BEACH BOYS BEST OF BEACH BOYS VOL.1 ULTRA-RARE SEALED ORIG '67 CAPITOL MONO LP

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·       BEACH BOYS - THE BEST OF BEACH BOYS (vol. 1) –  ORIGINAL 1967 CAPITOL RECORDS MONO LP T-2545

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST MONO PRESSING ***

·       INCREDIBLY RARE MONO PRESSING, MANY TIMES RARER THAN FAKE (“ELECTRONICALLY RECHANELLED”) STEREO; THIS  WAS ONE OF THE LAST BEACH BOYS CAPITOL ALBUMS TO BE RELEASED IN MONO.

·       GUARANTEED ORIGINAL BLACK CAPITOL LABEL WITH MULTICOLORED SPECTRUM (“RAINBOW) BAND ALONG THE LABEL’S EDGE AND CAPITOL’S LOGO ON TOP (12 O’CLOCK POSITION) OF THE LABEL , SUCH AS THE ONE SHOWN ABOVE, FROM OUR PREVIOUS AUCTION

·       THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

·       THREE “BREATHE” (AIR) HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       THICK CARDBOARD COVER, AMERICAN STYLE.

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       MONO version of this album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other digital format.

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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The Best of the Beach Boys had the distinction of being the first-ever compilation of Beach Boys songs, issued in the summer of 1966, It made number eight on the charts, no mean feat, considering that most of the album -- apart from "You're So Good to Me" and "Kiss Me, Baby" (off of Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) and Today!, respectively), neither of which was a hit single -- consisted of songs two years old or more. It is a strong collection for a 38-minute body of music, representing the different sides of the Beach Boys' sound as it was defined between 1963 and 1965: surf and car songs, straight-ahead rock & roll, vocal pop, and some of Brian Wilson's more sophisticated songs within those contexts, hits and album tracks chosen based on their being as listener-friendly as possible to a teenage audience. Record buyers loved it and not just in 1966 -- The Best of the Beach Boys achieved double-platinum status across the ensuing two decades. But behind the scenes, the album's release pointed to a serious schism between composer/producer Brian Wilson and the label, and also paralleled a division between Wilson  and the rest of the Beach Boys. The group's new album, Pet Sounds, largely authored and entirely produced by Wilson  over the previous ten months, had been the group's official new release in May of 1966, reflecting a distinctly more serious and sophisticated sound for the band. But that new sound wasn't fully appreciated by fellow bandmembers Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, and Al Jardine, who would have preferred an album of relatively carefree, rocking car and surf music. Nor was Capitol Records happy with the new sound, its executives believing that the group's audience wouldn't take to Pet Sounds as they had to their earlier surf and car songs. And while it did yield four successful singles and made number ten on the charts, the new record didn't sell as well as the label (or Wilson) had hoped. And so, 60 days after the release of Pet Sounds, Capitol issued The Best of the Beach Boys as a stop-gap measure, to give the fans something that they could embrace, Wilson  was deeply hurt by the sudden appearance of this collection, which was very heavily promoted, he believed, at the expense of Pet Sounds. He believed that the label had, in effect, abandoned the record that he'd devoted ten months of his life to making and, in effect, declared its preference for surf and car songs. On some level, he must've felt like a child actor or teenage star whose management and producers didn't want him to mature -- and was forced to compete, in effect, with a younger version of himself. This album was only the first in a string of reissues that always managed to cast the label as embracing the group's old sounds at the expense of their newest, most personal music, initially to Wilson's consternation and, later, that of the entire group, once they accepted the new music. The Best of the Beach Boys has long since been supplanted by other, more wide-ranging compilations of the group's work, but taken on its own terms, it is a fine, quick overview of their early work -- the surf and rock & roll numbers, "Surfin' USA," "Catch a Wave," "Little Deuce Coup," and "Little Honda," and the familiar harmony ballads "In My Room" and "Surfer Girl" share space with lesser known but equally worthwhile and enjoyable album tracks, including "Kiss Me, Baby" and "You're So Good to Me"; and even while aiming for the widest possible audience, Capitol couldn't avoid Wilson's more ambitious musical inclinations -- also present were "Warmth of the Sun," which had been written on the night of President Kennedy's assassination, and the exquisite "Wendy," resplendent in glowing harmonies and an organ break, whose lush timbres pointed toward Pet Sounds.

(REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

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·       CONDITION:

·       THE RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

(b)            The record is  apparently pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(c)           The record is believed to come in its original stock inner sleeve.

(d)          Mono pressing of this title is much rarer, and by far more  preferable to its stereo counterpart. We think that the mix is more natural, humane, "organic" and that the mixes are somewhat different than on the stereo version. We estimate that stereo copies of this album outnumber mono pressings by a ratio of at least 20:1.

(e)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       THE COVER

COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP  (A TINY PIECE OF SHRINK WRAP IS MISSING)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-         Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

-         Cover has one corner slightly dinged (nothing significant)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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