MYRA ELLEN "TORI" AMOS BALTIMORE WALKING WITH EARTHQUAKES ONE OF A KIND SIGNED
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This is the HOLY GRAIL of Tori amos memorabilia/collectables! This was signed by Myra Ellen (Tori) Amos when she was 17 for a highschool friend (John). He is now a proffessor at Harvard and will verify authenticity via phone or email (He's a very nice guy). It reads "John, My exprlorer friend- "Thanks for all the love and support Always, Ellen". This is a 100% real and authentic singed autograph before she changed her name to Tori Amos!
An unsigned copy can go as high as $7,000, this one is signed "Ellen" which pre-dates "Tori" and is truly a one of a kind.
"Baltimore" is the name of the first single released by a pre-fame Tori Amos, under her birth name of Myra Ellen Amos.Amos, then 16 years old, wrote the song with her brother Michael in response to a 1979 contest by the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Her new theme song for theBaltimore Orioles baseball team won the contest.
Pressed on only 500 7-inch vinyl records, it was given a citation by the Mayor of Baltimore. As of the year 2002, a copy of this record complete with original sleeve sells for $2,000–$5,000 US[citation needed]. The sleeve is not a picture sleeve. A copy with an original resume for "Ellen Amos" could go for as much as $7,000[citation needed]. It features a B-side track called "Walking With You". It was released on "MEA Records", which was Amos' initials.
Max Welker played guitar on both songs (Yamaha SA-2000). It was recorded at Track Studios, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.
[edit]Track listing
- "Baltimore" – 3:31
- "Walking With You" – 4:28
"Baltimore": the story of Tori’s 1st single
In Biography, 1972-1990In 1980, a friend of the family who will become Tori’s personal archivist, Billy, suggested that Tori enters a city theme song contest. She co-wrote the song “Baltimore” with her brother Mike and won the contest. The song celebrates the city of Baltimore and its baseball team in particular, the Baltimore Orioles. At the time, Tori was a big college basketball fan but didn’t mind about writing a baseball song. “I figured I wasn’t whoring too much to do baseball instead of basketball,” she told Kalen Rogers in the authorised biography All These Years. “You know, it’s a sister sport; it’s got a ball.”
A private vinyl pressing of the song was made in the fall of 1980 under the name of Ellen Amos (just a few months before she chose Tori as a stage name) and so was born Tori’s first single, one of her rarest collectible items that can fetch above $1.800 in auction sales. Between 500 and 1000 copies of the vinyl were pressed. Interestingly enough, the record was released on her own “label”, MEA (for Myra Ellen Amos) and she was awarded a citation from the Mayor of Baltimore for “the splendid quality of public service you have rendered.” She also made her very first apparition on local TV this year to sing her song.
On Nov-27-12 at 00:05:45 PST, seller added the following information:
COMES IN ORIGINAL SLEEVE (WHITE PAPER) I will also be listing a one of a kind mounted live pic of tori from 1994!
