Odessey And Oracle - Original 1968 US Date label 12-track Stereo LP

Rare original 1968 US Date label 12-track stereo vinyl LP - The Zombies 2nd studio album and highly praised psychedelic masterpiece - labeled 'superior to most other psychedelic albums this side of the Beatles' best and Pink Floyd's early work' and 'some of the most powerful psychedelic pop/rock ever heard out of England' by Allmusics Bruce Elder.

Vinyl has the generic green company labels with black printing and company-name logo at top label.
Vinyl has machine stamped matrix information:
Side 1: o XSM 137383 (12 o'clock) 1A 1 P C 3 (6 o'clock)
Side 2: o XSM 137384 (12 o'clock) 1A P C 3 (6 o'clock)
stressing that this copy is a 1st stereo pressing manufactured by the earliest cut lathe and the first set of mothers by the Columbia Pitman, NJ, pressing plant.

Vinyl is held in a sturdy back pasted picture cover.

Condition: VG++ (vinyl & labels)/VG+(+) (cover):

Vinyl is bright and shiny and simply superclean - has just a touch of wear from the friction between sleeve and vinyl - the kind of sleeve induced wear that is actually hard to detect - even under a strong light source. Labels are mint... and vinyl is overall extremely close to perfect.

Cover has a beautifully perfect front cover without wrinkling and creasing. Back has a thin 2" stripe of cover shelling along lower opening and a touch of faint age staining in the upper left corner area.
Seams are intact with only hints of wear - corners has almost no wear or rubbing... a simply very, very nice cover which is graded close to near perfect/excellent - overall a far above awerage copy.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1 Care Of Cell 44
2 A Rose For Emily
3 Maybe After He's Gone
4 Beechwood Park
5 Brief Candles
6 Hung Up On A Dream

Side 2:
1 Changes
2 I Want Her She Wants Me
3 This Will Be Our Year
4 Butchers Tale (Western Front 1914)
5 Friends Of Mine
6 Time Of The Season

Recorded June - November 1967 at Abbey Road and Olympic Studios

Credits:
Colin Blunstone - lead vocals
Rod Argent - organ, piano, Mellotron, vocals (lead vocals on "I Want Her, She Wants Me" and the first verse of "Brief Candles")
Paul Atkinson - guitar, vocals on "Changes"
Chris White - bass guitar, vocals (lead vocals on "Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)" and the second verse of "Brief Candles")
Hugh Grundy - drums, vocals on "Changes"

Technical Credits:
The Zombies - Production
Geoff Emerick, Peter Vince - engineering

Artwork:
Terry Quirk - Cover design
Jools DeVere - Cover design
All Kooper - Liner Notes