1970 M- FIVE MAN ELECTRICAL Butterflies WITHDRAWN psych

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Absolutely First Pressing VINYL in the withdrawn Cover ~ still in SHRINK WRAPPER and the signs STICKER!

    THE FIVE MAN ELECTRICAL BAND

          Good-byes & Butterflies

...USA - LIONEL Records - LRS 1100

Harder to find than you think in MINT condition, thee ORIGINAL early 70's psych-pop grooves, this is their BIG one that included their surprise hit "SIGNS" (a hippie anti-establishment statement)...on the first pressing obscure "Lionel' label...with totally different cover, when the hit 'signs' went internationally massive the record company changed the cover, completely, so you have here the rare cover:

STILL IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP + rare "signs" sticker...the folks who bought this album tore off the shrink wrapping (most did), then lost this rare SIGNS sticker on outside wrapper, well, here's a perfect minty copy with the sticker and all the great music glory inside...

Signs was the big hit, but all their material was superb. They followed up with I'm A Stranger Here, a science-fiction single about aliens coming to Earth. Toronto based, they reformed briefly a while back and made some appearances on local talk shows. They sounded exactly the same as they did in 1970.

Back in 1970, MGM records first released a Five Man Electrical Band 45rpm called "Hello Melinda, Goodbye" with a song called "Signs" on the "B" side. Group leader (voc./guitarist) Les Emmerson had written "Signs" after driving to California along Route 66, where he had noticed the many billboards obscuring his view, and had seen them as a perfect metaphor for the frustrations of the band and the times they were living in. When the single failed, the label quickly lost interest, and Five Man Electrical Band once again retreated to Ottawa to lick their wounds and debate their future.  Label president Dallas Smith would was not as easily discouraged. His belief in the band was still very strong, and with no apparent interest from MGM, Smith met with Clive Fox, a young music publisher who wanted to form his own label. Fox had a connection to Lionel, manufacturers of model railroad equipment, whose expansion plans included a record label. In February, 1971, MGM Record Corp. assigned all rights to Five Man Electrical Band, its masters as well as its production agreement with Renaissance (including the Canopy masters) to the Lionel Entertainment Corporation. With Fox in the office and Smith in the studio, the new Lionel label needed a promotion man, whom it soon found in the person of Abe Glazer - an old pro, by this time in his seventies - whose energy, undiminished by his age, was to become crucial in the immediate future of the group. In May 1970, Lionel released the album "Goodbye And Butterflies" and its first single, "Signs", which at Smith's urging, now became the A-side. Glazer, Smith and the band's manager, Abe Hoche started working the phones, trying to break the record on U.S. radio. Meanwhile, disillusioned and broke, the band was very close to disintegration. Still in Ottawa and only barely known beyond the borders of Canada, their seven years of hard work had resulted in little but disappointment. The band members were ready to call it quits when Abe Hoche called them. "Signs" was getting a lot of air play in the southern U.S., especially Georgia, Florida and Louisiana. To top it all off, radio station CKLW in Windsor, Ontario - the powerhouse ratings leader in the middle U.S. due to its immediate proximity to Detroit, had added the record to its play list. Quickly regrouping, the band rushed back to the States to perform some hastily arranged dates. First to Detroit, then to West Virginia, then straight across the U.S. to Seattle for a series of shows. By the time they reached the Pacific Northwest, "Signs" was a smash, eventually reaching #3 on Billboard's Top 100 and selling over a million and a half copies. Basing themselves in Los Angeles, the band toured extensively for the next two years, sharing the stage with some of the major acts of the era such as The Allman Brothers, Sly & The Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane, BTO and many others.

The album, contains vibrant material in the style of "Signs", much with stinging guitar leads of emmerson...
 

SIDE ONE

1.  SIGNS

2.  SAFE & SOUND

3.  SWAMP WOMAN

4.  BUTTERFLY

5.  HELLO MELINDA

SIDE TWO

1.  MOONSHINE

2.  FOREVER TOGETHER

3.  MAMA'S BABYCHILD

4.  MAN WITH THE HORSE AND WAGON

5.  ALL IS RIGHT

6.  VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF LEPIDOPTERA            

CONDITION: The cover is sharp and solid everywhere, in factory shrink wrapper + the Signs sticker is MINT, prefect.

The vinyl is visually all glossy clean and M- smooth

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record