MERCHANTS OF DREAM Strange Night Voyage Sealed RARE 1969 Orig A&M Shadow Morton

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Vinyl:  Mint!  Sealed!  This is the Original 1969 Pressing! This is the rare Experimental Psych DreamSong Cycle by the Obscuro Heroes the Merchants Of Dream!  This is the only Sealed copy on eBay.
Cover: Mint! Sealed! (see photos;  shrink is fully intact)
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AllMusic Review by Richie Unterberger  [-]

It's sometimes forgotten that although the Who's Tommy was the first rock album based around a story to attract widespread attention, there were a few others that preceded it. This is one of the most obscure, even though it appeared on a fairly big label (A&M) in early 1969 and was produced by Shadow Morton, who'd overseen hits by the Shangri-Las and Janis Ian. It's not that rocking, and though it was done on the East Coast, has much in common arrangement-wise with the sunshine pop associated with California. The not-overly-long album (a bit less than 35 minutes) is a suite of songs that seems to detail the voyage undertaken during a childhood dream, evenly divided into a mother's side and a father's side (on the original LP, that is). While it might be cruel to say it sounds something like the songs from a modest children's theater production given fairly elaborate studio orchestration and arrangements, it doesn't come off as much more impressive than that. There were a couple major strikes against it: the story, if there was one, wasn't all that compelling or easy to follow, though it was populated with figures like a crocodile, a magic boat, and a fairy queen. Nor was the music too interesting, the basic, bouncy upbeat, singsongy pop/rock-cum-show tune melodies fleshed out with mildly psychedelic touches, mainstream pop orchestration, sound effects, and cutesy voices. It holds interest as a curio from a time when not much along these lines had been attempted in rock, but the music's not too memorable, either as a whole or in terms of the individual songs.