'Little Mick' Brownlee, original drummer from the UK's Paramounts, has asked 'Beyond the Pale' to auction this ultra-rare record on his behalf.
'I have a copy of the first acetate demo record that we made in early 1962 in London. The recording was financed by our then manager Peter Tomlin (aka Peter Martin) and only six were cut.
'The two numbers recorded are Poison Ivy and, on the flipside,
Further On Up the Road: it's on the Channell
Entertainments label.'
Click on the illustration (right) to hear the sound-quality of this demo,
which contains the first-ever studio recordings by Gary Brooker and
Robin Trower, who have since gone on to enjoy world-wide stardom.
The Paramounts re-recorded their demo arrangement of Poison Ivy (as Parlophone R 5093) and spent 7 weeks on the UK charts in 1964.
Three years later Gary Brooker was back with Procol Harum, who conquered the world with A Whiter Shade of Pale.
Robin Trower and Chris Copping were seminal members of Procol Harum as well.
Brooker, Trower, Copping and Brownlee played a reunion gig in 2005: get it on DVD here.
The glass will of course be omitted when it's posted; the hardboard backing will be included, to add rigidity to the carefully-wrapped disc and signature-sheet.
The purchaser should contact us about the level of insurance required for this very valuable item in transit.
Copyright recording
– not for public
sale –
all rights of performance
and reproduction reserved
Universal Programmes
Corporation Ltd
Channell Entertainments Ltd
45 rpm
Poison Ivy
The Paramounts
Division of International
Broadcasting Co Ltd
35 Portland Place, London W1
Tel. Langham 2000
The B side,
Further On Up the Road,
has no typing on it – so
there's nothing lost when you
display it in a frame
