PHYLLIS NEWMAN — “THOSE WERE THE DAYS” LP. 

SIRE RECORDS (LONDON RECORDS) SES-97002 / STEREO / FIRST PRESSING WITH WHITE, PURPLE AND PERIWINKLE SIRE LABELS (LOVELY!) / RELEASED IN 1968 / POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE

AN EARLY AND TOO-OFTEN OVERLOOKED EARLY EFFORT FROM SEYMOUR STEIN AND RICHARD GOTTEHRER!!! NEWMAN DOES HER EAST COAST JEWISH CHANTEUSE BUSINESS ALL OVER A KILLER SELECTION OF TUNES, INCLUDING NUMBERS BY THE BEATLES, JOHNNY NASH, JONI MITCHELL, MARY HOPKIN (GENE RASKIN), JOHN HARTFORD, AND A KILLER EARLY GOTTEHRER/STEIN ORIGINAL CALLED “WORLD OF MUSIC”... 

RECORDED BY NEIL CEPPOS AT BELL SOUND IN NYC IN LATE OCTOBER, 1968. CEPPOS WAS AN ENGINEER FOR JAZZLAND AND RIVERSIDE RECORDS AND RECORDED DOZENS OF HEAVY JAZZ LP’S FROM THE LIKES OF JIMMY HEATH, DOROTHY ASHBY, AND JUNIOR MANCE — AS WELL AS RECORDING “I WANT CANDY” BY THE STRANGELOVES… ALL THIS TO SAY THAT THIS NEWMAN SESSION SOUNDS DOPE — LARGE AND IN CHARGE. 

ARRANGEMENTS BY ARNOLD GOLAND WHO WAS TUTORED BY PHIL SPECTOR DURING GOLAND’S STINT AT PHILLES RECORDS, AND WHO ALSO PRODUCED ALL THOSE JAY & THE AMERICANS MID-60’S LP’S… KILLER SOUND ON THIS LP! SHOULDA BEEN A HIT! 

BACK COVER NOTES BY ADOLF GREEN, THE BROADWAY LYRICIST WHO WAS ALSO NEWMAN’S HUSBAND… 

VG VINYL — A HANDFUL OF TOTALLY SUPERFICIAL SURFACE MARKS, BUT NOTHING REMOTELY EGREGIOUS… PLAYS VG+. PLAY-TESTED AND CLEANED WITH A VPI MACHINE… 

JACKET IS VG, AS WELL… LIGHTLY BUMPED CORNERS, MODERATE RINGWEAR, STRONG SEAMS (NO SPLITS!)... BACK COVER IS STAMPED “DEMONSTRATION” (SEE PHOTOS). 

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