HOLLIES - BUTTERFLY 1st UK Press Stunning EX+ 1967 MONO

	£		38
	$		50

HOLLIES -

BUTTERFLY

PARLOPHONE

PMC 7039 (mono)

1st UK Press 

 1967

Up for auction is this stunning copy of Butterfly which is hardly ever offered these days and certainly not in such superb collectable condition. The vinyl is as close to NM as you could get and has barely been played coming from a collection which has been looked after for decades and stored the proper way inside a PVC sleeve standing straight on purpose made shelves. The sleeve is also in great EX condition.

It's a bright and colorful album, one incredibly misrepresented by a grey-brown Silence of the Lambs looking moth thing on the cover. I mean we're talking an album with tracks as ridiculously attractive and hippie cornball as " [I'm] Pegasus [the flying horse]!". It should have been decked out in rainbows! Now as much as I talk up Nash as central, but the other guys contribute some of the cooler tracks as well, my favorite overall probably being Would You Believe which takes a sort of Wall of Sound approach to an already great melody to make a overwhelming sense of romance and great 60's jangle. It's a lovingly made album basically, it sounds like the Hollies have finally really arrived, sounding even more confident and accomplished than For Certain Because. Such a shame Nash flew the coop and the rest seemingly collapsed into irrelevance. After this they'd take a year off....then the next new release was an album of Bob Dylan covers. Oh well, I can now really glance at the Hollies and sum them up as definitely tertiary in terms of the Brit Invasion forces. Hardly relevant in any way, but they did make two great little albums at least. Sunny colorful 1967 era music is stuff to treasure and in that column you gotta give this one a listen. Any fans of the lighter side of the late Beatles, Zombies, and Monkees should make sure to take this with them. (From: rateyourmusic.com)

Vinyl: EX+.  A splendid heavy vinyl that sounds marvellous all the way through.  Probably just played once or twice at most. It has only a couple of wispy retraction type paper traces and one wispy hairline under a strong light. .  A beautiful glossy sheen and this vinyl looks as if it was bought just last week!! Incredible. A totally well cared for album which are few and far between for this album. Of course this is the earliest ultra heavy quality vinyl being an original first press with the very first  matrices and earliest mother stampers.  Not very many out there left now so late in the day .... how many would there realistically be in this gorgeous condition?? Most copies found these days are trashed and unworthy. One side has the embossed "KT" tax code. What a delight to find this stunner! Tested on my trusted Linn Sondek/Rotel/Technics set-up and it sounded fantastic! Of course NO skips, NO pops, NO jumps or sticks.

Sleeve: EX.  An original Garrod & Lofthouse single sleeve with the three flipbacks to the rear. Front laminated and there is not any crease worth mentioning. The more vulnerable unlaminated reverse side is also in fantastic EX condition. NO writing NO marks or smudges etc. Get this while you still can. I don't think I will see another one for a long long time. Nearly every psych collector will be utterly pleased with this stunner.

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This an excellent investment opportunity!!! Any questions please ask me and I will try to answer soon.

This an excellent investment opportunity!!! Any questions please ask me and I will try to answer soon.