Ballard - Musical Mystery 1975 lp OST Private Unknown Soul Funk RARE Glen Goins

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This week is our library, Instructional, Dialogue & OST auction, lots of drama funk, dusty fingers tracks, Blaxploitation lp's....the funkier side of cinema, kids records, how to play drums / electric bass, drum breaks, everything original press, from Capitol Media Music library funk, to Willie Dynamite OST, to Carol Kaye to Ennio Morricone, Lalo Schifrin (including "Enter The Dragon"), every original Shaft OST, Hawaii 5-0, Grant Green "Coming Down", Fritz The Cat, to Japanese & European rarities, over a dozen original dusty fingers sources, over 140 items in total, we do combine shipping!
*We'll be taking a couple weeks break hiatus after this auction; back with even bigger listings: Modern Soul / Gospel / Boogie / AOR, to 60's-Early 70's Soul / Funk, Jazz-Funk / Spiritual Jazz / Soul Jazz / Fusion, Hip-Hop / 90's, so stay tuned, tons of rare high-end stuff, a couple thousand in total!*
All soundclips used are unedited directly from the item up for sale :). See below for detailed grading!
All records are vintage, originals, in extraordinary exceptions, it will be noted if it is a reissue multiple times. Feel free to message any questions!
Soundclip info: A1 "Prelude and Ballard's Theme", A5 "Move It!", A4 "No Time Left", B3 "Ain't It A Lot Of Trash", B5 "If I Didn't Love You", B1 "Nice Night (Car Chase)" ;  7:21  duration,  Soundclip: Powered by eCommercePlayer.com


Media Grade: EX (also reach out to me if you want the Wav. file!)
Sleeve Grade: VG (light fraying at the corners, intact, fairly solid, but some staining / wear, see photos!)
Year / Label / Catalogue #: 1975  /  Private Press  / NP 12205
If applicable, other contents: n/a 
Brief Comments: Well this is one of the rarest soundtracks I've ever seen, some amazing kind-hearted crate-digger put B5 up on YouTube about a year ago....It's unknown, ungoogleable, I have no idea if it's the same Tanden Heyes with the two obscure 45 releases on discogs, it's certainly possible, but if so, this guy was watching Black Caesar, Mannix, Hawaii 5-0, Coffy, Trouble Man, etc. to craft this sound. Joined by Glen Goins, Gaudenico De Mello Thiago (look out for his private press lp, we just had that one, it's got Lloyd McNeil, Airto, others, great MPB jazz-funk), Deacon Freeman on conga, the Julliard Quartet on strings, Sylvia Williams, Diana Ferrara, and Eric Gale is on guitar (in trying to find more copies, two performers I reached out confirmed that "Eric Saunders" is Eric Gale, sadly no one has a copy, most of the few people who responded didn't even know a record was ever actually pressed), one performer knew Tanden Heyes had 50 copies pressed up, hoping to shop it....
But here's the detail everyone wanted to share; there is no book, there's a script, and Richard Wolf? Yeah, it's Dick Wolf, the famous Law & Order producer. He also wrote for "Hill Street Blues" in the 1980's, he had a gift for crime investigative drama. 
I don't doubt it, try searching for the alleged book, go to AbeBooks, the New York Public Library Database, Library of Congress database, and search!
He may have been a little shy about his early work, which is why it's not under his name proper on the web, read the Synopsis and you can feel for why he might have that feeling all artists do about their early attempts, but it's really an amazing album, and I wish they did make a movie, it was never performed on stage, but the script exists, or fragments at least according to a few of the folks.
Really this is one of those unbelievable finds, something you'd read a 5-page column on in WaxPoetics....
The kicker? I found this for a price I'm too humble to mention in the "Lounge / Easy Listening" section of a record shop on the West Coast, buying it solely on the strength of the cover, back in 2017. Wasn't till I got home, and carefully inspected it that my shock, surprise grew, and putting it on the player...Mind-Blowing, finds like that never happen for me, but I like to think we all get one (or more!). Believe me, only student loan debt is why I'm letting this one go.... But I hope it goes to a loving home, maybe someone can pick up the baton, get a reissue going, get the full scoop, I'd happily share what I've found so far :)

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For our record grading, we stand by the merits outlined in the scale below, anything VG or below will have a detailed explanation in brackets next to the grade.
For sleeves, we will mention anytime there is split, or defect not visible in the photos in brackets next to the grade, otherwise we refer to the photos for the merit of the grade. Of course any questions, concerns, are always welcome :) 
Our media grading scale is as follows:
NM = Essentially a pristine album, like new, rarely used.
EX = Under bright light if there is any scuffs or mark, which will be inaudible, most collectors and sellers would tend to consider it closer to NM, EX is also the grade others might call VG++ under the same level of conservative scrutiny.
VG+ = More then a small handful of scuffs, light marks, nothing feelable, will have high-gloss, a thoroughly enjoyable copy that may only have tiny moments of barely perceptible surface noise overpowered by the music. Our VG+ will satisfy the vast majority of collectors as a nice keeper copy, as collector's ourselves for nearly two decades, this grade is aimed to be a great keeper. Note if say the record has a light DNAP warp, but otherwise is NM, we will automatically put it to VG+ and detail that. Another scenario is if a copy plays at a solid EX, but visually is VG, the composite grade will be VG+, and detailed as such.
VG = More hairlines, more marks, maybe a few visible scratches, no more then two feelable scratches (which automatically lowers to VG-), there likely will be surface noise, but will play through, still being an enjoyable copy, the audio quality will satisfy most collector's (the golden rule: if it doesn't satisfy us, it won't be VG), if a record is otherwise EX, but has a slight momentary skip, where 99% of the record is EX, we will note that, and put it at VG. Usually will retain a nice gloss.
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G+ = Lots of scratches, deeper ones, surface noise now mostly overpowers or competes with the music. It may skip in some places. We don't tend to sell G+ copies, unless the rarity is so great, and that will be precisely detailed.
Thrashed = Pretty much a "Theoretical Grade" for us, it be for all intents & purposes virtually unplayable, it would be for display purposes, or perhaps if you needed the cover but not the record. It's "theoretical" because so far we haven't sold or identified anything intended to sell at this bottom level.
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