The Dominions I Need Her/Spanish Harlem 7" 45 rpm '66 Graves Recording Service

Sold Date: June 12, 2019
Start Date: June 5, 2019
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So I've seen the very expensive one sit for a very long time-a more recent copy went for over 200-and I've been sitting on two of these for years and years.
Alan Graves, who ran this label/operation, was a friend of mine for a long time and I worked with him on a few projects. A really, nice, gracious man, who, no did not hang on really to physical copies of the sometimes great projects he pressed up or recorded for so many years.
I found these over the years living here in Eugene, and this first one I'm offering actually is going to play cleaner than those previously offered here save one major exception-which I'll get to.
On the surface, you look at the broken outside groove, but this doesn't touch the play area itself on either side and the record isn't cracked either. Just somewhere along the line the vinyl gods took a bite.
Small one, however.
More of an issue is that on the cool side, I Need Her, there is something unconventional-it's not a scratch like what you would normally find, it's almost like a pressed vinyl flaw (which I am going to doubt) or some kind of substance got in this area and despite all my tricks and scrubs, it doesn't go away. So, it makes a pretty good sound as it hits this area. 
In the video I'm including, it comes down to this-the record actually starts at about 17 seconds into the video (after my wife asks about laundry :) and then that noise starts cycling around 29 seconds and ends at 56 seconds. So you get about 27 seconds of this at what is kind of the outset of the record and the rest is fine after that. The rest of the record, on both sides, plays a very good vg+ and visually holds up that way as well. (I got sold a VG+ record that was HACKED recently, and I wouldn't have even listed it, it was that bad). I feel ok about this one. You're close to getting a really good copy of this (and the sound is great, you can tell in the vid) but for one stupid thing. 



Anyway, if you can live with the 27 seconds, this is for you. 

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[isdntekvideo] Also, I need to mention that the John Dick label means it likely indeed belonged to (our) legendary John Dick, who was a member of the Oregon Tall Firs (winner of the very first NCAA tournament in basketball, thank you) and also went on to a long distinguished military career. He was still faithfully attending basketball games into his 90's and there is a book on him as well. Now, as John would have been in his late 40's or earl 50's perhaps when this was cut, I doubt he was digging on the garage bit-but, it is more likely, as they were closer in age, that he got it from Alan Graves. (Either that, or he knew the kids in the band).
Any questions, please ask. Will insure and pack well for the journey to you.
John Dick, a retired Navy admiral, a longtime supporter of the University of Oregon, and the last surviving starter from the Ducks' legendary "Tall Firs" NCAA championship team, died Thursday. He was 92.

Dick was a staple at football and basketball games for several decades, donning an Oregon varsity jacket and camel cap as he cheered for teams in Eugene and on the road.

"The loss of a man like John Dick diminishes us all," university President Richard Lariviere said in a statement. "His presence in our community enriched and inspired us."

Dick became part of university lore after leading the Ducks to the first NCAA basketball championship title in 1939, a 46-33 victory over Ohio State. The 6-foot-4 junior post topped both teams with 13 points.

In a time when teams traveled by train and basketball inventor James Naismith attended the first championship game, Dick and the rest of the "Tall Firs" -- nicknamed for their towering front line -- proved to skeptics that college basketball could thrive on the West Coast.

Oregon's team so captivated the Northwest that as players made the trip home from the championship site in Chicago, Dick's family and friends in The Dalles collected 25-cent donations to buy him the best gold watch in town, wrote the late Brian Meehan of The Oregonian.

After raising $75 for the engraved Hamilton watch, organizers demanded that Union Pacific Railroad stop the train for a ceremony in The Dalles. At first, the railroad didn't oblige.

"They ended up talking to the president of the railroad and told him, 'If you will not stop this train, we will simply barricade the tracks,'" Dick said in a 2008 interview with Meehan. "They were not fooling around. ... The railroad president shot back: 'I'll give you 10 minutes.'"

About 2,500 people showed up before 6 a.m. for the ceremony, inspiring the hometowns of the other players to follow suit.

Dick spent his senior season as the university's student body president as well as the team's captain. He went on to score 333 points in 31 games, leading the all-Pacific Coast Conference in scoring with 10.7 points per game and tying a single-season record of 75 field goals.

Dick then served 32 years in the U.S. Navy, enlisting the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He commanded the supercarrier USS Saratoga from 1967 to 1969 and eventually rose to the rank of rear admiral. He returned to Eugene upon retiring in 1973, when he became a season ticket holder with his wife.

Ernie Kent, a former coach who spent 13 years at the university, called Dick one of the greatest men he had ever met.

"He was one of the few people I met that stayed in your corner," Kent said. "Whether you won or lost, he was always there."

Dick would often watch practices, Kent said, but always from the top of the bleachers — never from the floor. Even as old age made it more difficult for him to climb up the stairs, Dick would refuse to sit near the court out of respect for the coaches.  (from 2011 obit).