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W.B.lbl ● 13th Jan 2024		Vinyl Album Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxter's	You may've noticed also, each of the "sections" have been duly inserted.
W.B.lbl ● 13th Jan 2024		Vinyl Album Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxter's	RCA Canada must've thought, based on the cat. # and the pricing based thereon, that it was marked for issue on their Red Seal subsidiary. Especially when you see some of the song titles. Compare that to the U.S. where, in spite of the cat. #, it was issued on regular "black label, white lettering, dog on top" labels.
W.B.lbl ● 13th Jan 2024		Vinyl Album John F. Kennedy - John F. Kennedy	{Images #3463298 & 3463289} was pressed by Decca's Gloversville, NY plant. Who would have pressed {Images #2466505 & 2466506}, with the West Coast Bert-Co label type? I presume RCA Hollywood . . . ?
W.B.lbl ● 12th Jan 2024		78 RPM Arthur Hall - You Can't Make A Fool Out Of Me / Stars And Stripes Forever	Curious about the diameters of the pressing ring and center label on this one.
W.B.lbl ● 11th Jan 2024		78 RPM Fritz Kreisler - Gypsy Serenade (Serenade Du Tsigane) / La Gitana	From what I see and have measured from the pics, the label was ~2.9375".
W.B.lbl ● 11th Jan 2024		78 RPM Fritz Kreisler - The Old Refrain / The Rosary	I presume, because of {Image #3461041}, the label would be 4.0625" diameter? Or would that be 3.6875"?
W.B.lbl ● 10th Jan 2024		78 RPM Six Fat Dutchmen - Minnesota Polka / Harvest Time Schottish	P.S. {Images #1233924 & 1233925} would appear to be a Canonsburg, PA pressing.
W.B.lbl ● 10th Jan 2024		78 RPM Six Fat Dutchmen - Minnesota Polka / Harvest Time Schottish	The 45 issue likewise copied the label type used on the 1949 ish' in that format.
W.B.lbl ● 7th Jan 2024		Vinyl Album Paul Williams - Life Goes On	The Michael Jackson that produced this would later be known as Michael James Jackson - no doubt due to THAT one. Also, {Images #3458385 & 3458386} is Columbia Terre Haute; click here for the Pitman type variant.
W.B.lbl ● 6th Jan 2024		78 RPM Louisiana Five - Rainy Day Blues / My Rose Of Palestine	Any word from anyone on what the label size diameter, and that of the pressing ring, would be?
W.B.lbl ● 6th Jan 2024		Vinyl Album Original Broadway Cast - I Had A Ball	And within a year, Kiley went from that to . . . Man Of La Mancha.
W.B.lbl ● 4th Jan 2024		78 RPM Turner And Parkins - Pretty Polly / Sweet Fern	I'd presume the label size is between 2.9375" and 3", but what'd the pressing ring diameter be?
W.B.lbl ● 3rd Jan 2024		Vinyl Album John Lennon - Shaved Fish	Yep. Now as to the label backdrops printed, there were as much differences. I should note that Artco Press in Terre Haute, IN printed Apple blanks for Jacksonville, but their blacks were - well, too black, and apparently the blanks Jacksonville used for {Images #1014629 & 1014630} may've been Keystone in Scranton - which blanks were definitely used by Winchester {Images #1445551 & 1445552}. Keystone used 80 lb. Matte coated paper (.005 caliper). {Images #529928 & 529929} in terms of the full and sliced apple, would have been printed by Stoughton Printing of City of Industry, CA - whose apples were more yellowish and less bluish than Keystone and even Artco represented them, and which used 70 lb. Matte (Paloma Matte by Consolidated Papers, according to Jack Stoughton Jr.) (.0045 caliper).
W.B.lbl ● 2nd Jan 2024		78 RPM Eartha Kitt - If I Can't Take It With Me When I Go / Just An Old Fashioned Girl	Exactly. In most cases, lower matrix numbers indicated what was recorded first, and not necessarily an indicator of what was a designated "A" side. I've actually seen cases on 45cat where promo 45's designated A sides' matrix numbers were higher than the "flip." It all came down to which side was recorded first.
W.B.lbl ● 31st Dec 2023		78 RPM Danny "Run Joe" Taylor - Coffee Daddy Blues / Come On Home Baby	Any word on the RCA Custom matrix numbers? As shown on the label images, they're not all that clear . . .
W.B.lbl ● 31st Dec 2023		Vinyl Album Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen - Gallant Men Stories Of The American Adventure	H. Paul Jeffers would do a turn in the 1970's as news director at all-news staton 1010 WINS in New York. John Cacavas would do frequent music scores for the TV cop/detective series Kojak (and arrange that show's star Telly Savalas' cover of the Bread hit "If"). Ya' chose well to use a Scranton label set. Also . . . the lyricist on "Gallant Men" would be better known as Charles Osgood. (As, in 1967, would be one of the first hires when WCBS 880 AM in New York first launched its "Newsradio 88" format.) He'd changed his professional name owing to their being an announcer on the ABC network (which, in New York, also encompassed WABC-TV, AM and FM) named Charles Woods. Early in his career with CBS, he also worked extensively on certain record projects with Mr. Lustberg and Mr. Jeffers - and had been a roommate of Mr. Cavacas' when both were in the Army marching band in the '50's. But, at the time, he was still anchoring "Flair Reports" on ABC, this may explain the credit used for Mr. Osgood on this, in other words for the proverbial "contractual reasons."
W.B.lbl ● 27th Dec 2023		Vinyl Album Mikis Theodorakis - Z	Have added full set of labels, plus front and back cover.
W.B.lbl ● 27th Dec 2023		Vinyl Album Robert Kreis - The Elektra Library Of Dramatic Cue Music & Mood Music Volume 1	And to think this catalogue series is same as what such iconic albums as The Soft Parade and L.A. Woman by The Doors, and No Secrets by Carly Simon, would be issued under.
W.B.lbl ● 27th Dec 2023		78 RPM Gene Kardos - People Say I'm Crazy / A Little After Eight	This pressing, however, appears to be from 1940 or after, as it was in that year was BMI was founded (notice the "Licensed for Performance by Broadcast Music, Inc." blurb). That, plus 14 point Erbar Light Condensed with Bold Condensed (first used by the ARC/Columbia plant in Bridgeport in January 1938) and the 12 point size (first used in 1939).
W.B.lbl ● 27th Dec 2023		78 RPM Gene Kardos - If You'd Only Let Me / A Million Disappointments	The once-and-future Columbia plant in Bridgeport, CT, typeset the labels {Images #3439489 & 3439490}. Typefaces were 7 point No. 1 (matrix number) with Gothic No. 4 (the smaller sans-serif type) and 10 point Gothic Condensed No. 1. This appears to be right around the time the die-cut label size became ~3".
W.B.lbl ● 27th Dec 2023		78 RPM Clarence Williams' Blue Five - Black Snake Blues / Old Folks Shuffle	{Images #3448932 & 3448933} looks like a post-1931 pressing with older label stock. The deep groove dimensions here appear to be 2.6875" on the inner end and 2.8125" on the outer end, would I be correct? (If the pressing were 1927, the deep groove would've been smaller - 1.125" inner, 1.25" outer.)
W.B.lbl ● 26th Dec 2023		Vinyl Album James Brown - Ain't It Funky Now	As well . . . on the front cover {Image #3448875}, wasn't that James signaling to one of his band members that they'll be fined after the show for violating one of his many edicts? (Of the type that caused most of his band members to mutiny before a show in early 1970, leading him to hire on the spot a backing band which featured brothers "Bootsy" and "Catfish" Collins, and which he would brand "The J.B.'s."
W.B.lbl ● 25th Dec 2023		78 RPM Fannie Baker And Her Jazz - If That's What You Want Here It Is / Cut Yourself A Piece Of Cake	Wonder what center label dimensions and pressing ring diameter was utilized in those days by the Oriole label . . .
W.B.lbl ● 25th Dec 2023		78 RPM Rudy Vallée And His Connecticut Yankees - She Loves Me Just The Same Way / Washington And Lee Swing	Le'me guess: ~2.9375" label, ~2.75" pressing ring?
W.B.lbl ● 24th Dec 2023		78 RPM Johnny Horton - The Mansion You Stole / Tennessee Jive	Johnny re-recorded "The Mansion You Stole" for Columbia shortly before his death in 1960; it was the B side of his posthumous hit "North To Alaska."
W.B.lbl ● 23rd Dec 2023		Vinyl Album Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe - Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe	Sounds to me like that was deliberate and intentional. Especially given how other Arista albums were catalogued.
W.B.lbl ● 23rd Dec 2023		Vinyl Album Josh White - Sings Ballads — Blues	Apparently, they were also pressing for Elektra as late as 1968. The test label typesetting was by Queens Litho.
W.B.lbl ● 21st Dec 2023		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Capitol Stereo Demonstration Record	And no way this would have been in March; Big Band Stereo (SW-1055), for example, was ish'd 18 Aug 1958, as was The Stars In Stereo (SW-1062).
W.B.lbl ● 21st Dec 2023		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Capitol Stereo Demonstration Record	Ah, "Tri-Fi Drums." Later known as the closing theme for Dan Ingram's popular PM drive radio show on WABC Musicradio 77 in New York.
W.B.lbl ● 20th Dec 2023		Vinyl Album Pete Seeger - American Folk Songs For Children	While originally recorded in 1953, this pressing looks almost '70's-ish; {Images #3444366 & 3444367} bears label type from Newark Phonolabels, Inc., a division of Folkraft, as on label copy prepared by them between 1968 and 1974. (The "FOLKWAYS RECORDS" was from Varityper Headliner Alternate Gothic No. 3, and the two lines below it were set in 10 point IBM Selectric Composer Univers Medium which had only existed since 1967-68.

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