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            NICE COLLECTION COPY!

  1967 RARE first album ~ ORIGINAL COLLECTIBLE!

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          THE HOUR GLASS

                             

            

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\                                         USA - Liberty Records - LST 7356

51 YEARS OF AGE ORIGINAL PRESS!

The original Liberty printed inner sleeve IS included! ....

Original 1967 first pressing of the very first HOUR GLASS album ...straight from the Hollywood Sunset Strip ...this psychy poprock garage band played the happening clubs on 'The Strip' ...the group included both Gregg and Duane Allman, who in a couple of years put together this Allman Brothers....

As noted on the back cover: "From rhythm and blues to driving psychedelic beats. And soul . . . reeking of soul. A combination of things you’ve never felt before. Beats you’ve never heard. The Hour Glass. Sounds from within, alone sounds, sounds from a blue soul. Sounds of imagination and things unknown. ‘Heartbeat’ An uncanny beat from a living, breathing bass. A pendulum of psychedelic and soul – a new concept in a driving beat"

Liberty Records had a wide-ranging stable of performers without much credibility in the rock world. The Hour Glass were a long-haired, retro-clothes-wearing, semi-blue-eyed soul, semi-psychedelic-sounding rock band. Never mind that this wasn’t exactly the look or sound Duane and the guys had in mind. The Hour Glass was going to be the band to fill a gap in the Liberty roster – whether they liked it or not.”

The album, of course, ended up sounding nothing like the Allman Brothers Band, which was still about two years from forming. For instance, “Bells,” with its hippie-style recitation with sound effects draws more on the 'head' scene of the sixties

On a couple of the album’s cuts, Gregg Allman’s vocals give a hint of what would come later: “No Easy Way Down” and “So Much Love” give the singer a chance to shine, as does his own “Got To Get Away.”

Duane Allman’s guitar work is more hidden than his brother’s vocals. (Liberty looked at signing Hour Glass as a way to get Gregg Allman under contract; the record company saw the younger Allman brother as the group’s true star and wanted to groom him for a solo career.) Duane’s first solo comes on “Cast Off All My Fears.” Duane’s work can also be heard on “No Easy Way Down” and a few other spots. One of those spots is during “Heartbeat,” the opener to Side Two, where a break about three-quarters of the way through the song has what sounds like Duane’s guitar flickering and growling and shifting from speaker to speaker in a way that predicts his more famous work in the future. The album, more or less, consists of a hodge-podge of genres performed by a young hippie band being pulled in various musical directions by a producer.

With Hour Glass, the talent is no doubt there, as the world would learn in a very short time when the Allman Brothers Band exploded out of Macon.

Out Of The Night

Nothing But Tears

love Makes The World Go 'Round

Cast Off All My Fears

I've Been Trying

No Easy Way Down

B:

Heartbeat

So Much Love

Got To Get Away

Silently

Bells

 

CONDITION: The cover: rated: "EX" (excellent) light crinkle to upper left but not on back which is M- ...NO shelf wear usually seen on this wear-prone cover. Strong collection worthy 51 years of age which has held up. There are no delete marks, no split seams, and no writing  ... VERY collection worthy ...

The vinyl: Rated: M- all glossy just tested play-grade and performed with clean audio ... both Liberty labels are clean

   

 

 

   A cool addition to anyone's music library! 

SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people..

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