Lynyrd Skynyrd "Street Survivors" Original 1977 LP Orig. Cover-Vinyl Excellent

Sold Date: October 23, 2022
Start Date: September 15, 2022
Final Price: $73.00 (USD)
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This is the original fold-out album not the one changed later by MCA. Cover is VG condition (little edge wear) and vinyl is in excellent condition. 
Street Survivors is the fifth studio album by the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on October 17, 1977. The LP is the last Skynyrd album recorded by original members Ronnie Van Zant and Allen Collins, and is the sole Skynyrd studio recording by guitarist Steve Gaines. Three days after the album's release, the band's chartered airplane crashed en route to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, killing the pilot, co-pilot, the group's assistant road-manager and three band members (Van Zant, Gaines, and Gaines' older sister, backup singer Cassie Gaines), and severely injuring most who survived the crash.
The album was an instant success, achieving gold certification just 10 days after its release. It would later go double platinum. The album performed well on the charts, peaking at #5 (the band's highest-charting album), as did the singles "What's Your Name" and "That Smell," the former a top-20 hit on the singles chart.
The original cover sleeve for Street Survivors had featured a photograph of the band standing on a city street with all its buildings engulfed in flames, some near the center nearly obscuring Steve Gaines's face. After the plane crash, this cover became highly controversial. Out of respect for the deceased (and at the request of Teresa Gaines, Steve's widow), MCA Records withdrew the original cover and replaced it with a similar image of the band against a simple black background, which was on the back cover of the original sleeve. Conspiracy theorists have long claimed that only those band members touched by flame in the photograph were killed in the crash, but this is not true (flame appears to touch nearly all band members).
Side one 1."What's Your Name" 3:30 2."That Smell" 5:48 3."One More Time" 5:03 4."I Know a Little" 3:26
Side two 1."You Got That Right" 3:44 2."I Never Dreamed" 5:21 3."Honky Tonk Night Time Man" 3:59 4."Ain't No Good Life" 4:36 -------------------------------------- As always there might be an occasional tick or pop on some of the vinyl which can be remedied by professional cleaning and using "Last" preservative to recondition the vinyl. All vinyl (except for sealed albums and new Mosaic Boxes) have been ultrasonic cleaned but LPs need to be cleaned every couple of years. All albums come with an external plastic protective cover. Wherever I can I include the original inner sleeve but put cleaned vinyl in a new white non-toxic paper sleeve. Wherever I can I include the original inner sleeve but put cleaned vinyl in a new white non-toxic paper sleeve.
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