Born blind, Jose Feliciano is a Puerto Rican guitarist, singer, and composer. He plays acoustic guitar and sings like no-one else and was a big name in the music industry around the 1970's. This was an era when I remember that if you turned on your little transistor radio, you either heard Carlos Santana or Jose Feliciano doing their thing ALL the time (on high rotation with many radio stations)!
JOSE FELICIANO - 10 To 23
RCA Victor Records
Cat# LSP-4185
1969
Australian release
Cover is in good (minus) condition,no seam splits, no tears and just medium edge wear from 50 years of handling! The most obvious flaw is the "grubby looking" cover, both front and rear. This has a raised plasticised surface (not true embossing) which has collected dirt, dust and whatever over the years and made the cover look dirty and with "patchy" colouring - it's not a good look. I have extensively and carefully cleaned and sterilised the cover so it looks/feels cleaner (and no smells!). Small graphic damage to the front top right corner as a result of careless retail sticker removal sometime in the past.
New inner sleeve
Vinyl is in good (minus) condition, visually inspected under a bright white halogen light source and I can see just a couple of light scratches on Side A but Side B has quite a few "scuff" marks, although also light. Fortunately this is the nice "hard" vinyl used in this era which is much hardier than modern "soft" plastics used in pressing. I then played the ENTIRE release, every single track, and there are absolutely no significant issues with surface noise or click/pops. Yes, the surface noise does increase at times but still very listenable (and it has been a long long time since I have heard Jose!)
New outer protective sleeve
TRACKS: Amor Jibaro, First Of May, The Windmills Of Your Mind, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Miss Otis Regrets, Little Red Rooster, She's A Woman, Lady Madonna, Rain, Gotta Get A Message To You, Hey Jude
