I’m back from my 30th birthday vacation, and it will most certainly be remembered. I took home a number of LPs, so watch this blog for several posts in the coming week(s).
Osmium, Parliament’s first full length album, was originally released on Invictus Records in 1970. A mint copy will set you back one or two hundred dollars on eBay.
All reissues have the artist name re-set horizontally instead of vertically.
The original album is highly collectible. According to popsike.com, 11 copies in varying condition have auctioned this year.
This version, produced by Earmark/Sanctuary & Get Back Records in 2003 is a limited edition 180g picture disc released in Argentina in 2003. Only 750 copies were pressed, and in the last four years I’ve found one copy for sale. So when this one surfaced in Thessaloniki, Greece I put it at the top of my birthday wish list. Thanks to a kind and loving mother in law it’s the latest addition to my PFunk family collection.
Here’s a taste of the soulful funk on this LP.
The next PFunk related disc I’m after is the “I Wanna Testify” RV207 7 inch single that George Clinton released with his doo-wop group, The Parliaments in 1967 (before Osmium was recorded.)
Stay tuned for more later this week!
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