PAUL SIMON"SONGBOOK".1965CBS MONO+"33"/ROUGH TEXTURED BOX LOGOS+1A-1/1B-1 MATRIX

	£		17
	$		23

ATTENTION PAUL SIMON,1960s FOLK SINGER/SONGWRITERS AND 1960s 1ST EDITION MONO ALBUM COLLECTORS! 

HERE IS AN ORIGINAL 1965 MONO 1ST ISSUE OF THE LEGENDARY AND MUCH SOUGHT AFTER 1ST SOLO LP RECORDED IN THE UK BY THE AMERICAN FOLK SINGER/SONGWRITER: PAUL SIMON:"THE PAUL SIMON SONGBOOK". 12 TRACKS,SOME OF WHICH WERE LATER  RERECORDED IN DUET FORM WITH ART GARFUNKEL OFTEN DESCRIBED AS "ACID FOLK" AS THIS IS NOT YOUR USUAL SOFT,PENSIVE VOCALS! PLENTY OF DETERMINED PERFORMING AND POWERFUL LYRICS ON SOME OF THE TRACKS ON AN LP THAT HAD VERY LITTLE ATTENTION AND SALES 50 YEARS AGO,FAILING TO CHART AND AS SUCH IS HARD TO FIND AS A 1ST ISSUE.   THIS IS A 1ST ISSUE WITH THE "ROUGH TEXTURED" CBS BOXED LOGOS LABELS: BPG 62579 WITH THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE 1A-1/1B-1 MATRIXES AND THE "33" ON EACH LABEL.

THE "33" HAD THE "THIRD" ADDED ON LATER REPRESSINGS WHICH ALSO HAD MUCH LATER MATRIX NUMBERS!.

 HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL AND CORRECT POLYLINED PAPER INNER SLEEVE WITH THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE "BRITISH AND OTHER PATENTS PENDING" DENOTING ONE OF THE FIRST EVER PRINTED UNLIKE OTHER SELLERS WHO OFTEN USE LATER CBS LPs ADVERT INNERS THAT CLEARLY SHOW LPs MADE AFTER THIS LP WAS RELEASED!.

LOCATING A REALLY NICE ORIGINAL UK MONO COPY IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE AS THE MAJORITY OF COPIES WERE PLAYED OVER AND OVER AGAIN CAUSING MAJOR DISTORTION AND GENERAL WEAR. THIS COPY HAS HAD A FEW PLAYS WITH SOME LIGHT SURFACE MARKS AND SOME VERY SLIGHT CRACKLE HERE AND THERE WHEN PLAYED AT HIGH VOLUME,A COUPLE OF SHORT LIVED AND FAINT CLICKS BUT NOT TOO OBTRUSIVE. IT PLAYS VERY WELL! STRICTLY AND SERIOUSLY GRADED AS NEAR EXCELLENT CONDITION BUT MOST OF THE DISC SOUNDS NEARER TO EXCELLENT!.

THICK VINYL. SLIGHT SPINDLE WEAR.

THE INNER SLEEVE HAS NO WRITING,SPLITS,RIPS,REPAIRS OR STAINING! BACK IN THE 1960s MANY DEALERS WOULD WRITE THE CATALOGUE NUMBER AND SOMETIMES THE ARTIST ON THE INNER SLEEVE-THIS ONE HAS NO WRITING WHATSOEVER-A LOVELY EXAMPLE WITH JUST A FEW CREASES.    

THE LAMINATED FRONT COVER WITH IT'S FLIPBACK HAS A FEW  CREASES,MOSTLY AT THE EDGES,AN ULTRA TINY SPLIT AT THE CENTRE OF THE SPINE EDGE AND SOME STAINING BUT NO WRITING,RIPS OR REPAIRS.   PLEASE SEE ALL THE PHOTOS SHOWING THE FRONT AND BACK OF THE COVER,THE INNER AND BOTH LABELS! NOTHING TO HIDE! A LOW,REALISTIC £12 STARTING PRICE WITH MORE GREAT LPs FROM ME ON EBAY. 

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This is my honest grading!!!

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I test on a lightweight pickup of approx 2 grammes and listen with the treble full on and no filtering or mono switch used.As both a collector and dealer,I AM VERY STRICT ON GRADING but DO CHECKOUT MY FEEDBACK FOR GRADING PROOF!!!!  

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