Songs against the Bomb - Ewan Maccoll, Seeger Ultra rare Topic revolution LP

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Songs against the Bomb - Ewan Maccoll, Seeger Ultra rare Topic revolution LP

British Ultra rare original Folk LP. 1st Pressing on the Topic label 1959 Catalogue Number 12001 1/2 Matrix stampers. This was the very first LP on the desirable and collectable Topic label.

Featuring Ewan Maccoll, Peggy Seeger, Fred and Betty Dallas etc. A important album for a variety of reasons particularly With a variety of protest style songs, about the Bomb testing, and cultural divisions of the period etc.:

Some live tracks at the Ballads and Blues (Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger) and the Partisan Coffee House (London Youth Choir with Fred & Betty Dallas) : Brother Won’t You Join in The Line? - Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and Jack Elliott 1958; The Crooked Cross - Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger 1960; Strontium 90 (Dallas) - Fred & Betty Dallas with Ron Fielder (banjo) 1959; Hey Little Man (Sinner Man) - Fred & Betty Dallas; Doomsday Blues (St. James Infirmary Blues) - Fred Dallas (sung in the film Aldermaston) 1958; The Ballad of the Five Fingers (MacColl) - Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger 1957 (from the play So Long at the Fair); There are Better Things to Do - Peggy Seeger (banjo) with Jack Elliott (guitar) 1958; The H-Bomb’s Thunder (words by John Brunner, tune the American Union song Miner’s Lifeguard; arranged by John Hasted) - The London Youth Choir, soloists Wendy Edwards & Ron Fielder (banjo) with Leon Rosselson (guitar) 1958; Song of Hiroshima (Koji Kinoshita; English text Ewan MacColl; arr. Alan Bush) - The London Youth Choir, soloist Wendy Edwards 1955; Hoist the Window (a Negro Spiritual arr. John Hasted) - The London Youth Choir, soloist Marlene Tallman with Leon Rosselson (guitar) and Ron Fielder (banjo) 1952; That Bomb Has Got to Go (words MacColl, Seeger; tune traditional shanty A Hundred Years ago) - Ron Fielder, Ray Edwards and members of the Robin Hood Singers 1959; The Dove (MacColl). Freely based on the old English folksong The Cuckoo is a Pretty Bird; arr. Leon Rosselson - Margaret McKeown with Leon Rosselson (guitar) 1954; The Family of Man (Fred Dallas) arr. Wendy Edwards - The London Youth Choir, soloist Ron Fielder (banjo), Margaret McKeown, Marlene Tallman and Ray Edwards, with Leon Rosselson (guitar) 1957. 1LP0129508.

I will begin with the sleeve, very simplistic style, with screen printed? Front. With iconic image in black and white, and topic and code logo's featured. Fold out sleeve, with Lp sliding in in the centre and a Completely plain reverse. Probably due to the very low numbers of the LP that were ever pressed - very few remain today! The sleeve was unlaminated and white, so over the years has become quite grubby, marks here and there and rubbing to the spine etc. Still considering the type of sleeve is a nice example, the stuck in original inner sleeve is complete, but has some grubbyness etc. Still probably VG/VG+

Visually under very bright light the heavy weight thick vinyl, has a few very light play marks, and one small scuff to the final track of the first side - VG+/EX-

The audio play back through MY system, is great - as would be expected from a high quality thick pressing. There is surface noise here and there - Nothing Major! No skips or jumps etc. However, there are some auidble occasional clicks, and a few worse pops over the final track relating to the scuff mark. VG/VG+.

The original white textured topic labels are in superb unmarked EX condition.

International postage varies.

Do not miss out on an album, of great rarity - with very few examples left today! An important piece of history, aswell as some great folk music, from American and British artists!

Any questions please ask!

On 18-Jun-12 at 17:18:37 BST, seller added the following information:

My apologies for an incorrect piece of information this was not the first long player on the label - i have been informed!

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