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Oliver Cool - Actual First Recording, Roulette 1958. Tony Mordente, as' Larry Ellis'. Precedes other claimed earliest productions. Claims to the contrary notwithstanding. That ignorance is not true neo pseudo Mandela Effect, thought it smells like it. In sleeve, 6.75" x 6.75". 45 RPM. The real first 'Oliver Cool' production. Opposite side is 'I Love Girls'. Small rectangular label shown in main image is included, but loose since it was offered by my source to enhance the clarity of the main point. There was, at the time, no 'A' or 'B' nomenclature for either side; they presumably didn't know at the time which would be better liked, since it was produced mainly for fun - or so it seems. At least Very Good condition; played only once here, also played by my son once, checks out. See images. Paper sleeve is also Very Good, reverse side of it showing a small stain; can't tell if the sleeve is faded at all, without a hermetically sealed example from 1958, which presumably doesn't exist. I'm not a record dealer. The point here is resolving a mini-mystery - are we being neo-'Mandela Effect' brain cleaned? (that's a fringe theory which, at the (hypothetical) extreme, is genuinely Creepy). Can't even pull up the correct version of Oliver Cool at you-know-where anymore. Probably not intentionally. More likely from youthful incompetence or greed. Or a dash of both. The original Oliver Cool release was an unexpected.thing in late fifties rock - it became, briefly, wildly popular in some locales, surprisingly considering it was an example of the 'Novelty Song' genre, as then so-named. Now - online platforms don't offer the original at all (they did, until very recently) and the original record itself is sometimes given short shrift as with 'I Love Girls' being seeminglyforcibly accorded A-Side status (which it never had, in the day). Tony Mordente - see image for a brief bio, which is a bit stunning - was the singer of the original, under the pseudonym Larry Ellis. It's clarity of style and tone, comic though it intentionally was, struck a stylized high school 'Geek Chic' tone that the later 'Rock Martin' performance watered down, and probably didn't even understand that well, imho. 'Rock Martin' was, according to some sources, the two creators of the song, Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss, a Novelty Song specialty duo. But that rendition it lost it way, presumably from ambition for sophistication or the like; it could not measure up to the base heart, any more than some of the more sophisticated jazz forms can measure up to the simpler, but more spontaneous and primally trenchant, 'Take Five' of Dave Brubeck. IE - 'Rock Martin' apparently just didn't get it. The apparent erasure of the original - to some degree even by its name - brings to mind real and fictional 'cleansings' of the past. In fact, this mystery is (almost) certainly NOT an example of a creepy neo-Mandela Effect mind control. Much more likely, it's the combined effect of wet-behind-the-ears new hires as catalog re-writers and greedy or lazy (or both) overseers at the platforms. Don't let such things control your personal informational intake, even accidentally. Por favor. Stay tuned. It'll probably all change anyway. Everything does. It's supposed to. There are other examples out there of this piece - it's not truly rare. But you'll have to search for one as if "I Love Girls" was the A side, because of the current ignorance displayed out there. Grr. Again: there was no A or B side, but 'OC' was the popular side, in the day. Tony Mordente, who passed on in 2024, is the real paragon of talent and virtue in all this. In my opinion. Amazing resume. Check him out on the web. Worthy Dude. There will be a quiz. Please review all images. Ships in stout protection, of course. L108.
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