Sold Date:
February 21, 2020
Start Date:
December 16, 2019
Final Price:
$17.99
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Vinyl: VG++ Play Graded. Sounds Great! This would be a NM- grade except that there is a repeating pfff sound for less than 20 seconds on side 2 track 1 and a very soft tick sound for about 30 seconds on side 3 song 1 and about a minute on song 2. RSO Labels are Clean. This is the Original 1977 RSO Double LP Pressing! This is the coveted, definitive version, Mastered by Wally Traugott! The Biggest Selling Movie Soundtrack of All Time!!! With Career-Making Hits by the Bee Gees, KC & The Sunshine Band, Kool & The Gang, Yvonne Elliman & Tavares! This Movie made John Travolta a Star!!! Made Icons of The Bee Gees!!! You could call it Disco at its Best or you could call it your next guaranteed Instant Hot Dance Party!!!! See Review Below!
"Wally" in dead wax. This is Wally Traugott, the man responsible for the definitive mastering of Saturday Night Fever.
Cover: VG++ (see photos) Includes a Picture/Credits Inner Sleeve. Gatefold with great Photos!!!
Goldmine Standards. I play test every album that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate an LP accurately by just visually inspecting an album. I wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes. I professionally clean the vinyl.
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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.Every so often, a piece of music comes along that defines a moment in popular culture history: ' operetta Die Fledermaus did this in Vienna in the 1870s; 's Show Boat did it for Broadway musicals of the 1920s, and ' album served this purpose for the era of psychedelic music in the 1960s. , although hardly as prodigious an artistic achievement as those precursors, was precisely that kind of musical phenomenon for the second half of the '70s. Ironically, before its release, the disco boom had seemingly run its course, primarily in Europe, and was confined mostly to black culture and the gay underground in America. , as a movie and an album, plus a brace of hit singles off of it, suddenly made disco explode into mainstream, working- and middle-class America with a new immediacy and urgency, increasing its audience ten-fold overnight. had written "Stayin' Alive" (then called "Saturday Night"), "Night Fever," "How Deep Is Your Love," "If I Can't Have You," and "More Than a Woman" for what would have been the follow-up album to , and they might well have enjoyed platinum-record status with that proposed album. Instead, asked them in early 1977 to contribute songs to the soundtrack of a movie that he was financing, a low-budget picture called "Tribal Rites on a Saturday Night." More out of loyalty to him than any belief in the viability of the film, they obliged. The group's involvement even survived the decision by the original director, , that he didn't want their music in the film. Instead, fired him and brought in the very talented but much more agreeable , the movie's title was changed to Saturday Night Fever, the Bee Gees' music stayed, and the result was the biggest-selling soundtrack album in history, a 25-million copy monster whose sales, even as a more expensive double-LP, dwarfed the multi-million units sold of and . Strangely enough, for all of the fixation of the movie and its audience on dancing, the ' new songs were weighted equally toward ethereal ballads, which may be one reason for the soundtrack album's appeal -- it delivers what its audience expects, plus a "bonus" in the form of the soaring, lyrical romantic numbers that were, as with most ventures by in this area, virtually irresistible. Despite the presence of other artists, is virtually indispensable as a album, not just for the presence of an array of songs that were hits in their own right -- and which became the de facto soundtrack to a half-decade of pop culture history -- but because it offered as composers as well as artists, with their work recorded by ("If I Can't Have You"), and ("More Than a Woman"), and it placed their music alongside the work of and . In essence, the layout of the soundtrack was the culmination of everything they'd been moving toward since the album. Even the presence of 's "Night on Disco Mountain" and "Salsation," and 's "A Fifth of Beethoven," don't hurt, because these set a mood and a surrounding ambience for the Bee Gees' material that makes it work even better.