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W.B.lbl 12th May 2024		Vinyl Album Murray Perahia - Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Posthumous Etudes, Papillons	Looks like this time on the grey-and-amber label, the lighter PMS 143 was used for the brownish orange rather than the deeper PMS 144, alongside PMS 404 Grey.
W.B.lbl 12th May 2024		Vinyl Album The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy!	{Images #3561837 & 3561838} is of the original ST-2663 ish', and does not belong in this reissue entry.
W.B.lbl 10th May 2024		Vinyl Album Frank Rosolino - Kenton Jazz Presents Frank Rosolino	The series was actually called "Kenton Presents Jazz." Unfortunately, the way the logo was laid out . . .
W.B.lbl 8th May 2024		Vinyl Album Sam Cooke - The Best Of Sam Cooke	Frankly, AFL1-2625 should be spun off. Though {Images #3559096 & 3559097} is a later pressings, this does bear the original cat. # - and more important, the matrix numbers.
W.B.lbl 8th May 2024		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - The Green Hornet	Sounds like this was prepared and released in anticipation of the short-lived TV series . . .
W.B.lbl 7th May 2024		Vinyl Album B. J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head	Without question, the Pitman {Images #1087206 & 1087207} smites the Terre Haute {Images #3558206 & 3558207} in terms of type layout hands down.
W.B.lbl 7th May 2024		Vinyl Album Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio - Selections From "The Female Prisoner" (La Prisonnière)	Looks like the c.1970-73 {Images #3558261 & 3558262} pressing used PMS 404 Grey and PMS 144 Orange (a bit deeper than the PMS 137 used in connection with PMS 199 for the pop label). In any event, original pressings would've been 2-eye.
W.B.lbl 6th May 2024		Vinyl Album Seals And Crofts - I And II	Somehow, I'm not surprised . . .
W.B.lbl 3rd May 2024		Vinyl Album Barry White - Barry White Sings For Someone You Love	There was another variant, one with the label design as on {Images #1757708 & 1757709}, but with the rim print showing the address as 8255 Sunset Blvd.
W.B.lbl 3rd May 2024		Vinyl Album The Orioles - The Orioles	Glad you asked, both sides of that cover (front AND back) have modern phototypesetting. Also notice, on the top right of the back cover {Image #3554972}, "1024" inserted. Notice how it's in a different font from the "JLP." F.T.R., the front cover's type also screams "1970's phototypesetting." There were a couple of alternatives to Harris and to Linotype - I wonder if this was Alphatype's version of Times New Roman Bold. (If not them, whom? Any 1970's phototypesetting mavens on the boards here?)
W.B.lbl 3rd May 2024		Vinyl Album The Orioles - The Orioles	This does seem like a bootleg - especially given the use of a phototypesetting version of Times New Roman with Bold that was in use in some printing houses in the 1970's. In short, this would not have been made in the '50's. Indeed, I wonder if this and the copy actually marked 'bootleg' shouldn't be merged?
W.B.lbl 2nd May 2024		78 RPM [no artist listed] - Cinderella (Part 1) / Cinderella (Part 2)	Based on the label fonts, I'd venture Australia.
W.B.lbl 30th Apr 2024		78 RPM Johnnie Ray - Cry / The Little White Cloud That Cried	Oh, and here's how "Cry" was meant to be heard, in the years before the "Electronically Re-Recorded To Simulate Stereo" nonsense: [YouTube Video]
W.B.lbl 30th Apr 2024		78 RPM Johnnie Ray - Cry / The Little White Cloud That Cried	While this was climbing up the charts, and in its first few weeks at #1, Bridgeport was hit with a strike (lasted from 17 Dec 1951 to 14 Jan 1952). Copies exist of the 45 pressed by RCA in Canonsburg, PA; Capitol in Scranton, PA; and Shelley Products. My own copy of the 78 may well be pressed by RCA in one of their plants (likely Indianapolis).
W.B.lbl 30th Apr 2024		78 RPM Various Artists - When The Saints Go Marching In / Jam Session Blues	I have a copy, and can attest the label die-cut size is 76.5mm, with an 8.9mm label hole.
W.B.lbl 30th Apr 2024		78 RPM Frankie Laine - Doris Day	Check my sets of images for what 78 RPM Columbia labels' colors should look like. On others' images, there's very much a discrepancy between the actual color and how it appeared in the photo / scan.
W.B.lbl 30th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Benny Goodman Quartet - Together Again!	Given where recorded and when released, shouldn't the prefix be PR4S- ?
W.B.lbl 27th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Carroll O'Connor - Remembering You	No question. The Columbia Pitman {Images #1692661 & 1692662} layout wins hands down over ALCO-typeset, Monarch-pressed {Images #3549546 & 3549547}.
W.B.lbl 27th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Charles Rosen - Pierre Boulez: Piano Sonata No. 1, Piano Sonata No. 3: Trope, Constellation	Looks like, in the early years of this design, PMS 404 Grey and PMS 144 Orange were used, before the latter was replaced with the somewhat lighter PMS 143.
W.B.lbl 27th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Hot Ones	What pressing plant would "55" be, anyway?
W.B.lbl 26th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Sonny Boy Williamson [II] - The Real Folk Blues	Moved original 1966 LP to its own entry.
W.B.lbl 26th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Bob Newhart - The Button-Down Mind Of Bob Newhart	Records with those patent numbers in the deadwax were pressed by Research Craft in Los Angeles, CA. Its president, Allan R. Ellsworth, was the holder of those patents. RE23946 was a reissue of US2631859 - which Capitol acquired title to in 1956.
W.B.lbl 26th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album John Lennon - Walls And Bridges	Had there been a Columbia House issue of this, the cat. # would have been shown as SW 503416.
W.B.lbl 26th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album John Lennon - John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band	Had a Columbia House issue been made of this, no doubt the cat. # would have been SW 503372.
W.B.lbl 24th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Dionne Warwick - Dionne Warwick's Golden Hits	Notice one track that is conspicuously missing from this set, though it was also a big hit - "Message To Michael." This was the number that, despite Bacharach and David having written it, they had absolutely nothing to do with its production, which was made in France and essentially produced by Ms. Warwick herself, albeit credited to their entity "Blue Jac Productions." (This seemed to be made up for when compiling Part 2, though.)
W.B.lbl 24th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Alfred Hitchcock - Music To Be Murdered By	"Wilson" on A5 would have been Stanley Wilson, music supervisor for Alfred Hitchcock Presents; no doubt it was his arrangement on Gounod's "Funeral March Of A Marionette." Also, if this were proposed, say, five years later, would it have been on Decca?
W.B.lbl 24th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Alfred Hitchcock - Music To Be Murdered By	From what I could see as here, Sides 1 and 2 are of the same order as on the stereo. Says so on the back cover, and the matrix numbers are such: - Side 1 (begins with "Music To Be Murdered By") - IX-105 - Side 2 (begins with "Suspicion") - IX-106 Also . . . were this done five years later, would it have been on Decca (given, by then, his having moved to Universal to make his movies, starting with The Birds?
W.B.lbl 21st Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Deodato - Prelude	Added original label variant from Columbia Pitman; Side 1 {Image #3544623} has an old-style deep groove whose inner diameter is 68.2mm (2.6850") and whose outer diameter is 70.7mm (2.7835"). (Side 2's {Image #3544624} pressing ring is 68.6mm [2.7008"].)
W.B.lbl 19th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Years Of #1 Hits	I noticed another #1 missing from this set - Mitch Miller's "The Yellow Rose Of Texas" from 1955. They were also stretching it on "Cry," as: a) its #1 run began at the very end of 1951, and b) it was on OKeh; but its very success led to Johnnie Ray being moved to the main Columbia label for the rest of his time with the company. But even in their consideration of the other two charts in fashioning this, there was something conspicuously absent: Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" (a Cash Box #1 in 1965). Yet that Johnny Mathis' "Chances Are" is on this is also, in a way, a reflection on the "Whitburnization" of chart compilations; it only made #1 on Billboard's "Most Played by Jockeys" chart. And don't get me started on the fake stereo used on the early years' of selections.
W.B.lbl 18th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Tokens - It's A Happening World	Columbia's plants appear to have been among the first to have an indented "center of gravity" ring measuring 11.1mm (0.4370") on LP pressings; Santa Maria's were among the more pronounced, and I suppose it was they that pressed {Images #688428 & 688429}.

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