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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.
W.B.lbl ● 19th Dec 2023		Vinyl Album Barry White And Love Unlimited - Grand Gala	Only one problem: A1 was 1974.
W.B.lbl ● 15th Dec 2023		78 RPM Danny Santos And The Savoys - Poor Boy / Too Late	Figures about the labels. That size was used from the 1910s into 1930 by Columbia for their 78’s.
W.B.lbl ● 15th Dec 2023		Vinyl Album Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited	Judging from {Images #3194866 & 3194867}, it would appear that Santa Maria pressing dates to about late 1966. After all, the "NONBREAKABLE" is still part of the label copy . . . Also, back covers that show "meaningless" in the text in the right column as shown on {Image #3194863} is a second-pressing. Initially it read "meaningful."
W.B.lbl ● 14th Dec 2023		Vinyl Album Marion Worth - A Woman Needs Love	It looks like, back then, both Decca and her prior label, Columbia, had Haber Typographers in New York handle the text for back covers as seen on {Image #1926153}. (Akzidenz-Grotesk, which was on the back of so many Columbia LP's back then, was in Haber's print shop, along with "Morgan No. 25," a variant of the Gothic Nesbitt font that was seen on several Columbia LP covers in this period.)
W.B.lbl ● 12th Dec 2023		78 RPM Fletcher Henderson - It's The Talk Of The Town / Nagasaki	Looks like on the original 1933 pressing the center label diameter was ~2.9375", but by the 1938 re-pressing {Images #3437482, 3437483, 3437647 & 3437830} it was ~3"? (Usually, in its original state, about 1/64" more, i.e. 2.953125" and 3.015625", but accounting for the roughly 0.6% - 0.7% shrinkage when pressed onto the shellac.)
W.B.lbl ● 12th Dec 2023		78 RPM Claude Hopkins And His Roseland Orchestra - He's A Son Of The South / Canadian Capers	I take it, at this point, Columbia's center label diameter was 2.9375" or thereabouts? (The rim edge was closer to the deep groove than after 1937 when the size extended to 3".)
W.B.lbl ● 4th Dec 2023		Vinyl Album Simon And Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme	{Images #3432596 & 3432597} was the first variant, thus have moved it up; {Images #527464 & 527465} was pressed between late 1967 and mid-1970.
W.B.lbl ● 3rd Dec 2023		8-Track Elvis Presley - Elvis Sings Hits From His Movies	"What hits?" - The Worst Rock 'N' Roll Records Of All Time
W.B.lbl ● 3rd Dec 2023		Cassette Album Elvis Presley - Elvis Love Songs	All corrected . . . any other errors from any side you can spot?
W.B.lbl ● 3rd Dec 2023		Vinyl Album John Williams - Tom Sawyer	{Images #3431763 & 3431764} was among the very rare UA albums at this point where label type from Columbia Pitman was used - thus wouldn't this have counted as a Pitman pressing? Regular pressings would have been seen here (as pressed by Research Craft, with the custom label fonts used). Frankly, I prefer the Pitman.
W.B.lbl ● 2nd Dec 2023		Vinyl Album Wayne Newton - Red Roses For A Blue Lady	{Images #3431149 & 3431150} is Los Angeles with Bert-Co type. Click here to see a Scranton mono, and here for a contract Decca pressing with the same Scranton type.
W.B.lbl ● 30th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album The Vogues - The Vogues Sing The Good Old Songs And Other Hits	Their cover of B5 was ironic, since they recorded a de facto rewrite of that (as "Nothing To Offer You") which was put on the B side of their 1965-66 hit "Five O'Clock World."
W.B.lbl ● 26th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Nostalgic Voices And Sounds Of Old Time Radio	Though the matrix numbers date to about 1964 (Columbia Special Products' matrices were several steps behind those of the custom division), the label fonts plus en-dash instead of hyphen point this issue to be some time in 1969. I also got around those three selections on Side 2 by indicating [No Title Listed].
W.B.lbl ● 22nd Nov 2023		78 RPM Will Bradley Trio - Down The Road A Piece / Celery Stalks At Midnight	The "Trade Mark" was removed, and the accompanying below print replaced, by late 1941. All original copies would have had "Trade Mark" on the label. Proof in the puddin' can at this time be found here.
W.B.lbl ● 22nd Nov 2023		78 RPM Tommy Dorsey - Night And Day / Smoke Gets In Your Eyes	The newly-added {Images #3422884 & 3422885} is 1941-42 and also Indianapolis - and proves that they occasionally differed in label type from mother plant Camden. First-pressings would not only have had Camden's fonts as on the Hollywood {Images #1718152 & 1718153}, but said {Images #3422884 & 3422885} label design variant would have shown US1637544A as stricken from the print by the time of the variant here - why, here's what I'm talking about . . .
W.B.lbl ● 22nd Nov 2023		78 RPM Marais, Miranda And Miller - The Zulu Warrior / Johnnie Goggabie	The artist should be listed as Marais, Miranda, Miller - the last-named is Mitch Miller. It was just Josef Marais and Rosa De Miranda, backed by the bearded impresario. (Miller had to insert himself into everything, didn't he?)
W.B.lbl ● 21st Nov 2023		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Meet The Beatles!	Hmm. Sounds like whichever plant pressed this got L.A.'s metalwork.
W.B.lbl ● 20th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Meet The Beatles!	Given the 2.875" diameter pressing ring on the newly-added {Images #3421749 & 3421750}, can anyone advise where that version was pressed? A few different West Coast plants used that type ring - among them Monarch, Research Craft, Custom Fidelity, Fidelatone, the Bihari brothers' Cadet plant . . .
W.B.lbl ● 20th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Soul Mann And The Brothers - Shaft	I seem to remember it was this version of A1 that was used by what from 1977 to 1979 was known as WTVG Channel 68 in Newark, NJ for its sign-ons: [YouTube Video] And the full version has popped up on YouTube: [YouTube Video]
W.B.lbl ● 14th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album U.K. Squeeze - U.K. Squeeze	Notice how the {Image #3417769} center label was die-cut so far off center that you can actually see the bleed (perhaps 4.25") and the small opening (0.1875" with 0.0625" alignment lines).
W.B.lbl ● 13th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Lew Leslie's Blackbirds Of 1928	Copies pressed in 1969-70 would have had the popular Columbia label design colored dark cool grey as on labels currently shown on this release. Thus {Images #2105008 & 2105009} would have been original first-pressing.
W.B.lbl ● 11th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Winston Churchill - The Famous I Can Hear It Now Album	Oh, its reissue - and it was definitely Columbia Masterworks - was definitely pegged to Churchill's death, that's for sure. When this was first released, they still had the two-eye with "Guaranteed High Fidelity" in black print above the rim print. The John Beaman article was originally printed in 1959 in The New York Times, thus the "Reprinted by permission" notice. 1969-70 back-catalogue mono album pressings on Columbia Masterworks that are shorn of any "Masterworks" references on the label remind me of 1939-41 Masterworks 78's that use the regular Columbia design but are colored dark blue or dark green rather than maroon red. I had mentioned that the mono Columbia Masterworks design at that stage had gotten lost or destroyed or whatever; here is what that label design would have looked like.
W.B.lbl ● 10th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Winston Churchill - The Famous I Can Hear It Now Album	{Images #3414964 & 3414965} was a pressing made between 1969 and 1970, by which time apparently the artwork for the Columbia Masterworks mono label design somehow got lost, and they were reduced to using the 1967-70 variant of the mono pop label (only using PMS 424 or 425 Grey instead of PMS 199 Red). (Click here for the usual color for this design layout.) This factor may've been the spur to radically redesign both the pop and Masterworks label designs to the "ring around" layout beginning in 1970 (sunburst orange on the red, amber orangeish yellow on the warm grey).
W.B.lbl ● 8th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album The Hollies - What Goes Around...	Okay, so that makes two out of four.
W.B.lbl ● 7th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album The Hollies - A Crazy Steal	{Images #503538 & 503539} appears to be a contract pressing by Superior Record Pressing of Somerdale, NJ. {Image #503538} has their initials in reverse inside the pressing ring. That was in the period Columbia/Epic was going everywhere to have their records pressed whilst the Pitman plant was on strike from April to May.
W.B.lbl ● 7th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album The Hollies - What Goes Around...	Not only that, but why was it that the only Hollie that played any instrument on any of the tracks was drummer Bobby Elliott, and the other members were just vocals?
W.B.lbl ● 7th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Show Boat Chorus And Orchestra - Show Boat	The extra "5" was added around 1952. It was originally ML 4058.
W.B.lbl ● 5th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Disco Fire	Is there any hint of a pressing plant in the deadwax to which '55' would correspond?

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