PROMO TEST PRESS IN SHRINK ? 1st CROSBY STILLS NASH LP 1969 = no psych

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TEST  PRESSING PROMOTIONAL

     IN CELLOPHANE = RARE SONG STICKER !! 

               FiNAl COLLECTION COPY !

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         Crosby Stills and Nash

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USA - K.M. RECORDS, INC. (FOR ATLANTIC RECORDS) - TEST PRESS / PROMO

TEST  PRESSING PROMOTIONAL

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STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY CELLOPHANE

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This is a (potentially NEVER to be seen again) FINAL COLLECTIBLE PRESSING) ... Has to be only a handful of TEST PRESSINGS ever pressed!

Includes the large lyrics insert (scarce!) and the original printed inner sleeve

Original MAY 29, 1969 recording in thick matte finish gatefold cover ... the very first groundbreaking C S & N Lp that comes VERY alive on a good sound system...

You'll NEVER find a better pressing, audio-wise,

VERY SCARCE SONG STICKER ON BACK COVER... the sticker was originally only on the outside of the cellophane...

The Crosby, Stills & Nash triumvirate shot to immediate superstardom with the release of its self-titled debut LP, a sparkling set immortalizing the group's amazingly close, high harmonies.

Stills' gorgeous opener, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," is an epic love song remarkable in its musical and emotional intricacy, Nash's "Pre-Road Downs" is buoyant folk-pop underpinned by light psychedelic textures, and Crosby's "Long Time Gone" remains a potent indictment of the assassination of Robert Kennedy. A definitive document of its era.

Crosby, Stills & Nash is the first album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, released in 1969 on the Atlantic Records label. Itwhich peaked respectively at #28 the week of August 23, 1969, and at #21 the week of October 25, 1969, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The album itself peaked at #6 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart.

The album that spawned two Top 40 hits, "Marrakesh Express" and "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," was a very strong first release for the band, instantly lifting them to stardom. It helped initiate a sea change in popular music away from the ruling late sixties aesthetic of bands playing blues-based rock music on loud guitars. Crosby, Stills & Nash presented a new wrinkle in building upon rock's roots, utilizing folk, blues, and even jazz without specifically sounding like mere duplication. Not only blending voices, the three meshed their differing strengths, Crosby for social commentary and atmospheric mood pieces, Stills for his diverse musical skills and for folding folk and country elements subtly into complex rock structures, and Nash for his radio-friendly pop melodies, to create an amalgam of broad appeal. Eventually going multi-platinum, in addition to the above mentioned singles, Crosby, Stills & Nash features some of their best known songs in "Wooden Ships" and "Helplessly Hoping". "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" was composed for Judy Collins, and "Long Time Gone" was a response to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

This album proved very influential on many levels to the dominant popular music scene in America for much of the 1970s. The success of the album generated gravitas for the group within the industry. Strong sales, combined with the group's emphasis on personal confession in its writing, paved the way for the success of the singer-songwriter movement of the early seventies. Their utilization of personal events in their material without resorting to subterfuge, their talents in vocal harmony, their cultivation of painstaking studio craft, as well as the Laurel Canyon ethos that surrounded the group and their associates, established an aesthetic for a number of acts that came to define the "California" sound of the ensuing decade.

Side one:

• "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" (Stills) – 7:25

  • Stephen Stills-vocals, guitar, bass, percussion; David Crosby-vocals; Graham Nash-vocals; Dallas Taylor-drums
• "Marrakesh Express" (Nash) – 2:39
  • Stephen Stills-vocals, guitar, organ, piano, bass; David Crosby-vocals; Graham Nash-vocals, acoustic guitar; Jim Gordon-drums
• " Guinnevere" (Crosby) – 4:40
  • David Crosby-vocals, guitar; Graham Nash-vocals
• "You Don't Have to Cry" (Stills) – 2:45
• "Pre-Road Downs" (Nash) – 3:01
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• Side two:
  
• "Wooden Ships" (Crosby, Stills, Paul Kantner [uncredited]) – 5:29
  • Stephen Stills-vocals, lead guitar, bass, organ; David Crosby-vocals, rhythm guitar; Graham Nash-vocals; Dallas Taylor-drums
• "Lady of the Island" (Nash) – 2:39
  • David Crosby-vocals; Graham Nash-vocals, acoustic guitar
• "Helplessly Hoping" (Stills) – 2:41
  • Stephen Stills-vocals, guitar; David Crosby-vocals; Graham Nash-vocals
• "Long Time Gone" (Crosby) – 4:17
  • Stephen Stills-vocals, guitar, bass, organ; David Crosby-vocals; Graham Nash-vocals; Dallas Taylor-drums
• "49 Bye-Byes" (Stills) – 5:16

CONDITION: The cover The thick matte finish cover is  MINT in factory cellophane ...absolutely clean all over .... flat, square, & sound...Fresh original colors, no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ...includes rare song titles STICKER!  ...this beauty = a Final collection worthy rarity ...

The vinyl All very glossy, a beauty, all clear: M- looks and plays clean without surface distraction. Both K.M.RECORDS, INC. labels are clean with exception of group & test press number in ink as noted by K.M. Records, Inc.

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