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The Sugar Shoppe, Capitol ST 2959 stereo. Lp dates August, 1968. Reissue new reproduction vinyl Lp.My review is for a reissue vinyl copy on fairly heavy vinyl from about 2010+. The cover is printed on slick laminated posterboard, and the Lp label is an exact reproduction of Capitol's 1962-1968 T/ST 1650-2999 black/rainbow ring label (pre-"...a subsidiary of Capitol Industries, Inc..." version in the extreme fine print at the bottom which began with the November, 1968 renumbering of Lps at SWBC-101 Beatles' Apple "White Album" and ST 103 Glen Campbell WICHITA LINEMAN titles). The vinyl reproduction is pressed on very slick greasy looking heavy black vinyl, far heavier than late '60s period Lps. Original copies' album covers were paper glued over thin brown/grey cardboard.This is a nice middle-of-the-road vanilla trippy hippie album, which was a kind of genre' that Capitol was pushing as "rock" music after 1966, trying to find something that clicked with record buyers in place of guitar rock (Beatles and Beach Boys) that the label despised to concentrate on making finger-popping hip swinging guys in velour tuxedos working the 'Vegas audiences like Tony Bruno and Michael Dees (newly on the label after making easy listening crooner pop for Dot Records) as the Next Big Thing. Alan Livingston, Capitol Records' President, stated to the U.S. congress in 1965 that the label wanted to sell better music instead of being forced by teenagers to make the bulk of their sales on Beatles and Beach Boys' records (1966: 56% of Capitol's sales were to those two acts). By '68 Capitol even went to far as to put out a Jackie Gleason album for easy listening fans wanting Indian chimes and sitars in that psychedelic rock (er, as hard as the late '60s Lettermen) album.Liner notes on the back cover center around Hal Blaine, and mention Hal Blaine's then new drummer album on Dunhill Records (biggest act on the label at the time was Richard Harris's Lps built around Jimmy Webb songs, and the Mamas & Papas). Producer credit on this vanilla vocal "silent majority" pop hippie album shows Al DeLory, whose principal contemporary pop artists were 1967-71 Glen Campbell, 1968-71 Lettermen, the Hollyridge Strings' late Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel orchestra albums, 1966-7 Andy Russell (1944 pop artist who contended with crooner Sinatra for bobbie soxers like my Newark, NJ, mom, who tended to German U-boat prisoners of war), 1967-68 Wayne Newton, 1966-67 late 45s by The Four Preps, 1966 Ray Anthony (bunny hop and "dream dancing" ork guy), 1969/1970 Al Martino, and Jim Nabors' last Columbia Lp in '75. Sound on the Lp is the vocal group up in the mix, with strings' backing, harpsicord, electric organ, and rhythm section in the background. The liner notes on this Lp state a theme much like the Mamas & the Papas, but the sound is more restrained, moody, but also more easy listening flower power hippie.Capitol released two singles with songs lifted from the album, Capitol 2233 and 2326, which did no business, and featured three tracks on the Lp on an easy listening promo Lp sampler for "good music" and easy listening stations on the CAPITOL DISC JOCKEY/BALANCED FOR BROADCAST August, 1968, Lp, which featured a great pinup b&w photo of a long-legged blonde bikini model posing leaning against a hot sports car--this album: The Capitol Disc Jockey Album Balanced for Broadcast August 1968 LPNote: I give the reproduction vinyl Lp three stars for the subpar pressing quality of the album; I played it both before and after cleaning it. The reproduction vinyl albums I've purchased on "180 gram vinyl" have more groove distortion sound and quality control issues --the grooves are too soft for the needles and distort?-- than pre-1990 original vinyl Lps pressed on late '60s+ thinner albums I pick up in used record stores or thrift shops. Turntable is an Audio Technica ATLP-120 with stock cartridge; I played several '60s Lps and have no issues with older Lps --Lettermen and Andy Russell's MORE AMOR 1966 album.