Lot 27STEWART, ROD- AN OLD RAINCOAT WON'T EVER LET YOU DOWN-1969-ORIGINAL PRESS 1970 UK-VERTIGO(SWIRL)-NMINT/NMINT

MANFRED MANN'S EARTH MAND-NIGHTINGALES AND BOMBERS-1975-FIRST PRESS UK-BRONZE-ILPS 9337. Matrix A-4/B-4 is a very rare British original -the pinnacle of the group's creativity. Nightingales and Bombers is the sixth studio album by the British rock band Manfred Mann's Earth Band, released on August 22, 1975 on the Bronze Records label. The CD rose to #120 on the Billboard 200 of all rock albums hierarchy.      ...more

ARIA-HERO OF ASPHALT-1988-FIRST PRESS USSR-MELODIA-C6027413000. A rare original of the cult album. Hero of Asphalt is the third studio album by Aria. This is the first album after the split of the band in early 1987, "Hero of Asphalt" is also the first album officially released by "Melody", the two previous albums at that time existed and were distributed as tape albums only on tape cassettes. The album was a great success, its sales exceeded 1 million copies (which in the United States corresponds to the platinum status), but the exact circulation is unknown even to the company "Melody", although, according to her, at least 1.5 million records were printed.On this album, for the first time, all the lyrics were written by Margarita Pushkina, and Alexander Elin, who wrote the lyrics to previous albums, left for the Master group and did not work with Aria until 2001.In 2008, a concert tour was held in honor of the 20th anniversary of the album, which resulted in the release of a double live album and a concert video "Hero of Asphalt XX years". The original album line-up performed at the concert and all the pieces were performed in the same order. In May 2012, as a result of a vote held on the website openspace.ru, the album "Hero of Asphalt" took the first position in the list of 50 major records of "Melody" and on April 23, 2013 was re-released on vinyl in a limited edition of 500 copies as part of the project "Melody-50", dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the company.  ...more

GETZ, STAN-REFLECTIONS-1964-THE FIRST PRESS-UK-VERVE-VLP9069. Matrix A-1N/B-1N is a rare British original of the cult jazz album. Reflections is an album by saxophonist Stan Getz, released on the Verve label in 1964.  The Allmusic review by Pemberton Roach stated: "A bold and brilliant attempt by the artist to find pure music, blurring the boundaries between jazz and pop music" Rating the album 4 stars. ...more

PRESLEY, ELVIS-GIRLS HAPPY-1965-FIRST PRESS (MONO) UK-RCA-RD-7711. A rare British original of the King of rock and roll. Girl Happy is the tenth soundtrack album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on the RCA Victor Records label in mono and stereo format LPM/LSP 3338 in March 1965-the date of March 1 is disputed. This is the soundtrack to the 1965 film of the same name starring Presley. The recording took place on tape recorders in Hollywood, California, on June 10, 11, 12, and Presley's vocal overdubs-on June 15, 1964. It reached number eight on the Top LP chart and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on July 15, 1999. ...more

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