JACKIE McAULEY (1st album) RARE ORIG UK 1971 NEAR MINT DAWN LP, HARDLY PLAYED.

	£		163
	$		216

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Artist or Band: JACKIE McAULEY

Album Title: Jackie McAuley

Producer(s): Barry Murray

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Turning Green; Boy on the Bayou; Country Joe; Cameramen, Wilson & Holmes; Spanish Room.

Side 2: It’s Alright; Poor Howard; Away; Bangerine; Ruby Farm.

Label/Format: Dawn (a subsidiary of Pye Records) on the original orange format with matt, smooth surfaces. The Dawn label format changed to the purple colour in 1971.

Label Conditions: Both very clean, still fresh and attractive with only a mere couple of light, small, fine and faint spindle marks and no wear around the hole area. This superb album purchased new by one owner who put his records to tape, this appears hardly even played and sounds fantastic. So-much-so, I put it to CD for my own future pleasure as I had never seen or heard this album before, and I doubt I will ever find a better example for sound or lack of plays.

Catalogue Number: DNLS 3023

Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.

Warps or Lateral Movement: Assume all records I offer have no significant warping or lateral movement to cause sound or tracking issues. All should play fine even on budget turntables.

Weight of Record: 139 grams.

Country of Manufacture: England

Rarity: Rare, another classic album that largely went unnoticed with few pressed or sold. Most albums issued on Dawn were poor sellers and this slipped under the radar and was quickly deleted. Dawn was part of the Pye group, it was set up in the late 1960s for more ‘progressive’ acts of the time, and few on it sold well similarly to other more obscure artists on major label off-shoots like Deram, Vertigo and Harvest. It folded in 1976. Also this copy has hardly been played, and superbly pressed – something never to be taken for granted on this label that is well-known to collectors to be variable and inconsistent. Seldom seen or offered, this is gorgeous album and the very first example I have ever had to offer. This is a quality for me to put to CD for my own future use, this is another ‘lost’ mini-classic.

Original Year of Release: 1971

Matrix Nos: DNLS 3023 A-1 *T / DNLS 3023 B-3 *T

Mothers / Stampers: C 1 / A 1

Musicians: Jackie McAuley – Banjo, Guitar, Piano, Spoons, Vocals; Henry Lowther – Flugelhorn, Violin; Mike McNaught – Harpsichord, Piano, Vibraphone; Mike Travis – Drums, Percussion; Roy Babington – Bass; Tony Roberts – Flute; Pete Hossel – Jug.

Brief Info: Jackie McAuley was a member of the Van Morrison-fronted Northern Irish band Them in the mid-1960s making two albums where he played keyboards. In 1970 he founded the famed psych-folk band Trader Horne with the ex-Fairport Convention vocalist Judy Dyble who just made one album that is highly prized and collectable. This was McAuley’s 1971 first solo album which is a superb ‘lost’ classic. Like Trader Horne’s ‘Morning Way’, also on Dawn, this largely went unnoticed or overlooked and disappeared into obscurity and quickily deleted. McCauley is class act with a lovely expressive voice and the music is quite varied and impressive. Highly regarded and sort-after, I doubt is many will better this example which has hardly been played, also superbly pressed, and never to be taken for granted on this label that often proved variable. A rare opportunity for collectors, this mini-classic deserved far better success, but like so many others on Dawn, it failed to attract an audience at the time. Do not miss out on this fabulous album again.

Cover Grade and Format: EXCELLENT: a small price sticker crinkle on the back (top left, on a plain black area) stops a higher grading and the small blemish apart, it’s very impressive indeed and still a real looker. A gatefold format with the outside laminated. This ends inside on the top edges, the inside is matt and smooth. Printed and made in England uncredited, includes the white polylined inner sleeve.

Lamination – Front & Back: The laminate retains excellent shine, clarity and freshness and has minimal traces of dulling – lightly around the rim area on the back is rarely avoided at best – and has no lifting blisters and hardly any creasing at all. The spectacular graphic looks super as-seen. The only blemish of note is the very small square price sticker which has caused a crinkle where it removed sometime in the past by the one owner who purchased this new. Being near the top left corner tip on the back on a plain black are, it has less visual impact and draws the eye little. Clearly I would prefer it not being there, but hardly a major flaw, and for certain this still impressive, quite dramatic artwork cover deserves a higher grade if not for it being present. But this rare sleeve has way more postives than the one small negative and will rarely be found much better apart.

Cover Inner Gatefold: Little to fault inside, just a very small, fine and light trace of pull on the laminate end on the right where the often tacky ends rest together when closed. This is little and light as it gets and few will avoid showing less on this, or other similar style covers.

Top & Bottom Edges: All four superb, being straight, flat and flush. Fully and very smoothly laminated without any wear.

Right Edge(s), and Type: The front has a real tucked and folded edge that is hardly worn. The back storage edges are mostly sharp – the inner one very much so, it being naturally protected by the back one that is a fraction proud in manufacture – with any thickening little and light.

Spine and Text: A superb spine, and one that will often form a natural central recess due to the raised central inner hinge style which can cause text sinkage and laminate peeling which this has virtually avoided. Solid, straight with minimal compression and folded square, so the edges meet up very closely together and parallel. The text is unworn under the solid and unpeeled laminate, easy to read and superbly centred on the fairly narrow depth. This style of spine will rarely be found better than this.

Corners: Any tip rubs tiny and light, better than excellent shape retained with no knocks.

Cover Summary: The small old price sticker crinkle mark on the back apart, a superb example of this very elusive and rare 1970’s cover, one that will still prove very difficult to find much better. This beautiful item should please many collectors, and maybe even most seeking out this album if the small flaw on the back is not an issue.

The Inner Sleeve: NEAR EXCELLENT: a lightly aged white polylined inner with the text: ‘U.K. Patent No. 1,072,844 & Foreign Patents Pending’. Mild creasing and some natural crinkle to the moderaly lightly discoloured paper, two crisp unworn window circles and the lining still quite clear. All the edge folds naturally intact.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: MINT(–): if I cannot grade this 50-year-old record that, I probably never could – this is a fantastic record. A gorgeous visual copy that is very clean with equally fine shine and solidly pressed. A copy probably played just once by the one original owner who put his records to tape with any surface traces very few, ultra light, wispy and faint as seen critically under bright light. No penetrating stylus scratches, viewed in average room light, hardly anything even registers. Also this Dawn record superbly pressed on high-quality pure vinyl, without the often-seen dulling mottle on the playiing surfaces which tells me the vinyl is the highest purity. Visually a super record that should please most collectors, yes, the cover may have a small flaw, but this brilliant record more than compensates and truly, I can hardly imagine a much better or cleaner, less used example will be found with sound to match.

Album Played For Grading: Yes. [I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its entirety unless clearly stated otherwise. I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness – I play from the beginning to end via clinically revealing equipment, all listed further down.]

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This mini-classic and somewhat ‘lost’ album plays even above it’s high visual grading with hardly anything to fault. Offering strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear – sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound. Any surface sounds are minimal indeed, barely anything unwanted at all and this is a very clean pressing with no tracking issues* or inherent pressing noises – and never to be taken for granted, Dawn records need to be play-tested especially as they can so often disappoint. Few available copies will match, let alone outperform this early first pressing. I say ‘first pressing’, but I am sure this was not even repressed with few even made or sold. Quickly deleted and out-of-print for decades, until limited digital CD copies appeared in the 1990s. Both channels are clean and sharp, I am certain this record has been hardly been played and has been generally well stored and carefully handled, almost certainly in a non-smoking environment. Nothing spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this lovely record. It will prove very difficult to find better and can be strongly recommended (if the small cover blemish is not an issue).

* As played-graded on a high-end Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracking at 2 grams. Records are a ‘contact’ format, and few will avoid the odd minor sound blemish.

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Deck: Linn LP12/Hercules/Cirkus with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge (tracks at 2 grams). Amps: Naim Supernait 2 with Project USB phono stage and Tellerium Black interconnects. Speakers: B&W 805 Nautilus (bi-wired with Tellurium Black terminated cable) with REL subwoofer. All records I offer on Ebay are cleaned on a professional Nessie vacuum machine before play-grading for the cleanest and best possible sound and will include a brand new lined inner and protective cover too. Pictures taken with a Nikon D7500 DSLR Camera.

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