Spice - Original 1996 UK Virgin label 10-track LP

Rare original 1996 UK Virgin label 10-track LP - the debut studio album by r&b and dance influenced British girl power quintet - featuring the singles "Wannabe", "Say You'll Be There", "2 Become 1" and "Mama" / "Who Do You Think You Are"

Vinyl is manufactured with custom picture labels - housed in a hard card lyric inner sleeve with great pix of the girls on reverse - ultimately in a glossy picture cover.

Condition: VG+(+) (Vinyl and Labels)/VG++ (Inner Sleeve)/VG++ (Cover):
Vinyl is bright and shiny - has light sleeve wear from the use directly from the hard card sleeve interior - not much, but a little too jkuch for a near mint grading - vinyl itself is close to near mint/excellent.
Both labels has a single short, simple and superficial spindletrace - labels are very close to mint.

Inner sleeve and cover are in neat condition - just a little marginal corners denting - graded near mint - overall a simply very attractive copy.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Wannabe (Spice Girls, Richard Stannard, Matt Rowe) 2:53
2. Say You'll Be There (Spice Girls, Eliot Kennedy) 3:55
3. 2 Become 1 (Spice Girls, Stannard, Rowe) 4:01
4. Love Thing (Spice Girls, Kennedy, Cary Bayliss) 3:38
5. Last Time Lover (Spice Girls, Andy Watkins, Paul Wilson) 4:11

Side 2:
6. Mama (Spice Girls, Stannard, Rowe) 5:04
7. Who Do You Think You Are (Spice Girls, Watkins, Wilson) 4:00
8. Something Kinda Funny (Spice Girls, Watkins, Wilson) 4:05
9. Naked (Spice Girls, Watkins, Wilson) 4:25
10. If U Can't Dance (Spice Girls, Watkins, Wilson) 3:48

Recorded October 1995 - June 1996 at Olympic Studios, Barnes, London.

Credits:

Spice Girls:
Melanie Brown/ Scary Spice - vocals
Melanie Chisholm/ Sporty Spice - vocals
Emma Bunton/ Baby Spice - vocals
Geri Halliwell/ Ginger Spice - vocals
Victoria Beckham/ Posh Spice - vocals

Additional Musicians:
Absolute (Andy Watkins, John Paul Barrett, Paul Wilson) - instruments
Greg Lester - guitar (3), rhythm guitar (6)
Richard Stannard - keyboards, programming (1, 3, 6, 10)| backing vocals (10)
Matt Rowe - keyboards, programming (1, 3, 6, 10)
Pete Davis (3), Statik (3, 5), Dave Way (5), Paul Waller (3, 4) - additional programming
Jackie Drew - violin (6)
Tony Ward - cello (6)
Judd Lander - harmonica (2)
Perry Montague-Mason - orchestral leader (3)
Mary Pearce (7), Eric Gooden (5) - additional background vocals

Technical Credits:
Richard Stannard, Matt Rowe - production (1, 3, 6, 10)
Absolute - production (2, 4, 5, 7-9)| mix (6, 9)
Andy Bradfield - additional production (3, 4), additional mixing (3, 4)
Adrian Bushby (1, 3, 6, 10), Jeremy Wheatley (2, 4, 7, 8) - recording engineering
Adam Brown (2, 4, 5, 7-9), Patrick McGovern (1, 3, 6, 10) - assistant engineering
Al Stone - recording engineering (5, 9)| mixing (9)
Dave Way -mixing (5-8, 10)
Geoff Pesche - mastering
Mark 'Spike' Stent - mixing (1, 2)
Craig Armstrong - strings arrangement (3)
Mark Beswick - choir arrangement (6)

Artwork:
Kuniahro Takuma - photography

Sample Credits:
"If U Can't Dance" contains a sample from "The Humpty Dance" written by Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, William Morrison and Gregory Jacobs| as performed by Digital Underground.

Various Credits:
Isobel Griffiths - orchestral contractor (3)