Product Description
Actual 1978 Japanese First Pressing Still In Top Condition & Complete With Highly Collectable Obi Strip! Includes Insert With Lyrics In English, Plus Another Insert With Notes In Japanese. The Eighth Studio Album By The Doobie Brothers Features “What A Fool Believes”, “Minute By Minute” & More.
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT!
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings from the 1970s are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Here To Love You
What A Fool Believes
Minute By Minute
Dependin’ On You
Don’t Stop To Watch The Wheels
Side 2:
Open Your Eyes
Sweet Feelin’
Steamer Lane Breakdown
You Never Change
How Do The Fools Survive?
AMG –
Minute by Minute won four Grammy Awards, propelling the group to its biggest success ever! With Tom Johnston gone from the lineup because of health problems, this is where the "new" Doobie Brothers really make their debut, with a richly soulful sound throughout and emphasis on horns and Michael McDonald's piano more than on Patrick Simmons' or Jeff Baxter's guitars. Not that they were absent entirely, or weren't sometimes right up front in the mix, as the rocking, slashing "Don't Stop to Watch the Wheels" and the bluegrass-influenced "Steamer Lane Breakdown" demonstrate. But given the keyboards, the funky rhythms, and McDonald's soaring tenor (showcased best on "What a Fool Believes"), it's almost difficult to believe that this is the hippie bar band that came out of California in 1970. There's less virtuosity here than on the group's first half-dozen albums, but overall a more commercial sound steeped in white funk. It's still all pretty compelling even if its appeal couldn't be more different from the group's earlier work (i.e., The Captain and Me, etc.). The public loved it, buying something like three million copies, and the recording establishment gave Minute by Minute four Grammy Awards, propelling the group to its biggest success ever.