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Strawberry Music Sampler No. 1

THE STRAWBS Strawberry Music Sampler No. 1 (With only 99 copies originally pressed [99 was the UK tax ceiling] and, according to The Strawbs' website, only two copies known to exist, this has to be one of the rarest records on the planet. Original 1969 UK 17-track white title label Music Publishing Sampler LP, privately pressed & designed to get other artists to cover Cousins' and Hooper's songs. Its importance for Strawbs fans is that it includes all the tracks culled from the firstversion of the group's first album, as well as a few other demos and early versions. It was produced between the first Strawbs album and Dragonfly)
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Product Availability Currently Unavailable - You can request the next copy of this item
Release Year 1969 - 55 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Strawberry Music
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Product Catalogue No SAMPLER NO.1
Music Genre 70s Rock, 70s Artists, Folk, 60s Rock
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
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Tracklisting & More Information

Dave Cousins has a copy & one other became available at auction, so we believe there to be at least three copies including this one. Even the most optimistic estimates of surviving copies is less than ten, making this one of the rarest records on the planet.

Track listing :-

SIDE ONE
1. All I Need Is You (Cousins)
2. Stay Awhile With Me (Cousins)
3. Sail Away To The Sea (Cousins)
4. Two Weeks Last Summer (Cousins)
5. Nothing Else Will Do (Cousins)
6. Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Denny)
7. I've Been My Own Worst Friend (Cousins)
8. I Turned My Face Into The Wind (Cousins)
9. On Growing Older (Cousins)

SIDE TWO
1. And You Need Me (Cousins)
2. Ah Me, Ah My (Hooper)
3. And You Need Me/Josephine, For Better Or For Worse (Cousins)
4. Just The Same In Every Way (Cousins)
5. How Everyone But Sam Was A Hypocrite (Cousins)
6. Young Again (Hooper)
7. Whichever Way The Wind Blows (Cousins)
8. Sweetling (Hooper)

what makes this record particularly interesting to Strawbs fans is that it contains exclusive previously un-released out takes from the abandoned first Strawbs album.

Musicians
Dave Cousins, vocals, guitars, banjo;
Tony Hooper, vocals, guitars;
Ron Chesterman, bass;
featuring Sandy Denny, vocals [3-4, 6], chorus vocals [1, 5, 14], guitar [6];
with Ken Gudmand, drums;
String arrangements by Sven Lundvig.

THE DISC

Sleeve :-

The sleeve is in amazing condition considering that it is just plain white, of thin construction with red titling.
So good, in fact, that the indentations made by the printing press are still easily felt.
The sleeve itself is a matte flipback with a plain white cover with red printing setting out the tracks, writers, and Dave Cousins and Tony Hooper's contact details at the bottom.
Given its flimsy nature & whiteness, there is very little discolouration & no heavy creases.
There is a 5" split at the centre of the bottom seam & the beginnings of a small split at the top caused by vinyl shift over the years. From this it would seem to indicate that the album has been stored upright with the inner paper sleeve upside down.

Labels :-

A simple white label with STRAWBERRY MUSIC at the top & track details beneath.

Vinyl :-

The record is pressed on high quality heavyweight vinyl with scratched matrices of simply 1-A & 1-B.
The playing area is in amazing NEAR MINT condition with just a couple of light hairline marks to show it has ever been removed from the sleeve. These could well have been caused by the original paper inner as the vinyl shifted to create the split at the bottom of the sleeve. Either way, to have survived at all is a miracle & to have survived in this good condition it must have been under the shadow of its own guardian angel.

A miracle copy of one of the rarest vinyl LPs in the world - 'nuff said.


LP RECORD  
Recording Artist The Strawbs
Product Title Strawberry Music Sampler No. 1
Product Information The Strawbs Strawberry Music Sampler No. 1 UK vinyl LP album (LP record) Promo.
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info Promo - A promotional copy of this item that was issued before it was available for general sale.
Deleted - A deleted or out-of-print item is one that is no longer manufactured. However, we stock thousands of out-of-print formats and we specialise in tracking down out-of-print, deleted and hard-to-find releases.
Artists Related To David Cousins, Fire (70s), Hudson Ford, Pete Newby, The Foggy Dew-O
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