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          VERY RARE 1966 MONO FIRST PRESSING

KING SIZED BEAT ROCKER ...

     straight from the paisley underground....          

                                         

    

              

                                       

           RONNIE BIRD

            

                                         

         CND - (UNBOXED, Maroon) LONDON Records - MLP 10062 

 

Very Rare  UNBOXED Maroon London 1966 FIRST PRESSING in glorious MONO with the big beat punch....

A great teen-scene sixties rave-up artifact influenced by the Kinks, The Who, Stones, Pretty Things, Hollies, etc.... 

Unlike most of the French pop-rock singers of the 60s, Ronnie Bird's music had a harder edge to it and still holds up well today. He usually recorded French adaptations of British invasion beat-rockers...here, his top Lp, full of hip grooves::::   To check the sound of the fabulous RONNIE BIRD, click on the three lines below, one by one:  Ronnie Bird - Je Ne Mens Pas Ronnie Bird - Où va-t-elle ? - YouTube Ronnie Bird - Chante - YouTubeouTube - YouTube YouTube
During the mid-'60s, Ronnie Bird was the only French artist to successfully emulate the sounds of the British Invasion across the channel. Bird was one of the few French singers with a facility for singing rock & roll in French without sounding strained or embarrassing. His first few recordings were crafted with the help of expatriate guitarist Mickey Baker, the same Mickey Baker who was half of Mickey & Sylvia and responsible for great session work on numerous rock and R&B songs in the '50s. Baker played on Bird's discs and actually wrote a few tracks with him, although most of Bird's records were French covers of songs by British giants like the Stones, the Who, the Pretty Things, Mike Furber & The Bowery Boys, and the Hollies. For a time, Bird's band included guitarist Mick Jones, who went on to fame with Foreigner in the '70s.

Although extremely derivative of the tougher side of the British Invasion, Bird's covers and originals were respectably hard-driving and well-executed. Dabbling in soul and psychedelia at times as the '60s progressed, Bird eased out of the music business and emigrated to New York in the '70s.                                                                 SIDE I OÙ VA-T-ELLE

MA VIE S`ENFUIT [My Life's Away]

JE VOUDRAIS DIRE [I Would Say]

CE MAUDIT JOURNAL [Curse This Journal]

TU PERDS TON TEMPS [You Lose Your Time]

ON S`AIME EN SECRET [On Loves Secret]

SIDE II
POUR TOI [For You]

JE NE MENS PAS

FAIS ATTENTION [Pay Attention]

L`AMOUR NOUS REND FOUS

TU FERAIS MIEUX DE FILER [Love Makes Me Crazy]

ELLE M`ATTEND [You Better Stop Spinning]

 

CONDITION: The cover: Thick and colorful cardboard cover is VG++ and great shape for a cover that is shows wear so easily, having a small sticker removal mark above Ronnie Bird lettering on front cover ... it's minor but there, elsewhere only very light handling is visual ... strong shape for such a classic looking cover ... the backcover infact is M- (check photo) ... no alarming problems otherwise, being overall collection worthy with rarity in mind.

The vinyl: all shiny, clean except for a few hairlines, nothing much, visial VG+(+)  plays in the excellent audio zones; again, pretty great for this seldom seen rarity from 47 years ago... has clean UNBOXED maroon London labels  

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...

EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING

All imperfections are noted both cover & record

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