Rare '60s Folk Hippie Artifact: TOM & LEE 1-sided LP

$

153

Welcome back to another round of the world's rarest Psych and Outsider vinyl, courtesy waterpolo85.

For your consideration, we have: TOM & LEE one-sided demo LP, featuring "Love Me More," "Stillness of the Night," "There's A Change Gonna Come," "Carolee," and "The Water is Wide" on Golden Gate Enterprises (but pressed and probably recorded by Leo Kulka's Golden State Recorders, circa 1967 or so. A very rare document of the Bay Area folk-hippie movement by the mysterious male-female duet Tom & Lee; the only hit I could find on Google describes them playing at a benefit in San Francisco in 1967. Very doubtful this was ever properly released, and looks to have been pressed in a quantity of 100 or less (possibly WAY less.) Has a GSR (Golden State Recorders) matrix number, indicating it was almost certainly recorded at the legendary facility. This record did NOT come with a jacket, I discovered two copies at the same time, both housed in a generic, vintage inner sleeve (will be shipped in a generic jacket for protection.) The sound ranges from mellow (the female has a gorgeous, powerful voice) to more uptempo, and is the vinyl is in top condition; please check out the sound clips below.

Condition: this original, vintage copy is VG+++/M-, basically was unplayed with only the smallest imperfections and signs of prior handling; no discernable marks, scuffs, or scratches.

MY STRICT GRADING SCALE: M-, VG++, VG+, VG, VG-, G. I grade to please, not to deceive.

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