{"product_id":"ellen-amos-baltimore-us-7-inch-vinyl-single-5290-134580","title":"Ellen Amos Baltimore US 7\" vinyl","description":"ELLEN AMOS Baltimore (Super rare 1980 US original 7\"\r\n  single, the debut release from Myra Ellen Amos a.k.a. Tori,\r\n  privately pressed for friends \u0026amp; family on her own MEA\r\n  Records label. The A-side track Baltimore was co-written with\r\n  her brother Michael, and the B-side Walking With You is an\r\n  Ellen Amos original composition. Wide-centred orange label\r\n  with all the correct hand-scratched matrices, this example\r\n  remains in excellent condition. Extremely hard to find!)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px; font-stretch: 100%; color: #999; font-weight: 700;\"\u003eTRACKLISTING AND EXTRA INFORMATION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAmos is the third child of Mary Ellen (Copeland) and Edison McKinley Amos. She was born on August 22, 1963 at the Old Catawba Hospital in Newton, North Carolina, during a trip from their Georgetown home in Washington, D.C., and was named Myra Ellen Amos. Of particular importance to her as a child was her maternal grandfather, Calvin Clinton Copeland, who was a great source of inspiration and guidance, offering a more pantheistic spiritual alternative to her father and paternal grandmother's traditional Christianity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen she was two years old, her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where her father had transplanted his Methodist ministry from its original base in Washington, D.C. Her older brother and sister took piano lessons, but Tori did not need them. From the time she could reach the piano, she taught herself to play: when she was two, she could reproduce pieces of music she had only heard once, and, by the age of three, she was composing her own songs. She has described seeing music as structures of light since early childhood, an experience consistent with chromesthesia:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe song appears as light filament once I've cracked it. As long as I've been doing this, which is more than thirty-five years, I've never seen the same light creature in my life. Obviously similar chord progressions follow similar light patterns, but try to imagine the best kaleidoscope ever—after the initial excitement, you start to focus on each element's stunning original detail. For instance, the sound of the words with the sound of the chord progression combined with the rhythm manifests itself in a unique expression of the architecture of color-and-light. ... I started visiting this world when I was three, listening to a piece by Béla Bartók; I visited a configuration that day that wasn't on this earth. ... It was euphoric.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt five, she became the youngest student ever admitted to the preparatory division of the Peabody Institute. She studied classical piano at Peabody from 1968 to 1974. In 1974, when she was eleven, her scholarship was discontinued, and she was asked to leave. Amos has asserted that she lost the scholarship because of her interest in rock and popular music, coupled with her dislike for reading from sheet music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1972, the Amos family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, where her father became pastor of the Good Shepherd United Methodist church. At thirteen, Amos began playing at gay bars and piano bars, chaperoned by her father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmos won a county teen talent contest in 1977, singing a song called \"More Than Just a Friend\". \u003cb\u003eAs a senior at Richard Montgomery High School, she co-wrote \"Baltimore\" with her brother, Mike Amos, for a competition involving the Baltimore Orioles. The song did not win the contest but became her first single, released as a 7-inch single pressed locally for family and friends in 1980 with another Amos-penned composition as a B-side, \"Walking With You\".\u003c\/b\u003e Before this, she had performed under her middle name, Ellen, and was considering the stage name 'Sammy J' at the time, but permanently adopted Tori after a friend's boyfriend told her she looked like a Torrey pine, a tree native to the West Coast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatrices:\u003cbr\u003eSide 1: WEC   RF-5290-A    DM  : hand scratched\u003cbr\u003eSide 2: WEC   RF-5290-B    DM  : hand scratched\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eSide 1: Baltimore 3:31\u003cbr\u003eSide 2: Walking With You 4:28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eArtist\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003ca href=\"\/it\/collections\/ellen-amos\" title=\"Click to see complete listing of Ellen Amos\"\u003eEllen Amos\u003c\/a\u003e (click link for complete listing)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003ca href=\"\/it\/pages\/search-results-page?q=Ellen+Amos+Baltimore\" title=\"Click to see more products with the title Baltimore\"\u003e Baltimore\u003c\/a\u003e (click link for more of the same title)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eYear of Release\u003c\/strong\u003e - 1980\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e - 7\" vinyl single (7 inch record \/ 45)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eRecord Label\u003c\/strong\u003e - MEA Records\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue No\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003ca href=\"\/it\/pages\/search-results-page?q=5290\" title=\"Click to see more products with the catalogue number 5290\"\u003e5290\u003c\/a\u003e (click link for more)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eCountry of Origin\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003ca href=\"\/it\/collections\/us-imports\" title=\"Click to see more items from United States (USA)\"\u003eUnited States (USA)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eBlue Chip\u003c\/strong\u003e – This is a \u003ca href=\"\/it\/collections\/blue-chip-rare-vintage-collectables\" title=\"Click to see more Blue Chip collectors items\"\u003eBlue Chip\u003c\/a\u003e collectors item. 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