Fly - Original 1971 US Apple label 13-track 2LP - Jacksonville Pressing

Rare original 1971 US Apple 2LP set recorded with John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Jim Keltner, Eric Clapton... Yoko Onos 2nd album... 

Packaged in a sturdy glossy gatefold picture hardcover with printed black & white inner sleeves with lyrics and credits plus 23" square, black and white foldout poster and double-sided, black and white postcard with die cut hole to order Yoko Ono's book "Grapefruit" as well as being Ono's piece "A Hole To See The Sky Through".

For those intothe handetched (he) and machine stamped (ms) trail off matrix information:

Matrix / Runout (Side A runout; Variant 3): SVBB-1-3380-Z3 #1 (he) Bell Sound (ms) sf (he) 0 (ms)

Matrix / Runout (Side B runout; Variant 3): SVBB-2-3380-Z3 #1 (he) Bell Sound (ms) sf (he) 0 (ms)

Matrix / Runout (Side C runout; Variant 3): SVBB-3-3380-Z3 #1 (he) Bell Sound (ms) sf (he) 0 (ms)

Matrix / Runout (Side D runout; Variant 3): SVBB-4-3380-Z3 #1 (he) Bell Sound (ms) sf (he) 0 (ms)

suggesting an original pressing mastered for vinyl by Bell Sound Studios cutting engineer Sam Feldman - ultimately pressed at Capitols Jacksonville pressing plant

Condition: 2xVG+(+)/VG+(+) (Vinyl and Labels/Inner Sleeve)/M- (Poster)/ M- (insert) /VG++ (Cover):

Vinyls are nice - only a light degree of sleeve inflicted wear and a little discontinued foxing to Sides 2 and 3 - mint labels. Vinyls are overall graded close to near mint/excellent.
Inner sleeves has light inevitable creasing from mlder bends towards the side pushed into the cover... a small top right corner age spot to one sleeve - Sleeves are overall graded close to near mint/excellent as well.

Insert and poster are 'without signs of handling - graded mint. Cover has a minor top spine corner dent... otherwise perfectly pointy corners - hints of laminate only wear slong back vinyl outlibe... really marginal stuff and otherwise perfect crisp laminte above the unfaded and fresh colour - perfect straight seams,perfect opening edges and perfectly readable spine - perfect inner spread - overall graded near mint.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Midsummer New York 3:50
2. Mind Train 16:52

Side 2:
3. Mind Holes 2:45
4. Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow) 4:55
5. Mrs. Lennon 4:10
6. Hirake 3:32
7. Toilet Piece/Unknown 0:30
8. O'Wind (Body Is The Scar Of Your Mind) 5:22

Side 3:
1. Air Male (Tone Deaf Jam) 10:40
2. Don't Count The Waves 5:26
3. You 9:00

Side 4:
4. Fly 22:53
5. Telephone Piece 1:01

All songs written by Yoko Ono.

Recorded at Ascot Sound Studios, Tittenhurst Park, Ascot, Berkshire, England.
Recorded at Record Plant Studios, 321 West 44th Street, New York, N.Y. 10036
Mastered at Bell Sound Studios, New York, NY
Pressed by Capitol Records Pressing Plant, 1 Capitol Way, Jacksonville, Illinois 62650, USA

Credits:

Yoko Ono – vocals, claves on "Airmale" and "Don't Count the Waves"
John Lennon – guitar, piano on "Mrs. Lennon", organ, automated music machines on "Airmale" and "Don't Count the Waves"
Klaus Voormann – guitar, bass guitar, bells on "Mrs. Lennon", cymbal on "O'Wind", percussion on "Don't Count the Waves"
Bobby Keys – claves on "O'Wind"
Eric Clapton – guitar on "Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)"
Jim Keltner – drums, tabla, percussion
Ringo Starr – drums on "Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)"
Jim Gordon – drums on "Hirake", tabla on "O'Wind"
Chris Osborne – dobro on "Midsummer New York" and "Mind Train"
Joe Jones – automated music machines on "Airmale", "Don't Count the Waves" and "You"

Technical Credits:
John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Production
Dan Richter, George Maciunas, May Pang, Peter Bendrey, Tom Basalari - Production Assistants
Dennis Ferrante, Jack Douglas, Jay Messina - Assistant Engineers
Eddie Klein, Eddie Veal, Eddy Offord, Phil McDonald - Engineers (Ascot Sound Studios)
Robert Fries, Roy Cicala - Engineers (Record Plant, N.Y.C.)
George Marino – mastering engineer

Sam Feldman - Laquer Cutting

Artwork:
Allan Steckler - Poster Design Concept
John Lennon - Front And Back Cover Design
George Maciunas - Inner Spread Design
Yoko Ono - Inner Spread Design and Illustration
John Lennon - Front And Back Cover Photography
Kyoko Chan Cox - Gypsies Photography
Iain MacMillan - Inside Spread Photography
May Pang - Jim Keltner, Fred Astaire, The Statue Of Liberty Photographs
Raeanne Rubenstein - Poster Photograph