HISTORY:
In our previous audio post production business, we always strived to save old music from "musical hell" (being buried in the earth) and this is one of those musical releases that was saved.
We have many more on this website and many more to come ...
This record actually came from a vintage broadcasting automated loading mechanism which was nothing but a big headache in operation, fortunately it was laid to rest and the musical content of the loaders was saved. This record has the classic jukebox large centre hole because the centre has been intentionally "punched out" which means you absolutely must have an adapter to play this record on a domestic turntable.
We have no record cover, we never had one as it was extracted from the auto-load system and then the record has been kept in one of our special archival cardboard sleeves.
These sleeves or covers are made using a heavy card with an internal plastic liner permanently afixed inside. Two reinforcing strips on the outside and no writing on the vanilla cardboard sleeve at all. We used lots of these for broadcast station libraries.
HOT CHOCOLATE - You Sexy Thing
RAK Records
Cat # 1C 006-97 109
1975
Made in Germany
Archival cover/sleeve is in very good condition, undamaged and unmarked. Record labels do have faint remanents of station ID markings but these are not too unsightly.
Inner liner sleeve is integral with the cover
Vinyl is in very good condition, this means that I have visually inspected the vinyl and I can see just a couple of light marks or scratches on either side. Just looking at the vinyl is not a very good way to judge the condition so I played this release ENTIRELY, both sides, and there are no issues with surface noise nor click/pop events.
New OUTER protective sleeve is supplied to protect the whole package
TRACK: You Sexy Thing, A Warm Smile
