FREE DESIGN KITES ARE FUN SEALED ORIGINAL '67 STEREO LP

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·       FREE DESIGN – KITES ARE FUN – ENOCH LIGHT-PRODUCED SUNSHINE POP MASTERPIECE FROM 1967 – RARE ORIGINAL 1967 PROJECT 3 RECORDS STEREO LP PR-5019-SD

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

·       BELIEVED TO BE PRESSED ON THE ORIGINAL RED AND WHITE “PROJECT 3 STEREO” LABEL (NO OTHER STOCK LABELS EXIST)

·       ORIGINAL ‘PHASE 3’ 35-MM MAGNETIC FILM MASTER RECORDING

·       THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING

·       ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER, MADE OF THICK CARDBOARD (AMERICAN STYLE) 

·       ORIGINAL LAMINATED COVER

·       COVER HAS A NIFTY STICKER STILL AFFIXED TO THE WRAP.

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

 (►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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"It's a young thing -- and it's a different thing!" -- so proclaimed the back cover of the handsome gatefold jacket on the Free Design's debut album, in words that couldn't have dissuaded more people under 30 from buying the album if the makers had tried. And that's a crying shame, because Kites Are Fun was a glorious product of the same zeitgeist that yielded the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album and a dozen other triumphant pop-psychedelic albums. Kites Are Fun is almost an East Coast answer to the work of the Mamas & the Papas or Spanky & Our Gang, falling between the former at their most subtle and the latter at their most ethereal. The album is very much a product of its era, a lyrical, boundlessly cheerful body of music featuring gentle orchestral accompaniment and glittering sound, and some of it -- such as "Make the Madness Stop" -- possesses a vaguely spiritual content. Sandy Dedrick gets a brilliant solo showcase on "When Love Is Young," while "The Proper Ornaments" returned to a group setting with elegant trumpet and cello accompaniment. There's at least one follow-up to "Kites Are Fun," entitled "Umbrellas," that should have gotten a hearing, and a swinging, upbeat showcase for all of the singers entitled "Never Tell the World"; and, in addition to the group members' originals, the 13 songs include highly ornate covers of Simon & Garfunkel's "Feelin' Groovy" and the Beatles' "Michelle" (beautifully deconstructing both songs and re-imagining them with new tempi and choruses), and the movie-spawned hit "A Man and a Woman." It's all worth tracking down in used-record bins (the jacket is a beautiful artifact of its era)

(REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

The original master for this Phase 3 album was recorded on 35 millimeter magnetic film, rather than on 1/4 or 1/2-inch tape. 35-mm magnetic film recording offers many advantages over more conventional tape recordings; these advantages become most important and exciting in recording of very large orchestras.

(1)          Film has no flutter because of the closed loop sprocketed guide path which holds it firmly against the recording head.

(2)          35-mm film is more than four times as wide as the 1/4-inch tape, thus the film is able to carry the equivalent of three 1/4-inch tape tracks with more than enough space between each track to guarantee absolute separation of channels.

(3)          The thickness of the film - 5 mils (three times thicker than tape) greatly reduces the possibility of contamination by print-through.

(4)          Excellent Frequency response is assured by the fast speed at which the film, travels: 18 inches per second, or 90 feet per minute - and the low impedance head system.

(5)          The wider track allows for a very wide, previously unheard of range of dynamics without distortion.

(6)          The Great tensile strength of film and the sprocket drive effectively eliminates any pitch glitches due to 'tape stretch'.

(7)          Signal-to-noise ratio is far superior.

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·       CONDITION:

·       RECORD

 (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

(b)          The record is  apparently pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(c)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

(d)          Mono copies of this album are NOT known to exist.

·       COVER (THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, LAMINATED, GLOSSY COVER):

COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP   (A PIECE OF SHRINK WRAP IS MISSING)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        A large (6-inch) scratch mark noted on the back cover

-         Back cover has a few yellowish dust speckles scattered here and there (these tiny spots are not overly obtrusive or distracting)

-         Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant);  (VISIBLE ON BACK SIDE ONLY) On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 1.

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

-        No split seams

-        No cut-out (drill) holes.

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

-        No wrinkles or creases

-        No writing

-        No stamps

-        No tearing: no chips, dents or nicks on the seams

-        No peel-off marks

-        No stains

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        No stickers or labels

-        No water damage

-        No warping

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No glue traces or wax residue.

-        No bar codes

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

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