Vinyl: MARY HOPKIN w/PAUL Mc CARTNEY (BEATLES)~THOSE WERE DAYS~SEALED ORIG '72 APPLE LP STILL SEALED, 100% GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING

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· MARY HOPKIN (WITH PAUL McCARTNEY ON BASS ON ONE TRACK AND BACKING VOCALS ON ANOTHER) - THOSE WERE THE DAYS - ORIGINAL 1971 APPLE RECORDS STEREO LP SW-3395

· ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

· GUARANTEED ORIGINAL APPLE LABEL (WHOLE GREEN APPLE ON ONE SIDE, SPLIT WHITE APPLE ON THE OTHER)

· THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

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· THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

· THICK CARDBOARD COVER, AMERICAN STYLE.

· THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

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Another guilty pleasure. I remember hearing and seeing Mary Hopkin during my youth, and being attracted to both her angelic voice and her angelic good looks. This compilation album includes all her big hit singles, and also has a nice selection of other songs that compliment her voice quite beautifully. A shy lady that never really sought the limelight, but preferred instead to sing and perform to smaller audiences. She later married the record producer Tony Visconti, and has featured on backing vocals on quite a lot of the records that he has produced. I was quite surprised to hear her appear on one of the tracks for the Thin Lizzy album Bad Reputation.

This release was premature, a result of Apple Records' thrashing about trying to generate revenue, but time has made the need for such a collection a little more clear. Hopkin ended up leaving behind a considerable number of singles that never made it onto albums, all of which are featured here along with most of their B-sides; the latter are extremely important, because Hopkin usually preferred the B-sides, feeling they represented what she was really about as a singer far better than her A-sides. Almost all of the material is eminently listenable and much of it is extremely enjoyable. Hopkin may have regarded herself as a folksinger, but her intonation and articulation made her a very formidable pop talent as well, as revealed in her smoothly elegant version of "Que Sera Sera." Whether she was singing in Italian or English, or in a folk or a pop idiom, Hopkin brought beguiling sensitivity and emotion to her recordings, and is consistently interesting to hear for her finely nuanced diction.

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· CONDITION:

· THE RECORD

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(a) THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►.

(b) The record is apparently pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(c) Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

· THE COVER

COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP

- Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the seams (nothing significant)

- Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on back side, apparently from aging.

- Cover has two corners slightly dinged (nothing significant)

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