BOYCE & HART TEST PATTERNS (1st ALBUM) RARE STILL SEALED ORIG '67 A&M STEREO LP

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· BOYCE AND HART (TOMMY BOYCE AND BOBBY HART) – TEST PATTERNS (THE DUO'S FIRST ALBUM) - ORIGINAL 1967 A&M RECORDS STEREO LP SP-4126

· ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

· GUARANTEED ORIGINAL TAN (BROWN) A&M LABEL (NO OTHER LABELS EXIST THAT WE ARE AWARE OF)

· THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

· THREE “BREATHE” (AIR) HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP

· THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

· THICK CARDBOARD COVER, AMERICAN STYLE.

· THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

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Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart never got much respect from the rock intelligentsia, being too closely associated with the Monkees before they were considered cool and also with the business end of the music business. Though based in the West Coast, they seemed much closer in origin and spirit to the Brill Building than to Haight Ashbury or the Sunset Strip. Their debut album, however, is a fairly bold creation given that it was recorded very hastily and rushed out to try and catch some of the commercial action that the duo's songs had helped stir up around the Monkees. The result is an entertaining, often clever body of California rock circa 1967 that incorporates elements of psychedelic pop, garage punk, Beatles-type harmonies and guitars, psychedelic-era Beach Boys, irridescent arabesques, Klezmer music, and even electric blues, all played and sung as well as any Monkees record of the era (which is to say, as well as any record). Leading off with their No. 39 hit "Out and About," with its mix of punk sensibilities and psychedelic production, the album goes Beatles-easque in the shimmering, cheerfully languid romantic morning-after lament "I Should Be Going Home," with its dissonant, arabesque-like interludes. "In the Night" is an R&B-based anthem to youthful pleasures and a sneering, anti-rat race attitude; the deliberately retro "My Little Chickadee," which sort of anticipates Michael Nesmith's "Magnolia Sims" from The Birds, the Bees, & the Monkees, manages to work some slide guitars in amid the 1920s vaudeville style; and the catchy, spacy Beatles-like "For Baby," with its heavy rhythm guitar. Side two was bolder and more varied, opening with the "Sometimes She's a Little Girl," which sounds like it was salvaged from "Pleasant Valley Sunday" and retooled as something newer and lustier. "Abe's Tune" could have been the work of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys off of Smile, starting off as a doo wop version of "Three Blind Mice" with lyrics about the experience of hearing music broken up by soaring harp and group choruses, each verse getting more spaced out in its production and sensibilities. "Shadows" brings on a more reflective mood, while "Girl, I'm Out to Get You" sounds like a demented Klezmer band melding with a Monkees' track. Finally, there's "Life," a five-minute conceptual track that mixes electric blues, gospel, and orchestral psychedelia -- its reach exceeds its grasp, but it's still a pleasantly dazzling piece of music. Test Patterns isn't a lost psychedelic masterpiece, to be sure, but it has so much to recommend it -- it's a superior offshoot of the Monkees' legacy, a superb piece of psychedelic pop, and a piece of classic California pop/rock -- that it ought to rate a place in any collection devoted to those areas.

(REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

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· CONDITION:

· THE RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a) THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

(b) The record is believed to come in its original stock inner sleeve.

(c) The record is apparently pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(d) Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

· THE COVER

COVER IS STILL SEALED; HOWEVER, WE ARE UNABLE TO GRADE IT MINT OR NEAR MINT DUE TO MINOR FLAWS LISTED BELOW; WE GRADE THIS COVER AS EXCELLENT OR VG++(A SMALL PIECE OF SHRINK WRAP IS MISSING)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

- Cover has a partially split spine (between 1 and 2 inches / 2.5 to 5 centimeters)

- Cover has some fraying/wear along the spine

- Visible shelf wear noted on the bottom seam

- Cover has 2 visible wrinkles (creases) in the cardboard base on the front panel

- The cover has a few tiny scratch marks on the front side

- Cover has two corners slightly worn / dinged

- Cover has a few tiny wrinkles and small air bubbles along the spine

- Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and 10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 2.

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER

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