The Four Seasons-The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette LP (US Philips PHS 600-290)
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This is the original 10 track US LP release of The Four Seasons' album entitled "The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette".
This US stereo album was released on Philips Records (PHS-600-290) in 1969.
Please see Photo Gallery for the track listing (on the vinyl record labels).
Condition: Both sides audibly graded as VG-.
The vinyl comes in a plain white paper sleeve within the photo cardboard gatefold sleeve.
The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette is a 1969 album by American rock band . Member teamed up with to create a concept album which adjusted the band's stylings to the changing times of the late 1960s. Instead of love songs, the band tackled subjects such as war and racial tension.
The album's packaging was also distinctive, with the cover being stylized as a newspaper and the sleeve containing an eight-page newspaper-like insert that also had specially-done color underground comics strips by and .
Released in a fold-out cover with an extra inner page. Contains also a ''newspaper'' insert of 8 pages.
On the label the title is abbreviated to ''Genuine Imitation Life Gazette'' and the artist to ''4 Seasons''
Featuring Frankie Valli
Bob Crewe Presents A Bob Gaudio Production
Track A4 is credited on the sleeve as 'Something's On Her Mind', on the label as 'Somebody's On Her Mind'.
Retailers complained to Mercury that the album graphics didn't identify the record as a Four Seasons record well enough!
The above information (in bold italics) garnered from Wikipedia & Discogs.
This copy has all of the above. The correct title of Track A4 is "Something's On Her Mind".
