BARBARA & ERNIE - PRELUDE TO Cotillion WL Promo '71 LP US PSYCH FOLK ROCK rare!

Sold Date: May 18, 2019
Start Date: May 11, 2019
Final Price: £33.99 (GBP)
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BARBARA & ERNIE - PRELUDE TO... US COTILLION SD 9044, 1971.

ORIGINAL US WL Promo ISSUE.

Superb US Psych Rock/Funk/Folk/Jazz…full of fabulous songs/music and great femvox.

Saw this review from the Fallout CD reissue:

‘This wonderfully soulful blend of folk, jazz, funk and psychedelia, orchestrated by the legendary Eumir Deodato, makes its long-overdue CD debut here. Featuring the cream of America’s early 70s session musicians, as well as guest appearances from jazz titans Keith Jarrett and Joe Beck, it’s a lost classic that has attracted ever-increasing interest from DJs, samplers and discerning collectors in recent years.
This unlikely duo’s sole album is finally being acclaimed as the minor classic it always was. Ernie Calabria had been playing guitar for a long time by 1972 and was best known for his long association with Harry Belafonte. In fact, he played on the same session that marked the young Bob Dylan’s recording debut in mid-1961, for Belafonte’s Midnight Special LP.
Barbara Massey, meanwhile, having released at least one single (the brilliant ballad You Call Me Angel (You Devil You) / I’ll Tell You In The Morning (How I Feel Tonight), on Imperial, had made a name for herself as a talented backing singer, eventually gracing records by artists as varied as the Fugs, Cat Stevens, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Grover Washington, Neil Sedaka, Jimmy Witherspoon, Johnny Winter, Michael Bolton and Jimi Hendrix.
The album the pair made together in several New York studios in August 1970 (by which time they were married) featured a stunning line-up of musicians, including jazz heroes Joe Beck and Keith Jarrett, surely reflecting the confidence Atlantic had in them. The orchestrations, overseen by the young Eumir Deodato, are especially memorable, and the production (by jazz veteran Joel Dorn, also responsible for classic Atlantic albums by Max Roach, Gary Burton, Les McCann, Eddie Harris and many others) is sublime.

Yet the album didn’t sell...it has quietly gone on to be a treasure to the lucky few who have original copies, and this first CD issue will surely cement its reputation.’

Standout tracks include the excellent "Play With Fire", a sublime version of "Somebody To Love", the superb Eastern Psych "Listen To Your Heart", the catchy "For You", "Searching The Circle" & the mellow "My Love And I"...with the rest not far behind.

Now a rare and sought after album with decent copies usually $50+.

Rare WL Promo issue.


NOTE: Cover probably had a cutout notch which has then caused an 8 x 1 cm piece to be missing from the bottom right corner at the opening (like a cut corner), and also has a cut further into the sleeve.


Record has some light feelable marks, still plays quite well.


Condition is G to VG/VG to VG+ (cover/record), cover has some wear with some sticker surface tears on the front, promo sticker/residue & small old price written on the front.

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GRADINGS:

I DO TRY TO PLAY/TEST GRADE ALL THE LPs I SELL.

MINT:

RECORD: PERFECT...AS NEW CONDITION, SO NO DETEORIATION IN THE SOUND QUALITY…bear in mind that not all ‘new’ LPs are Mint because of the quality of the pressing etc...also SEALED/UNPLAYED LPs should be Mint.

COVER: AS NEW CONDITION WITH NO OBVIOUS DEFECTS.

M-: RECORD: SLIGHTY WORSE THAN Mint, LP may have the odd surface mark due to removal from its sleeve etc…but should have minimal noise and is still in great condition.

COVER: SHOWS SIGNS OF BEING HANDLED WITH THE ODD CREASE/TINY BIT OF WEAR or a Mint cover with a deletion/cutout hole or notch.

EX: RECORD: MOST REGUARLY PLAYED LPs KEPT WITH CARE FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY...LP may play with more hiss/slight crackle but not louder than the music.

COVER: SLIGHTLY MORE WEAR/CREASING/BENDING even some very slight ring wear...or may be a M or M- cover with a tiny split seam or a tiny sticker tear, but still nice.

EX-: Record & Cover a bit worse than EX, but better than VG+.

VG+: RECORD: LP PLAYS WITH MORE NOISE DUE TO EITHER DIRT OR STRONGER SURFACE MARKS BUT NO BAD MARKS/SCRATCHES and is STILL IS IN A VERY LISTENABLE CONDITION though starting to affect the music to some extent.

COVER: HAS QUITE A LOT OF CEASING/BENDING often with FADING/RING WEAR/ STICKER TEARS/TEARS...or may be an EX cover with a split seam(s).

NOTE: Any buyers looking for reasonably nice playing records should avoid anything below VG+.    

VG: Not exactly ‘Very Good’, an often-misinterpreted grade, most VG records I’ve bought have some obvious defects affecting the record and/or cover.        RECORD: THE SOUND QUALITY OF IS AFFECTED BY SURFACE MARKS/ LESSER AUDIBLE MARKS/SCRATCHES or DIRT etc...but still plays through and is still in quite a REASONABLE condition for playing, though obviously affecting the music to a greater extent.

COVER: PLENTY OF CREASING/BENDING/FADING/RING WEAR but still in one piece.

G: LP still plays through but is very noisy due to scratches/dirt etc....but still not totally trashed!

COVER: AS VG BUT TORN and starting to fall apart.

F/P: LP is trashed...for ornament purposes only.

PLEASE NOTE GRADING IS SUBJECTIVE AND EVERYONE CAN HAVE A DIFFERENT OPINION (for instance, some sellers don’t grade below VG). Myself, I think there should be an obvious difference between each grade.