SEALED 1970 2LP THE BYRDS - UNTITLED 8 Miles High PSYCH

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STILL SEALED 1970 2-LP CLASSIC ~ 16+ mins 8 MILES HIGH !

                  THE BYRDS 

                   (Untitled)

...USA - Columbia Records - CG 30127

Original 1970 VINYL 2-LP SET ***STILL SEALED***never opened! Pristine TOP condition ! ((of course, no bar code, 1970))

(Untitled) is a double album by American band The Byrds, released in 1970. It marks the last change to the band's line-up, with John York being asked to leave in September 1969, just preceding the release of Ballad of Easy Rider, so that Skip Battin could take his place.

Sides A & B include concert material (the first official release of any live Byrds recordings), beginning with a new McGuinn original, the terrific scorcher, "Lover Of The Bayou", a great Dylan cover, 1965's "Positively Fourth Street", and a medley of hits - "So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star", "Mr. Spaceman", and "Mr. Tambourine Man", culminating in a sixteen-minute rendition of 1966's "Eight Miles High" that was popular on underground FM progressive rock radio. McGuinn and White trade lengthy guitar solos before Battin and Parsons roll into a long bass-n-drums jam. After jamming for over 12 minutes, the band finally sings the first verse of the song and concludes the performance with a brief cover of the instrumental "Hold It!".

Sides 3 & 4 showcase a new studio effort, consisting mostly of new original songs by McGuinn and Battin, produced by Terry Melcher. Also featured were songs by Lead Belly ("Take a Whiff on Me") and Lowell George of Little Feat ("Truck Stop Girl", featuring a vocal by Clarence White).

The album was a success, reaching number 40 in the United States during a chart stay of twenty-one weeks and number 11 in the United Kingdom, where it was bolstered by the surprise Top 20 hit "Chestnut Mare". Untitled is generally considered today to be The Byrds' best latter-day recording. It is also the only double-LP released by the Byrds during the band's active lifespan, and thus is the group's longest album by far; in fact, just one of the albums included here, the studio LP on its own (at thirty-eight minutes) is longer than any other Byrds album - despite containing fewer tracks (nine) than any other Byrds album.

The album's title actually came about by accident. The group's original intention was to call the release something more grandiose, referencing their commercial and artistic "rebirth": Phoenix, or The Byrds' First Album. They had yet to make up their minds when the label pressed them for a title; producer Terry Melcher carelessly filled out a form requesting the album's title with the placeholder "(untitled)", and jackets were promptly pressed with that on them, including the parentheses.

SIDES 1 & 2

1. "Lover of the Bayou" (Roger McGuinn/Jacques Levy) – 3:39
2. "Positively 4th Street" (Bob Dylan) – 3:03
3. "Nashville West" (Gene Parsons/Clarence White) – 2:07
4. "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" (Roger McGuinn/Chris Hillman) – 2:38
5. "Mr. Tambourine Man" (Bob Dylan) – 2:14
6. "Mr. Spaceman" (Roger McGuinn) – 3:07
7. "Eight Miles High" (Gene Clark/Roger McGuinn/David Crosby) – 16:03

 Sides 3 & 4 (studio)

1. "Chestnut Mare" (Roger McGuinn/Jacques Levy) – 5:08
2. "Truck Stop Girl" (Lowell George/Bill Payne) – 3:20
3. "All the Things" (Roger McGuinn/Jacques Levy) – 3:03
4. "Yesterday's Train" (Gene Parsons/Skip Battin) – 3:31
5. "Hungry Planet" (Skip Battin/Kim Fowley/Roger McGuinn) – 4:50
6. "Just a Season" (Roger McGuinn/Jacques Levy) – 3:50
7. "Take a Whiff on Me"  – 3:24
8. "You All Look Alike" (Skip Battin/Kim Fowley) – 3:03
9. "Welcome Back Home" (Skip Battin) – 7:40

CONDITION: STILL SEALED, NEVER OPENED, FACTORY SEALED!!!

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