Original Released as LP AVCO Embassy AVE 33003
(US,1969)
As Marty Gold's opus Moog Plays the Beatles promises on the cover - "Startling Sound Excitement! The Moog Synthesizer, plus the Beatles greatest hits!" The excitement, clearly, is still with us... Great instrumental versions of twelve Lennon & McCartney's classics can be found in this album.
Gold was assisted by Walter Sear, Moog's assistant for many years. The album uses conventional electric instruments, with the Moog played over the top. "I wanted to create a musically valid electronic album", he says on the cover. The great sleeve has two strange clay figures and distorted lettering, acheived by laying a plastic sheet over the type and photographing the results.
NOTE: Like always, American puritanism made its move and the front cover appeared with a tag over the parts of the little figures (not even dolls had the right to be sexual...). So, if you're curious to see the uncensored cover, just go here.
