RARE 1968 U.K. Fontana Orig THE MANFRED MANN UP THE JUNCTION HIP PSYCH LP
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Dec 13, 2015
Sold Date
Dec 8, 2015
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RARE U.K. ORIGINAL 1968 FIRST PRESS IN GLORIOUS MONO
The MANFRED MANN
Up THE Junction
\ UK - FONTANA = TL 5460 - MONO
RARE!!!! Original 1968 BRITISH-ONLY first pressing in laminated sleeve with the old 60's styled flipback seams ... most certainly one of the more obscure/unknown platters to feature the mighty Manfred Mann group, at the top of their game, as featured in full commissioned to perform & create a swinging London soundtrack aimed at the hipster scene:::
It a fact that many 60s music fan/collectors, may well have missed this interesting, if not sometimes brilliant Manfred Mann LP from 1968! It's a fantastic slice of popsike with jazzy overtones, wonderful music. Don't let the fact it is a movie soundtrack fool you into thinking it's second-rate. It's not.
The clean, crisp mono mix a joy to listen to. If you like the post-Paul Jones era Manfred Mann--from around the time of Mighty Quinn--this is a must have. If you haven't heard it, many will absolutely dig it.
The big thing to remember is that Up The Junction was somewhat of a Bohemian/hippie-esque movie for the '60s "now-sound" generation, and out of all the people on the 1967 musical scene the producers had to turn to Manfred Mann for the soundtrack. Amazingly enough, the music is pretty decent, though. Trying to conform to the movie's tone and attitude, Mann makes a short, wavering step towards Psychedelia, and, at the very least, he doesn't embarrass himself any more than all the hundreds and thousands of contemporary pop bands around the world who had to try out psychedelia because it fit the times rather than the state of their minds. In other words, he borrows the superficial cloak of psychedelic music - echoey production, "giddy" vocal harmonies, tricky song structures, an occasional exotic instrument or two - but doesn't go all the way to blow your mind in the commonly accepted sense of the expression. And a good thing this is, because an actively pot-smoking Manfred Mann would be even more of a zoological-garden-type sight than an Indian headband-sporting Frank Zappa. As a result, the songs on Up The Junction are quite wonderfully humble and adequate. And seriously scarce, too - in reality, there's only four self-sufficient compositions, with the rest represented by endless variations on the themes, and even an occasional minimalistic mood piece or so. Well, a soundtrack is a soundtrack, after all. 'Up The Junction' (the song) is the fullest and best of these, starting out like one of those lazy Saturday-afternoon melancholic ruminations of life before suddenly launching into the far more dynamic, quasi-martial chorus. There's nothing seemingly ironic about the attitude, but nothing fake-sounding either. Kinks-ish in tone, Sgt Pepper-like in execution, a solid exercise in wagon-jumping. Most impressive of all are the vocal harmony arrangements - something that Manfred Mann weren't really well versed in before; now, however, the sly South Africaner must have perceived that you're not to be taken seriously by the artsy crowd unless you've learnt to coordinate your pipes according to the Great Brian Wilson Textbook, and the gamble is paying off well. The other three songs are nevertheless quite well rounded. 'Sing Songs Of Love' may be expendable, because there's a bit too much lovey-dovey idealism in it, and the 'sing songs of love, sing songs of love' chorus is naïve unless you don't concentrate on it too much, in which case it makes up for pleasant background music. However, the folksy 'Walking Round' somehow ends up wrapping us around its finger - it begins like a slightly less dissonant Incredible String Band, then switches to its hyper-catchy merry-go-round chorus and finally is over almost in a flash, away and out before it actually runs out of its two basic ideas. Finally, 'Just For Me' must have been written after one too many spins of Pet Sounds, with the same kind of teen-religious atmosphere and harpsichord/chime patterns that are so typical of that album; and as much as the song lacks in inspiration and depth, it almost compensates for that with a lack of pretentiousness and friendliness and warmth of delivery. It is not quite true to say, however, that Manfred Mann only ventured into psychedelia because they were pressed into it by the movie's subject matter. The whole album has this hypnotic, sleepy vibe to it, and 'Sleepy Hollow' is merely the crowning gem in the coma temple. In a way, it's almost as if these guys did try smoking pot or popping acid once or twice, and, as it happens with those who aren't enthusiastic about their drugs 'n' alcohol, became convinced that a passive, tranquil, beady-eye state is the essence of psychedelia - no astral journeys through green and purple for this bunch of boring gentlemen, crawling inside their 'sleepy hollow' instead and too busy yawning and nodding their heads. Maybe that's why 'Sleepy Hollow' sounds so believable in the first place, with its seductive, trance-like vocals, paralysed flutes, piano trills that never take off from one place, and guitar licks like dispassionate smoke rings circling round the head of the unfortunate pot-smoker-against-his-will.
The only times when the band breaks out of the winter sleep are the jazzy jams, but this is no Soul Of Mann and this time around they haven't bothered to add any kind of special icing to pieces like 'Sheila's Dance' or 'Belgravia', populated mostly by Mann's keyboards and chimes doing the thing for love, luck, and camaraderie. They are quite upbeat and pleasant, perfectly fit for some late night jazzy/hip grooves. The first reworking of 'Up The Junction' is interesting, as they speed the tune up, almost making a danceable romp out of a psychedelic slump, but it lasts for only one minute; the other two are possibly as remarkable, and the gimmick of overdubbing vocal harmonies from the album's three tunes on top of each other results in positive arrangements. And their little avantgardist exercise, 'Wailing Horn', starting out as a jazzy drum solo and ending in one minute of uninterrupted organ feedback (or something) with a "wailing horn" on top, is simply fabulous. Despite all this, Up The Junction still remains one of Manfred Mann's most overall essential experiences from the mid-Sixties. Nothing on here is geared towards commercial success, and not a single tune attempts to "rock out" or be "soulful"
1) Up The Junction 2) Sing Songs of Love; 3) Walking Round; 4) Up The Junction 5) Love Theme 6) Up The Junction 7) Just For Me; 8) Love Theme 9) Sheila's Dance; 10) Belgravia; 11) Wailing Horn; 12) I Need Your Love; 13) Up The Junction ; .
CONDITION: The cover: the fragile UK cover still looks very fresh, with original colors for a 47 year old British artifact...rated "EX" (excellent) there are a few tell tale signs of light use; small (spider-web thin) crinkle at top right corner, old round sticker, and otherwise very clean. The back cover with flipback seams is white-M- top clean... there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... collection worthy rarity ...
The vinyl: Clean and glossy over both sides, rated: M- TOP COPY expect play grade to perform with very enjoyable-all CLEAN audio...NO distracting surface problems ... both MONO UK Fontana labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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