ELO – Discovery RARE OG 1979 CANADIAN RED VINYL 1/1 COPY IN THE WORLD
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Description
In 1979, an employee at the Columbia Records Pressing Plant in Don Mills, Ontario secretly snuck in a red puck during the initial manufacturing of ELO’s “Discovery” and made himself potentially the only copy ever manufactured of this red coloured 1st Canadian press variant. This is the only time it has ever been available for sale in the marketplace. It has been in a private collection for decades, ever since it was first made.
This is NOT a bootleg or unlicensed press. It is a 1/1 press unlike any other.
The matrix/runout codes and label belong to the original press “PBL 35769-1 CAN” issued by Columbia Records and is the exact same press, but on a vibrant coloured red wax never commercially distributed or mass manufactured in any capacity for this release.
The record itself has been stored securely for the past 40+ years. Visually graded, the record is between a light to strong VG+ grading depending on how conservative you are. Play graded, it is the clearest and brightest copy of this record I have ever had the pleasure of listening to and, in my humble expertise as a record store owner, it plays closer to an EX-grading. It was tested it on a Fluance RT85 turntable with lower-end Sony speakers. If you have a higher end system, I can only imagine how much clearer and crisp it would sound.
It includes the original gatefold and inner sleeve, and I would grade the jacket between EX/EX+. The cover itself belongs to the initial press “PBL 35769-1 CAN” as well.
I purchased this record [as well as all the other one-of-a-kind red records I have up for auction currently] from the family of the former Columbia Records Pressing Plant employee. I own a record store in Hamilton, Ontario – just an hour or so away geographically from where the plant used to be.
All the records are an identical shade of red, they were all pressed at the Columbia Records Pressing Plant in Don Mills, Ontario, they were all issued between 1977-1979, and they all came from the exact same collection.
All records have been professionally cleaned and placed into a brand new anti-static MOFI inner sleeve and a resealable poly outer sleeve.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
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