The Cars SHAKE IT UP, Vinyl, Elektra White Label PROMO (1981) Mint

$

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Selected titles from the private collection of a music business veteran are now being made available for the first time. Titles offered by this Seller are one-owner and came directly from the pressing plant, record company warehouse, other label reps or record store unless otherwise noted. 

Grading is based on visual inspection.

Album ships in a 2 MIL poly cover sleeve and a 2 MIL poly inner sleeve.

I package records outside the cover to avoid seam splits.

New and vintage vinyl is hard to grade strictly using eBay’s system because the record and the cover are two different components. Therefore, I call a record new and mint if it is opened but has never been played.  I use the grading category to describe the cover condition.

• This copy is in pristine condition.
• The record has never been played.
• This White Label Promo is a First Pressing.
• The single piece board cover has tight seams and shows no wear.
• The inner sleeve has 2 seam splits. I have included a soft poly inner sleeve.
• Seller got this new from Elektra in 1981. It has been in storage for 36 years.

Rock Style: New Wave, Pop Rock

Tracklist

A1 Since You're Gone 3:30 A2 Shake It Up 3:32 A3 I'm Not The One 4:12 A4 Victim Of Love 4:24 A5 Cruiser 4:54 B1 A Dream Away 5:44 B2 This Could Be Love 4:26 B3 Think It Over 4:56 B4 Maybe Baby 5:04

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Elektra/Asylum Records
• Copyright (c) – Elektra/Asylum Records
• Recorded At – Syncro Sound
• Mastered At – Sterling Sound
• Mastered At – Sheffield Lab Matrix – ?977
• Pressed By – Allied Record Company – B-16240
• Pressed By – Allied Record Company – B-16241
• Published By – Ric Ocasek
• Published By – Oversnare Music

Credits

• Design [Cover Design] – David Robinson (3)
• Engineer – Ian Taylor
• Engineer [Assistant - Engineers] – Thom Moore, Walter Turbitt
• Management – Elliot Roberts, Lookout Management, Steve Berkowitz
• Mastered By – George Marino
• Performer – Benjamin Orr, David Robinson (3), Elliot Easton, Greg Hawkes, Ric Ocasek
• Photography By – Clint Clemens
• Producer – Roy Thomas Baker
• Written-By – Greg Hawkes (tracks: B2), Ric Ocasek

Notes

Allied Record Company pressing.
Recorded at Syncro Sound Studios, Boston.
Mastered at Sterling Sound, N.Y.

"SLM ?" in the runout etching indicates that the lacquer disc was processed at, and the metal parts used to manufacture the record were made at Sheffield Lab Matrix. 

All songs published by Ric Ocasek Administered worldwide by Lido Music, Inc. BMI except "This Could Be Love" published by Ric Ocasek / Oversnare Music, Inc. Administered worldwide by Lido Music, Inc. BMI

? & © 1981 Elektra/Asylum Records. A Division of Warner Communications, Inc.
Printed in U.S.A.

A = Side One, B = Side Two

Printed color inner sleeve includes lyrics.

? in runout appears with a dot inside each section of the t shape symbol.

This release features (AR) as part of the matrix # printed on labels. 
Another same catalog # US release "Shake It Up" with (SP) matrix/label variation.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Label, Side One): 5E-567-A (AR)
• Matrix / Runout (Label, Side Two): 5E-567-B (AR)
• Matrix / Runout (Runout, Etched, Side One): ?977 B-16240-A2 5E-567-A-SH-2AR RTB-3 ? ? ?
• Matrix / Runout (Runout, Etched, Side Two): ?977-X B-16241-B2 5E-567-B-SH-[(crossed out)4AR] 2AR RTB-[(crossed out)4]2 ? ? ?
• Matrix / Runout (Runout, Stamped): ? SLM STERLING
• Rights Society: BMI