DAVE CLARK FIVE GLAD ALL OVER ORIG '65 MONO WHITE LABEL PROMO LP w/WITHDRAWN CVR

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·       THE DAVE CLARK FIVE – GLAD ALL OVER -  ORIGINAL 1965 EPIC RECORDS MONO LP LN-24093

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       *** WHITE LABEL PROMO ***

·       EXTREMELY RARE, WITHDRAWN FIRST VERSION OF THE ALBUM SHOWING BAND MEMBERS WITHOUT THEIR INSTRUMENTS. IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE DAVE CLARK AND HIS BAND LOOK LESS GEEKY, EPIC RECORDS QUICKY WITHDREW ALL RELEASED COPIES OF THIS ALBUM WITH THIS, ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE COVER, AND REPLACED THEM WITH THE COVER SHOWING GROUP MEMBERS IN A MUCH MORE DYNAMIC POSE, PLAYFULLY TOYING WITH THEIR INSTRUMENTS. THE ORIGINAL, FIRST COVERS ARE MANY, MANY TIMES RARER THAN THE MORE COMMON COVERS WITH INSTRUMENTS.

·       ORIGINAL EPIC LABEL  WITH BLACK PRINT, MID-'60s STYLE, WHITE PROMOTIONAL VERSION.

·       RARE MONO PRESSING, MANY TIMES RARER THAN FAKE (“ELECTRONICALLY RECHANELLED”) STEREO

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

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       ORIGINAL GLOSSY, LIGHTLY LAMINATED COVER

·       COVER HAS A NIFTY 'HYPE' (ADVERTISEMENT) STICKER STILL AFFIXED TO THE FRONT PANEL

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-1B/-1AD'.  ON SOME LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING)

·       MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

THE WINNING BIDDER WILL RECEIVE A BONUS GIFT: STOCK COPY OF THIS SAME ALBUM WITH YELLOW EPIC LABELS (ALSO IN MONO, SAME CATALOG NUMBER) IN REGULAR, MORE COMMON COVER SHOWING THE GROUP IN DYNAMIC CONCERT PERFORMANCE; THE CONDITION OF THE BONUS DISC (WHICH WE ARE NOT GRADING IN DETAIL - OUR DETAILED DESCRIPTION BELOW IS STRICTLY FOR THE RARE WHITE LABEL PROMO WITH WITHDRAWN COVER) IS EXCELLENT (EXC) FOR THE COVER AND NEAR MINT (NM) FOR THE RECORD - PERHAPS JUST A NOTCH BELOW THE CONDITION OF THE WHITE LABEL PROMO.

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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The Dave Clark Five's American debut album is a joyous, bouncy, high energy set that showed considerable promise in a band that was viewed at the time as the first real threat to the supremacy of the Beatles. They also wrote a lot of their own material and recorded hits that burned up the charts, even supplanting the Fab Four at the #1 position at one point. But this was to be their best non-greatest-hits album, and there are a few notable missteps here that prevented DC5 from being taken seriously enough, and over time would diminish their impact and longevity.

Side 1 of the original vinyl starts very promising though. The title track was as good as anything the Beatles were doing at that time, and its a high energy tune that remains timeless. All of the Time is a great under-appreciated tune with unusual musical structures and great harmonizing. It's one of the best deep cuts in their entire catalog. The cover tunes Stay and Do You Love Me are decent run-throughs; maybe a little stiff-sounding, but easily competent. And Chaquita threatens to blow up the group's "clean cut" image with its mystifying guitar and sax under heavy reverb.

Side 2 is where it falls apart. Bits and Pieces is another major deserved hit, but I Know You starts the downhill slide. It's a decent enough track, but it's straightforward pop that isn't as adventurous as anything you've heard up to this point. Now, here's where their limitations scream out to you. No Time to Lose is indeed nothing more than a cheap rewrite of Twist and Shout that should've made the Isley Brothers bring a lawsuit against them, and Doo Dah? A rewrite of an old Stephen Foster chestnut that I can't figure out if it's a parody or just a joke. You almost have to skip this one. Time recovers the proceedings a little with an unexpected jazzy arrangement, and She's All Mine closes the album with a decent if unremarkable flair.

At the time this was one of the hottest British Invasion albums around;  no mean feat during the first half of 1964 if you weren't the Beatles. In spite of its glaring flaws, it's still a pretty excellent set in a time when album making hadn't quite yet matured. It's a shame the band couldn't maintain even this quality over the next three years, but this was as respectable a start as you could expect by anyone. And they still wrote some pretty enduring hits.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY RUSSELL NEWTON, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

As is the case with other Dave Clark Five albums from the mid-60's, Mono versions of the group's albums are much more sparkling, raw, direct and otherwise gratifying than the fake "electronic" stereo versions (true stereo versions do not exist). The only serious competitor to the Beatles (except, possibly, for Stones), Dave Clark Five provided some of the most creative "Beat" sounds of the British Invasion wave and this, one of the group's finest works, contains two of its greatest charting hit singles: Glad all over and Bits and Pieces. It is unbelievable how well their music has aged.

THE WHITE LABEL PROMO, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were often distributed to the radio stations before the record was released to the public, sometimes as much as four months ahead. These records are generally considered to be the "first among equals": the VERY FIRST generation and the VERY FIRST pressings of the particular title; a PROTOTYPE and the earliest known official pressing of the record.

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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)          WE GRADE THE VINYL  AS  (WEAK) NEAR MINT. Some VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL abrasions – mostly sleeve scuffs -  are (barely) visible, but are probably inaudible,  and do not affect visual integrity or beauty of the vinyl. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          The record is 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!

(c)           Mono pressing of this title is much rarer, and by far more  preferable to its FAKE ("electronically rechannelled") stereo counterpart. We estimate that FAKE stereo copies of this album outnumber monos by a ratio of at least 3:1.  (NOTE: electronically rechannelled versions with this, withdrawn, cover probably do not exist; only monos appear to have been produced; we are not entirely certain)

(d)            White Promo Label version of this title is much rarer that a regular, commercially released, version of this title. We estimate that stock copies of this album outnumber promo copies by a ratio of at least 100:1.

(e)           True Stereo copies of this album are NOT known to exist.

(f)            The record comes in the original, all-yellow Epic stock inner sleeve (BOTH albums have it)

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

·                               THE COVER

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD++ (VG++).

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-         Back cover has a few yellowish dust speckles scattered here and there (these tiny spots are not overly obtrusive or distracting)

-         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 1.

-         The cover has a few tiny scratch marks on the front side  (BARELY VISIBLE)

-         Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

-         Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine and the top seam (nothing significant)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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