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Tracklisting & More Information
Tracklisting:
01. Saturday Club Theme - Ted Heath
02. Do You Love Me - Brian Poole & The Tremeloes
03. You Know What I Mean - The Vernons Girls
04. Memphis Tennessee - Dave Berry & The Cruisers
05. Applejack - Jet Harris & Tony Meehan
06. Greenback Dollar - The Marauders
07. Dance On - Kathy Kirby
08. Fortune Teller - The Rolling Stones
09. Say It Again - The Chimes
10. Twenty Miles - Brian Poole & The Tremeloes
11. Mickeys Monkey - Doug Sheldon
12. Go Easy With My Heart - The Lorne Gibson Trio
13. Poison Ivy - The Rolling Stones
14. I Forgot What It Was Like - Karl Denver
15. Telstar - The Tornados
16. Bye Bye Birdie - Kathy Kirby
The Legendary Second Stones Single Story
This was planned to be Fortune Teller b/w Poison Ivy. It was even issued a catalogue number [F11742] and was due to be released on the 28th August 1963. The group were, for various reasons [perhaps meeting a certain Mr McCartney & Mr Lennon], dissatisfied with this for their second single and at the last minute changed their mind, leading to 'I Wanna Be Your Man' being issued on 1st November instead.
There are a very, very, small amount of Decca Record Club presses of the Fortune Teller / Poison Ivy single riding the skies on winged unicorns being serenaded by angels somewhere, but at best most people have just seen a photocopy of the label.
So, this album. Here it is. Both tracks, just as they would have been on that cancelled second single. I guess the band thought that rather than have the tracks go to waste, they'd allow them to be used for this LP.
Condition:
The sleeve is particularly flimsy, even by 1964 Decca standards, so to find it still in one piece is something in itself.
Both flips are still secure, the pinched spine can still be read & the laminate creasing is at a minimum, with just a little at the corners leading to some areas of laminate lift at the spine. The laminate just about makes it around the spine, but fifty years of shrinkage have caused it to split in a couple of places, but that's not really a big deal.
The back still has the old price of 'thirty two an' tuppence' penned in the top right [One Pound, Twelve Shillings and Tuppence to you, Guv'nor], but otherwise is unmarked. There is a natural degree of darkening evident but this just seems to be general as there is no marked ringwear or rubbing of the text.
It's not perfect, no, but who is ?
The vinyl is, quite simply, lovely.
There are a few light spindle marks visible around the centre hole but that's really all there is to see.
The playing surface is free of the usual gouges, the tell tale axial score marks of a heavy stylus in the past and I've looked and looked again and can find nothing more to tell you.
This vinyl has been well cared for for the past fifty years and played sparingly on a good deck. You won't find much better vinyl that this, even if you wait another fifty years.
So. The sleeve is far better than average; not perfect, but far better than you would expect for a fifty year old sleeve of this type and the vinyl is a treat. If you want to hear these two Stones tracks as they were meant to be heard, this is probably the best way to get to hear them.
A very nice copy of this super rare album.
LP RECORD
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