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CHUCK BERRY ONE DOZEN BERRYS ORIGINAL 1957 CHESS RECORDS MONO LP 1432
ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING
ORIGINAL BLACK CHESS LABEL WITH SILVER PRINT.
DEEP GROOVE PRESSING
RARE MONO PRESSING, MANY TIMES RARER THAN FAKE ELECTRONICALLY RECHANELLED STEREO
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER AMERICAN STYLE
RARE FIRST VERSION OF THE COVER WHICH A DOES NOT HAVE CHESS LOGO IN A YELLOW BOX IN UPPER RIGHT-HAND CORNER AND B DOES NOT HAVE CHESS S CHECKERED PATTERN ON THE SPINE
CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS
VERY THICK, VERY HEAVY VINYL PRESSING
PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW
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Chuck Berry s second album is ever so slightly more sophisticated than its predecessor. Although One Dozen Berrys is hooked around a pair of hit singles, Sweet Little Sixteen and Rock Roll Music, most of what s here doesn t really sound too much like either of those songs rather, the other ten tracks each constitute a close-up look at some individual component of the types of music that goes into brewing up the Chuck Berry sound. Thus, the slow instrumental Blue Feeling is a look at the blues sound that Berry initially proposed to bring to Chess Records How You ve Changed presents him in a slow ballad, singing in a manner closer to Nat King Cole than to any rock roller of the era and Lajaunda shows off his love of Latin music. Rocking at the Philharmonic is a rippling guitar/piano workout, a compendium of the sounds that lay beneath those hit singles, and a killer showcase not only for Berry, but also for Lafayette Leake at the ivories, and also a decent showcase for Willie Dixon s bass playing. Oh Baby Doll is a return to the beat of Maybellene, this time carrying a lyric that s more sensual in a bluesy sense than rollicking fun, though it comes out that way amid the pounding beat and Berry s crunchy, angular guitar solo. Guitar Boogie is yet another guitar instrumental, one of four on this album, leading one to wonder if he was running short of first-rate lyrics in mid-1957, amid his frantic pace of recording and touring no matter, for the piece is a killer track, a pumping, soaring working out for Berry s guitar that had some of the most impressive pyrotechnics that one was likely to hear in 1957 what s more, the track was good enough to form the template for Jeff Beck s more ornate adaptation, Jeff s Boogie, from the 1966 album Roger the Engineer aka The Yardbirds aka Over Under Sideways Down . The best of the album s tracks is easily Reelin Rockin , which is also just about the dirtiest song that Berry released in all of the 1950s and for many years after that , essentially a blues-boogie recasting, on a more overt level, of the extended feats of sexual intercourse alluded to in Bill Haley s Rock Around the Clock. The one totally weird track here is Low Feeling, which is nothing but Blue Feeling doctored in the studio by Leonard and Phil Chess, slowed down to half speed and edited to create a 12th track doing that to the original was bad enough, but sticking it on the same LP with the original was downright bizarre. And the album s closer, It Don t Take But a Few Minutes, is a reminder of just how much Berry owed to country music for his sound, and explains, to anyone coming in late, how he could have been mistaken for a white hillbilly in those early days, based on the sound of this song and Maybelline.
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CONDITION:
THE RECORD
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a WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG VG . A few light abrasions ARE VISIBLE, but they appear fairly insignificant relative to the overall condition of the vinyl, and are only moderately visually distracting. For most part, the vinyl looks impeccable, without any MAJOR visual flaws or imperfections. Much of the original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.
a The record is 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
b Mono pressing of this title is much rarer, and by far more preferable to its FAKE electronically rechannelled stereo counterpart. We estimate that FAKE stereo copies of this album outnumber monos by a ratio of at least 20:1.
c The record has a deep groove an indent in the label about 1/2-inch from the edge of the label, which on SOME labels is associated with very early or first pressings .
d Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording
e THE COVER
THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT VERY GOOD VG .
The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:
- Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear nothing significant On the scale from 1 to 10 1 being the least, and 10 being the most severe , we assess the severity of ring wear as 1 front side and 2 back side .
- Cover shows some light yellowing on back side, apparently from aging nothing significant
- Cover has some tiny, faint writing on its back side a microscopic price code written in one corner
- Cover has two corners slightly worn / dinged / bent.
- Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine nothing significant VISIBLE ON BACK SIDE ONLY
NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER
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