EZRA Test Pressing 45 RPM Private OHIO Hard Rock/PSYCH/Prog GUITAR MONSTER Rare?

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MONSTER Rural Psych/Prog HARD ROCK OHIO PRIVATELY PRESSED RECORDING /

ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSINGS UNLESS NOTED!!!

ALL RECORDS ARE VISUALLY GRADED AND INSPECTED WITH A 120 WATT BULB!

ULTRA RARE NORTHERN SOUL / FUNK 

45 RPM FOR SALE!!!

EZRA - Charlie Two Moons / Everything You Need   1-6-75

(JEWEL/TEST PRESS RECORD  STEREO  7542)  ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING!!!    

Killer Two Sided Monster from Unheard OHIO/Cincinnati Band!!  ULTRA RARE!!

Great Hard Rock/Rural guitar killer with psych/progressive overtones.  These cats were amazingly talented!!

Listen to the samples below.  As far as I know they never made another 45. 

I do own an original JEWEL release, so it may have made it to the public (but I have not seen another). 

This, being the test press, is even rarer!!

When Rusty York sold his JEWEL RECORD belongs in 2008, this 45 was purchased .... now I am selling, unwillingly.

"Jewel Recording Studio Contents For Sale
by Cliff Radel
October 29, 2008
The Cincinnati Enquirer

“A past that’s sprinkled with the blues, a few old dreams that I can’t use. Who’ll buy my memories of things that used to be.”
– Willie Nelson, “Who’ll Buy My Memories.”

MOUNT HEALTHY – Rusty York’s memories are for sale. Everything must go.
Autographed photos. Boxes of unopened records. Miles of recording studio cables. Scads of microphones. Concert posters. His personal stapler – signed and dated.

The contents of York’s 51 years in music and what remains of his Jewel Recording Studio in this Cincinnati suburb are on the auction block. On-line bidding – via www.ebthauctions.org – closes Thursday night for thousands of items. Included is a giant replica of a 45 rpm record featuring the first, biggest and only hit of York’s career, a sizzling 1959 rockabilly take of a Marty Robbins tune titled, “Sugaree.”

“Sugaree, Sugaree.
“Don’t you know I love you so.”

“This is the end of an era,” admitted York’s wife, Linda. As she spoke, she sat at the grand piano in the once bustling but now deathly quiet studio. Items in the auction lined the floor and snaked into the adjoining hallways.

“If these walls could talk or sing,” Linda York said, and shook her head. Housed in space once occupied by a butcher shop and a beauty parlor, the studio produced thousands of recordings on the Jewel label from rock to bluegrass to jazz to country to gospel to classical. Even commercial jingles were cut in the studio Rusty York set up in 1967.

That date makes Jewel the last link with Cincinnati’s once-proud recording history. In 1967, the home of no less than eight future Rock and Roll Hall of Famers was still doing business in Evanston as King Records. Rusty York is a living link to King. He cut “Sugaree” – the record that led to his 1998 induction into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame – at the Evanston record label’s studio.

That history weighed on Linda York’s mind as she ran her hand slowly over the grand piano’s keys. She was saying goodbye to the studio and its memories. “Its time,” she said softly. “I need to be home with Rusty. I need to help him focus on his music.”

Home for Rusty and Linda York is a secluded lake-front house in Southwestern Indiana, a good hour’s drive from Mount Healthy. The house boasts a picture postcard view of rippling water and trees dressed in fall’s colors.

This is home and, now studio, for Rusty York. Fresh from a September show in Spain where he sang “Sugaree” for European rockabilly fans, he aims to record his next CD to keep the Jewel label alive.

“Need to get the lyrics together,” he said as he sat by a jukebox in his home’s music room. A gold record, with “Sugaree” on it, hung on the wall. “Have to practice a bit, too.”

York has always been a man of few words. At the age of 73, he’s a man of even fewer words.

Still lithe and prone at the spur of the moment to grab his guitar and sing, in Spanish, a Mexican love song, “Coo Coo Roo Coo Coo Paloma,” to his wife, he takes his sweet time answering questions.""

? HEAR THE ACTUAL RECORD YOU CAN BID ON?

Side A -> "Everything You Need"  http://www.divshare.com/download/15824923-151

Side B -> "Charlie Two Moons"  http://www.divshare.com/download/15824876-2d8

CONSERVATIVE GRADE:

RECORD: 9/10 (MINT MINUS / MINT)  UNPLAYED!!  STORE STOCK!!

MY GRADING SYSTEM IS :

I work on the 10 point grading system (see below).

There will be a blue number representing shape besides the listing/Year in blue.   (Ex: 1967  7/8)

All gradings are visual and I only play records in special situations ......

10 : MINT (still sealed (LP's only) or unplayed (shown by zero spindle wear).  PERFECT CONDITION!!!)

9 : NEAR MINT/M- (opened LP or slight handling wear.  ALMOST PERFECT BUT NOT...)

8 : EX++ (Slight wear(ring/seam), slight paper scuffs that do not effect play and little to no spindle wear)

7 : VG++  (slight needle wear/slight scuffs/slight scratches/slight cover discoloration and or seam wear).  Small seam splits starting.  Some slight ticks that don't take away from the listening experience.

6 : VG+ (slight needle wear/mild scuffs/ mild scratches/ mild cover discoloration and or seam wear).

Plays with slightly noticeable ticks but still enjoyable!!)

5 : VG (Needle wear/scuffs/scratches/cover discoloration and or seam wear).

Plays with noticeable ticks but OK!!)

4 : G (OK LP.  Listed as a play copy until a clean one comes)

3 : FAIR (Seam splits/heavy writing on cover/scratched and scuffed ... BUT STILL PLAYS but sound like bacon sizzling)

2 : POOR -> Really trashed (Only listed if it is super super rare and can fill a void.  $500 record or more.  Could be cracked but plays.)

1 : Hurts to look at (Should be thrown away or given to Goodwill.  "Used for target practice"/Original owner should be ashamed!!).

These records will not be sold.  They will be used for landfill.

I COMBINE SHIPPING!!

SHIPPING USA CUSTOMERS :

Local Pick Up is FREE!!

$.25 each Additional 45!!!

$.50 each additional LP!!!

Delivery Confirmation for $.75 cents.  I highly recommended this.

WORLDWIDE Shipping:

CONTACT ME FOR EXACT SHIPPING/HANDLING RATES

NORTH AMERICA (CANADA) : $8.50 1st LP / Each additional LP is $2.50 (under 4lbs.) 

$5.00 1st 45 / Each additional 45 is $1.75

REST OF THE WORLD : $15.00 1st LP / Each additional LP $5.00 (under 4lbs.)

$7.50 1st 45 / Each additional 45 is $2.25

AS SOON AS PAYMENT IS MADE, WE SHIP!!!  NO DELAYS!!  We know you want it fast and we deliver!!

Handling charges are included in the shipping cost above. 

I use only custom LP mailers!!!  I ship all LP's outside of the cover (unless it is sealed) to eliminate seam splits!!

I can not be blamed if you do not want a tracking number and your package is delayed. 

I will ship once payment is made but must rely on the Post Office to handle the logistics of shipping.

Insurance and delivery confirmation is optional, but recommended.