Kurt Shore Jim Stanton DIALOGUE Psyche Folk Private Press OG LP W/insert ed 200
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Kurt Shore Jim Stanton DIALOGUE Psyche Folk Acid Private Press Original LP. Hard to find Private Press LP FROM 1972. DM 68425. VG+/VG+
originally released 1972 in the US as a private press on Cold Studio Records DM-68425. Totally rare and great psych album from Philadelphia. Fantastic songwriting with a strong beatlesesque feeling. Superb album.

One of those obscurities that's rather difficult to track down; let alone adequately describe.  Interestingly we've seen various reviews that label the LP everything from "psychedelic masterpiece" to comparing it to The Beatles and Badfinger.
Kurt Shore and Jim Stanton were apparently from the Philadelphia suburb of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.  As Dialogue the pair recorded their 1972 debut "Dialogue" in Birmingham, Alabama's New London Studios.  Co-produced by Rick Matos and the duo, the album featured a surprisingly commercial and polished set of pop ballads.  Written by Shore, (Stanton arranging), tracks such as "Think Father Think", "Aslon the Lion" and "It Scares Me So" are largely keyboard-propelled ballads.  Full of pretty melodies and gorgeous harmony work (the one notable exception being the cloying "Sandbox"), the overall effect is more "sunshine pop" than psych.  That does nothing to diminish the album's appeal to our ears. The short back story on the different cover versions is that after the initial small press run (reportedly only 200 copies

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