The Doors, Strange Days, This is the original UK Mono issue of their 1967 second album recorded in May-August and released in October. The fully laminated 'Manafactured in Great Britain' Polydor Sleeve is in VG+ Condition, the plain company Inner is in VG+ Condition & the Record is in EX Condition. With great tracks from the Doors including; 'When The Music's Over & Strange Days'. With the original orange & black Big 'E' Elektra Label, A- & B-1 Matrices and A-14 & A-10 Stampers of the first Presses! Please scroll down past all the boring ads and see the Pictures & Detailed Description Below..... The Doors, Strange Days, Orig UK Elektra (EKL-4014) Mono LP, VG+/EX, 1st Press.

The Doors, Strange Days, Orig UK Elektra (EKL-4014) Mono LP, VG+/EX, 1st Press.

Description

This is the original 1967 UK Mono issue of their second album, with the large 'E' orange & black Elektra second version labels with the 'Campbell Connelly' music credits, the EKS-74014 on the spine of the cover and the earliest A-1 B-1 matrices, with A-14/A-10 stampers of the first presses.

The second album from The Doors was recorded during touring to promote their first album between May to August 1967. It was produced by Paul Rothschild & Bruce Botnick at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood and released in the UK in October 1967. The band was touring for much of 1967 and after a slow start the album finally made number 3 in the USA in November and spent 10 months in the charts. The Mono release of the album was dropped early in the following year and it was the worst selling album of their career as a working band. This was much to the band members chagrin, being Jim Morrisons favourite. Similarly, it never sold well in the UK either and did not make the UK charts at the time, although by the 1970's it finally went gold!!.

  The 'Manafactured in Great Britain' fully laminated sleeve is intact & in VG+ condition, with some light corner wear & a laminate rubbing and a couple of small creases on the front cover. The spine is intact, with small areas of laminate lifting and fully readable, the plain company inner is intact, with some light foxing/creasing & in VG+ condition.   The record is in visually EX condition, with few faint sleeve removal hairlines and one or two light needle scuffs/marks visible on each side. The labels are in EX condition, clean & bright with evidence of only one or two faint spindle markings on each side .   The sound reproduction is EX, still clear & precise throughout with no loud hiss or crackle & definately no skips, sticks or jumps, but there is some brief background noise during the run in grooves and in a couple of the quieter spoken word passages.
Overall, still a really great, loud & clear listen.  

The matrix nos. are; EKS-4014, A-1 stamper A-14, B-1 stamper A-10. This is one of the early copies of the first pressing of the original 1967 UK mono issue of this album!
 

All records are checked on an Acoustic Research deck before being listed and any flaws noted in the listing, so if you have any problems with the record please contact me for a full refund of original price & postage on return of the record (no partial refunds), no quibbles, no problems!   All grades are those used in the Record Collector Guide.
  All lp's are sent in cardboard record mailers with plastic covers and cardboard stiffeners to protect the LP's!!   UK Signed For Postage is £4.50 for the first LP & is the same for up to four single LP's or two double LP's or more up to 2kg.

Royal Mail post to Europe (All EU countries & non EU countries, including Russia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, etc.), the Rest of the World (Zone 1, including Canada, Japan, Brazil, Korea, China, South Africa, etc.) and the Rest of the World Zones 2 & 3 (the USA, Australia & New Zealand etc).

All Airmail is limited to 5 or 6 lp's due to 2kg weight restrictions.

Europe, 1 LP £12.00, extra single lp's £1.00.
Rest of the World Zone 1, 1 LP £17.00, extra single LP's £2.50.
RoW Zones 2 & 3, USA, Australia, 1 LP £19.00, extra single LP's £3.00.

All Purchases will be sent by International Tracked & Signed Airmail.
Please, please, please! contact me if you want to bid on more items as i am happy to wait and combine postage for you and just ask for the invoice when you are all done.....
but otherwise after 5 days all bids will be cancelled and the records re-listed!

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