FLAMIN' GROOVIES - SHAKE SOME ACTION, Vinyl LP [OOP ORIG SEALED US 1976 ]

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PRODUCT DETAILS

Label:              Sire Records

Catalog#:       SASD-7521

Format:          Vinyl, LP, Album

Released:       July 1976

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING BRAND NEW & FACTORY SEALED VINYL VERSION OF FLAMIN’ GROOVIES - SHAKE SOME ACTION ALBUM ON THE SIRE RECORDS US LABEL IN 1976.

LP TRACK LISTING

SIDE ONE

1.    SHAKE SOME ACTION

2.    SOMETIMES

3.    YES IT’S TRUE

4.    ST. LOUIS BLUES

5.    YOU TORE ME DOWN

6.    PLEASE PLEASE GIRL

7.    LET THE BOY ROCK N’ ROLL

SIDE TWO

1.    DON’T YOU LIE TO ME

2.    SHE SAID YEAH

3.    I’LL CRY ALONE

4.    MISERY

5.    I SAW HER

6.    TEENAGE CONFIDENTIAL

7.    I CAN’T HIDE

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Uber Rare - Original 1976 US 14-track stereo vinyl LP set on Sire Records presented in a picture sleeve.

This set remains sealed from new in the original manufactur's shrink-wrap, and therefore mint & unplayed!. The shrink wrap is still intact and the cover is in excellent condition. There is a small notch-cut at bottom righr corner and a little bit of cornerwear on the bottom left corner. An absolutely stunning copy!!! See the images to the bottom of the page

Shake Some Action is the fifth album by San Francisco rock band The Flamin’ Groovies, released in 1976. It reached n. 142 in the Billboard charts.

Like the Beatles' current rock'n'roIl roots album, this is a set of gritty, guitar-dominated numbers that reflect the British music scene in the years leading up to 1964. A predominately raucous album with a few melodic ballads included and faithful production throughout by Dave Edmunds, who had a top five single five years ago with "I Hear You Knockin'." Best cuts: "Yes It's True," "You Tore Me Down," "Misery," "I Can't Hide."

-Billboard, 1976.

Bonus Reviews!

So authentic that producer Dave Edmunds has reverted to the muddy mix -- kinda like the Beatles or the Byrds or the Flamin' Groovies. Actually, what it sounds like is mono electrically rechanneled for stereo. The Flamin' Groovies were Haight-Ashbury enough to exploit aural distance in the service of sly, spaced-out obliqueness, but these guys, deprived of singer-composer Roy A. Loney and making their way as an English pop-revival band, get their kicks by playing dumb. This compiles their best recent work and includes some good songs. But only cultists will ever hear them. B

- Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide, 1981.

The Groovies disappeared into the wilds of Europe after Teenage Head, which barely earned them a cult following over here. They went through a few personnel changes, honed their sound to an even finer point, and developed a few more musical smarts. Then came Shake Some Action, the debut of the Flamin' Groovies' Mark II, where they rocked out British-style for most of it (while still acknowledging their American roots), only louder and more passionately than any British Invasion band had played since 1964.

The sound was a complete anachronism in the mid-'70s, but it got them noticed and earned them a cult following. The guitar sound is straight 1964 Beatles (a la "Not a Second Time") alternating with Kinks material of the same era, the vocals are the plaintive wailing of lovesick young rock gods, and the effect is stunning even 20 years on. Maybe the greatest British Invasion album since 1964. Reissued by Australia's AIM Records on CD, and well worth tracking down as an import.

- Bruce Eder, The All-Music Guide to Rock, 1995.

Shake Some Action, now available on import recordings, is the quintessential Flamin' Groovies pop record, and a vital part of any respectable power-pop fan's permanent record library.

- Carl Cafarelli, Musichound Rock: The Essential Album Guide, 1996.

By the mid-Seventies, veteran San Francisco rockers the Flamin' Groovies had lost frontman Roy Loney, who piloted the group's ferocious, Stones-y LP's Flamingo (1970) and Teenage Head (1971). Seeking inspiration, Groovies leader-by-default Cyril Jordan trekked the band to the U.K. The result was the keen neo-Merseybeat metamorphosis of 1976's Shake Some Action, on which the Groovies wear their newfound influence on the sleeves of their matching suits, with Beatles titles both actual ("Misery") and evocative ("Yes It's True," "Please Please Girl") sitting alongside energetic covers of Fab Four faves Chuck Berry and Larry Williams. And while "You Tore Me Down" is a sparkling ballad that keeps every promise the Groovies ever made to Lennon and McCartney, the title song is a different, nastier animal with a riff so tough, propulsive and universal it's a wonder that it's not currently being used to hawk bluejeans or vacation cruises.

- Gaylord Fields, Rolling Stone, 8/25/05.

Prices for this awasome factory sealed US 1976 original of “FLAMIN' GROOVIES - SHAKE SOME ACTION” vinyl LP pressing continue to rise. This is the very first pressing, and hardly ever turn up in sealed condition. To find this 35-years old LP sealed is a special event, but to find it in such pristine condition, like it almost just came off the factory shelf, almost beggars belief. So do your research and ask the right question before you buy this.

Don't miss your chance to complete your record collection with this hard-to-find power pop rarity in pristine condition. Do not second guess yourself on this masterpiece because once gone it's gone forever and will skyrocket in price on the collectors market

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