Lot 28GENTLE GIANT-FREE HAND-1975-FIRST PRESS UK-CHRYSALIS-NMINT/NMINT

FITZGERALD, ELLA-JEROME KERN SONG BOOK-1964-FIRST PRESS UK-VERVE-VLP9080.A rare British original of the cult album. .Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book is a 1963 studio album by American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by an orchestra arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle. The album is dedicated to the songs of the composer Jerome Kern. This was the second series of collections of Fitzgerald songs organized by Riddle; their previous joint project was her book of George and Ira Gershwin songs in 1959. Fitzgerald and Riddle also recorded two albums of standards in 1962: "Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson" and "Ella Swings Softly with Nelson". It was the seventh and penultimate album in a series of Fitzgerald songs written by musical theater composers; it was preceded by the 1961 album "Ella Fitzgerald sings a Book of Songs by Harold Arlen", and then "Ella Fitzgerald sings a book of songs by Johnny Mercer" in 1964. Awarded four and a half stars by Down Beat magazine in 1963. ...more

BLUE CHEER - BLUE CHEER-1970-THE FIRST PRESS UK-PHILIPS-6336001. A very rare British original of the cult prog-blues-psycho band. Blue Cheer is the fourth album by the American rock band Blue Cheer. It was recorded at Wally Hader's studio in San Francisco and released in December 1969 by Philips Records. Gary Lee Yoder contributed to the songwriting for the opening and closing tracks, and later joined the band as a guitarist on their next album, The Original Human Being. The album turned out to be very high-quality and critics placed it in the top 20 albums of the year along with the famous grandees of the rock scene of the 70th year.  ...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

ALEXEY RYBNIKOV-ROCK OPERA JUNO AND AVOS-1980-THE FIRST PRESS OF RUSSIA-MELODIA-C60-18627. "Juno and Avos" is a rock opera by Alexey Rybnikov (music) and Andrey Voznesensky (libretto). The premiere, directed by Mark Zakharov, took place on July 9, 1981 on the stage of the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Theater, where the performance, which has become a kind of business card of Lenkom, took place In parallel with the work on the performance, an audio version of the opera with other performers was recorded in Lenkom in 1980. The first public listening of the recorded work took place on December 9, 1980 in the Church of the Intercession in Fily (Moscow). However, due to censorship obstacles, the album of two stereo records was released by the company" Melody " only in 1982 (number C60 18627-30 (2LP)).  ...more

SWEET-FANNY ADAMS-1974-THE FIRST PRESS OF THE UK-RCA-LPL1 5068 Matrix A-1/B-1. A very rare original of one of the best albums in hard glam rock. Sweet Fanny Adams is Sweet's second album, their first of two released in 1974, as well as their first album simply as Sweet. This album was a turning point and a change in the sound of the band. It had more of a hard rock sound than their previous pop albums. Sweet Fanny Adams reached number 27 on the UK Albums chart in the year of its release by RCA Records in 1974 and number 2 on the West German Albums chart. It was not released in the United States, but five of her tracks appeared on the American version of the album Desolation Boulevard, released in July 1975. ...more