PINK FLOYD, MORE. 1st press, Single EMI boxed Label

	£		80
	$		106

As usual,

all pictures are of the actual album, outer and inner sleeves, and any inserts that may have been issued with the album at the time of release.

All albums for sale are fully play graded using a Technics SL200 deck and a Stanton 500 cartage

PINK FLOYD.

MORE.

First pressing with tinted green back sleeve and single EMI box logo.

Orignal brown printed inner sleeve. Ex condition

Couple facing West (left).

Matrix numbers are.

YAX3868 1-G

YAX3869 1-G

This album is also complete with it's original inner sleeve issued with this album on the day of it's relese, this is the genuine ERMI  printed printed inner in a sepia colour

Please read the full description of what this album should have with it to be the complete package:

Title: More (Columbia Records 1st issue)
Record Company: Columbia Records
Catalog Number: SCX 6346
Matrix Information: (side 1: YAX 3868-1G / side 2: YAX 3869-1G (both stamped)

Release Date: June 13, 1969
Release Information: First issue with a green tinted rear sleeve photo, and the couple facing to the left in the photo on the back cover. Label has a single EMI logo at the bottom, and the text " Made in GT Britain - Sold in U.K. subject to resale price conditions. See price lists."

Front Cover: Windmill scene from the movie. Laminated. Flipback sleeve.
Back Cover: Scenes from the movie. On the upper right flipback, it says "File Under Popular: Film and Shows" On the lower right flipback, it says "6907 TPS Printed and made by Garrod&Lofthouse Ltd. Patent No.943,895 SCX 6346."

Inner Sleeve: White paper sleeve with brown printing. On the front is the EMI logo at the top center, with "Add these outstanding LPs to your collection" at the top, 16 LP covers pictured in the middle including, The Beatles Sargent Pepper, and "Remember-the new Emitex cleans and preserves your records," and "Patents applied for" at the bottom. On the back is the EMI logo at the top center, with " - the greatest recording organization in the world" at the top, 16 LP covers pictured in the middle including Pink Floyd-Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and "E.M.I. Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) Hayes - Middlesex - England, Made and Printed in Great Britain" at the bottom.
Label: Black Columbia label with silver text, white EMI logo in small rectangle at bottom, and white "Columbia" in large rectangle with lines on each side at top. The letters KT are stamped in the spindle hole circle.
Text around the top edge of the label starts at 8 o'clock and says:

Text around the bottom edge of the label starts at 7 o'clock and says:

Original 1st VINYL PRESSING.

Very Good Plus to Excellent

These very first matrix number are now impossible to find with this single EMI box label.

The green tinted rear outer sleeve and the single boxed EMI confirm this to be one of the very first pressings.

But what makes this pressing of a rare Floyd album almost impossible to find is the fact that this is the label on the vinyl’s has only a single EMI boxed logo on each side, and the original inner sleeve as issued with the album on relese in 1969.

Very few of this label were produced before pressings were issued with the more common two EMI box on the label.

Artist or Band: PINK FLOYD

Album Title: MORE

Cat Number: SCX 6346

Recording date: March 1969

Place of recording: Pye Studio

Release date: June 13th 1969

Format: Stereo.

Genre: Progressive Rock.

Record Label: First press single EMI boxed. Columbia, Black & silver.

TRACK LIST:

Side One:

Cirrus Minor

The Nile Song

Crying Song

Up The Khyber

Green Is the Colour

Cymbaline

Party Sequence

Side Two

Main Theme

Ibiza Bar

More Blues

Quicksilver

A Spanish Piece

Dramatic Theme

OUTER SLEEVE:

Original front laminated, Garrod & Lofthouse outer sleeve.

The sleeve remains in very good to excellent condition, the spine is undamaged , and fully readable.

Very very slight creasing to a small part of the laminate , but this seems almost impossible to avoid due to the materials used in the construction of these laminated outer sleeves.

Retains a nice glossy finish.

Small white mark on the reverse from what may have been the price label .

VINYL LABEL:

Original Black and Silver Columbia labels remain almost in perfect condition, very slight visible hardly spindle marking.

No scuffing staining or unwanted names.

No fading or staining ( again the pictures are of the actual album cover and vinyl.

Visual Vinyl Condition:

Both sides of the vinyl are visually excellent, with just a hint of very light marking from removal from the inner sleeve, retaining a very high gloss sheen to both A & B sides.

Again see my pictures,

any questions about the pictures or the vinyl please get in touch and I will do my best to answer them.

PLAY GRADING.

The entire album plays beautifully and without fault.

Maybe very slight background noise or static between tracks.

NO Jumps, skips, skidding or deterioration of sound quality.

This is an album the serious Floyd collector should never need to upgrade.

Defiantly one of the best I have seen.

Soundtrack from the Film More is Pink Floyd,s first full-length soundtrack. The film More was directed by Barbet Schroeder in it, two songs can be heard that were not included on the album: "Seabirds" and "Hollywood". The album actually comprises the other music used in the film, sometimes in a completely different form.

The original American edition shortened the title to just More. Although the CD edition restores the original UK title in all countries, it is represented differently on the spine (Music from the Film More) and label (Soundtrack to the Film More).

More contains some acoustic folk ballads, a genre that will appear sparsely on later works, a couple of hard rock songs ("The Nile Song", "Ibiza Bar), and some instrumental tracks featuring their experimental (or avant-garde) approach and their trademark spacey/electronic sound (such as "Quicksilver" and "Main Theme"). Elsewhere, they rely on distinctive harmonic and melodic progressions, such as the surreal chord progression in "Cirrus Minor" or the D dim chord in "Crying Song".

This is Pink Floyd's first album without founding member Syd Barrett, who was ousted from the group in early 1968 during the recording of their previous album, A Saucerful of Secrets. It is also the first album to be produced by Pink Floyd without assistance from Norman Smith and was recorded at Pye Studios, Marble Arch, London and engineered by Brian Humphries

Soundtrack from the Film More reached 9 in the UK and—upon re-release in 1973 & 53 in the US. In 1987, the album was re-released on CD. A digitally remastered CD was released in 1995 in the UK and 1996 in the US.

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Packaging.

The album and it’s outer sleeve will be separated when packaged to prevent damage to ether the vinyl or the sleeve, the vinyl will be placed into a new plain inner and the original inner will again be packed separately.

The complete package will then be placed into a plastic sleeve and then packed into a stiff card package and two stiffeners added.

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Mike.