MADONNA BORDERLINE PROMO-ONLY SAME-SIDED ORIG '83 SIRE 7"SINGLE w/POSTER SLEEVE

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·       MADONNA – BORDERLINE – ULTRA-RARE ORIGINAL 1983 PROMOTIONAL-ONLY SAME-SIDED (THE SAME TRACK, SAME VERSION ON BOTH SIDES); 45 rpm, 7-inch SINGLE – ORIGINAL SIRE RECORDS STEREO SINGLE 7-29354 WITH ORIGINAL POSTER SLEEVE (THE SLEEVE OPENS UP TO REVEAL A SIX-SECTION MINI POSTER)

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       (PLEASE NOTE: UNLIKE THE STOCK, COMMERCIALLY RELEASED ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSINGS OF THIS SINGLE, THE PROMO-ONLY SAME-SIDED SINGLE HAD THE SAME "PLUG" TRACK ("BORDERLINE) ON BOTH SIDES; THE PICTURE SLEEVE (WHICH WAS APPARENTLY ALSO USED FOR STOCK COPIES) ERRONIOUSLY MENTIONS THE STOCK COPY'S B-SIDE ("THINK OF ME") WHICH WAS NOT A PART OF THE PROMOTIONAL SINGLE.

·       ORIGINAL SIRE RECORDS RED-FADES-TO-YELLOW LABEL, LATE '70s to MID-'80s STYLE

·       SPECIALTY RECORDS, OLYPHANT, PA PRESSING

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

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       THE RECORD HAS A 'STERLING' STAMP IN THE TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) AREA, WHICH IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED A PROOF OF AUTHENTICITY OF THE FIRST PRESSING.

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

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"Borderline" was the song that proved that Madonna was more than a pretty face, a dancer's body and a squeaky voice. Much of the rest of her self-titled debut was glossy but basically hollow synthesized dance pop, and even the best songs on the album ("Holiday," in particular) sounded oddly removed. "Borderline," on the other hand, is a pure treasure, one of those unabashedly commercial pop songs that also manages to at least hint at deeper emotions. (Cyndi Lauper's masterful "Time After Time" was a similar hit at about the same time, and Tina Turner's comeback hit "What's Love Got To Do With It" was just a few months down the line.) Slower in tempo than the rest of the album, but with enough of a backbeat and a wiggly synthesizer bass line to keep it from being a ballad, "Borderline" hits a slinky groove from its vibraphone-like intro all the way to the throaty scatting Madonna does just as the song starts its fade out. In between, Madonna delivers the best vocal performance of her early career, when her limitations were at their most obvious. Soulful without a lot of show-offy melisma or blue notes, Madonna joins a long list of pop singers who deliver a more compelling performance simply by virtue of not being able to obscure the song's emotional content (the way that Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston so often do) with needless vocal gymnastics. Although a lot of Madonna's other hits have been run into the ground by oversaturation -- truly, there is little need for anyone to ever hear "Like A Virgin" again -- "Borderline" retains its musical strength.

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

The PROMOTIONAL, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were often distributed among 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", which is to say 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:

·       45-RPM SINGLE RECORD:

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted below, ALL records are graded visually, NOT play-graded!)

(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)            Promo-only same-sided 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 40:1.

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

·       PICTURE SLEEVE (POSTER)

THE SLEEVE IS NICE --- ABOUT EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD+++.

-        Sleeve has some minor ring wear (nothing significant)

-        Sleeve has a light wear along the foldings of the poster (nothing significant)

-        Sleece  has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine   (nothing significant)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE SLEEVE

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