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If You And I Could Be As Two/ How Long Baby

THEM If You And I Could Be As Two/ How Long Baby (Extremely Rare One-Off 1965 UK double sided metal based ultra high-grade methyl cellulose lacquer 7" acetate - Features a unique coupling of 'You And I Could Be As Two' [officially a b-side to'Mystic Eyes' in the UK] from their debut album The Angry Young Them backed with 'How Long Baby' [a b-side to the 'One More Time' single in the UK] from the group's second album Them Again. With custom typed Decca factory labels printed blackon blue with 'Decca Group Advance Test Recording' print & 45rpm speed indicator, the song titles & artist name are printed either side with a small 'cross' & annotation from the studio engineer. This unique coupling was never released as a 45 anywhere in the world - A true one-of-a-kind, 60s acetates like these are the hardest to find. See 'more info' for condition details...)

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Product Availability Currently Unavailable - You can request the next copy of this item
Release Year 1965 - 59 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format acetate
Record Label Decca
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Product Catalogue No ACETATE
Music Genre 60s Beat, 60s Rock, Garage Punk, 60s Pop
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
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An acetate is a transitional stage between the master tape and the finished vinyl record.

Originally acetates were used for home recording in the days before tape recorders, but since the advent of cassette tape & CDR are now no longer used for providing bands & their entourage copies of today's studio efforts. A machine actually cuts the grooves into the acetate like a lathe.

The acetate is used to assess whether the music has been successfully transferred to disc. It is checked by the sound engineer. There may be only one copy made of a particular recording, sometimes more are cut and sent to the studio and band members for approval.
This comes before making the master, and allows the sound to be checked without great expense.

It is unusual for more than a dozen to be manufactured, so from the collector's point of view an acetate is a rare find indeed! If the recording is rejected the acetate may be the only record that survives. The rejected cut may simply be poor quality, however the artist may have opted to use a different take of the song, if so, the acetate becomes much more precious.
An incredible find - possibly unique - and certainly one of only a handful.

This one-off acetate has incredibly clean labels with no print fade. This example has light surface scuffs & cosmetic wear either side to be expected, common with any surviving acetate, especially from this era. Despite the fragile playing surface, the disc plays through without jumps or sticks & retains its sonic fidelity nicely on a mono playback setting. Smartly housed in a plain die-cut card sleeve, the disc would benefit from a simple & very careful clean for those that know how to treat acetates correctly. A great find, this is a future Them & Van Morrison collectable in the right hands & a unique jewel for the dedicated 60s Rock collector.


ACETATE  
Recording Artist Them
Product Title If You And I Could Be As Two/ How Long Baby
Product Information Them If You And I Could Be As Two/ How Long Baby UK acetate.
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info Deleted - A deleted or out-of-print item is one that is no longer manufactured. However, we stock thousands of out-of-print formats and we specialise in tracking down out-of-print, deleted and hard-to-find releases.
Artists Related To Belfast Gypsies, Leo Green, Shana Morrison, Van Morrison
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