RARE CLEAN 1964 Orig MONO ZOMBIES THEM STONES UNIT 4 + 2 = ENGLANDS BEAT SCENE

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                                 FANTASTIC COPY!

            1964 BRITISH BEAT SCENE IN GLORIOUS MONO

    ENGLANDS GREATEST HITMAKERS

                 USA - (unboxed MAROON) - London records -   

TOP COPY!

RARE...1964 UNBOXED MAROON first pressing in glorious MONO and TOP minty condition...think what you will, but very seldom does is this original issue available SO clean....

1964 UK beatrocking teen scene with the Rolling Stones, Them, The Zombies, Lulu & The Luvvers, The Applejacks, Unit 2 + 4, and a host of others from the British Invasion of 1964.

ENGLANDS GREATEST HITMAKERS  was released as a charity album to benefit the Lord Taverners National Playing Fields Association, a group that was responsible for maintaining England's cricket fields. We cannot think of a more charming and quintessentially British cause than this. All album profits AND artist royalties were donated to the Lord Taverners National Playing Fields Association. Can you imagine Mick Jagger agreeeing to forgo songwriting royalties so that stuffy old men, most of them presumably wearing monocles, could sneak out after tea on Wednesday afternoons and play cricket? For as much power as the modern record labels have over their current stable of artists, their might pales in comparison to that of their 60s predecessors.

Even though there were no songwriting royalties to be had, the top tier artists brought their strong showcase material. The Rolling Stones snottily cover their own "Suprise, Surprise", a song originally given to Lulu for her magnificent "From Lulu with Love" album. Lulu herself, backed by the long-lived but not long-credited 'Luvvers', tackle "Just One Look" (their rare first album is killer beatrock). While early Lulu's raspy vocals are to the fore, one wishes that she had speeded the song up a bit, a la the Hollies version. The Applejacks, are represented by their excellent hit cover of "Baby's In Black". Kathy Kirby is here, though not at her girl group best, as is Bern Elliot sans his Fenmen.

By far the best and most interesting track here is "Nothing's Changed" by The Zombies. The otherwise quite elusive track is taken from the Bunny Lake is Missing soundtrack and is widely unavailable. This might lead you to believe that it is just a Zombies castoff (is there such a thing?) but with Paul Atkinson's dulcet guitar intro and Colin's peerless vocals becoming increasingly forceful as the rest of the band join in, this is prime early Zombies, as crystalline and fully formed as any contemporary Beatles cut you could name.

A charming album supporting a charming charity, and not sure how anyone could say no to an elusive Zombies track. We hope the money initially paid for this album in 1964 helped to build a cricket field in England.

CONDITION: The cover: After 48 years, still solid and strong all over, near "EX" (excellent), been taken care of for all these years...finding a better copy will be hard...no bends, no split seams, bright original colors...nice!

The vinyl: super clean over both sides, "EX" (excellent), plays fantastic...both ,aroon mono labels are clean ...TOP rarity of the kind in this condition...

keeper!

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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