M- 1967 STERO Orig ● THE BEATLES ● Magical Mystery Tour ● SWIRL PSYCH PENNY LANE

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              ~ STEREOPHONIC COLLECTION COPY !~            

 1967 "RAINBOW CAPITOL" FIRST PRESSING COLLECTIBLE ~

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                         The Beatles

             Magical Mystery Tour

 

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\                USA - RAINBOW CAPITOL RECORDS = SMAL 2835 [stereo]  

 

CLEAN ...COLLECTION WORTHY 1967 FIRST PRINTING ...

Thee ORIGINAL 1967 first pressing ~ on the highly collected RAINBOW Capitol label of the sixties...

RAINBOW CAPITOL Records first issue in thick gatefold cover and contains the color photo pages inside the thick gatefold ...the multi pages are intact(!), you may find ONE copy for every hundred with the photo pages still secured to the cover....

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The album opens with Magical Mystery Tour, a fun song with some great call and respond vocals between John and George (who provide the backing vocal) and Paul who provides the lead. Ringo's drumming is also great on this track (he really seemed to improve vastly over the past few albums). The Fool On the Hill is another McCartney piano led piece that has some nice flute interludes as well as some inventive chord progressions from McCartney, it's a playful piece that has a lot of merit to it. Flying is the first song on record from the Beatles that credits all the members as writers. What it is is a segment of a very long jam that they had and put on record. It's the only thing keeping this album from being a masterpiece, in my opinion, because it lasts too short and it would have been awesome to hear more of it played out. Blue Jay Way is George Harrison's piece of the album and it treads on near ambient territories. It also has this terrifying, forbidding feel complimented with a nice section that tilts the atmosphere a bit. It also utilizes some odd times as well (5/4 and 7/4 are both used, as well as 6/4) and the vocals are just spectacular.

Your Mother Should Know is a catchy throwback to another era, and it has some nice harmony vocals and lead vocals from McCartney as well as some truly majestic sections that really make it a danceable and fun song. I Am the Walrus ends the film songs with an introspective and off the wall Lennon lyrics and vocals augmented by some stellar rhythmic work from Paul and Ringo as well as some awesome orchestrations and sound effects (the end of which is from a BBC broadcast of King Leer). Hello Goodbye is a beautiful timeless track with some nice backing vocals from John and George and nice leading vocals from Paul. The guitar work on this track is also really good as well. Strawberry Fields Forever has the Beatles dabbling with the mellotron and the acid washed piece has some great lyrics from Lennon (about his childhood) and some fun vocals as well as a nice overall melody. Penny Lane is another Paul led piece with some nice piano work and some cool horn arrangements as well. Baby You're a Rich Man has some cool falsettos from the group (the song is supposed to be a tribute to the late Brian Epstein) and a nice underlying bass beat from McCartney during the pre-verses and the choruses. The album ends with the eponymous All You Need is Love, the heavily orchestrated introduction and the searing George Harrison lead. The song also has some great sections of 7/4 and the outro chorus is brillinat (with Paul McCartney going on a tangent and even reprising the She Loves You chorus).

Magical Mystery Tour (2:52)

Recorded: April 25, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added April 26-27, 1967 (vocals), May 3, 1967 (trumpets), and November 7, 1967
John Lennon - acoustic guitar, background vocal
Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, piano (with echo effects)
George Harrison - lead guitar, background vocal
Ringo Starr - drums, tambourine
Session musicians - three trumpets The Fool on the Hill (3:00) Recorded: September 25, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added September 26, 1967 and October 20, 1967 (flutes)
John Lennon - harmonica, maracas
Paul McCartney - lead vocal, piano, double-tracked recorder, flute
George Harrison - lead guitar, harmonica
Ringo Starr - finger cymbals Flying (2:17) Recorded: September 8, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added September 28, 1967
John Lennon - mellotron, chanting, tape loop at end
Paul McCartney - guitars, chanting
George Harrison - guitars, chanting
Ringo Starr - drums, maracas, chanting, tape loop at end Blue Jay Way (3:57) Recorded: September 6, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added September 7, 1967 and October 6, 1967
John Lennon - tambourine
Paul McCartney - bass guitar, background vocal
George Harrison - double-tracked lead vocal, Hammond organ, background vocal
Ringo Starr - drums
Session musician - cello Your Mother Should Know (2:29) Recorded: August 22, 1967 at Chappell Recording Studios, London, England with overdubs added August 23, 1967 and September 29, 1967
John Lennon - organ, background vocal
Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, piano, background vocal
George Harrison - tambourine, tabla, background vocal
Ringo Starr - drums I Am the Walrus (4:37) Recorded: September 5, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added September 6, 1967 and September 27, 1967
John Lennon - lead vocal, mellotron (at the beginning)
Paul McCartney - bass guitar, background vocal
George Harrison - tambourine, background vocal
Ringo Starr - drums
Session musicians - eight violins, four cellos, three horns
Choir - six boys singing "Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper", six girls singing "Everybody's got one" Hello Goodbye (3:32) Recorded: October 2, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added October 19, 20, 25 and November 2, 1967
John Lennon - lead guitar, organ, background vocal
Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, piano, bongos, conga drum,
background vocal
George Harrison - lead guitar, tambourine, background vocal
Ringo Starr - drums, maracas
Session musicians - two violas Strawberry Fields Forever (4:10) Recorded: November 24, 1966 at Abbey Road, London, England with additional work on November 28-29 and December 8, 9, 15, and 21, 1966
John Lennon - lead vocal, lead guitar, harpsichord
Paul McCartney - bass guitar, piano, bongos, flute
George Harrison - lead guitar, timpani
Ringo Starr - drums
Mal Evans - tambourine
Philip Jones - alto trumpet
Session musicians - two cellos, two horns Penny Lane (3:04) Recorded: December 29, 1966 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added December 30, 1966 and January, 1967
John Lennon - piano, harmony vocal
Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, Arco string bass, flute
George Harrison - conga drum, firebell
Ringo Starr - drums
George Martin - piano
David Mason - piccolo trumpet
Philip Jones - trumpet Baby You're a Rich Man (3:03) Recorded: May 11, 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios, London, England
John Lennon - lead vocal, clavioline, piano
Paul McCartney - bass guitar, piano, harmony vocal
George Harrison - tambourine, harmony vocal
Ringo Starr - drums, maracas
Session musicians - vibes All You Need Is Love (3:48) Recorded: June 14, 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios, London, England (backing track), overdubbed and shortened at an Abbey Road session, then overdubbed live on the "Our World" TV broadcast
::Backing track::
John Lennon - harpsichord
Paul McCartney - string bass played with a bow
George Harrison - violin
Ringo Starr - drums
::Abbey Road Track::
John Lennon - lead vocal
Paul McCartney - electric bass guitar
George Harrison - guitar
Ringo Starr - drums
::Live "Our World" track::
John Lennon - lead vocal
Paul McCartney - background vocal
George Harrison - background vocal
Session musicians - studio orchestra
Mick Jagger, Gary Leeds, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull,
Jane Asher, Patti Harrison, Keith Moon, Graham Nash - chorus

 

CONDITION: The cover: The ((thick)) gatefold front cover is rated a clean,  M-  see photos = the back cover with bright colors - a better than normal "EX" (excellent) back = for always the back cover shows wear on most surviving copies - even the best 51 year old copies have some back cover shelf wear. Here a GREAT survivor! Contains the color photo booklet, you can find that in every 100 copies you come across only one copy (yes, that hard to find) that the booklet is still attached ... this one, collectible, no bends, no writing, no delete, no split seams... been in safe hands the past 51 years...

The vinyl: is all glossy and shiny over both sides, M- no groove wear !  The deep grove pressing contains excellent clean audio playback... an enjoyable listen ...and both rainbow Capitol labels are clean


 

                

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