** THE DAKOTAS - I CAN'T BREAK THE NEWS TO MYSELF - PHILIPS 1968 **
Sold Date:
December 6, 2016
Start Date:
November 29, 2016
Final Price:
£60.00
(GBP)
Bid Count:
8
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THE DAKOTAS I CANT BREAK THE NEWS TO MYSELF / THE SPIDER AND THE FLY PHILIPS MONO BF 1645 PLAY TESTED THE A SIDE PLAYS EX MINIMAL BACKGROUND IN PLACES THE B SIDE HAS A SCRATCH SEE PICS, WHICH CLICKS NO JUMPS. THE REST PLAYS VG+ CLEAN LABELS COMPANY SLEEVE IS G SEE ALL PICS FOR DETAILS
By the time The Spider And The Fly was recorded as the B side to the 1968 single I Can't Break The News To Myself, Robin MacDonald was the sole survivor of the original Dakotas line-up.
Ex-Pirates guitarist Mick Green had drafted in fellow Pirateer members and an unknown American sessionist was employed to provide vocals.
The track itself is a masterful hotch-potch of the Dakotas trad beat style, a heavier freakbeat rhythm, earworm guitar hooks and a big dollop of proto-glam
IN ANSWER TO MANY Q'S, THE B SIDE PLAYS WITH NO JUMPS JUST A TICK OVER THE SCRATCH
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