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·       THE FOUR SEASONS – FOUR SEASONS SING HITS BY BACHARACH-DAVID AND BOB DYLAN – ULTRA-RARE ORIGINAL 1965 PHILIPS RECORDS STEREO LP PHS-600-193

 

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

 

·       ORIGINAL PHILIPS BLACK LABEL WITH MULTICOLOR DETAIL

 

·       ULTRA RARE “GROUP PHOTO” COVER, PROBABLY THE RAREST FOUR SEASONS ALBUM IN EXISTENCE (ASIDE FROM "THE BEATLES Vs. THE FOUR SEASONS").

 

·       THIS IS NOT AN IMPORT, RECORD CLUB RELEASE OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

 

·       THICK CARDBOARD COVER, AMERICAN STYLE.

 

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

 

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

 

·       MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

 

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

 

 

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Bidders on this album should note the cover controversy surrounding this album – and also note that some record prices and guides will not tell you the full and complete (or even accurate) history of the album’s cover artwork.

 

The album was ORIGINALLY released with an image of an open illuminated manuscript with gothic script on its open pages (not, repeat: NOT with the color photo of the group as some record guides claim) ; ostensibly, the open book was supposed to symbolize Torah (The Old Testament), since both the songwriting team of Bacharach/David and Bob Dylan were of Jewish ancestry;   although nothing shown on the open book itself even remotely suggested that the shown manuscript was actually Torah. (This was the first version of the cover)

 

At the time, the cover design had struck some pious and devout believers as profanation of the sacred text in the hands of the overly commercial popular culture (mind you, the year was 1965, not 2010), so, to alleviate their concerns, the next, revised edition of the cover featured a – gasp! – plain, brown (actually, yellow) wrapper covering ONLY the “offensive” mid-section of the cover showing a book. The top and bottom margins of the front cover were left to dangle uncovered. The confused buyers not familiar with the photo on the cover underneath the wrapper could have been excused for getting some very, very wrong ideas about what lies underneath this “fig leaf” (we refer to this version as: first-and-a-half version, as it was essentially the same as the first, only with the yellow ribbon added to the cover).

 

Alas, this was not sufficient to placate the religious critics either, and so the next version of the cover featured a completely blanked-out open pages of the illuminated manuscript, which were then replaced with a bland, highly stylized song listing: Bacharach/David`s on the left side, Dylan`s on the right. The rest of the cover was left unchanged (this is the second version of the cover)

 

Still no good. The cover was still deemed too sacrilegious. Finally, people at Phillips records lost their patience, threw out all existing covers altogether and replaced them with the one showing a color photo of the band – THIS IS THE VERSION WE HAVE HERE (this is the third – and final – version of the cover WHICH IS BY FAR THE RAREST OF THE THREE!!!). Unfortunately, by the time the album had its final plastic surgery, it had died a quiet and unremarkable death on the charts, begetting no charting hits or major Four Seasons standards, and The Seasons apparently decided to move on their next project.   The final batch of the album covers (with the color photo of the band) was released in a minuscule press run and is MASSIVELY rarer than the two earlier versions, leading the Four Seasons experts to incorrectly assume that this, final, version precedes the other two. It does not.

 

So there you have it, folks: the full and the unabridged history of The Four Seasons painful head-on collision with the religious controversy. But whine they did not: Big Boys don’t Cry J.  

 

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·                               CONDITION:

 

·                               RECORD

 

 (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

 

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG VERY GOOD+(+) . CAUTION: The vinyl is NOT MINT or NEAR MINT, but is nevertheless in a very nice and clean condition. There are some surface marks and abrasions, mostly light and superficial, although some may be longer than 1.1/4 inches (1 inch = 2.5 centimeters)

 

(b)          The record comes in the original stock inner sleeve.

 

(c)           The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

 

(d)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

 

 

·       COVER

 

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD++ (VG++).

 

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

 

-        Cover has a partially split bottom seam (between 2 and 4 inches  / 5 to 10 centimeters)

 

-         Cover shows some light yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

 

-         Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 2.

 

-         Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine  (VISIBLE ON BACK SIDE ONLY)

 

-         Cover has some fraying/wear along the lower seam

 

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

 

-        No cut-out (drill) holes.

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

-        No writing

-        No stamps

-        No peel-off marks

-        No stains

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        No stickers or labels

-        No water damage

-        No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or  cuts.

-        No warping

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No glue traces or wax residue.

-        No bar codes

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

 

 

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