The first Jefferson Airplane album 'Let Me In' was a garage classic and one of the seminal records to begin the psychedelic era in 1966. The record was repressed after its initial run after RCA thought the lyric "fantastic trips" on the track 'Runnin' Round The World' had made reference to LSD and the song was removed for a new second pressing.
A few of these original versions managed to avoid the shredder and after nearly 50 years since the first "controversial" pressing was made it's since become one of the rarest records any collector can find reaching an eye watering $10,000* for one of three stereo albums that have since surfaced, and half that for one of the five mono versions.
The albums re-pressings didn't end there though, with RCA being further consumed with puritan jitters over what they thought as explicit content to a couple of lines in the lyrics, "staying here with me" and one as banal as "don't tell me its funny" they had the lines replaced in the song for what was to be the final repressing. RCA proving the 1960's were far from the hedonistic free for all that is assumed from the psychedelic free-love era.
The version 2 of Airplanes re-pressings has a slightly more modest collectors value of up to $1000* for a stereo and $700* for mono. In 1966 far more people still had mono record players than stereo so fewer would have been pressed.
*Source: Record Collector. Jan 2013
The YouTube videos for all of Jefferson Airplane tracks are tattooed with the ever present advert so they won't be shown here, but the whole album has been uploaded (search : Jefferson Airplane Let Me In)
There were also three singles taken from 'Let Me In' so pleasingly, and far more fittingly the A side 'Bringing Me Down' and the B side 'Let Me In' of one those singles is played for us all here by uploader 'lelapincosmic' who obviously has the original in all its crackly mono glory.
Got to be worth a few bucks don't you think?
