THE HELLERS: Creative Freakout City Songs Bouncers etc.

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168

TITLE: RECORD 1 - Creative Freakout, RECORD 2 - City Songs, RECORD 3 -Brief Bouncers

ARTIST:  The Hellers

LABEL / YEAR: Brief Records – Heller Corporation (Promo) / 1967

REMARKS: I’m selling off my soundtracks, electronic, weird and other good vinyl over the next several months. I don’t have room for records anymore. I hope these go to a good home. This is one of my favourites and it is hard to part with…

I took this from the Acid Archives webpage:

"Creative Freakout" 1967 (no label)  [10"]   

Extraordinary exercise in zany 60s cool of the kind that is almost forgotten today, projecting images of hip guys driving sports cars, reading Marshall McLuhan, and sipping dry martinis -- preferrably all at the same time. It's a showcase for the Heller-Ferguson ad firm, presenting a long string of their (often brilliant) radio ads tied together in a hilarious concept about a suave ad man strolling around among hippies and folkies on the westcoast. LSD parties, civil rights, square protesters & groovy Sunset Strip chicks all flash by while narrator "Johnny Spots" manages to turn it into inspired tongue-in-cheek jokes related to the tough advertising business. Incidentally one of the ad voices sounds exactly like John Rydgren. Various songs are parodied to great effect, "What have they done to the rain" becomes "What have they done to my line" (i e: his ad copy is distorted by manager and client), etc. The whole thing is very modern in its mindset and obviously done with a lot of work put into it. The sheer talent on display has an invigorating effect that may cause you to see ad people in a new light, and in any event is a reminder of just how cool the pre-hippie 1960s were.  [PL]

"City Songs" 1967 (no label)  [10"]  

"Brief Bouncers" 1967 (no label)  [10"]  

All three 10-inchers above were released as a 3-disc set in an elaborate foldout cover, but it appears that at least "Creative Freakout" also came out as a standalone item. The other two have been described as being similar in style.

Please note that these are three 10-inch records.

GRADE: VINYL: all three records are VG++, light marks here and there from going in/out of sleeves. Deep sheen, all play excellently.

GRADE: COVER:  9/10, virtually flawless.

GRADING: Records and covers are graded to Goldmine Standards to the best of my ability (covers are graded on a scale of one to ten: ten = perfect, one = most hideous piece of junk you could imagine). I do a very quick play grade for each record but do not listen to the item straight through. I simply try to listen for noise in the quiet spots and where flaws appear visible. I check for any warps that affect play. They will be mentioned if they do affect play.

SHIPPING COSTS:

Winning bidder agrees to pay additional for air delivery for this LP item as follows:

                        U.S.A.                         CANADA                  OVERSEAS

  
         3 LP.....   $ 13.95 ................... $ 12.95 ...........................$30.50.......................

I can ship Surface mail for less but you must enquire first. Oversees can take up yo two months for Surface mail.  

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Please see my other auctions for a wide variety of records this week. 

Keywords:  incredibly strange, odd, psych, weird, ads, advertising, promo