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200g Vinyl LP Pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound from the Original Master Tapes!
Edward Joseph Mahoney, a Brooklyn-born second-generation cop who eventually ditched his badge and gun to pursue his rock star dreams as Eddie Money struck gold right off the bat with his 1977 self-titled debut album.
The record's leadoff single, "Baby Hold On," was actually its biggest hit, but the follow-up single "Two Tickets to Paradise," was a sort of spiritual cousin to Bruce Springsteens "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)." It's written from the perspective of a young guy who's desperately trying to convince his girlfriend to ignore her disapproving parents and come away with him "on a trip so far away from here." With its smooth production, urgent uptempo chorus, and insistent melodic hook, "Tickets" was a natural for late '70s FM radio where it found an immediate home, eventually working its way all the way up to No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Although Money might have written "Two Tickets to Paradise" to convince a specific girl to leave town with him, its title became shorthand for that end-of-the-work-week feeling you get when you've fulfilled all of your responsibilities to the Man and you're free to relax without obligations for a little while like, say, at at an Eddie Money concert, where "Tickets" has remained a constant fixture of the set list for more than 30 years.
We've done this Analogue Productions issue up right with top-of-the-line remastering from Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound for phenomenal sonic quality and a richly detailed, silent-background Quality Record Pressings 200 gram LP. None better.
Features:
200g Vinyl
100% Analog Masters
Officially licensed and authorized for release by the Record Label
Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, from the original master tapes
Plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings
"Old school" Stoughton tip-on jackets
Musicians:
Eddie Money, vocals, keyboard, sax
Jimmy Lyon, guitar
Gary Mallaber, drums
Gene Pardue, drums
Lonnie Turner, bass
Bob (Pops) Popwell, bass
Alan Pasqua, keyboard
Randy Nichols, keyboard
Freddie Webb, keyboard
Tom Scott, alto & tenor sax
Jo Baker, second vocal
Selections:
Side 1:
1. Two Tickets To Paradise
2. Youve Really Got A Hold On Me
3. Wanna Be A Rock n Roll Star
4. Save A Little Room In Your Heart For Me
5. So Good To Be In Love Again
Side 2:
1. Baby Hold On
2. Dont Worry
3. Jealousys
4. Got To Get Another Girl
5. Gamblin Man
200g Vinyl LP Pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound from the Original Master Tapes!
Edward Joseph Mahoney, a Brooklyn-born second-generation cop who eventually ditched his badge and gun to pursue his rock star dreams as Eddie Money struck gold right off the bat with his 1977 self-titled debut album.
The record's leadoff single, "Baby Hold On," was actually its biggest hit, but the follow-up single "Two Tickets to Paradise," was a sort of spiritual cousin to Bruce Springsteens "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)." It's written from the perspective of a young guy who's desperately trying to convince his girlfriend to ignore her disapproving parents and come away with him "on a trip so far away from here." With its smooth production, urgent uptempo chorus, and insistent melodic hook, "Tickets" was a natural for late '70s FM radio where it found an immediate home, eventually working its way all the way up to No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Although Money might have written "Two Tickets to Paradise" to convince a specific girl to leave town with him, its title became shorthand for that end-of-the-work-week feeling you get when you've fulfilled all of your responsibilities to the Man and you're free to relax without obligations for a little while like, say, at at an Eddie Money concert, where "Tickets" has remained a constant fixture of the set list for more than 30 years.
We've done this Analogue Productions issue up right with top-of-the-line remastering from Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound for phenomenal sonic quality and a richly detailed, silent-background Quality Record Pressings 200 gram LP. None better.
Features:
200g Vinyl
100% Analog Masters
Officially licensed and authorized for release by the Record Label
Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, from the original master tapes
Plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings
"Old school" Stoughton tip-on jackets
Musicians:
Eddie Money, vocals, keyboard, sax
Jimmy Lyon, guitar
Gary Mallaber, drums
Gene Pardue, drums
Lonnie Turner, bass
Bob (Pops) Popwell, bass
Alan Pasqua, keyboard
Randy Nichols, keyboard
Freddie Webb, keyboard
Tom Scott, alto & tenor sax
Jo Baker, second vocal
Selections:
Side 1:
1. Two Tickets To Paradise
2. Youve Really Got A Hold On Me
3. Wanna Be A Rock n Roll Star
4. Save A Little Room In Your Heart For Me
5. So Good To Be In Love Again
Side 2:
1. Baby Hold On
2. Dont Worry
3. Jealousys
4. Got To Get Another Girl
5. Gamblin Man
