Lot 54MANFRED MANN'S EARTH MAND-NIGHTINGALES & BOMBERS-1975-FIRST PRESS UK-BRONZE-NMINT/NMINT

PRESLEY, ELVIS-BLUE HAWAII-1961-THE FIRST PRESS (MONO) UK-RCA-RD-27238. A rare British original of the king of rock and roll. Blue Hawaii is the fourth soundtrack album by American singer Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2426, October 20, 1961 . In the United States, the album spent 20 weeks at number one and 39 weeks in the Top 10 of the Billboard Top Pop LPs chart. It was certified Gold on December 21, 1961, Platinum and 2x Platinum on March 27, 1992 and 3x Platinum on July 30, 2002 by the Recording Industry Association of America. second only to the West Side Story soundtrack as the most successful soundtrack album of the 1960s. ...more

SINATRA, FRANK-STRANGERS IN the NIGHT-1966-FIRST PRESS (MONO) USA-REPRISE-F1017. Rare American original of the cult album. At the 1967 Grammy awards, Sinatra won two Grammy awards for his efforts on this album, including Record of the year for the title track, and best male vocal performance for the same song. (In the same year, he won another Grammy award - "Album of the year for a man and his music"). Ernie Freeman's arrangement of the title track earned him a Grammy award for best arrangement accompanied by a vocalist or instrumentalist.this is the last album Sinatra performed with longtime arranger / conductor Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. "Strangers in the Night" went platinum for one million copies sold in the United States. ...more

BEE GEES-HIGH CIVILIZATION-1991-FIRST PRESS UK/EU GERMANY-WARNER-7599-26530-1. A rare original of the cult group. High Civilization is the nineteenth studio album by the British pop group the Bee Gees, released on March 25, 1991 in the United Kingdom, and on May 14, 1991 in the United States-their last album recorded for Warner Bros. Records, after a four-year contract (they will return to WB through a subsidiary company Reprise Records in 2006: having obtained the rights to their previously released material, they will reissue each album through Reprise). Perhaps in response to the firm resistance of American radio to the two previous albums-E. S. P. (1987) and One (1989), which proved well in other countries, the American Warner Bros. gave this advertisement one less share and did not release remixes. They recorded this album, and their next album size is not everything with engineer Femi Gia.  In the US, the album was only available on CD and cassette, but the LP version was released in limited quantities in some countries. While it failed to chart in the US, it reached No. 6 in Switzerland, No. 2 in Germany (achieving platinum certification in both countries), No. 24 in the UK. ...more

ALICE COOPER-GOES TO HELL-1976-FIRST PRESS UK-WARNER-K56171. Matrix A-1/B-1 is a rare British original of the cult album. Alice Cooper Goes to Hell is the second solo album by Alice Cooper, released in 1976. [6] The sequel to Welcome to My Nightmare as a continuation of Stephen's story, the concept album was written by Cooper together with guitarist Dick Wagner and producer Bob Ezrin. The album was well received and placed-Australia 4th place. Great Britain -23rd place, United States (Billboard 200) - 27th place. ...more

JUDAS PRIEST-POINT OF ENTRY-1981-FIRST PRESS UK-CBS-84834. A rare British original of the cult hard band. The seventh studio album by the English heavy metal band Judas Priest, released on February 26, 1981 by Columbia Records. After the commercial success of their previous album British Steel (1980), in 2005 Point of Entry was ranked 352nd in the list of the 500 greatest rock and metal albums of all time by Rock Hard Magazine. ...more