Unused RICKIE LEE JONES "Rickie Lee Jones" 1979 Vinyl LP You are bidding on one unused copy of the RICKIE LEE JONES stereo vinyl LP "Rickie Lee Jones," released in 1979. This is an original release and NOT a CUT-OUT. This is Rickie's first solo album for Warner Bros. Records. Lyrics appear on the back of the jacket. Rickie won a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1979.

Produced by Lenny Waronker and Russ Titelman, engineered by Lee Herschberg, Loyd Clifft. Mixed and mastered by Lee Herschberg. Recorded at Warner Bros. Recording Studios and The Burbank Studios. "On Saturday Afternoons In 1963" and "After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight)" were recorded live on December 22, 1978 at TBS. Duration - 37:15.

This album entered the Billboard Album Chart in April, 1979. It peaked at number 3 and spent 36 weeks on the chart. There were two chart singles: "Chuck E.'s In Love" b/w "On Saturday Afternoons In 1963" reached number 4 and "Young Blood" b/w "Coolsville" reached number 40.

The LP and jacket is USED but in excellent condition; we believe the disc is unplayed. (See grading legend below). The disc is considered Near Mint (NM) and is not warped. There are no marks or scratches on either side. The jacket is also Near Mint (NM): there is no ring wear or no contact wear on either side and no edge wear. No bends in the cardboard. The inner sleeve is a generic Warner Bros. sleeve from the era and is in very good condition; no breaks in the paper. The pictures below are of the actual item.

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Personel: Lead Vocals - Rickie Lee Jones Bass - Red Callender, Willie Weeks Drums - Andy Newmark, Jeffrey Porcaro, Mark Stevens, Steve Gadd, Victor Feldman Guitar - Buzzy Feiten, Fred Tackett, Rickie Lee Jones Horns - Chuck Findley, Ernie Watts, Tom Scott Keyboards - Mac Rebennack, Neil Larsen, Ralph Grierson, Randy Kerber, Rickie Lee Jones, Victor Feldman Mandolin - Fred Tackett Percussion - Mark Stevens, Rickie Lee Jones, Victor Feldman Synthesizer - Michael "Bobby" Boddicker, Randy Newman Accordion - Nick DeCaro Backing Vocals - Arno Lucas, Joe Turano, Leslie Smith, Michael McDonald, Michael Wiener, Rickie Lee Jones

Track List:
Side One: Chuck E.'s In Love - 3:31 On Saturday Afternoons In 1963 (Live) - 2:35 Night Train - 3:18 Young Blood - 4:07 Easy Money - 3:20 The Last Chance Texaco - 4:08 Side Two: Danny's All-Star Joint - 4:06 Coolsville - 3:52 Weasel And The White Boys Cool - 6:03 Company - 4:54 After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight)(Live) - 2:15

AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann:
With her expressive soprano voice employing sudden alterations of volume and force, and her lyrical focus on Los Angeles street life, Rickie Lee Jones comes on like the love child of Laura Nyro and Tom Waits on her self-titled debut album. Given the population of colorful characters who may or may not be real people that populate her songs -- Chuck E., Bragger, Kid Sinister, and others -- she also might have had Bruce Springsteen in her bloodline (that is, the Springsteen of his first two albums), and her jazzbo sensibility suggests Mose Allison as a grandfather. Producers Lenny Waronker and Russ Titelman, who know all about assisting quirky singer/songwriters with their visions, have brought in a studio full of master session musicians, many of them with jazz credentials, and apparently instructed them to follow Jones' stop-and-start, loud-and-soft vocalizing, then overdubbed string parts here and there. The music thus has a sprung rhythmic feel that follows the contours of Jones' impressionistic stories about scuffling people on the streets and in the bars. There is an undertow of melancholy that becomes more overt toward the end, as the narrator's friends and lovers clear out, leaving her "Standing on the corner/All alone," as she sings in the final song, "After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight)." It's a long way, if only 40 minutes or so, from the frolicsome opener, "Chuck E.'s in Love," which had concluded that he was smitten by "the little girl who's singin' this song." But then, the romance of the street is easily replaced by its loneliness. Rickie Lee Jones is an astounding debut album that simultaneously sounds like a synthesis of many familiar styles and like nothing that anybody's ever done before, and it heralds the beginning of a potentially important career.

Warner Bros. Records BSK 3296. © ℗ 1979 Warner Bros. Records Inc., a Warner Communications Company

Runout ID:
Side 1: BSK-1-3296 LW-1 Side 2: BSK-2-3296 LW-1

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To protect this collectible recording, this auction also includes the packaging necessary to ship a vinyl record. Included is a new cardboard container specifically designed for vinyl records. The record will be shipped in a new paper sleeve to protect the original paper inner sleeve. The jacket will be shipped empty in a plastic sleeve to prevent damage. Thank you for viewing our auction!

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We try to grade the condition of a vinyl record conservatively . Records may be considered flat, or not warped, unless otherwise noted. If one side of a record is in better shape than the other, two grades will appear. Records and covers are graded separately.

M = Mint. In all but the rarest cases, still sealed. If we know that an open record has never been played, and the rating otherwise applies, it will be graded mint.
NM = Near mint, or unplayed condition. Cover is near perfect, new looking, with no surface or ring wear.
EX = Only slight signs of wear; very clean, only light surface marks which do not distract significantly from the sound. Cover has only slight surface wear and is still in nice collectible condition.
VG+ = Evidence of play, with moderate surface wear and some minor noise - still plays well. Cover is solid with no breaks but may have minor surface wear or some ring wear.
VG = Overall wear, but no skips or serious defects. May be somewhat noisy during quiet passages. Cover is worn, with considerable ring wear, and may have partially broken edges.
VG- = Playable, but both the record and cover are well worn.
G or G+ = Poor or Rough condition. Holefiller only!

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