ALICE COOPER "SCHOOLS OUT" 1972 REPRESS VG++/EX W/PINK PANTIES+FOLD OUT JACKET

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THESE ARE VISUALLY & PLAY GRADED.

ARTISTS: ALICE COOPER

TITLE: “SCHOOLS OUT” (1972 REPRESS)

TRACK LISTING (SEE PHOTOS & BELOW):

A1

School's Out

3:26

A2

Luney Tune

3:36

A3

Gutter Cat Vs. The Jets

4:39

A4

Street Fight

0:55

A5

Blue Turk

5:29

B1

My Stars

5:46

B2

Public Animal #9

3:53

B3

Alma Mater

3:39

B4

Grande Finale

4:36

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.

• Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.

• Recorded At – Record Plant, N.Y.C.

• Remixed At – Record Plant, N.Y.C.

• Recorded At – Alice Cooper Mansion

• Remixed At – Alice Cooper Mansion

• Produced For – Nimbus 9 Productions Limited

Credits

• Design – Wilkes & Braun, Inc.*

• Design Concept [Jacket] – Sound Packaging Corp.

• Engineer [Recording] – Roy Cicala, Shelly Yakus

• Guitar [Guest Guitarist], Vocals – Rockin' Reggie Vincent*

• Photography By [Alice] – Roger Prignet*

• Photography By [Desk] – Robert Otter

• Producer – Bob Ezrin

• Technician [Recording] – Danny Turbeville, Dennis Ferrante, Frank Hubach

Notes

Very similar to Alice Cooper - School's Out except this version doesn't have "Stereo" at bottom of labels.

Tracklist on rear cover
Palm tree labels
Foldout "desk" cover

Tracklist on cover differs from tracklist on labels. This submission reflects the actual tracklist on the record (seen on labels).

Recorded and Re-Mixed at The Record Plant, N.Y., and Alice Cooper Mansion, Conn.
Produced For Nimbus Nine Productions.
An Alive Enterprises Inc. Production.

Special thanks to: Dick Wagner, Paul Prestopino, Chris Stone, Gore Vidal

? 1972 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
© 1972 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Made in U.S.A.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Rights Society: BMI

• Matrix / Runout (Label Side A): S40,182

• Matrix / Runout (Label Side B): S40,183

• Matrix / Runout (Etched Side A): BS-2623-A 40182-1A

• Matrix / Runout (Etched Side B): BS-2623-B 40183-1A
  

LABEL: WARNER BROS. RECORDS

CAT. #: BS 2623

YEAR: 1972

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN VG/VG+CONDITION, NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES,LINES, ETC. BOTH LABELS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL.NO AUDBLE NOISE BETWEEN TRACKS. THE SONGS SOUND GREAT. PLAYS CLEAN! THERE'S SOME VERY VERY LIGHT BACKGROUND AUDIO MAINLY ON THE LEAD IN GROOVES, THIS IS WHY I DROPPED THE CONDITION A HAIR, SOUNDS PLAY GREAT.

SLEEVE CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN VG+/EX- CONDITION THERE'S NO WRITING ON THE JACKET. STRAIGHT EDGES, NO WRITING, TEARS, WRINKLES OR SEAM SPLITS, ETC.ETC.

MORE INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. AS MENTIONED THIS INCLUDES THE AN ORIGINAL PAIR OF THE “FLAMMABLE” PANTIES, IN THIS CASE PINK. ALSO THIS IS THE DIE-CUT FOLD OUT INTO A SCHOOL DESK JACKET, IT HAS NEVER BEEN FOLDED OUT, SO IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. THIS IS THE REPRESS WITH THE SONG TITLES ON THE BACK OF THE JACKET, THOS INCORRECT FROM THE LABELS (SEE DISCOGS INFO ABOVE).

MORE ON THE ARTIST & RELEASE:

Alice Cooper was an American rock band formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1964. The band consisted of lead singer Vince Furnier (stage name Alice Cooper), Glen Buxton (lead guitar), Michael Bruce (rhythm guitar, keyboards), Dennis Dunaway (bass guitar), and Neal Smith (drums). Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper and has had a solo career under that name since the band became inactive in 1975. The band was notorious for their elaborate, theatrical shock rock stage shows. In 2011, the original Alice Cooper band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

After several years of little success, the Alice Cooper band rose to fame in 1971 with the hit single "I'm Eighteen" and the album Love It to Death. Success continued with the popular single "School's Out" and the album of the same name in 1972. The band peaked in popularity in 1973 with their next album Billion Dollar Babies and its tour, which broke box-office records previously held by The Rolling Stones.

History

Formative years

The band consisted of former members of the garage rock band the Spiders, formed in Phoenix in 1964 with three of the eventual five Alice Cooper members (Furnier, Dunaway and Buxton), who were classmates in high school. Michael Bruce and Neal Smith joined in 1966 and 1967, respectively. They created everything as a group and wrote virtually the lion's share of what became the classic Alice Cooper canon.

The band officially relocated to Los Angeles in 1967, having traveled there frequently for shows, and were briefly renamed Nazz. In 1968, the band learned that Todd Rundgren also had a band called Nazz, and found themselves in need of another name. The legend is that the name "Alice Cooper" came from a session with a Ouija board and was the name of a 17th century witch. However, Furnier described the incident with the ouija board as "just pure urban legend...but it was a great story."[5] Furnier stated the name was chosen simply as a gimmick, because it sounded innocuous and wholesome, in humorous contrast to the band's image and music.

After a 1968 gig at the Cheetah club in Venice, California, where most of the club's patrons left after hearing the band play just ten minutes, they were approached by music manager Shep Gordon, who saw the band's negative impact that night as a force that could be turned in a more productive direction.Shep arranged an audition for the band with renowned musical artist and record producer Frank Zappa, who was looking to sign bizarre music acts to his new record label, Straight Records. Zappa told them to come to his house "at 7 o'clock" for an audition. The band mistakenly assumed he meant 7 o'clock in the morning. Being woken up by a band willing to play that particular brand of music at seven in the morning impressed Zappa enough for him to sign them to a three-album deal."Frank was the only one who stuck out his neck for us, for me," recalled Alice himself. "He was the one who said, 'Here's a band that everybody in the business is laughing at – I like 'em.' … He was the outcast in L.A. and so were we."The first three Alice Cooper albums were released on Zappa's Straight label.

Another Zappa-signed act, the all-female GTOs, were encouraged to dress up the Alice Cooper band members in women's clothing and heavy makeup, and played a major role in developing the band's early onstage look.

The band was the subject of media criticism after Furnier threw a live chicken into the audience during the 1969 Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival Festival. The audience ripped the chicken to shreds.In 1970, the band appeared on a Warner Bros sampler album, Zapped, featuring acts produced by Zappa.

Finding success

Slow sales of the band's first two albums, as well as Californians' indifference to their act, led the band to relocate again in 1970, this time to Pontiac, Michigan near Furnier's original home town of Detroit. Here, their bizarre stage act was much better received by Midwestern crowds accustomed to the proto punk styles of local bands such as the Stooges and the MC5. "L.A. just didn’t get it," Furnier stated. "They were all on the wrong drug for us. They were on acid and we were basically drinking beer. We fit much more in Detroit than we did anywhere else."

Hooking up with young producer Bob Ezrin, Alice Cooper released the single "I'm Eighteen" in late 1970, and it became a surprise Top 40 hit. The single's success convinced Warner Bros that the band could be a viable commercial act, leading to much stronger investment in the third Alice Cooper album, Love It to Death. The album was initially released on Straight Records, but was reissued on the Warner label following its buyout of the imprint from Zappa, giving Alice Cooper even greater exposure. Under Ezrin's direction, the band's sound moved from psychedelic rock to a tighter, guitar-driven hard rock sound, even as much of the lyrical content continued to explore "decadence, perversion and psychosis."

With Love It to Death and its follow-up album Killer both charting well, the band was able to afford a more elaborate stage show, including sophisticated props and elements of gothic horror, and they became a highly popular concert attraction in the US and UK over the next few years. Calls by members of British Parliament in 1972 to have the group banned from performing in the UK only solidified the band's legend, and the next year's Billion Dollar Babies tour broke box office records. Cindy Dunaway (Neal Smith's sister who married Dennis Dunaway) designed the band's costumes and occasionally performed in the stage show (she was the "dancing tooth" on the Billion Dollar Babies tour).

Following Killer, Alice Cooper released three more hit albums – all three charting in the US Top Ten – and headlined major tours from 1972 to 1974, before breaking up.

Breakup of the original band

The original Alice Cooper band played their final show on April 8, 1974 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There are varying reasons former band members have given for the breakup. Smith said the members wanted to take a year off to slow down and possibly do solo projects, and just never reunited. Cooper said there was disagreement over how much money to sink back into stage shows, which had become costly. Bruce contends that Buxton's issues with substance abuse, which at one time led him to pull a switchblade on the band's tour manager, likely hastened the breakup.

The breakup was made public in 1975.Vincent Furnier took "Alice Cooper" as his own name and carried on as a solo artist with a new group of musicians,the original band becoming officially defunct. Furnier later stated that the name change was one of his most important and successful career moves.

School's Out is the fifth studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper, released in 1972. Following on from the success of Killer, School's Out reached No. 2 on the US Billboard 200 chart and No. 1 on the Canadian RPM 100 Top Albums chart, holding the top position for four weeks.The single "School's Out" reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 3 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles Chart and went to No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart. The album achieved sales of over 50,000 copies in Australia, being eligible for the award of a Gold Disc.

The album's title track receives regular airplay on many "Classic Rock" radio stations and has remained a staple song in Alice Cooper's live setlist, standing as the most-performed song in his concert history. Nonetheless, excluding Muscle of Love, School's Out is the least represented of his 1971 to 1975 albums in Cooper's concert setlists owing to its highly conceptual nature."Blue Turk", "Alma Mater" and "Grand Finale" have never been performed live, and "Luney Tune" only once at a 2009 special in Glendale, Arizona with tribute band “Halo of Flies”] In addition, "My Stars" hadn't been performed since the ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ tour until the U.S. leg of the "Ol' Black Eyes Is Back" tour in mid 2019.'

Packaging

The original album cover (designed by Craig Braun) had the sleeve opening in the manner of a wooden school desk, similar to Thinks: School Stinks, by Hotlegs, released two years earlier. The vinyl record inside was wrapped in a pair of panties, though this was later discontinued as the paper panties were found to be flammable. The actual desk photographed for the album cover is on display in the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas.

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