The Who: Sell Out - Orig UK LP NM

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 The Who

Original 1967 UK MONO Pressing.

The Who Sell Out

Track    612 002

Record: NM
(Couple of VERY light marks! Nice!)
Sleeve: NM-
(Light creases, small tape residue)

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The Who Sell Out is the third album by English rock band The Who, released in 1967 by Track Records in the UK and Decca Records in the US. It is a concept album, formatted as a collection of unrelated songs interspersed with faux commercials and public service announcements. The album purports to be a broadcast by pirate radio station Radio London. Part of the intended irony of the title was that The Who were making commercials during that period of their career, some of which are included as bonus tracks on the remastered CD.

The album's release was reportedly followed by lawsuits due to the mention of real-world commercial interests in the faux commercials and on the album covers, and by the makers of the real jingles (Radio London jingles), who claimed The Who used them without permission. (The jingles were produced by PAMS Productions of Dallas, Texas, which created thousands of station ID jingles in the 1960s and 1970s). It was the deodorant company, Odorono, who took offense that Chris Stamp made a request for endorsement dollars. In 2003, the album was ranked number 113 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Album information
The cover is divided into panels featuring a photograph by David Montgomery of each of the band members, two on the front and two on the back. On the front is Pete Townshend applying Odorono brand deodorant from an oversized stick, and Roger Daltrey sitting in a bathtub full of Heinz baked beans (holding an oversized tin can of the same). Daltrey claims to have caught pneumonia after sitting for a prolonged period in the bathtub, as the beans had been frozen. On the back is Keith Moon applying Medac from an oversized tube, and John Entwistle in a leopard-skin Tarzan suit, squeezing a blonde woman in a leopard-skin bikini with one arm and a teddy bear with the other (an ad for the Charles Atlas course mentioned in one of the album's faux commercials).

"I Can See for Miles" was released as a single and peaked at #10 in the UK and #9 in the US. Original vinyl copies of Sell Out end with an audio oddity that repeats into a locked groove. The music in the locked groove is an instrumental version of what was originally intended to be a vocal jingle for The Who's UK label Track Records. The opening "Radio London" (Days of the Week) jingle makes use of a device called the Sonovox.

This album is notable in The Who discography for not featuring Daltrey as the sole lead singer on most of the songs; he alone provides lead vocals to "Armenia City in the Sky", "Tattoo", "I Can See for Miles", and "Rael". "Medac" and "Silas Stingy" are sung by Entwistle; "Odorono", "Our Love Was", "I Can't Reach You", and "Sunrise" by Pete Townshend; on "Relax", Daltrey and Townshend share lead vocals. "Rael" features melodic and rhythmic ideas that would reappear later in "Tommy."

Track listing
All songs written by Pete Townshend except where noted. The between song jingles apparently have no official titles and are not listed anywhere on the original album packaging, though they are listed in the inner booklet of the 1995 remaster.

Side one
"Radio London" (Days of The Week)
"Armenia City in the Sky" (John Keen)  – 3:12
"Wonderful Radio London"
"Heinz Baked Beans" (John Entwistle)  – 0:57
"Radio London" (More Music)
"Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand"  – 2:04 (retitled "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hands" on the US version)
"Premier Drums"
"Radio London" (Instrumental)
"Odorono"  – 2:16
"Radio London" (Smooth Sailing)
"Tattoo"  – 2:42
"Radio London" (Church of Your Choice)
"Our Love Was"  – 3:07 (retitled "Our Love Was, Is" on the US version)
"Radio London" (Pussycat)
"Pour-Easy"
"Rotosound Strings"
"I Can See for Miles"  – 4:17

Side two
"Charles Atlas"
"I Can't Reach You"  – 3:03
"Medac" (Entwistle)  – 0:57
"Relax"  – 2:38
"Rotosound Strings" (1995 remix only)
"Silas Stingy" (Entwistle)  – 3:04
"Sunrise"  – 3:03
"Rael (1 and 2)"  – 5:44 (retitled "Rael 1" on 1995 reissue)
"Track Records" (Instrumental version) (This track repeats into the endless locked groove at the end of side 2. Also found after Rael 1 mono mix on disc 2 of the deluxe edtion).

Personnel
The Who
Roger Daltrey – lead and backing vocals, percussion
John Entwistle – bass guitar, backing and lead vocals, horns
Pete Townshend – guitar, backing and lead vocals, keyboards, pennywhistle, banjo
Keith Moon – drums, backing vocals, percussion, lead vocals on "Girl's Eyes"

Additional musicians
Al Kooper – keyboards, organ

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