On My Mind A3 Blue Skies A4 All Of Me A5 Unchained Melody
B1 September Song B2 On The Sunny Side Of The Street B3 Moonlight In Vermont B4 Don't Get Around Much Anymore B5 Someone To Watch Over Me
Musicians Willie Nelson – vocals, guitar Bobbie Nelson – piano Paul English – drums Rex Ludwick – drums Jody Payne – guitar Bee Spears – bass Chris Ethridge – bass Mickey Raphael – harmonica Booker T. Jones – organ, piano _____________________________________________
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MINT (M) - Absolutely perfect in every way. Most often this is a still sealed record, records that have been opened are rarely if ever marked as Mint.

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