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1st PRESSING

WHITE LABEL PROMO

VPI MACHINE CLEANED & PLAYTESTED

Band/Artist: Jack Bruce

Album Title: Songs For A Tailor

Featuring: Jack Bruce, George Harrison, Chris Spedding, Harry Beckett, Henry Lather, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Jon Hiseman, Art Themen, L’Angelo Misterioso, John Marshall, Felix Pappalardi, John Mumford

Producer: Felix Pappalardi

Catalogue#: SD33-306

Year/Record Company: 1969 ATCO

1 LP – Stereo - 12 inch vinyl record - 33 1/3

This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This white label promo LP record album comes from my personal collection & has been VPI machine cleaned & playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke and pet free conditions.

LP Condition: very good

Shine: most

Scratches: several light and several feather

Label Wear: very light (completely readable, “Sample Copy Not For Sale” is on the right side of both labels, blue marker asterisk on side 1 label by track 3 and “WGAM Radio” is written on side 2 label in blue ink – see photos)

Labels: Atco at the left, “1841 Broadway” in the fine print; see photos

Spindle Hole Wear: light

LP Sound: very good (no skips or hang-ups, no missing audio)

Surface Noise: light

Jacket Condition: very good (completely readable)

Shrink Wrap: none

Wear To Seams: light (no splits, no tape)

Back Ring Wear: light

Front Ring Wear: light

Ink or pencil marks: none

Water Stains: none

Drill Holes: none

Saw Cuts: none

Stamps/Stickers: 2” diameter spot of sticker glue on front cover where sticker was once removed (see photo)

Sleeve: new anti-static sleeve

Cover: Roger Phillips

Songs for a Tailor is the 1969 debut solo album by the Scottish musician, composer and singer Jack Bruce, who was already famous at the time of its release for his work with the supergroup Cream. Originally released on the Polydor label in Europe and on Atco Records in the U.S., Songs for a Tailor was the second solo album that Bruce recorded, though he did not release the first, Things We Like, for another year.

The album, which was titled in tribute to Cream's recently deceased clothing designer, displayed more of the musician's diverse influences than his compositions for Cream, though it did not chart as highly as his work with that band. Nevertheless, it was successful, reaching No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 55 on the Billboard "Pop Albums" chart.

While it has not been universally critically well-received, with a negative review by Rolling Stone on its first release, it is considered by many writers to be among Bruce's best albums. The literary lyrics by poet and songwriter Pete Brown have been particularly divisive, with one critic singling them out for praise while others have been more generally critical. Songs on the album include "Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune", and "Theme for an Imaginary Western", which was covered famously by Leslie West's Mountain, and is featured in 2006's 1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them. It was voted number 955 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000). (source: Wikipedia)

SIDE 1

Never Tell Your Mother She’s Out Of Tune 3:39

Theme For An Imaginary Western 3:27

Tickets To Water Falls 2:59

Weird Of Hermiston 2:20

Rope Ladder To The Moon 2:51

SIDE 2

The Ministry Of Bag 2:47

He The Richmond 3:34

1967 Boston Ball Game 1:44

To Isengard 5:28

The Clearout 2:36

John Symon Asher Bruce (14 May 1943 – 25 October 2014) was a Scottish bassist, singer-songwriter, musician and composer. He gained popularity as the co-lead vocalist and ‍bassist ‍of British rock band Cream. After the group disbanded in 1968, he pursued a solo career and also played with several bands.

In the early 1960s Bruce joined the Graham Bond Organisation (GBO), where he met his future bandmate Ginger Baker. After leaving the band, he joined with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, where he met Eric Clapton, who also became his future bandmate. His time with the band was brief. In 1966, he formed Cream with lead guitarist Clapton and drummer Baker; he co-wrote many of their songs (including "Sunshine of Your Love", "White Room" and "I Feel Free") with poet/lyricist Pete Brown. After the group disbanded in the late 1960s he began recording solo albums. His first solo album, Songs for a Tailor, released in 1969, was a worldwide hit. Bruce formed his own band to perform the material live, and subsequently formed a blues-rock band West, Bruce and Laing in 1972, with guitarist Leslie West and drummer Corky Laing. His solo career spanned several decades. From the 1970s to the 1990s he played with several groups as a touring member. He reunited with Cream in 2005 for concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Bruce is considered to be one of the most important and influential ‍bassists ‍of all time. ‍Rolling Stone magazine readers ranked him number eight on their list of "10 ‍Greatest ‍Bassist ‍Of All Time". He was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, and was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, both as a member of Cream. (source: Wikipedia)

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