V RARE 1970 ORIG ACID ARCHIVES THE OXFORDS FLYING UP Millennium Boettcher
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$ 502 Sold For
Apr 7, 2024 Sold Date
Mar 31, 2024 Start Date
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  • MINTY CLEAN ORIGINAL 1970 PRIVATE  PRESS
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  • The OXFORDS

  • Flying Through The Sky 

  • USA - UNION JAC (Private)  - PS 116

  • all in all, one to grab before the price goes through the roof!
  1. Original, very rare local KENTUCKY 1970 local pressing ... the last time, a few years ago, we were lucky to auction an original , believe (?) it went for $350 or rightly so, music contents within) ... One would think by this time ahead, the value,via the Lp's extinction would have significantly increased. 

  3. The OXFORDS only LP contains the true meaning of "a grower" with repeat plays! 
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  5. THINK : Millennium Curt Boettcher/ Gary Usher

     TOP COPY!!!
    Very RARE     local Louisville Kentucky private pressing ...one of only 500 made in 1970 ...so here is the first pressing titled     "Flying Up Through the Sky" by the OXFORDS  ...
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     FLYING THROUGH THE SKY is a time capsule to be sure, transcending its era on their sheer exuberance alone.

    The Oxfords Flying Up Through The Sky

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  7. The OXFORDS material tends to grow on the listener like a 
  8. glowing enlightenment. The melodies are largely 'Technicolor Bright' and the sentiments have a paisley-eyed optimism that seems endemic to the late '60s alone.

  10. Vocal harmonies of leader Jay Petach and Jill DeMarco approach the sort of oxygenated buoyancy of the Free Design, but way way better, and with an earthier charm. The music may strike some as a tad naïve, but it fits the groovy mood of the period perfectly = 54 years afterwards still sounds fresh. 

    Oxfords - Young Girls Lament (Psychedelic Rock, Pop) (1970)

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  12. At times ("Come on 'Round," the wah-wah laced "Young Girl's Lament") The OXFORDS flash more substantive hints, sounding something like the Jefferson Airplane's tough but yet deflowered younger sister, unsettled and still unspoiled. The rearrangement of the Quechua Indian song, "Sung at Harvest Time," is beautifully, eerily psychedelic, and the avant-arranged experiment of "Two Poems by E.E. Cummings," while not really successful as a pure listening experience, is bizarrely appealing.

    The Oxfords received two label offers, but they had to give up the rights to their songs. They declined, so they pressed 500 copies of this Lp themselves and released the record under their own label in 1970, but they didn't have the means to promote it. Sad story in the music business

    Overall the album is a great example of psychedelic tinged pop-rock perfection, the self penned compositions are beautifully infectious, with soaring harmonies that are often breathtaking. Why they never made it big time is a total mystery.

    In the end, 1970's "Flying Up Through the Sky" served as an amazing time piece. The results manages to blend the best ingredients of '60s poprock & lite-psych touches within the innocence of those days. Simply brimming with killer melodies, amazing group harmonies ('Lighter Than Air'), nifty arrangement, and adventuresome detours (again, check out their musical adaptation of E.E. Cummings' 'Two Poems')

  14. Sporting a pair of gifted vocalists certainly didn't hurt their efforts. While singer/multi-instrumentalist Jay Petach had a knack for handling the group's more accessible numbers "(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me)", and to our ears the real star was guitarist singer Jill DeMarco (who was previously in the tough garage/punk group "She"). 
  15. Jill simply has a awesome voice capable of handling commercial stuff and much tougher edges like the bruising wah-wah guitar propelled blues-rocker 'Young Girl's Lament'. Can you imagine Grace Slick having the guts to handle a song like the psychedelic kalimba propelled 'Sung At Harvest Time'? Had the Lp been released a couple of years earlier with major label support , the OXFORDS LP could've been a massive hit !!!

  17. My World

    Lighter Than Air

    Sung at Harvest Time

    Two Poems

    Flying Up Through the Sky

    B:

    (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me

    Come on 'Round

    Young Girl's Lament

    Trix Rabbit

    Good Night


  18.   CONDITION:

  20. The cover: rated: M- 1970 UNION JAC Records (Private Press) keeper from 54 years ago ... more than difficult to find in any condition. Here's the minty top copy you've been waiting for! There are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... flat & square with all the fresh colors as in 1970

  1. The vinyl: Rated: M- been in careful hands 54 years... Figures to be a last chance to obtain, or wish you did. Both private '70 Union Jac labels are clean


A cool addition to anyone's music library! 
SEE: SELLERS OTHER ITEMS (((similar grooves for "head" people...)))

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