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PHIL MAY, VIV PRINCE, DICK TAYLOR, BRIAN PENDLETON, JOHN STAX

Seminal British R&B band that never broke big, despite talent to spare 

and a notable psychedelic masterpiece in 1968's S.F. Sorrow.

Of all the original British Invasion groups, perhaps none were as underappreciated 

in the United States as the Pretty Things. Featuring the hoarse vocals of Mick Jagger-lookalike Phil May 

and the stinging leads of guitarist Dick Taylor (who actually played in early versions 

of the Rolling Stones with Jagger and Keith Richards), the Pretties recorded a clutch 

of raunchy R&B rockers in the mid-'60s that offered a punkier, rawer version of the early Stones sound

"THE PRETTY THINGS"

1965     LP     FONTANA RECORDS      MONO TL 5239

MADE IN ENGLAND    ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING

LAMINATED (on front) SINGLE COVER

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL:  FONTANA - BLACK & SILVER LABEL - SILVER TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine) TL 5239; (rear) TL 5239 (687 341 TL)  

Catalog on labels: TL.5239 (687 341 TL) [(687 341 1L / 687 341 2L)]

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 687341 1L//1 ? 420     11     12

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): 687341 2L//1 ? 420     1   ICI (or 1C1)  1

On labels: MONO ?

Recording First Published 1965

Rights society: (Side A) 1, 6. Jewel Music; 2. Copyright Control; 3, 5. Dunmo Music; 4. Francis Day & Hunter

(Side B) 1. Dunmo Music; 2-4, 6. Jewel Music; 5. 142 Music 

On back cover: Liner notes by Jimmy Duncan and Bryan Morrison

WARNING-Copyright subsists in all Fontana recordings........62 Oxford Street London, W.1.

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: ROAD RUNNER - JUDGEMENT DAY -13 CHESTER STREET

BIG CITY - UNKNOWN BLUES - MAMA, KEEP YOUR BIG MOUTH SHUT

Side B: HONEY, I NEED - OH BABY DOLL - SHE'S FINE SHE'S MINE

DON'T LIE TO ME - THE MOON IS RISING - PRETTY THING

  grading

RECORD  from VG to VG(+) (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG(+) (please, see pictures and read above description)

 The Pretty Things is recorded with practically every song and instrument pushing the needle into the red (i.e., overload). 

Normally, that would be a problem, except for the fact that a third of the repertory was written by Bo Diddley 

and most of the other two-thirds was inspired by him (even their version of Chuck Berry's "Oh Baby Doll" 

sounds like it was lifted from the Two Great Guitars sessions where the two legends crossed swords),

and Bo spent most of his career with his amplifiers set on "11" in a world where ten was the max.

In the meantime, records like this would point the way not only toward the work of such 

American garage band icons as the MC5, but blast a path through the wilderness 

that the likes of Billy Childish and his band the Milkshakes and their successors would traverse...(AllMusic)