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    STONE MINT ORIGINAL 1973 FIRST PRESS

   STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY CELLOPHANE
  

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          "RED ROSE SPEEDWAY"

                  Paul McCartney

   

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                USA -APPLE RECORDS - SMAL 13409

BEAUTIFUL - pure MINT -

STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY CELLOPHANE GATEFOLD

+ 12 PHOTO PAGES  (inbound photos)

you won't find a better copy!!!

1973 first press thick textured gatefold cover with 12 page color band photos in-bound to the gatefold cover ... A great re-discovery LP which provides many memorable melodies upon repeat listens ...

As with Ram, this album's idiosyncrasies are, with hindsight, responsible for much of its charm and excellence.  This is sleeper LP for many -- everything on side 1 except "One More Kiss" is very good (no wonder; tracks 1, 3 and 5 reputedly go back to Ram), and the three non-medley songs on Side 2 are near-great.  "Single Pigeon" and "When The Night" are understated and appealing, with very nice melodies and lyrics that work (i.e. complement the music and don't get in the way).  "Loup" is the kind of experimentation at which McCartney excels, and which he probably would have done a lot more of with a band that challenged him.  The only weak spots are the pedestrian, retro "One More Kiss"  and the medley (which still has its moments, especially "Lazy Dynamite", whose harmonies are irresistibly seductive).

As for the sound, it's just great.  Paul's production has never sounded better.  Lush, painstakingly produced:  had the medley been good, some reviewers would have called this a minor Abbey Road instead of making the comparison derisively.  "Big Barn Bed" is amazingly arranged, with a climax that's impossible to describe; headphones essential.  If you listen closely, he's singing "ananda, oo-ee" -- "ananda" being "bliss" in Sanskrit, and that certainly fits the spirit of the song.  Typical for Paul to be understated but sophisticated in such matters.  "Get On The Right Thing" is a delight, playfully and masterfully soulful, with that irie, infectious Ram euphoria.  "Little Lamb Dragonfly" is a pastoral medley adorned with the kind of heavenly background vocals one would expect.  So lovely and poignant; could the dragonfly that he so misses be John?  "My Love" divides listeners, but I bought the single as a kid and have always loved the melody and that weird "meeee" at the end.  And the bonus tracks on some editions are great.... classic hits and B-sides, like "Hi Hi Hi", Paul's "mission statement" for the decade. 

Not without flaws, but on the whole an excellent album thanks to the best half-dozen songs and McCartney's unsurpassed mastery of the studio.  It went to #1 in the U.S., and I don't think that was only because of Paul's fame or the smash hit "My Love".  Those factors probably put it over the top, but this is very strong on its own (enough to have gone Top 10 coming from any artist), and due for the same re-evaluation that Ram had enjoyed.  In fact, if you collect the better tracks from this album along with the contemporaneous singles "Hi Hi Hi" and "Live And Let Die", you get a set of songs that stands alongside Ram and Band On The Run without apology.

Side one

    "Big Barn Bed"
    "My Love"
    "When the Night"
    "Single Pigeon"

Side two

    "Tragedy"
    "Mama's Little Girl"
    "Loup (1st Indian on the Moon)"
    "I Would Only Smile"

              

 

CONDITION: The cover: rated: MINT in factory shrink wrap, outer-wrapper split at top left top seam...still a beautiful flat & square copy with 4 sharp corners ... 12 pages of photos are in-bound...has a VERY fresh appearance -- there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ... FINAL collection copy

The vinyl: Rated: MINT beautiful TOP copy ... ALL Clean and glossy plays with very enjoyable audio  ...play back will not reveal alarming distracting surface problems ...  both labels are clean

           

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

 

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