Barbara Dickson - Do Right Woman, Great Sounding Copy

	£		68
	$		90

Barbara Dickson - Do Right Woman

(Decca SKL5058 1970 UK LP)

Original copy of a scarce album from one of the UK’s top female vocalist. Her earlier albums were traditionally based folk albums but by the mid 70’s she was transformed into a middle of the road pop vocalist. This is one of the folk albums with mostly traditional songs covered as well as a couple of tunes from Archie Fisher and Rab Noakes (who are both included in the backing band) and a cover of the title track which hints at the MOR tendencies which would blight her later work. Whatever you think of the style of her music though there is no denying she has a gorgeous deep sensual voice which works particularly well on the folkier tracks.

Tracks:

Easy To Be Hard

Turn A Deaf Ear

Something’s Wrong

The Garton Mother’s Lullaby

Dainty Davie

Returning

Do Right Woman

The Long And Lonely Winter

A Lover’s Ghost

The Blacksmith

Gloomy Sunday

And I Will Sing

Condition: EX/EX

Sleeve:

Typical Decca sleeve of that era, single sleeve format made of thick card which is laminated on the front only and manufactured by Clout & Baker.

The front sleeve is really nice, it’s a very dark design which is guaranteed to make any marks very visible but this is lovely. It’s extremely clean with no tears or writing anywhere and comletly devoid of any lamination creases. There’s the merest hint of a circular impression where the record sits but that apart this is prety much perfect. The four corners are sharp and well defined.

The rear sleeve is also in very acceptable condition. It’s extremely clean with no writing or tears anywhere, there’s one light crease in the top right corner which is very minor. There is some extremely light ringwear which is almost unavoidable on this sleeve given the dark design, the wear is very light and won’t get any worse if you store it correctly.

The spine is thick, clean and wide and totally unworn with all of the writing clearly readable.

The top seam is totally unworn.

The bottom seam is also totally unworn.

Record:

The disc is also in really nice condition. For some reason most copies of this I’ve seen have been totally trashed but this is fine. It’s a typical Decca pressing made of good thick vinyl and with the great sound quality Decca were noted for. The record is very clean and under normal light there are no surface marks visible at all. Under a really harsh lamp there are some light hairline marks visible which are nothing serious, they’re caused by taking the record in and out of the sleeve and are totally inaudible.

The two labels are in fine condition, extremely clean with no writing, tears or stickers and no hint of any spindle wear. The matrix numbers in the run off grooves are ZAL9893 P2W and ZAL 9394 P2W.

When played the disc has a lush rich sound which compliments the sympathetic musical backing to Barbara’s rich deep voice well. The sound is clean and clear across the full dynamic range and just sounds great. There’s no hint or either groovewear or any distortion, nor is there any hint of any surface noise throughout the entire record. It’s a while since I heard this record and I can honestly say that nothing at all spoilt my enjoyment of this copy.

What you can expect from me:

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