1967 MONO CHAD & JEREMY ? OF KINGS Beatles Folk Psych

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                ~ 1967 MONO ORIGINAL ~

~ SGT PEPPER PSYCHEDELIC MELODIC LACED JOURNEY

STILL SEALED = NEVER PLAYED = ADVANCED RELEASE PROMOTIONAL

             CHAD AND JEREMY

         OF CABAGES AND KINGS

\                      USA - 360 Sound COLUMBIA RECORDS - CL 2671 ((MONO)) ((PROMO)) 

TOP COPY!!! ***STILL SEALED*** 1967 Original Advance Release PROMOTIONAL =  in glorious MONO influenced by Sgt Pepper and full of psychedelic laced melodic grooves...on the highly collected 360 Sound of Columbia Records...the ((RARE)) MONO issue offers different song mixes from the stereo release and a bold punch in the production which is much different from the more common stereo release... major record companies were all but phasing out MONO releases by 1967 and this one is of the harder to find in mono...

The colorful cover showed the pair of musicians dressed in Indian-like garb, and they were seated in front of a painted psychedelic background that featured characters from the Lewis Carroll poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter." One may wonder IF The Rolling Stones used the cover of "Of Cabbages and Kings" as a model for the soon to be released "Their Satanic Majesties Request."

The opening of "Of Cabbages and Kings" was obviously influenced by The Beatles "SGT Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band," right down to the squeaks and groans of a tuning orchestra. Jeremy Clyde is then heard self-importantly reciting a line from Carroll's famous poem: "The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things, of shoes and ships and ceiling wax, of cabbages and kings..." (interestingly, Chad and Jeremy were talking about walruses at least three months before John Lennon sang that he is one). There is then heard the grunts of someone laboriously hammering and chiseling stone. The sound effects finally lead into the opening strains of "Rest In Peace," with lyrics like "my name it is Mathews, and I've got it made, a memorial maker, it's a profitable trade...".
Side one flows with heady tuneful melodics, including "Busman's Holiday" and "Can I See You." The songs feature the sounds of sitars and tablas, and there is also a lot of Sergeant Pepper-like special effects added to the tracks, like babies crying and crowd noises. Flip the LP over, and listen to "The Progress Suite,"  ~ the long segemented track is filled with ambitious psychedelic & satirical zones, very different from the previous mellow Chad and Jeremy offerings ...all in all, the album at the time, was rated very highly by the music critics but sold poorly. Even so it passed over collectors heads of the day, the album is eccentric trippy psychedelia firmly entrenched in the "Sgt. Pepper" mold ...and that is the best way to describe the album.

1. Rest In Peace
2. The Gentle Cold Of Dawn
3. Busman's Holiday
4. Can I See You
5. Family Way
6. I'll Get Around To It When And If I Can
7. Progress Suite: Prologue
8. Progress Suite: Decline
9. Progress Suite: Editorial
10. Progress Suite: Fall
11. Progress Suite: Epilogue

CONDITION: The record is still sealed INSIDE of Columbia Records issued baggy inner sleeve (Columbia use to seal their Lp's inside the plastic baggy inner sleeve) ...NEVER OPENED/NEVER PLAYED...the cover which was NEVER sealed in cellophane has a promotional song timing strip across bottom front cover and is CLEAN "EX" (excellent), with virtually NO shelf wear on front and only a little on back cover only. This is an obviously special TOP COPY, one you do not see as such ... 44 years later and still sealed as a mono promo....

No split seams, no bends, no writing and 4 sharp corners! WOW!   

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record