1964 SEALED THE ROLLING STONES 12 X 5 LP Stereo Stored since 1970 READ THE STORY

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In 1970 93 KHJ Los Angeles - LA's Home of Rock and Roll held a contest where the grand prize was 200 1960 classic albums from original dates (This is the information I got from KHJ. Please view the item pictures carefully - this is one of the 200 I received) in shrink wrap (ONLY ONE WINNER - ME).  Of course being a 16 year old kid at the time I opened and played many of the albums but some are still sealed and I put them away in late 1970,  I rediscovered the unopened albums and will be listing them here on Ebay.  Cover on this one is still sealed in shrink wrap. Shrink has the normal scuff from being boxed and stored - seems like the cover - except for corners is pristine retaining its jet black color.  All discolorations seem to be only transfer to the shrink wrap and do not appear to affect the cover itself (this is especially true of the back cover where it appears that there is transfer to the shrink wrap) This is probably from being stored (see the pictures) vinyl is NEW never been opened or played.

The bidding (in honor of KHJ) starts 93.00 (LA's Home of Rock)

This auction is for a Rolling Stones LP titled "12 x 5", #PS402, Stereo, London Label, London Stereophonic.  This LP is still in the original shrink wrap.  Part of the shrink on the front is missing but most of it is still on the cover.

The album, like its predecessor, largely features R&B covers. However, it also contains three compositions by the developing Mick Jagger/Keith Richards songwriting team, as well as two group compositions under the pseudonym "Nanker Phelge". 12 X 5 is notable for featuring the first, and less often heard, of the Stones' two versions of Jerry Ragovoy's "Time Is on My Side", with a prominent electronic organ instead of the better-known version's electric guitar.

"I loved everything about this album as a kid," recalled Joe Satriani. "It was those second-generation electric blues players that I loved, but I had no idea where they got that music from. It took my teenage years to discover that."[3]

After sessions in Chicago in June 1964, the Stones' UK label Decca Records released the five-song EP Five by Five. Because EPs were never a lucrative format in the US, London Records — their American distributor at the time — spread its songs across an album, adding seven new recordings to create a release of 12 songs by five musicians, hence the album's title. The rest of the songs were singles "It's All Over Now" and "Time Is on My Side" with their B-sides, plus three that were later included on The Rolling Stones No. 2. Decca would use the same cover (minus the lettering) for the band's second UK album, The Rolling Stones No. 2, in early 1965.

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