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STUNNING CLEAN 1968 ORIGINAL MASTERPIECE + LARGE POSTER

         STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAPPER

Includes Transparent Simon & Garfunkle sticker & Mrs Robinson sticker on outside of cellophane

          

           SIMON & GARFUNKEL

                   BOOKENDS

                              

            

\                              USA -  360 Sound Columbia - KCS 9529

 

BEAUTIFUL CLEAN ! ....Original 1968 first pressing with huge color poster...on the highly collected 360 Sound Columbia label of the sixties...

****Includes the original factory shrink wrapper...plus both Simon & Garfunkle transparent sticker across the outside of the cellophane and Mrs. Robinson sticker ...both stickers are rare and were lost when most all folks tore off the outer cellophane wrapper...beautiful copy just like purchased in 1968 with the original printed Columbia Records inner sleeve to the pressing....

Simon & Garfunkel's consistently excellent album, 1968's BOOKENDS is a beautiful song cycle that sums up all of Paul Simon's '60s themes of alienation and identity in a newly orchestrated and elegant style far removed from the skeletal folk-rock of their earlier albums. The entire first half, bracketed by the lovely "Bookends Theme," has a suite-like feel even though it encompasses songs as varied as the chaotic "Save the Life of My Child" and the subtle acoustic reverie "Overs," not to mention the anthemic "America" and Art Garfunkel's audio-verite "Voices of Old People."

The second half is the closest Simon & Garfunkel ever came to rock & roll, featuring not only the classics "Mrs. Robinson" and "Hazy Shade of Winter," but the lesser-known, quirky gems "Fakin' It" and "Punky's Dilemma," two of Simon's weirdest and most playful songs. An eclectic and multi-dimensional album, BOOKENDS is probably Simon & Garfunkel's masterpiece.

The inner-city rebellions in 1967 had shaken the youth culture's image of their own summer of love in that year. In pop culture, rock was exploding everywhere in Western culture. The impact of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band and the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds -- both released in 1967 -- and the appearance of Jimi Hendrix on the pop scene had ushered in a new way of making records, a way that not only referred to and portrayed everyday life but was part of its acceptance for what it was before attempting to transcend it. In the spring of 1968, Simon and Garfunkel had slipped their fourth album into the bins with a whisper, the confoundingly literary, profoundly poetic and stunningly beautiful Bookends

"Bookends Theme" (Instrumental) – 0:32
Recorded: 1968 "Save the Life of My Child" – 2:49
Recorded: December 14, 1967 "America" – 3:34
Recorded: February 1, 1968 "Overs" – 2:14
Recorded: October 16, 1968 "Voices of Old People" – 2:09
Recorded: February 6, 1968 An audio collage recorded by Art Garfunkel in various locations in New York and Los Angeles. The original liner notes credit the United Home for Aged Hebrews and the California Home for the Aged at Reseda, where they were likely recorded. "Old Friends" – 2:36
Recorded: 1968 "Bookends" – 1:16
Recorded: 1968 Side Two "Fakin' It" – 3:14
Recorded: June, 1967 "Punky's Dilemma" – 2:10
Recorded: October 5, 1967 "Mrs. Robinson" – 4:02
Recorded: February 2, 1968 "A Hazy Shade of Winter" – 2:17
Recorded: September 7, 1966 "At the Zoo" – 2:21
Recorded: January 8, 1967

CONDITION: The Cover: usually found with shelf wear (after 44+ years) this copy is a TOP survivor = clean, stiff and strong all over...MINT still in original factory shrink wrap + 2 original stickers on outside of cellphane ....The cover with no split seams, no bends and no writing = makes for a nice upgrade cover or terrific first time score...

The Vinyl: is a shiny clean, the original luster is bright, M- and plays like a masterpiece ... clean 360 Sound labels and still has the original store price sticker on outside of the cellophane

The poster is all clean and crisp ...no pin or tack holes

 

       

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

 

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

 

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