The Need Of Love - Original 1971 Warner Bros label promotional issue white label 5-track LP

Scarce original 1971 US Warner Bros Records 5-track white label promotional LP - the second album from Maurice White spearheaded funk combo incorporating free jazzy elements.

Vinyl has the generic white and black printed promotional issue company labels - held in a back pasted picture cover with 'Warner Bros. Radio Station Service/Not For Resale'-sticker on back.

Condition: VG+(Vinyl and Labels)/VG+(Cover)
Vinyl has some degree of grey structures incorporated in the vinyl suggesting that this is not the best of carbon dyings - this has no influence on the sound what so ever and has no effect on the grading. Vinyl is otherwise nice with a light degree of sleeve wear only - labels has a very few light spindletraces and are graded close to perfect. Vinyl plays nice with only a little cracklinbg in the beginning.

Both front and back cover has faint vinyl impression and barely any wear around this. Front cover has an upper right red crayon corner mark - lower left back stickerglue discolouration... probably from the glue used for the 'Timing Strip' sticker. cover hasa touch of lower spine corner discolouration.
Seams are as such solid except for 1 cm upper spine shelling obliterating catalogue number - a couple of mm's split against lower opening and a little very light wear to lower seam and against upper spine... seems like lower spine has loosened and been repaired. Corners has light denting - lower opening corner light rubbing - nothing alarming, graded straight VG+.


Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Energy 9:39
2. Beauty 4:15

Side 2:
1. I Can Feel It In My Bones 5:06
2. I Think About Lovin' You 6:02
3. Everything Is Everything 6:50

Credits:
Maurice White - drums, percussion, kalimba and vocal
Wade Flemons - vocal
Sherry Scott - vocal
Don Whitehead - piano, electric piano and vocal
Verdine E. White - bass
Michael Beal - guitar, harmonica
Yackov Ben Israel - percussion, conga
Chet Washington - tenor sax
Alex Thomas - trombone
Oscar Brashear - trumpet (solo on Energy)

Technical credits:
Joe Wissert - producer
Doug Botnick - recording engineer
Al Schmitt - remixing

Artwork:
Roland Charles - cover photo