THE MERSEYBEATS-THE MERSEYBEATS-FONTANA 1ST PRESS TL.5210 1964
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THE MERSEYBEATS-THE MERSEYBEATS TYPE SINGLE LP-MONO LABEL/PRESSING INFO
FONTANA 1ST PRESS ROUGH TEXTURED BLACK AND SILVER LABELS AND MATRIX NUMBERS: 687314 1L \/ 1=420 11 & 687314 1L \/ 1 // 420 11 2
CATALOGUE NUMBER TL.5210 YEAR OF RELEASE 1964 COUNTRY OF RELEASE U.K. SLEEVE TYPE SINGLE- LAMINATED FLIPBACK INSERTS/EXTRAS ORIGINAL LINED INNER GRADING/CONDITION DISC(s)TOP EXCELLENT+ (REALLY CLEAN copy with MINIMAL playwear,and VERY LIGHT surface handling marking,plays great throughout with a GREAT MONO reproduction)
LABELSTOP EXCELLENT+ (CLEAN and unmarked with NO writing stickers or removal marks scuffing rips or tears.and MINIMAL spindleusage)
SLEEVEFront board and Inner Gatefold EX+
CLEAN with NO writing rips tears stickers or remains.The laminate is bright and shiny with minimal rubbing wear pressure marking and creasing.
Rear board EX REAR white card is clean with just a bit of light ageing and storge marking and a small dark oblong from the removal of a presumably shop sticker Flipbacks EX Flipbacks are complete and clean with a bit of wear,and some creasing at the bottom of the spine where it has come unglued and been stuck back at some point. Spine EX Clean,has a patch of light wear in the centre which has removed the surface of the laminate Edges EX Both edges have just light wear Opening EX OPENING has light wear and very light usage Corners EX- Corners have some wear heavier at spine ends which has bare card visible INNER /EXTRASINNER SLEEVE: EXCELLENT (CLEAN and unmarked with NO rips tears edge splits or repairs and some storage creasing)
DETAILSThe Merseybeats' only original album, recorded in mid-1964 with John Gustafson in their lineup in place of co-founder Billy Kinsley on bass, is a strange hybrid of originals that move between solid harmony-based Liverpool pop/rock ("Milkman," "Really Mystified") and Bo Diddley-influenced rockers ("Funny Face"), juxtaposed with an odd selection of covers, ranging from "Bring It On Home to Me" and "He Will Break Your Heart" (which do work) to an odd selection of show tunes.
The better of the latter is a reasonably successful rendition of "Hello Young Lovers" done with rockabilly guitar and some way too busy percussion; much less successful is a soft a cappella rendition of "The Girl That I Marry." The ballad "Lavender Blue" offers a Gustafson arrangement that isn't terribly interesting, and Gustafson's "Jumpin' Jonah" is even more of a ripoff of "Long Tall Sally" (especially as done by the Beatles) than the Beatles' "I'm Down" was.
The resulting album, with the Beatlesque single side included, was neither fish nor fowl, and insufficiently strong in any direction other than what their singles already pointed toward to gain the band a wider audience.
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