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JACK KEROUAC POETRY FOR THE BEAT GENERATION ORIGINAL 1959 HANOVER RECORDS MONO LP HML-5000
PLEASE NOTE: ALTHOUGH THIS IS TECHNICALLY A SECOND PRESSING ON A HANOVER LABEL RATHER THAN THE ORIGINAL ISSUE ON DOT LABEL , THE DOT PRESSINGS WERE WITHDRAWN BEFORE THEY WERE EVER OFFICIALLY RELASED OR DISTRIBUTED, AND ONLY ABOUT 100 INADVERTENTLY PRESSED COPIES ARE KNOWN TO EXIST, MAKING THIS HANOVER PRESSING THE DEFACTO FIRST OFFICIAL PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.
ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING
RED AND WHITE HANOVER LABEL
BELIEVED TO BE A VERY RARE WEST COAST PRESSING MONARCH PRESSING PLANT, LOS ANGELES
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
CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS
THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING
MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL DEAD WAX OF THE RECORD
This album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other way, manner or format except as a part of Rhino s 4-CD box set.
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Poetry for the Beat Generation marked Jack Kerouac s debut as a recording artist. Strangely enough, it was the by-product of a disastrous first show by Kerouac in an engagement at the Village Vanguard during December of 1957. For the second performance, Kerouac s friend Steve Allen provided the accompaniment at the piano, with results so impressive that it would lead Kerouac to a short but dazzling career as a recording artist. The first result was this album, which came at the suggestion of either Allen or his friend, producer Bob Thiele, who was working for Dot Records at the time. The record was cut in a single session and a single take for each piece. Allen s graceful piano opens the recording and Kerouac comes in, reading October in the Railroad Earth for seven minutes, off of a roll of paper in front of him. Kerouac s reading are in a class by themselves, and separate from Allen -- the two performances co-exist and weave together without ever really joining, and the result is a peculiar form of jazz Kerouac did his thing, Allen did his, and the result was a spellbinding performance, and it was musical, despite Kerouac s seeming monotone reading, which never slowed or otherwise interacted with Allen s piano -- his voice dances to its own beat, with Allen embellishing and working around him in the process, you get visions of various facets of Kerouac s work and personality, in extended pieces such as October in the Railroad Earth and short, piercing brilliant exclamations such as Deadbelly and Charlie Parker. The resulting album, cut in March of 1958, was one of the crowning achievements in recording of the 1950s. But it so appalled Randy Wood, the president of Dot Records, with its meandering narrative and daring language and subject matter, that the release was canceled, with Wood denouncing the recording in the trade papers as tasteless and questionable. Somewhere over 100 promotional copies of the Dot album catalog number 3154 had gotten out to disc jockeys and reviewers, however, thus making it one of the rarest LPs in the label s entire history. Thiele finally left the company over the dispute and he reclaimed the master tape -- it was on the Hanover label, formed with Allen who was virtually a pop-culture institution at the time , that Poetry for the Beat Generation finally reached the public in June of 1959. It s still worth a listen now every bit as much as it was in 1959, and perhaps even more so.
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THIS IS A PRIMEVAL, FIERY, VIOLENTLY PASSIONATE MUSIC, PERPETUALY MODERN AND EVERY BIT AS TIMELESS AS THE DAY IT WAS BORN A PERPETUAL QUEST FOR FREEDOM AND SPIRITUALITY AN ERUPTIVE, VOLCANIC STATEMENT - A SCREAM, REALLY - OF LIBERATION FROM ALL SOCIAL NORMS AND FORMS IT IS A QUINTESSENTIAL LATE-20th CENTURY ART, EVERY BIT AS RELEVANT TO THE ARTISTIC AND SPIRITUAL QUEST OF THE CONTEMPORARY HUMANITY AS THE ESSENTIAL WORKS OF BRANCUSI, COCTEAU, POLLOCK, MOORE, JASPER JOHNS, BASQUIAT, BUNUEL, BERGMAN, MAKAVEJEV TARKOVSKY, JOHN CAGE, PHILIP GLASS, TERRY RILEY, FRANK ZAPPA, JACK KEROUAC, ALLEN GINSBERG OR LE MONTE YOUNG
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CONDITION:
THE RECORD
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a WE GRADE THE VINYL AS WEAK NEAR MINT. Some VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL abrasions mostly sleeve scuffs - are barely visible, but are probably inaudible, and do not affect visual integrity or beauty of the vinyl. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.
b 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
c The record comes in a hi-grade PVC inner sleeve, which has - apparently with success - shielded the record from the harmful impact of elements over many years
d Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording
THE COVER
THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT VERY GOOD VG .
The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:
- A visible water stain affects about 20 of the back panel along the top seam and spine VISIBLE ON BACK SIDE ONLY there is no structural damage to the cover, and both cardboard base and paper slick are intact, however, the stain is visible
- Cover has some light 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 2 front side and 4 back side
- Cover shows some yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging nothing significant
- Minor shelf wear noted on the bottom seam and spine nothing significant
- Cover has some fraying/wear along the upper seam
- Cover has a partially split top seam between 4 and 6 inches / 10 to 15 centimeters
- Cover has one corner slightly dinged nothing significant
NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER
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