WAYNE MCGHIE & THE SOUNDS OF JOY 1970 Original Release - RARE Holy Grail Find

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BM548: This great album is the original very rare, much sought after holy grail of funk. I'm selling this amazing gem for a friend. He tested it and it plays flawlessly. It has a plain white paper sleeve. One sold on Ebay a few months ago for $1270. One is currently listed on Discogs for $2363.00.  Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity. I will mail priority and the appropriate insurance based on the final sell price will be added to the invoice. Insurance will be required and paid by the buyer. Thanks. 

Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny:

Wayne McGhie & the Sounds of Joy's self-titled debut LP is widely recognized as the first Canadian funk album, and is now the Holy Grail for rare groove collectors. Wilfred "Wayne" McGhie was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica in 1947 -- he sang and played guitar all throughout his childhood, first earning recognition thanks to his regular appearances on the island talent show circuit and later performing with the Celestials, Dizzy Barker, and Jimmy Wisdom....Mittoo helped oversee the 1969 sessions at executive producer Art Snider's Sound Canada Recording Center that would yield McGhie's debut LP; recorded with a dozen credited musicians including Alton Ellis, Ike Bennett, Everton Paul and Lloyd Delpratt, Wayne McGhie & the Sounds of Joy essentially created Canadian funk -- expertly fusing reggae, jazz and R&B; in hindsight the music suggests the Great White North's answer to the Meters, and Snider immediately recognized their commercial potential, cutting a deal with Quality Music's Birchmont subsidiary. Issued in the spring of 1970, the completed album was barely hitting stores when Quality suffered a warehouse fire that destroyed all remaining copies; when initial sales were disappointing, plans to re-press the LP were scrapped, and Wayne McGhie & the Sounds of Joy became an impossibly rare and impossibly little-known artifact of its time and place. 

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