Sold Date:
July 11, 2024
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August 1, 2023
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Vinyl: VG+ Play Graded. Sounds Great! Has some soft crackle in the background during softer passages. Original Atlantic Labels are clean and bright. This is the 1965 Atlantic 8110 1ST PRESSING in GLORIOUS MONO! R&B/Soul Pop Legend! This is one of her very best albums. Has some of her biggest hits like "Hello Stranger" and "Someday We'r Gonna Love Again". allmusic gives it 4 1/2 stars!!
See Biography & Review Below!
In The Dead Wax: On both sides: matrices, etched. Complete Dead Wax info cheerfully provided upon request.
Cover: VG++ (see photos). IN SHRINK! Vintage Price Sticker. Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich,
clear and bright, with a name written in the margin on the back cover. Seams, corners and spine are
solid and clean. No splits. Spine print is crystal clear.
Goldmine Standards. I play grade every record that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate a record accurately by just visually inspecting it. I
wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes. I
professionally clean the vinyl. (I also operate a Vinyl Record Cleaning
business for your dusty/dirty records--if interested, send me a
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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?
First
and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and
stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues
(which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or
digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile'
new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an
expensive CD pressed on vinyl. Why experience the worse elements of
both formats? These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so
cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared. They are nearly always
compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the
overall sound. There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses
outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm. First
or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and
dynamics. The sound staging is wider. Subtle instrument nuances are
better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the
bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without
harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive. Inner details are
clearer. On
first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and
vibrant. The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about
from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say
that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you
to hear when they first recorded the music.
Barbara Lewis Biography
by Richie Unterberger
Pop-soul doesn't get much better than Barbara Lewis,
whose seductive, emotive croon took "Hello Stranger" to number three in
1963. The Michigan native had been writing songs since the age of nine,
and began recording as a teenager with producer , who also had a hand in the careers of , , and .
Lewis wrote all of the songs on her debut LP (including "Hello
Stranger") and confidently handled harmony soul numbers (some with
backing by )
and more pop-savvy tunes, some of which, like "Hello Stranger," were
driven by an organ and a bossa nova-like beat. Follow-ups to "Hello
Stranger" didn't sell nearly as well (although one of her singles,
"Someday We're Gonna Love Again," was covered by
for a British Invasion hit). In the mid-'60s she began doing some
recordings in New York City, with assistance from producers like and ,
that employed more orchestral arrangements and pop-conscious material.
The approach clicked, both commercially and artistically: "Baby I'm
Yours" and "Make Me Your Baby" were both big hits, and both among the
best mid-'60s girl group-style productions. Lewis cut an album in the
late '60s for Stax (on the Enterprise subsidiary) that, as one would
expect, gave her sound a grittier approach, without compromising the
smooth and poppy elements integral to the singer's appeal. It passed
mostly unnoticed, though, and Lewis withdrew from the music business
after a few other singles. The "beach music" scene of the Carolinas
remains a bastion of appreciation for Lewis' records, which continue to
enjoy popularity and airplay there decades after their original release.
In the album "Baby, I'm Yours", we have a classic Barbara Lewis album with four tunes written by Lewis herself. "Baby, I'm Yours," and "Hello Stranger" we all know, but "Puppy Love," and "Think a Little Sugar" are also fine. The song "How Can I Say Goodbye" is wonderful. Most of these are available on compilations.