Sold Date: May 26, 2020
Start Date: May 21, 2020
Final Price: $20.00 (USD)
Bid Count: 1
Seller Feedback: 6697
Buyer Feedback: 0

Billy Joel ‎LP Cold Spring Harbor Excellent Condition Rare 1st Press Winner Pays Only $3.85 Shipping/Handling U.S.A.
Billy Joel ‎LP Cold Spring Harbor Label:Family Productions ‎– FPS 2700 Format:Vinyl, LP, Album Country:US Released:1971 Genre:Rock, Pop Style:Folk Rock, Ballad Tracklist A1She's Got A Way2:40 A2You Can Make Me Free5:40 A3Everybody Loves You Now2:40 A4Why Judy Why3:46 A5Falling Of The Rain2:24 B1Turn Around3:20 B2You Look So Good To Me2:26 B3Tomorrow Is Today4:47 B4Nocturne2:37 B5Got To Begin Again2:47 Companies, etc. Distributed By – Famous Music Corporation Recorded At – Record Plant, Los Angeles Recorded At – Ultra-Sonic Recording Studios Pressed By – Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Scranton Credits Arranged By, Conductor – Jimmie Haskell Bass – Joe Osborn, Larry Knechtel Composed By, Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Harmonica – Billy Joel Drums – Denny Siewell*, Rhys Clark Engineer – John Bradley Engineer [Second] – Michael Stone* Executive-Producer, Other [Artist Direction] – Irwin Mazur Guitar – Don Evans, Sal De Troia* Producer, Directed By – Artie Ripp Recorded By, Mixed By – Bob Hughes Steel Guitar – Sneaky Pete* Notes Recorded at Record Plant West, except "Why Judy Why" and "You Look So Good To Me" which were recorded at Ultrasonic Recording Studios.
Distributed by Famous Music Corporation.
This album was lacquer-mastered at the incorrect speed [approximately 8% faster]. Also, due to its rarity, there are numerous counterfeit copies with different dead-wax inscriptions, different label color and design, plus slightly blurrier jacket photos with less detail visible.
  ======
Cold Spring Harbor is the debut studio album by American recording artist Billy Joel, released on November 1, 1971, by Family Productions.
Production Mastering Through an error in the album's mastering, the songs played slightly too fast, causing Joel's voice to sound unnaturally high (one-half of a semitone higher—Joel joked that he sounded more like one of Alvin and the Chipmunks than himself). According to a long-standing rumor, when Joel first heard the finished product, he "ripped it off the turntable, ran out of the house, and threw [the record] down the street." Arthur "Artie" Ripp, owner of Family Productions and hence the owner of the original master tapes, was responsible for the production error, and the mistake cost him his friendship with Joel. He had originally signed the 22-year-old Joel to a ten-record contract that stripped Joel of all rights to the original tapes and to the publishing rights to all current and future songs. 
As part of a deal with Columbia Records to release Joel from his contract, Ripp was still able to collect royalties on sales of Joel's records long after Joel's acrimonious departure from Family Productions (up until 1986's The Bridge). Ripp only sold the publishing rights to Joel's song catalog back to Joel reluctantly after intense pressure from CBS/Columbia Records president Walter Yetnikoff, who claimed he had to threaten Ripp to finalize the deal.