Sold Date: August 31, 2023
Start Date: August 7, 2023
Final Price: $32.00 (USD)
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After the rock charts were blessed with "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham in 1964, the next amazing single by Mexican-American artists to tear it up was 96 TEARS in 1966 by four kids from Detroit. The record caught on with Flint Michigan radio, and a week later was all over Detroit stations...one of which broadcast at 50,000 watts and thereby broke it to the rest of the country. I lip-synced it for show and tell at age 10, when it was still on the charts, playing air keyboards along to my personal 45.
This particular copy of the album has a great NM- sleeve that looks wonderful for an artifact going on 60 years old (better than me for sure)...the vinyl i'm grading conservatively at VG since SIde 1 in particular shows light visible markings and light surface sounds while playing. On Stax headphones (which're very revealing of surface noise) it's pretty unobtrusive, but I can't call it VG+. Still a really good playable enjoyable disc of a band that was never rated at its worth. And of course there's nothing like these OG masters...or labels like Cameo!
Enjoy this nugget as it was intended to be heard, and don't miss "I Need Somebody" on Side 1, the very worthy follow-up single.
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