The Brewers Open Up Your Heart Phil Spector 75 UNRELEASED Gold Star Acetate ABBA
$
500
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
The Brewers - Open Up Your Heart Unreleased
Acetate Produced in 1975 by Phil Spector
On June 7, 1975 there was an article in a music trade magazine called Record World titled "Warner Spector In Promo Shift" announcing that in addition to Dion, Phil Spector would be producing an album for a new group from Los Angeles called "The Brewers"
Finally substatiated by the discovery of a single 10 inch Gold Star physical acetate, it has been proven that in the mid 1970s, Phil Spector did indeed produce and record an ABBA / Manhattan Transfer style vocal group from Los Angeles known as the Brewers.
This single 10" acetate has the title "Open Up Your Heart" The Brewers - Take 6 on one side and "Open Up Your Heart" The Brewers Take 3 on the other side. Both sides are in a strong VG almost VG+ condition.
This is the first disk to be discovered containing any Phil Spector recordings of the Brewers or any recordings of the Brewers at all for that matter. The Brewers sound like a cross between Abba and the Manhattan Transfer with psych guitar and a 1970s pop beat. It sounds like Spector was trying to reach the masses on popular pop culture.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From the personal collection of a former record company executive who worked for both Apple Records and Phil Spector Productions.
Most of the acetates and test pressings in this collection had standard record studio acetate and pressing plant test pressing labels but there are some from earlier in the audio review stage of record production that have no labels at all. Unlabled reference acetates have to be listened to on a record player in order to determine what they are.
This particular acetate was Phil Spector’s personal work acetate. I would say that this tl was used for making decisions about the final mixes of the songs on the album or 45.
As I said, The former Apple Records employee who owned this acetate also worked with Phil Spector on a regular basis. I was told by this employee that Phil Spector would frequently discard record production materials such as acetates and test pressings, recording equipment and regular production records once he no longer needed those items.
This acetate came from the same collection of records and acetates as the A&M Studio Label Alternate Acetates that I sold last month on Ebay that were used in producing the “The Concert for Bangladesh” three record box on Apple Records featuring George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Billy Preston, Ringo Starr and Leon Russell.
Check my past and present listings for more rare Philles and Apple Records records, acetates and awards.
This acetate will come with a Letter of Authenticity signed by myself. My name is Christopher Chatman of Beyond Records and I have been writing and dealing in test pressings, acetates, gold record awards and extremely rare music items since 1977.
I wrote in the 1990s an article called "What is an acetate and why do they cost so much money? The article was published in the 1990 book "Goldmine's Rock N' Roll 45 rpm Record Price"
price rating
