LOS WALKERS Walking Up 68 ORIG Fading Yellow fuzz psych

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ORIGINAL 1968 ARGENTINIAN PRESSING of this trippy pop psych MASTERPIECE from Los Walkers, "Walking Up" on the Music Hall label.  If ever a cover foretold what to expect inside, it's the cover of this one - a psychedelic balloon ride of Beatles-inspired pop and lite psychedelia, with musical nods to the Small Faces, Rolling Stones (a la "Their Satanic Majesties Request"), the Pretty Things (circa "Emotions") and the Beatles of "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver".  This is trippy pop, sugary sweet and full of harmonies and flower power sounds for the Fading Yellow set.  It's got a primitive mix, most likely due to the fact that it was recorded in Buenos Aires as opposed to Abbey Road Studios, and so as a raw little popsike album it sounds more like 1966 than 1968, and has much in common with the unfinished first-take sound of the Rainbow Ffolly's "Sallies Fforth".  Song titles like "Where's Miss Lee on Saturdays" and "There Are Nice People Today" are every bit as happy and breezy as their titles, and on the closer "19,8" the band create their own south-of-the-equator version of the Rolling Stones "2000 Light Years from Home".  In fact, the band borrow everything but the title from the Stones Satanic Majesties opener "Why Don't We Sing This All Together" for their own album opener here, "We Gotta Get Plenty of Help" - surely this is much MORE than just coincidence.  There's plenty of fuzz to be found here too...on the Beatles Revolver-like "Where's Miss Lee on Saturdays"...more on the fast beat pop sounds of "If I Knew That Girl"...LOTS more on "John's House"...and even more on the trippy "19,8".  An ambitious and infectuous popsike masterpiece, and one of the best albums EVER from Argentina - although if you didn't check first, you'd swear this came out in the heyday of Swinging London.  Original 1968 pressing on the Argentinian Music Hall label.  Cover's in VG++ shape with some taped seams, some small writing on back cover and a small sticker.  Vinyl looks SHINY and NEW, plays through beautifully and grades EXCELLENT!  A really well-preserved example of this sought-after rarity.   Winning bidder pays $3.00 media mail shipping in the US, $6 air mail to Canada, $12 air mail everywhere else.  Paypal, Bidpay, cash, checks and money orders accepted.  Please check out my other auctions for more obscure pop, psych and garage goodies, and SAVE ON SHIPPING!