WAYNE FONTANA AND THE MINDBENDERS 1965 UK DEBUT LP

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  WAYNE FONTANA AND THE MINDBENDERS 1965 UK DEBUT LP 1st *MONO* PRESSING, FLIPBACK COVER, NEAR MINT AUDIO

WAYNE FONTANA and THE MINDBENDERS

FIRST UK *MONO* PRESSING (February 1965) ON FONTANA (TL 5230) OF WAYNE FONTANA & THE MINDBENDERS' CLASSIC DEBUT LP

PRESSED ON QUALITY HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL WHICH DELIVERS TREMENDOUS AUDIO REPRODUCTION WITH A CLEAN, SHARP, FRESH, EXCITING AND IMMEDIATE SOUND
THE BLACK/SILVER FONTANA LABELS ARE MATTE AND HEAVILY TEXTURED AND CARRY THE "RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1964" TEXT
FIRST ISSUE MARTIX: 687336 1L//1 ∇ 420 1 1 1 0 3 1 / 687336 2L//1 ∇ 420 11 2
AND THE LP IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FRONT LAMINATED, THICK CARD SINGLE SLEEVE WITH THREE FOLD OVER FLAPS ON THE REVERSE

SUPERB UK FIRST *MONO* PRESSING OF THEIR CLASIC DEBUT - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders never got the recognition to which they were entitled. Usually pegged as one-hit wonders in America for "The Game of Love"; as three-hit wonders in England for "Um Um Um Um Um," "The Game of Love"; and their sole big hit as a trio (post-Wayne Fontana), "A Groovy Kind of Love," they had a lot more in them than that meager run of successes would indicate.
As this album reveals, they were a well-above-average R&B-based Manchester band with their own way of embracing material as different as the Barry/Greenwich-authored "She's Got the Power," Chuck Berry's "Jaguar and Thunderbird," Curtis Mayfield's "Girl, You Don't Know Me," and familiar British Invasion single fodder like "A Certain Girl."
They even turned in a gorgeous original, "One More Time," co-authored by Fontana and Eric Stewart.
Fontana later squandered his reputation in an abortive attempt at a solo career, but when he was part of the quartet, he had a combination of power, sincerity, and class that was compelling. They weren't the most virtuoso band to come out of Manchester, either vocally or instrumentally, but they could put over a song with enough inspiration and spirit so that you had to enjoy what they were doing.
Every so often they came up with a flourish in the singing, like on "Too Many Tears," "One More Time," and "Cops and Robbers," that comes as a surprise.
This was a brilliant debut album, incorporating new songs and a few remnants from their early singles and EPs, making up a healthy cross-section of their sound in 1963 and 1964, which encompassed not only the sounds of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, but also the songs of Dave Bartholomew and other New Orleans influences.


Track Listing:
Side 1: She's Got The Power / You Don't Know / Git It! / Jaguar and Thunderbird / Certain Girl / One More Time
Side 2: Where Have You Been? / Keep Your Hands Off My Baby / Too Many Tears / Girl Can't Help It / Cops and Robbers / I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday

LABELS: The labels are CLEAN and BRIGHT with NO unwanted marks/writing and barely any spindle traces - THIS COPY HAS NOT BEEN OVER-PLAYED AT ALL
VINYL Visual: The surfaces have their original DEEP, almost LIKE-NEW, GLOSSY SHEEN and are practically UNMARKED
VINYL Audio: CRYSTAL CLEAR, SHARP, FRESH SOUND. There are NO scratches, NO sticks/jumps and NO clicks/pops - FABULOUS COPY. The sound quality is simply SENSATIONAL throughout and the record plays to an extremely high standard with NO groove-wear and NO distortion. Critically graded as NEAR MINT for audio - SUPERB COPY - FANTASTIC LP
SLEEVE: The original FRONT LAMINATED TRI-FLIPBACK cover is in VERY GOOD+ condition. The front laminated surface is CLEAN and unmarked with very little rubbing and the back of the sleeve is remarkably CLEAN. There are some patches of wear to the edges and some corner 'bumping' but overall, a very well preserved original sleeve

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