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·      RINGO STARR (WITH ALL THE BEATLES'!) – RINGO! (RINGO STARR'S SELF-TITLED THIRD ALBUM) – ORIGINAL 1973 APPLE RECORDS STEREO LP SWAL-3413

·      ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

·      BELIEVED TO BE THE PROMOTIONAL PRESSING (BASED ON THE CUTOUT PROMO HOLE); NAMELY, ON CAPITOL AND AFFILIATED LABELS, A NEAT CUTOUT HOLE IN THE UPPER RIGHT-HAND CORNER SIGNIFIES PROMO PRESSINGS, NOT, REPEAT, NOT A CUTOUT ITEM.

·      THE ALBUM INCLUDES THE ORIGINAL 16-PAGE BOOKLET (WE CAN SEE IT THROUGH THE OPENING).

·      GUARANTEED ORIGINAL APPLE/CAPITOL LABELS WITH STARR-IN-A-STAR PHOTO, UNIQUE TO THIS ALBUM , SUCH AS THE ONE SHOWN ABOVE, FROM OUR PREVIOUS AUCTION

·      NOTE: SOME VERSIONS OF THIS ALBUM CONTAINED A RARE 6+ MINUTE VERSION OF THE SONG "SIX O’ CLOCK" WHICH WAS NOT AVAILABLE ON A REGULAR VERSION OF THIS ALBUM. THESE RARE MISPRESSINGS ARE INORDINATELY RARE. WE ESTIMATE THAT THE ODDS THAT YOU WILL FIND THIS RARE MISPRESSING INSIDE ARE NOT BETTER THAN 10%,  AT BEST.

·      THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

·      TWO “BREATHE” (AIR) HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP

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

·      ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER, MADE OF THICK CARDBOARD (AMERICAN STYLE) 

·      THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

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

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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With Ringo, Ringo Starr finally put his solo career in gear in 1973, after serving notice with back-to-back Top Ten singles in 1971 and 1972 that he had more to offer than his eccentric first two solo albums. Ringo was a big-budget pop album produced by Richard Perry and featuring Ringo's former Beatles bandmates as songwriters, singers, and instrumentalists. On no single track did all four appear, though George Harrison played the guitars on the John Lennon-penned leadoff track "I'm the Greatest," with Lennon playing piano and singing harmony. But it wasn't only the guests who made Ringo a success: Ringo advanced his own cause by co-writing two of the album's Top Ten singles, the number one "Photograph" and "Oh My My." The album's biggest hit was a second chart-topper, Ringo's cover of the old Johnny Burnette hit "You're Sixteen." Songs like "Have You Seen My Baby," a Randy Newman song with guitar by Marc Bolan, and Ringo and Vini Poncia's "Devil Woman" were just as good as the hits. Ringo's best and most consistent new studio album, Ringo represented both the drummer/singer's most dramatic comeback and his commercial peak.

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

Believe it or not, Let it Be was not the last Beatles album. Although not credited to The Beatles, Ringo’s self-titled 1973 album was the penultimate album on which ALL FOUR BEATLES APPEAR, whether  individually or in some combinations. This is by far the single greatest Ringo Starr recording and the only one that can really measure up to the other classic solo works by John, Paul and George and/or all four. And you are not going to believe the list of other Rock stars that play on this album. The list reads like Noah`s Ark of Rock`n`Roll. I mean, practically the only Rock star missing is Elvis, and he’d probably just left the building when this was recorded.

See for yourself:

David Bromberg (of David Bromberg Band)  -  Banjo, Fiddle, Guitar, Violin

Steve Cropper  (of Booker T. & The MG’s) -  Guitar, Guitar (Electric)

George Harrison  (played with an obscure Band: The Beatles) -  Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Vocals (bckgr), John Lennon  -  (also played with an obscure Band: The Beatles) Piano, Vocals, Harmony Vocals

Paul McCartney  - (also played with an obscure Band: The Beatles)  Synthesizer, Piano, Keyboards, Harry Nilsson  -  (oh, you know him…can’t live, if living is without him…)Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)

Billy Preston  -  (played with Beatles, Stones, Leon Russell, Sam Cooke…) Organ, Piano, Keyboards

Robbie Robertson  (of THE Band) -  Guitar

Ringo Starr  -  (the worlds most underrated Rock drummer) Percussion, Drums, Vocals

James Booker  -  (played with everyone, and his mother, and her uncle, and…) Piano

Rick Danko  -   (of The Band) Fiddle, Violin

Nicky Hopkins  - (The `sixth` Rolling Stone)  Piano, Guitar (Electric), Piano (Electric)

Jack Nitzsche  -  (worked with Neil Young, Phil Spector) Arranger

Jim Keltner  -  (of the Plastic Ono Band) Drums

Marc Bolan  -  (you know, the kinky-haired Electric Warrior) Guitar

Merry Clayton  - (sung backing vocals on the Rolling Stones `Gimme Shelter`) Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)

Levon Helm  -  (of The Band) Mandolin

Milt Holland  -  Percussion, Marimba

Garth Hudson  - (of The Band)   Accordion

Bobby Keys  -  (remember that sax solo in “Brown Sugar”? Well, that was Bobby Keys) Saxophone, Sax (Tenor)

Linda McCartney  -  (not only a great photog, but a vocalist extraordinaire) Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)

Richard Perry  -  Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer

Vini Poncia  -  (the legendary songwriter/producer who worked with Phil `shoot-‘em-all` Spector) Guitar Martha Reeves  -  (yes, the Heatwave girl – the Motown legend) Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)

Klaus Voormann  -  (The fifth Beatle) Bass, Vocals (bckgr), Bass (Upright), Lithography

(plus tens of others…the list goes on and on…)

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:

·                          THE 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)         THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them.

(b)         The album comes with its original booklet (we can see it through the promo cutout hole).

(c)         The record is guaranteed to come in its original, custom, inner sleeve, which is UNIQUE to this album.

(d)         The record is apparently pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

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

·                          THE COVER

COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-       Cover has a neat, round PROMO cutout hole in one of the corners

-       Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 1.

-       Minor shelf wear noted on the top seam (nothing significant)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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POSTAGE & SHIPPING:

We offer three postage rates for domestic orders: USPS Media Mail, USPS Priority Mail and USPS Express Mail and three rates for international shipments:  USPS First Class, USPS Priority International Mail, and USPS Express International Mail (in a small number of cases, we will, at our discretion and for purely technical reasons, substitute First Class Mail with eBay's Global Shipping, which is fundamentally the same service at about the same cost). INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS PLEASE NOTE: WE RECOMMEND (BUT DO NOT INSIST) that you select USPS International Priority Mail when making a payment.

INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE rates vary from one region of  the world to another. For SPECIFIC international and domestic postage rates, please click on " Shipping, returns, and payments" tab in the header of our listing.

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CRITICALLY IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

(A) All orders valued at $50.00 or more will be shipped fully insured against loss, damage or theft by ShipCover, eBay's contracted insurer, at our expense (B) Yes, we do combine items into a single shipment; in order to enable this feature, the winning bidders should WAIT until their last item of interest ends and ONLY THEN make a payment. Doing otherwise will result in multiple shipments to the same customer and forfeiture of multiple shipping charges already paid. (C) Because we do not play-grade our items, we do not know how the purchased item will play on the buyer's equipment. We can only make reasonable inference on the record's playing condition based on its visual appearance. (D) This seller will NOT cancel erroneous, frivolous and prank bids. The bidders can do so on their own, by visiting eBay's Site Map, then clicking on Bid Retractions link. (E) This seller does not specifically grade or describe certain items, such as: shrink (cellophane) wrap and accompanying extras (inserts, booklets, etc.); however, the presence of these items WILL be noted and accompanied by the gallery photo(s). (F) Please do not submit any bids on our items if you have insufficient user history. (G) Other than in very rare justified cases, failure to pay for the item you won amounts to a fraud and will result in a permanent ban on bidding on our future listings. (H) We will NEVER deliberately, knowingly or willingly provide a false, deceitful or misleading information.

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OUR REFUND POLICY :

WE OFFER UNCONDITIONAL MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE (POSTAGE INCLUDED) WITHIN 30 DAYS FROM THE RECEIPT OF THE MERCHANDISE, NO QUESTIONS ASKED; STILL SEALED ITEMS MUST BE RETURNED SEALED IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR A REFUND.   NO EXCEPTIONS!

FINE (BUT IMPORTANT!) PRINT

 (1) The year indicated in the title bar is the year of the original release,  NOT necessarily the year of the actual pressing; for the actual generation of the pressing, please see our item description (top section, the text in red letters). (2) Please do NOT bid based on the title bar, subtitle bar or item specifics box alone; instead, please read the entire description before bidding; (3) Absolutely NO order cancellations after the auction closes. ever, under any circumstances. We can ONLY cancel bids before the item closes. (4) We are unable to provide matrix-, stamper- or other pressing  information in the final 24 hours of the auction. (5) All disagreements and miscommunications can be - and will only be - solved in a civil and mutually respectful manner; please avoid puerile, offensive, abrasive or menacing language (6) This seller will accommodate all reasonable requests and - unless seriously molested - is generally a flexible, pragmatic and agreeable person.

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