HALL & OATES ABANDONED LUNCHEONETTE RARE ORIG '82 MFSL LTD EDITION AUDIOPHILE LP

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·      HALL & OATES – ABANDONED LUNCHEONETTE – ORIGINAL 1982 MOBILE FIDELITY HIGH-QUALITY 'ORIGINAL MASTERS' AUDIOPHILE, EXTENDED DYNAMIC RANGE VIRGIN VINYL LP  MFSL-1-069

·      ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·      ORIGINAL WHITE MFSL LABEL

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

·      ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·      CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·      FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 7.

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

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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Abandoned Luncheonette is the second studio album by the American pop music duo Hall & Oates, released in 1973, which combines folk, philly soul, and acoustic soul. It is the most commercially successful of their first three albums of the duo's Atlantic Records period, the album reached #33 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart. Twenty-nine years after its release, the album was certified platinum (over one million copies sold) by the Recording Industry Association of America. It is the duo's favorite Hall & Oates album.

After their first album, Whole Oats failed to make an impact the duo moved from Philadelphia to New York and started recording Abandoned Luncheonette, it became the first album they recorded as New Yorkers.

Their producer was still Arif Mardin but they wanted to get away from the commercial strandards to establish the parameters of their musical identity and Arif helped in this regard, he liked the American musical influence that Hall & Oates had been brought up on and he knew just how to bring all their ideas to life adding much of his own vision. When Daryl and John began producing themselves in the early 80s, they thought back to everything they learned from watching Arif.

Unlike later albums, this one contains a relatively even songwriting split with both partners contributing a handful of their own songs while still making room for a few co-writes.

Synthesizers were included as part of the records to obtain what the duo wanted on the album

After being released the album wasn't very successful in the US, however it received significant radio airplay on a local Minneapolis-St. Paul FM radio station, KQRS, resulting in the album being a local hit.[citation needed] But they became very popular on the college circuit and underground radio embraced the album, and they were totally happy with that because that’s exactly where they wanted to be. People liked the songs and found them fun to play, so in that regard, they were extremely happy. The duo started touring all over the country, and they played lots of places for the first time, from backwoods towns to big cities, colleges to clubs, auditoriums.

The public started paying attention to the album when She's Gone was re-released and became a hit, after this, the album peaked at #33 on the Billboard 200 but when this happened Atlantic Records had already fired the duo and had moved to RCA, where they would became one of the biggest artists of the 80's.[citation needed]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, from Allmusic gave five stars to the album calling it "the first indication of the duo's talent for sleek, soul-inflected pop/rock".

On December 13, 2002 the album was certified platinum by the RIAA.

The most well-known track from the album is "She's Gone." While the tune did not become a hit when first released as a single (it only peaked at #60 on the U.S Billboard Hot 100), the song gained momentum from two later covers, one by Lou Rawls, and one by Tavares. After the latter cover topped the Billboard R&B chart in 1974, the original was re-released and became a Top 10 pop hit in 1976, reaching #7 in the U.S, while the album reached #33 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart. The single version was included on the album Rock and Soul Part 1 while the album version is included in numerous other compilations such as The Singles (2008), The Essential (2005), Looking Back: The Best Of (1991) but the song is missing on the albums The Very Best of Daryl Hall & John Oates (2001) and Playlist: The Very Best of Daryl Hall & John Oates (2008) although it's one of Hall & Oates' favorite songs.[citation needed]

Another song from the album, "Las Vegas Turnaround (The Stewardess Song)," although written by Oates, draws its inspiration from Hall's then-girlfriend and future songwriting collaborator Sara Allen,[citation needed] much as the later "Sara Smile" would.

The diner on the album cover was formerly the Rosedale Diner, located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. When it went out of business, its structure was dumped in a small wooded area located along Route 724 in Kenilworth, PA, at the entrance of Towpath Park in East Coventry Township, where the photo on the linked page was taken.[citation needed] Stripped by souvenir-hunters, the structure remained in place until about 1983, when Ridge Fire Company, along with the owner, burned what was left to clear the land.

The images were shot by a young fine artist photographer named Barbara Wilson. She had originally met John in the late 60s while they were both in college, and over the years became friendly with Daryl as well.

On a warm summer day, once the album was finished, Barbara, her husband, Daryl and John drove from New York city to the rural spot on the road about 40 miles outside of Philadelphia. The group arranged permission to take photos of the old restaurant but they thought that the session was incomplete without getting inside. And so they snuck in and Barbara started shooting, carefully tip-toeing around broken glass and tile. The guys squeezed then into a booth and the rest is album cover history (the interior was used as the back cover). The owner began screaming at them when he realized where they were, and they hightailed it out, hopping into their yellow car and speeding away back to New York City.

Wilson shot the black-and-white 35mm images on an old Nikon SLR and then began a silkscreen process to create the surreal color imagery, using a different stencil for each hue and then hand-coloring the final piece. Atlantic Records bought the idea with one change, to re-do the neon tubing letters, which had all been done by hand. It was the only album cover Wilson ever did.

She had also spent a day in the Atlantic studios while the album was being recorded and managed to capture a series of intimate images of two young artists discovering the art of making a record

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY WIKIPEDIA.ORG)

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This is a rare opportunity to acquire this great album in its FINEST audio format, no longer in print, and no longer easily obtainable.

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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)         WE GRADE THE VINYL AS NEAR MINT. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)         The record is STILL in its original inner, hi-grade MFSL PVC inner sleeve, which has - apparently with success - shielded the record from the harmful impact of elements over many years!

(c)         The record is pressed on a beautiful, high-quality, virgin-grade vinyl, which is usually used for audiophile, extended-dynamic-range, half-speed mastered and connoisseur pressings.

(d)          In addition, the record is pressed on a RELATIVELY  thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy ('dynaflex' type),  vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either.

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

·                          THE COVER

THE COVER IS NEAR MINT !

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-       Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine  (BARELY VISIBLE)  (VISIBLE ON BACK SIDE ONLY)

-       Minor shelf wear noted on the spine (nothing significant)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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