ACADEMY Pop Lore According To 1969 ORIG 1969 UK MORGAN BLUE TOWN PSYCH LP HEAR

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THE ACADEMY "POP-LORE ACCORDING TO THE ACADEMY" LP

ORIGINAL 1969 LP ON THE UK MORGAN BLUE TOWN LABEL, STEREO BT5001

COVER IN VG++ SHAPE, ORIGINAL FLIPBACK SLEEVE, SOME RINGWEAR ON FRONT

VINYL LOOKS SHINY AND CLEAN, PLAYS VG++ BUT HAS EDGE WARP THAT DID NOT AFFECT PLAY ON MY TURNTABLE (SLIGHT WARP), ALSO HAS 3 ODD PRESSING DEFECTS ON SIDE B THAT CAUSE S2 T1 TO SKIP ("RACHEL'S DREAM") AND S2 T4 ("SHE RETURNED HOME") TO CLICK A FEW TIMES

Well now, here's one you see...oh, somewhere around NEVER!  Original UK folk psych gem on the Morgan Blue Town label from 1969 by the Academy, only other one on this site you can buy now for $400.  I'll start this one at one quarter that price because of the pressing defects listed above - actually renders only ONE song unlistenable (skips on Side 2 Track 1) and the slight edge warp that didn't affect playback on my system.  Musically this is on the folkier side of psychedelia, with some lovely female vocals in the Fairport Convention/Sandy Denny vibe.  A couple cuts here, though, flirt nicely with psychedelia, notably the odd jazzy lounge intro "Enrol With The Academy," with its creeping cat King Crimson melody and farting sax, like a turned-on British take on Peggy Lee's "Fever," and the strummin' acoustic pop singalong "Munching The Candy," whose lyrics talk about "my brain's full of wool and it's covered with mud, in which has been written my name."  Methinks someone's been passing around the brownies at the Folk Fest this year.

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Listen, I buy a bunch of records too (when I’m not getting outbid at the last second, which is more often than not) – and I know what it’s like to get a rare, one-of-a-kind album packaged dangerously in a flimsy bubblewrap package.  I hate that too.  So rest assured, I ALWAYS package albums with stiff cardboard reinforcements, same for 45s.  And yes, the records are removed from the sleeves (for albums).  I ship out once a week, every Friday, because I have a regular day job.  But I’d be willing to give that up if you’d all be so kind as to bid my items up to stupidly high amounts. 

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