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Member	Item		Review/Comment
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		Vinyl Album Sonny And Cher - Look At Us	Frankly, the "Canadian mono labels" belong here. Why they were put on that entry, I can't for the life of me wrap my head around . . . Queens Litho label type abounds.
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Tommy Walker And His Trojan-Aires - Songs of Troy	The 45 mx. of the B side is RR-22096.
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Red Ingle And The Natural Seven - Temptation (Tim-Tayshun) / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons (I Love You) For Seventy Mental Reasons	Perchance this the first to have 'REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.' below the Capitol logohead?
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM The Pied Pipers - Mam'selle / It's The Same Old Dream	I'd lean to May myself for one underlying reason: It was the first Capitol release, in numerical order, to feature among the Keystone type 6 point Intertype Futura Demi Bold. (Previously they used 7 point Gothic No. 3.)
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM The International Jazzmen - If I Could Be With You / Riffamarole	And to think the singer on the A side would, in the early part of the next decade, be one of Capitol's biggest selling stars . . .
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM King Cole Trio - Sweet Lorraine / Embraceable You	{Images #1900048 & 1900049} should come in order before {Images #966190 & 966191}. Although 'Trainman' did label the latter set a 'repress' as it is, "Reg. U.S. Pat. Off." positioned to the lower right of the 'p' in Capitol is a later add-on.
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Tex Ritter And His Texans - There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder / I'm Wastin' My Tears On You	The Los Angeles printer that handled West Coast pressings of Capitol at this point seemed to have been some years behind the East Coast in what label design variant was used, before matching with Scranton's {Images #822044 & 822046} as seen on {Images #1870385 & 1870386}.
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM The King Cole Trio - Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You / I Realize Now	Capitol's ties to Scranton dated back to the earliest days of the label itself, 1942, when that plant was known as the independent Scranton Record Co. Capitol first put an option to buy the plant (and affiliated Scranton Distributing Co.) in 1944, and finally exercised it in 1946. When Capitol was started up, Scranton Record Co. was one of three plants that pressed for them at the outset. The others were Clark Phonograph Co. of Newark, NJ (which apparently was no longer pressing for them by this point) and Allied Record Manufacturing Co. of Los Angeles (prior to what was to be an affiliated West Coast outpost of Scranton Record being built, before it became Capitol Los Angeles upon completion).
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Johnny Mercer And The Barries - San Fernando Valley / Someone's In The Kitchen With Dinah	Though no label is on here, Scranton pressings were the last to use mainly serif fonts for the label copy. For the next release they would go sans serif.
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Ella Mae Morse - Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet / Tess's Torch Song (I Had A Man)	Scranton pressings as {Images #2160731 & 2160732} would have been one of the first on Capitol to use sans-serif fonts (from Keystone) unlike earlier releases with the serif type (very heavy on Cheltenham weights and sizes).
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Paul Whiteman - Trav'lin' Light / You Were Never Lovelier	The plants: - {Images #431473 & 431474} - Allied Record Mfg. Co., Los Angeles, CA (unknown printer) - {Images #1728711 & 1728712} - Clark Phonograph Co., Newark, NJ (appears to have been typeset by the same printer that had handled Decca at the time) - {Images #2160723 & 2160724} - Scranton Record Co., Scranton, PA (printed by Keystone)
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Bobby Sherwood - The Elk's Parade / I Don't Know Why	It is likely Scranton metalwork was used on {Images #1475045 & 1475044}, as the Metroblack No. 2 label fonts seen point to a Los Angeles pressing (likely by Allied Record Mfg. Co. which handled the upstart label in its early years - and which corporate successor Allied Record Co. pressed selected promo 45's in the 1982-83 period, and LP and 45 product from 1986-89).
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Bunny Berigan - Bunny Berigan Memorial Album	Abe Osser as arranged "Trees" (as listed on {Images #423005 & 2722468}), would later be known professionally as Glenn Osser.
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Teddy Wilson - Out Of Nowhere / You're My Favorite Memory	Looks like that smaller ring is 1.125" diameter, no? As alongside the usual Columbia deep groove (2.6875" / 2,828125", I take it?). That was a fixture of Columbia 78 pressings of this period, up to about early '45.
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Teddy Wilson - Sailin' / I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Baby)	I know by this point ARC (then owners of Brunswick) had settled their label size at 3" - I presume this small deep groove was 1.125" diameter at the point leading to the spindle hole and 1.25" diameter at the point leading to the label edge?
W.B.lbl 8th Mar 2023		78 RPM Frank Wilson - The German's Arrival / Hi-Le-Hi-Lo	Wondering about the label sizes of {Images #3232763 & 3232764} (from 'xiphophilos') and {Images #3232698 & 3232699} (from 'cyeaman' - am I close about the label size being ~4.0625" and the pressing ring ~3.875"?). I know pre-1930 label sizes from all record labels were all over the place.
W.B.lbl 8th Mar 2023		Vinyl Album Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper - The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper	On Santa Maria pressings such as {Images #713663, 713664, 713666 & 713667}, the die-cut center hole on the center label - specifically on {Image #713664} - was 0.290" (drilled with a 'L' size drill). By contrast, Pitman and Terre Haute labels' center holes in the 'two-eye' era (as on the hidden Pitman {Image #535048}) were usually die-cut at either 0.28125" or with a 'K' size drill of 0.281". It would also appear that Bert-Co printed Columbia's LP center labels in those days for West Coast pressings, though the label fonts are all Pitman through and through.
W.B.lbl 7th Mar 2023		78 RPM Suzy Williams - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus / Silent Night	Sounds like a 3.375" label, then.
W.B.lbl 7th Mar 2023		Vinyl Album Creedence Clearwater Revival - Mardi Gras	At least the "Gort" doesn't look like some kind of stamped-on thing, for sure . . .
W.B.lbl 7th Mar 2023		Vinyl Album Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River	Copies with the RCA Rockaway {Images #732693 & 732694} type variant exist with the smaller pressing ring of 1" - 1969 was when Rockaway was pressing LP's with both that and the old-style "deep groove," as they were replacing their pressing dies in anticipation of the introduction of Dynaflex in the next year.
W.B.lbl 7th Mar 2023		78 RPM Suzy Williams - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus / Silent Night	From what I recall, Peter Pan 78's in those days had a center label size of 3.25", I was wondering about the large and small pressing rings here.
W.B.lbl 6th Mar 2023		78 RPM Rudy Wiedoeft And George Hamilton Green - The Moonlight Waltz / My Desert Love	Just wondering what was Emerson's standard for center label sizes at this juncture . . . ?
W.B.lbl 4th Mar 2023		78 RPM Ted Weems - I Love To Hear A Military Band (Me Encanta Oír Una Banda Militar) / Oh ! Mo'nah	One does wonder. Thank G-d it was short-lived. Otherwise the labels would've become positively microscopic.
W.B.lbl 4th Mar 2023		78 RPM Ted Weems - I Love To Hear A Military Band (Me Encanta Oír Una Banda Militar) / Oh ! Mo'nah	Wasn't the label size on {Images #3228403 & 3228404} somewhere around ~2.6875", and the pressing ring ~2.4375"? It seemed rather miniature there . . . I wonder if it was owing to the Depression that Victor's center labels in this period were so small . . . ?
W.B.lbl 3rd Mar 2023		Vinyl Album Freddie Hart - Straight From The Heart	By all appearances, this was the very last Vocalion release up to the point MCA reorganized its records division, consolidating its far-flung stable of labels (Decca, Uni, Kapp) into MCA and reviving the Coral name as the replacement budget label, MCA Coral.
W.B.lbl 3rd Mar 2023		Vinyl Album Tom Jones - Tom Jones Sings She's A Lady	At last, the Columbia Pitman variant is now accounted for. ;-) Only it copied the 'SH' suffix from Shelley.
W.B.lbl 2nd Mar 2023		Vinyl Album Phyllis Diller - Born To Sing	Evidently there was some truth to the liner notes, as the cat. # was a bit over a year behind sequentially. Worse than Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends.
W.B.lbl 27th Feb 2023		Vinyl Album Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys - The Great Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys	By this point, all Harmony LP's - whether mono or stereo - were vinyl.
W.B.lbl 27th Feb 2023		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Dickens' Christmas Carol	Definitely one of the last styrene LP's pressed by Columbia.
W.B.lbl 27th Feb 2023		78 RPM The Virginians - Mindin' My Bus'ness / I've Got A Cross-Eyed Papa (But He Looks Straight To Me)	Wondering about the label size - ~3.6875" or ~3.375" at this point?

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