GERRY RAFFERTY*, City To City USA 1st pressing Excellent- LP Baker Street

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Gerry Rafferty – City To City  Label: United Artists Records – UA-LA840-G Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, All Disc Pressing Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Rock Style: Pop Rock A1 The Ark Featuring – The Bushwhackers 5:30 A2 Baker Street 5:58 A3 Right Down The Line 4:17 A4 City To City 4:46 A5 Stealin' Time 5:36 B1 Mattie's Rag 3:26 B2 Whatever's Written In Your Heart 6:25 B3 Home And Dry 4:47 B4 Island 5:00 B5 Waiting For The Day 5:26 Manufactured By – United Artists Music And Records Group, Inc. Phonographic Copyright ℗ – United Artists Music And Records Group, Inc. Copyright © – United Artists Music And Records Group, Inc. Recorded At – Chipping Norton Recording Studios Recorded At – Berwick Street Studios Recorded At – Marquee Studios Mixed At – Advision Studios Mastered At – Artisan Sound Recorders Pressed By – All Disc Records, Inc. Published By – Hudson Bay Music Co. Accordion – Willy Ray (tracks: B1, B4) Acoustic Guitar – Gerry Rafferty (tracks: B2) Backing Vocals – Barbara Dickson (tracks: A1, B2), Gary Taylor (4) (tracks: A4), Joanna Carlin (tracks: B2), John McBurnie (tracks: A4), Rab Noakes (tracks: A4), Roger Brown (3) (tracks: A4), Vivian McAuliff* (tracks: A4) Bass – Gary Taylor (4) (tracks: A1, A3 to A5, B1, B3 to B5) Cover [Painted By] – John Patrick Byrne Drums – Glen Le Fleur* (tracks: B4), Henry Spinetti (tracks: A1 to B1, B3, B5) Engineer – Barry Hammond, Dec O'Doherty* Fiddle – Graham Preskett (tracks: A1, A4, B5) Guitar – Andy Fairweather-Low (tracks: B5), Hugh Burns (tracks: A2 to A5, B3, B4), Jerry Donahue (tracks: A1), Micky Moody (tracks: A5), Nigel Jenkins (tracks: A2, B3) Guitar [Dobro] – Brian Cole* (tracks: B1) Harmonica – Paul Jones (tracks: A4) Keyboards – Tommy Eyre (tracks: A2, A4) Mandolin – Graham Preskett (tracks: A1) Organ – Tommy Eyre (tracks: A3, B4, B5) Percussion – Glen Le Fleur* (tracks: A2, A3, B5) Piano – Gerry Rafferty (tracks: B5), Tommy Eyre (tracks: A1, A3, A5 to B5) Producer – Gerry Rafferty, Hugh Murphy Saxophone – Raphael Ravenscroft (tracks: A2, B4) Steel Guitar – Brian Cole* (tracks: A3 to A5, B4) Strings – Graham Preskett (tracks: A5) Tambourine – Glen Le Fleur* (tracks: A1, A5) Trombone – Hugh Murphy (tracks: A4) Vocals – Gerry Rafferty Written-By – Gerry Rafferty All Disc Records, Inc. pressing denoted by "77" in runouts. Runout is etched except Artisan Sound Recorders logo is stamped.

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL COMPANY INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD, SOME SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. ONE INCH MIDDLE BOTTOM SEAM SPLIT.  INNER SLEEVE HAS SEAM SPLITS.

DISC: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are clearer, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

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