LAURA NYRO SEASON OF LIGHT RARE ORIG'76 PROMO TEST PRESS LP w/UNRELEASED TRACKS

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·       LAURA NYRO – SEASONS OF LIGHT -  ORIGINAL 1976 COLUMBIA RECORDS STEREO 2-LP SET JG-34331 (DOUBLE ALBUM; OF WHICH WE ONLY HAVE DISC # 2 HERE)  [PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT A COMMON, COMMERCIALLY RELEASED, TRUNCATED, SINGLE-DISC OF THE ALBUM WITH A CATALOG NUMBER  PC-34786]

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       ** IMPOSSIBLY RARE  WHITE LABEL ADVANCE PROMO   / TEST PRESSING VERSION OF THE ORIGINALLY PLANNED - BUT THEN SUDDENLY AND INEXPLICABLY WITHDRAWN -  2-LP VERSION OF THE ALBUM WITH SIX UNRELEASED TRACKS (OF WHICH THREE ON THE DISC WE HAVE HERE); THE ALBUM WAS ORIGINALLY PLANNED AS A 2-LP SET WITH 16 SONGS (FOUR TRACKS PER SIDE) AND ADVANCE COPIES OF THE SET WERE ALREADY DISTRIBUTED TO THE RADIO STATIONS (YOU ARE LOOKING AT ONE OF THOSE) WHEN COLUMBIA SUDDENLY AND FOR NO RHYME OR REASON DECIDED TO TRUNCATE THE ALBUM TO ONLY 10 TRACKS  AND RELEASE THE ALBUM AS A SINGLE-LP ALBUM; THE BIDDERS SHOULD NOTE THAT BOTH THE CATALOG NUMBER AND THE MATRIX NUMBERS OF THIS TEST PRESSING DIFFER FROM THE COMMERCIALLY RELEASED VERSION (THIS TEST PRESSING BEARS CATALOG NUMBER JG-34331, WHILE THE RELEASED SINGLE-DISC VERSIONS OF THE ALBUM - INCLUDING THE RELEASED WHITE LABEL PROMOS - BEAR THE CATALOG NUMBER PC-34786 ; IN IT'S FULL, INTEGRAL VERSION, THIS ALBUM HAS NEVER BEEN AVAILABLE ON VINYL; ONLY THE COMPACT DISC CONTAINS THE FULL, COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED TRACK LISTING OF THE ENTIRE RECORDING; PLEASE NOTE: BECAUSE THE TWO DISCS OF THIS ADVANCE PROMO PRESSING WERE SHIPPED INDIVIDUALLY (EACH DISC SEPARATELY AND IN A SINGLE-POCKET PROMO COVER), IT IS DIFFICULT TO FIND THE COMPLETE SET: WE HAVE HERE ONLY DISC # 2 (SIDES 3 & 4) WHICH HAS THREE OUT OF SIX UNRELEASED TRACKS: SMILE, MARS AND MIDNIGHT BLUE**

·       THE TRACKS THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT TO THE RELEASED VERSION OF THIS ALBUM (BUT ARE PRESENT ON THIS ADVANCE/TEST PRESSING) ARE: SMILE; MARS; MIDNIGHT BLUE; I AM THE BLUES; SWEET LOVIN' BABY; AND THE MORNING NEWS

·       THIS  ADVANCE / TEST PRESSING COMES IN ITS GENERIC, PLAIN, WHITE COLUMBIA PROMO COVER

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

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

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

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

·       FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 7.

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

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Amazing !!! An unbelievable piece: What we have here is an unheard-of ADVANCE / PROMO / TEST PRESSING of this classic album WITH NO LESS THAN SIX (6) TRACKS UNRELEASED ON THE ORIGINAL ALBUM.  If there is a Holy Grail of Laura Nyro vinyl-collecting, this surely must be it.

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From the opening moments of Season of Lights, as the band slides smoothly into "Money" from Laura Nyro's then-current album, Smile, you know that this record was cut at the perfect moment in Nyro's career -- her performance combines the understated sense of release of someone who is back from a long sabbatical (in this case, five years away from recording or performing), and the cool, smooth professionalism of a natural performer who has found a perfect accompaniment, in this case mixing elements of pop and light jazz. She gave listeners fresh reconsiderations of ten-year-old works like "And When I Die," which she does in a slow, lyrical, yet slightly funky manner, as though neither she nor any of her audience had ever heard of Blood, Sweat & Tears -- talk about reclaiming a song for herself, once one hears this rendition it's difficult to take David Clayton-Thomas' performance of it seriously ever again -- and "The Confession." "Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp" becomes the vehicle for Nyro's introduction of the band, before she begins stretching her upper range, accompanied by Jeanie Fineberg's flute, John Tropea's guitar, and Michael Mainieri's vibraphone. "When I Was a Freeport (And You Were the Main Drag)" is the kind of song that, ideally, should only ever have been presented live, showing off Nyro at her most gently beguiling and accessible, teasing the audience with the play of her words and her voice, an approach that she emulates on "Captain St. Lucifer." The original ten songs from the original LP were a decent representation of where Nyro was at the time, though one can bet that if Clive Davis had still been president of Columbia Records, Season of Lights would have been the double LP that was intended.

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

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:

·                               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  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 apparently pressed on a RELATIVELY  thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy ('dynaflex' type),  vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either.

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

(d)            Unreleased White Promo Label version of this title with six unreleased tracks 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 300:1.

·       COVER : This reference pressing comes without any custom jacket , and will be shipped in a plain, generic, white Columbia promo cardboard cover, not separately graded, but in a very nice condition

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