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Postage: UK 4.75 1 per extra record .
Europe including Russia 12.50 2 per extra record .
Rest of World including ALL parts of the USA 16.50 3 per extra record .
All boxes signed for in quality, safe packaging I NEVER use mailing envelopes that offer virtually no protection at all in fact I think these things should be banned as records WILL arrive damaged in them at some time.
Here, you get what you pay for SAFE PACKING in BOXES using 7mm DOUBLE-WALL STIFFENERS.
Full details nearer the end of the listing.
Posting to Russia: Yes, I do post to Russia.
But delivery can take up to 4 to 6 weeks from the UK.
So please be patient.
I will submit a tracking number to the winning bidder, and when the packet arrives there it can be followed online using the Russian post website.
ALSO: I now apply the Ebay 2-day rule for non-payment to keep things moving cash-flow is important for any small business.
I will always keep my PP prices as low as possible, and even after yet another Royal Mail price hike from April this year, I have NOT raised my prices and will never compromise on solid, safe packing that is invariably heavier than most you will get.
My PP offers probably the best value-for-money for vinyl records available, and I even will pay for full insurance on any record that sells for over 100 at NO extra cost that is UK and abroad.
Also I aim to post the very same day after payment is received.
You WILL see the difference when my packet arrives.
FINALLY: Late payers, non-payers and 0 bidders will now be blocked or cancelled at my discretion.
As will any bidder who cancels a bid.
I do not like this practice as it is most often used to phish out the price to beat.
Ebay does not approve and neither do I so only bid on my items if you want them.
Artist or Band: ALICE COOPER Album Title: Love it to Death Producer s : Jack Richardson and Bob Ezrin TRACK LIST: Side 1: Caught in a Dream I m Eighteen Long Way to Go Black Juju.
Side 2: Is It My Body Hallowed Be My Name Second Coming Ballad of Dwight Fry Sun Arise.
Label/Format: Straight matt, smooth surfaces.
Label Conditions: Both very clean, fresh and attractive with only a small few spindle marks, most of which are fine and light.
Cat Number: STS 1065.
Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.
Warps: Assume all records I offer have no warping of any significance and all tracking is easy and effortless and should play on all turntables and even budget decks.
Weight of this Record: 115 grams.
Quite light, but this one very well pressed with sound to match.
Unfortunately not all are.
Country of Manufacture: England Rarity: Rare as a genuine first UK pressing.
This album was originally issued on Frank Zappa s Straight label as this and is very difficult to find as such.
Few had even heard of Alice Cooper at this time and most copies are found on the green Warner Bros label.
Also very difficult to find with a decent cover and well-pressed, little played record.
All UK copies as far as I am aware never included the uncensored finger cover.
Original Year of Release: 1971 Matrix Nos: STS 1065 A1 / STS 1065 B1 Musicians: Alice Cooper - Vocals Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Keyboards Dennis Dunaway - Bass Guitar Neal Smith - Drums.
Guest: Toronto Bob - organ.
Brief Info: Vincent Damon Furnier, better known to the world as Alice Cooper, a name initially given to just the band, but adopted quickly for their vocalist leader.
Initially known as The Earwigs and then The Spiders and changed again briefly to The Nazz, a name also used by Todd Rundgren s band so another name was chosen Alice Cooper a name chosen as a gimmic for their often outrageous stage shows and dress.
The early band were really going nowhere, often gigs were short as audiences walked out.
This negative reaction was spotted by Shep Gordon, a music manager who introduced the act to Frank Zappa.
By this time, Zappa had formed his own label, Straight Records, and he was looking for suitable acts to promote it.
Zappa and Straight specialised in acts there were somewhat different .
Bands and artists that had little commercial potential and were far too out there for most listener s tastes.
Specialisting in the strange and bizarre with infamous acts like The GTO s Girls Together Outrageously , Tim Buckley, Rosebud, Jeff Simmons, Junier Mintz, Tim Dawe and Lord Buckley.
Only a tiny few on this label ever went on to any commercial success, including cult acts like Captain Beefheart and, eventually Alice Cooper themselves.
Zappa himself chose the acts that were to appear on Straight.
It was interesting listening to Cooper himself on Planet Rock s breakfast show awhile ago talking about the early days and his indebtness to Zappa for signing his band.
No-one else would touch us he said.
It was great to hear him acknowledge his success to the chance and faith Zappa gave him.
Clearly Frank saw something no-one else could and the rest is history.
Both the first two Straight albums were a commercial flops, just scraping into the US charts briefly and selling a mere handful in the UK, where few were even made and quickly deleted.
This third and final Straight album is equally as rare as the first two, possibly even more so.
Pressed in tiny numbers before being repressed on the green Warner format.
Only when the band became popular did sales rise, but by then, it had been repressed on Warner, Straight copies almost lost in the mist of time.
Love it to Death marked a change in direction and is a brilliant album, it eventually got them noticed, but long after the Straight label had gone.
This is a real dark set and eerie.
Less pyschy than the first two albums, this was the start of the classic Cooper sound that eventually made him popular.
This is a genuinely spooky and macabre album that must have been a huge shock to those few who actually owned it from issue day.
Including the classic anthem I m Eighteen his first single success, this album was not for the faint hearted, even the cover s inner artwork must have caused a flutter when first opened.
What gives this title it s special sound and sinister edge is Toronto Bob s eerie organ sounds, they were unique to this set.
Two incredible tracks stand out: the lengthy Black Juju that concludes side one.
A very dark, graveyard type track that starts with muted percussion that gradually builds up with the spooky organ slowly accompanying.
Here, playing very quietly which is never to be taken for granted.
The Ballad of Dwight Fry is pure scary with one of the most chilling beginnings I have ever heard to any song.
The story of a madman in a sanitarium - his four-year-old infant daughter s voice is heard at the start saying, Mommy, where s daddy? He s been gone for so long, Do you think he ll ever some home? Then Cooper sings of his self-destruction in confinement until his head and sanity explodes with a massive bomb-blast and then he escapes, scary stuff.
If any reader has not taken this man and his early band too seriously in the past, think again, this album, and all of them up to Welcome to My Nightmare are superb but for me, this and Killer are the very best.
This a copy that does it near maximum justice and UK Straight copies are getting increasingly hard to find.
Cover Grade and Format: EXCELLENT : an unlaminated gatefold, with the front made with single card and the record enters via the centrefold.
It was made in England by Shorewood and includes the Patents pending text and CBS CBS distribution credit.
This cover, like all the UK versions, is the censored version.
Some American uncensored versions exist but are fairly rare.
Cooper s right arm and offending digit was airbrushed off as this apparently was deemed offensive at the time.
I am as sure as I can be, no uncensored UK-made cover exists for this album where Cooper has his thumb sticking out of his pants.
Cover Front: Notoriously prone to rubbing and creasing due to the thinness of the card.
Any rubbing on this front is gentle and light, amongst the least I have seen anyway.
A few gentle edge creases few can hope to avoid and little else.
A cover often seen with sticker or general tears which this has avoided.
Cover Back: From black to predominately white, meaning grubbiness will often be a factor.
This has barely any of real note and it s freshness and lack of wear more than complements the super front.
A tiny few gentle tone spots near the bottom right.
Both front and back I consider near exceptional and neither will be easy to find better.
Cover Inner Gatefold: Both faces look magnificent with little to fault.
The record enters inside here via the spine fold which is solid and untorn or even weakened.
Unusually crisp and neat, so many of these split and crease badly, this remains in great shape with no repairs.
One of the creepiest classic inner gatefolds of its era.
Top Edges: No issues with the back fold which remains straight and neat.
The front has gently thickened in places, but overall, still neat with minimal creasing or burring.
Bottom Edges: Incredibly, both show barely any wear at all, being the storage edges, this is almost remarkable.
Right Edge s , and Type: The front edge is neat and crisp with barely any hint of thickening, it being naturally protected with a gentle tilt to left from the thin spine.
The closed back edge is shows little wear at all and still mainly clean being white with just a tiny tone spot.
Spine and Text: Mainly solid one hairline crease towards the bottom , straight and folded square so the edges meet up quite closely together.
All text is present and unworn.
Minimal crushing, but a little flattening near the top which is beyond difficult to avoid.
Single thickness spines are fragile and have to support the cover.
Given this format, this spine has survived generally well and still looks neat in terms of lack of real wear.
Corners: All corners are neat and mostly crisp with very fine shape retained.
So often the thin front corners soften and feather, this again has largely been avoided with no evidence of knocks.
Cover Summary: A really clean and impressive example of a very difficult cover.
I guarantee all is genuine as seen with NO trimming, NO tip-ins or ANY enhancements.
The owner looked after this one well and it take a fair degree of beating.
One to please many collectors.
The Inner Sleeve: EXCELLENT : the plain white inner is included in very impressive condition.
Little aged with only minor darkening of seam adhesive in places.
Two crisp undamaged window circles, minimal traces of creasing and all edges unsplit with no repairs.
Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: EXCELLENT: this being quite critical.
A very fine visual copy that is very clean with excellent shine and fairly solidly pressed.
This Straight record was pressed by CBS in England.
A copy with minimal usage and no penetrating stylus scratches.
Under bright angled light, very gentle and fine surface marks, mostly wispy with the odd hairline or two.
Viewed in normal room light, this record looks magnificent, but I do not grade that way.
Visually a lovely record that should please many collectors seeking this now getting rare original.
Album Played For Grading: Yes.
I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its entirety unless clearly stated otherwise.
I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness I play from the beginning to end via clinically revealing BW speakers that include the legendary tweeter from their awesome Nautilus range that reveals every blemish or miniscule sound present on any record.
Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This original UK Straight record plays even above it s high visual grading with very little to fault at all.
Offering strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear - sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound.
Better pressed than some Straight or Warner examples I have heard, any surface sounds are minimal indeed with no inherent pressing noises or tracking issues.
Even that difficult intro to Black Juju plays well with hardly anything unwanted.
This is a crucial part of the album, look at my pictures and see those very compact and blacker area bands on this area of side one meaning very low volume.
The massive explosion on Dwight Fry is sharp, focused and very dynamic with no distortion or crackle which is never to be taken lightly.
Few copies are likely to outperform this significantly I feel sure.
Both channels are clean and sharp, I am certain this record has been played very lightly and has been clearly well stored and carefully handled.
Nothing of note spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this wonderful record, arguably Cooper s very best.
This copy will prove difficult to find better and merits strong recommendation.
As played-graded on a high-end Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracking at 2.2 grams.
Now one of the most established sellers on Ebay and still offering the finest and most accurately described and graded records I can find.
I pride myself on offering a variety of genres to keep my site as interesting as possible.
I will rarely offer any record that falls below a true Excellent grading, unless its of a certain rarity which will justify offering a lesser grade.
I try, to the best of my ability to describe as accurately and as honesty as I can all items I offer for sale with all the relevant information I can think of to help any potential bidder and collector.
You may notice I only submit records sparingly on Ebay as I Play-Grade every record I offer in their entirety also on higher-end equipment not just bits to guess a grade - visuals alone do not always tell a true or full story.
I will mention any defects or flaws no matter how small that I notice to be fair as possible to any interested collector I am very fussy and my buyers have the right to be too.
Every record I offer, whether it be a common or rare item deserves the same respect as far as I am concerned and will be treated the same - just because an item is rare does not always mean it s good.
I get just as much pleasure offering a relatively common record in stunning near mint condition as the real rare items.
All the pictures I use for your guidance are taken with a digital camera or scanned - they are NOT improved, cleaned-up or made better looking than they are with camera trickery or enhancing with digital programmes.
Room light factors can make things vary sometimes, that is hard to control, especially in winter.
If any picture I take looks more flattering than the actual item for any reason, I will clearly state the fact in the advert and vice-versa.
I hope the item below is to your liking - any questions can be emailed and I will do my very best to answer you.
I am enthusiastic, and have a fair degree of knowledge about many genres and I promise quality items - bid with confidence - excellence comes as standard and so does Near Mint regularly.
Please assume all records I offer have NO jumps, sticks, warps or writing on covers or labels unless clearly stated to the contrary.
Thanks for your interest and Good luck MIKE.
Equipment Used for Play-Grading: I now play-grade ALL the records I offer unless clearly stated to the contrary on the following equipment: Deck: Linn LP12/Hercules/Cirkus with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracks at 2.2 grams .
Amps: Naim Supernait 2 with Project USB phono stage and Tellerium Black interconnects.
Speakers: BW 704 Floorstanding 3-way Monitors bi-wired with Tellurium Black terminated cable .
All records I offer on Ebay are cleaned on a professional VPI-17 vacuum machine before play-grading for the cleanest and best possible sound and will include a brand new lined inner and protective cover too.
Pictures taken with a Nikon D5000 SLR Digital Camera.
PACKING - THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.
What You Get: To confirm to the strict Ebay rules on shipping, I must now send ALL my packets Signed-For with NO exceptions.
Both buyers and sellers want their packets to have a safer journey and this is not a bad thing.
I now offer the fastest possible posting, often the very next day after payment is received or within two to three days maximum unless on holiday .
I only use FIRST-CLASS Mail.
The record s cover will be placed within a BRAND NEW soft protective sleeve and the actual record will be professionally cleaned on my new VPI-17 Pro vacuum system to give ultimate clean grooves and playing surfaces and the best possible looks and ultimate sound quality.
You will NOT get tired, dull looking, dust infested records inside worn and foggy covers with tatty inners from this seller and that s a promise and guarantee.
All records are posted in professional boxes NOT Mailers, these do not offer any real protection .
The record s are REMOVED from their main cover to avoid edge splits and placed within a brand new polylined inner.
The record s original inner will be included if available.
The boxes are then reinforced with at least TWO, ULTRA THICK stiffeners for maximum extra protection these are FOUR TIMES thicker than commercial stiffeners and are custom-made for oneadayrecords.
Really rare and expensive albums will even be Double Boxed if deemed necessary and possible.
When larger boxes are used, the thick record and stiffener sandwich is then thickly embedded into bubble-wrap to bulk out the record inside the box to centre the item inside to reduce the risk of damage still further.
Printed address labels are used for clarity as well as a sender label.
Customers requests or special needs for PP will be respected if at all possible but Signed-For posting is NOT an option anymore.
I do not profit on posting, better quality packaging costs, I offer probably the best-value and safest shipping possible for ultimate confidence.
The boxes and ultra thick double-wall stiffeners make a near impregnable fortress for safe shipping and this is used inland and overseas for ALL my records, not just the rare and expensive.
I will invoice any winning bidder as soon as possible after the auction ends.
My loss or damage rate is minuscule in over 14 years of Ebay trading and I consider that pretty exceptional.
The only damage rate acceptable for this seller is ZERO and I think my packets will offer just that.
It would take a vicious postman or postal service to damage these for sure.
Oneadayrecords is a MAILER-FREE ZONE they offer next-to-no-protection, and should be banned, no professional should consider using them in my opinion.
I discount of course for multiple purchases with a maximum of FIVE records per box one double can sometimes be included subject to total weight .
All postage costs are below and at the top of the listing.
NOTE: First Time Bidders: Please ask me first.
PLEASE NOTE: I now exercise my right to open a dispute after the Ebay rule of TWO days if no payment is received.
I will then cancel the dispute to end the bid, again after the mandatory FOUR days and then offer the item to the runner-up or relist.
The non-payer will also be blocked from my Ebay site as will any suspicious bids or bid withdrawals.
Small businesses need prompt payment to trade and these strict rules WILL be applied.
SHIPPING COSTS CONDITIONS THESE comply with EBAY S RULES - PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: Posting Packing: UK CHANNEL ISLANDS all now sent via Recorded Delivery: 1 LP FIRST-CLASS Recorded Delivery with Standard Royal Mail Insurance Signed For 4.75 1 LP Special Delivery with Standard 500 Maximum Insurance Signed For, Next Day 7.50.
this includes insurance of 500 .
Add 1 per extra LP.
Posting Packing: EUROPE SCANDINAVIA.
Airmail Only : 1 LP Small Packet Signed For with Standard Royal Mail Insurance 50 maximum 12.50 enhanced Royal Mail insurance is an optional extra 3 .
Add 2 per extra LP.
Posting Packing: ALL OVERSEAS non-European e.g.
USA ANY PART OF South America New Zealand Australia Canada Japan and other Far East Airmail Only: I NEVER use Surface Mail : 1 LP Small Packet Signed For with Standard Royal Mail Insurance 50 maximum 16.50 17.50 for double sets .
Add 3 per extra LP.
enhanced Royal Mail insurance is an optional extra 3 Payment Conditions: I prefer PayPal or cheque from UK winning bidders.
I can accept PayPal from overseas bidders or direct payment into my bank account.
Potential Bidders: I will cancel any bids I feel are time-wasters.
A maximum 3 days for communication and 7 days for payment to arrive - if not I will relist the item or offer to the runner-up.
Fast deals get great feedback from me.
Any questions - please ask and thanks for looking.
My Guarantee: If any winning bidder is not satisfied with their purchase I will offer a complete refund.
I will not refund if any defect detail is clearly stated on the advert and missed by the buyer, so read the item description carefully.
If any overseas collector does not understand anything in my listing, please email and ask me to help.
Thank You.
SOME GENERAL GUIDES TO WEAR AND CONDITIONS TO HELP YOU DECIDE My Use of Terminology: Surface Marks Superficial, usually light marks, hairlines or light scuffs that rarely sound.
Scratch a needle mark that goes below the record s surface, some will sound, some will not, my play-grade will inform.
Original a record that has been pressed with the first label design which does NOT necessarily mean a very first pressed record.
First Pressing A record that I believe or know to be a genuine very first pressed record.
I do not claim to always know for sure, and that s why I state the stamper and matrix numbers if at all possible, for those who claim to know what they all mean, the information is there for the collector to decide.
I prefer to use terms like Early Copy rather than First Pressing if I am not totally sure.
Surface Sound Mild, light sound, usually light crackle or similar.
Distortion Break up of the actual sound caused by groove wear or damage from a chipped stylus the most undesirable form of unwanted sound, vintage mono records were the most prone to this happening but not exclusively so.
The symptoms of distortion are high frequency clipping, moderate constant crackle or an echo type sound quality.
Violin, piano and vocals are most prone to groove-wear distortion.
Feathering Fraying or softening of the entry edge of a cover.
Covers with feathered entrance edges are more likely to have had the actual record inserted and removed more than a non-feathered, sharp-edged cover which are always far more attractive.
Set Off, actually a printer s term for dark ink leaving mild residue on pale or white ink when rested upon.
e.g.
when a gatefold cover has black ink closed against white, this can leave some black residue on the pale area this is mostly unavoidable or course.
The Argument for Vinyl Original sound and mix mono mixes are rarely available on CD , high quality sound on clean copies played on a hi-end dedicated analogue system breathtaking sound , beautiful, large format covers, artwork, inserts and even full size posters etc huge investment potential, and the pleasure of owning the real thing .
