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W.B.lbl 18th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Lee Morgan - Cornbread	Shouldn't the mono {Image #3542561 & 3542562} cover and {Images #3542563 & 3542564} label get its own mono entry? Given that this is the '75 re-pressing of the stereo, and there's already an original '65 stereo on here?
W.B.lbl 17th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Homer And Jethro - Fractured Folk Songs	One of my favorites from this . . . [YouTube Video]
W.B.lbl 16th Apr 2024		78 RPM Gene Autry - Blue Shadows On The Trail / A Boy From Texas	{Images #3541055 & 3541056} looks like one of the last Kings Mills, OH pressings before that plant shut down.
W.B.lbl 14th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Mimi And Richard Farina - The Best Of Mimi And Richard Farina	Added labels for this set, with Pitman, NJ type, pressed in Santa Maria, CA.
W.B.lbl 12th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Vaughn Meader - Vaughn Meader And The First Family	It just occurred to me: {Image #518060}'s label copy was printed upside-down in relation to the position of the Cadence label design, compared with {Image #518059}.
W.B.lbl 12th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Sonny Stitt And Bunky Green - Soul In The Night	The labels {Images #3537535 & 3537536} were of the mono issue, for which a new entry has been created.
W.B.lbl 12th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Robert Francis Kennedy - Robert Francis Kennedy...A Memorial...	This would have been one of the last, on the mono disc, to use the 2-eye mono label as was on {Images #2378141 & 2378142}; around 1969 the artwork for that design was lost or whatever, and for back-catalogue mono-only LP's they were reduced to using the 2-eye mono design for the pop Columbia label, only using PMS 424 or 425 Grey rather than the usual PMS 199 Red.
W.B.lbl 12th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album André Kostelanetz And His Orchestra - Strauss Waltzes	{Images #2455157 & 2455158} would be a Bridgeport pressing from the U.S., was this somehow sold in Canada?
W.B.lbl 11th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Sammy Davis Jr. - Now	Added Columbia Pitman type variant.
W.B.lbl 11th Apr 2024		78 RPM Dick Robertson - Twenty-One Years (Is A Long Time) / Mary And Mother	Apparently, the Hollywood plant operated as early as 1928-29. But it also seems they simply added the 'H' within the 'scroll' label on the template / slug meant originally for Oakland. They had quite a few of those 68.5mm labels (with 63 / 63.25mm ring) between 1931 and 1933.
W.B.lbl 11th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Just Us - I Can't Grow Peaches On A Cherry Tree	{Images #3536607 & 3536608} looks like an RCA Hollywood pressing with Bert-Co label type, no?
W.B.lbl 11th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Beatles - The Beatles' Story	Had this and other Beatles' albums been available from Columbia House, their version would have been STBO 502222.
W.B.lbl 9th Apr 2024		78 RPM Kostya Poliansky And His Balalaika Orchestra - Espan / Pas D'Espan	Also issued on 45 RPM where the matrix prefix was E1-CX-.
W.B.lbl 9th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Paul Revere And The Raiders - Here They Come	Track B6 was included in the 1967 Columbia Special Products compilation SUPERstars - superHITS. It wasn't exactly a "hit."
W.B.lbl 9th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Paul Revere And The Raiders - Here They Come!	{Images #3534988 & 3534989} would date to between August and December 1965 in terms of when pressed.
W.B.lbl 8th Apr 2024		78 RPM Hungarian Folk Dance Orchestra - Tapei Darudobogo / 1. Faridazo, 2. Paloc Csardas	Can anyone in possession of this advise as to the matrix numbers? It was either 1962 (N8-OB- or NO-8B- ) or 1963 (P4NC- ).
W.B.lbl 7th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Years Of #1 Hits	Also . . . noticeably absent from this compilation was Steve Lawrence's "Go Away Little Girl" which made #1 in early '63. Columbia most likely lost the rights to that after he and Eydie Gorme left the label. And one wonders if Paul Simon had veto power, due to the absence of the three #1's he and Art Garfunkel had ("The Sounds Of Silence," "Mrs. Robinson," "Bridge Over Troubled Water"). It also looks like they figured in what made #1 on the Cash Box and/or Record World charts as well as Billboard in compiling this. (It was for the reasons of the label losing the rights to certain masters why Jo Stafford's biggest hit for them - 1952's "You Belong To Me" - was likewise conspicuously absent.)
W.B.lbl 7th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Vladimir Horowitz - Schumann Kinderscenen And Chopin Mazurkas	I know that when RCA Victor first pressed LP's in early 1950, their center label size at die-cutting was 103.5mm (4.0748"), a size which was more or less used on their 78's from the mid-1910's (around the time the "batwing" label design was first introduced) to about 1920. When pressed onto the record the label size was shrunk by ~0.65%, to approx. 102.83mm (4.0483"). Would I be close in the label measurements here as on {Images #3533688 & 3533689}?
W.B.lbl 7th Apr 2024		78 RPM Sir Thomas Beecham And Royal Philharmonic Orch. - On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring	I find that it appears this deep groove had an inner dimension of 81mm (3.1890") and an outer of 84.25mm (3.3169"). I suppose {Images #3397996 & 3397997} were from the same record? I know the label size was shrunk at pressing from 89.5mm (3.5236") to a shade under 89mm (3.5") - roughly by 0.65%.
W.B.lbl 7th Apr 2024		78 RPM Claude Hopkins And His Roseland Orchestra - He's A Son Of The South / Canadian Capers	Subsequent to my first post here, I seem to have found U.S. manufacturers were using the metric system for pressing records, from the record contours to the die-cut labels and their holes. Before pressing, center labels pre-1937 were 75.0mm (2.9528"), shrunk by about 0.65%. (After '37, the label size in Bridgeport was extended to 76.5mm (3.0118"); the Hollywood plant still used the smaller size as of late 1939.)
W.B.lbl 7th Apr 2024		78 RPM Terry Gilkyson And The Easy Riders - Marianne / Goodbye Chiquita	For the record (no pun necessarily intended), my copy is a Bridgeport pressing with the A side label {Image #3505139}.
W.B.lbl 7th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Abbey Road	As you can see, I go by a lot of criteria - pressing rings are one, the higher lacquer numbers compared with early pressings are another. But glad you could confirm your copy was later.
W.B.lbl 6th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The O'Jays - In Philadelphia	Added Terre Haute, IN first-pressing with Pitman, NJ typesetting.
W.B.lbl 6th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The O'Jays - In Philadelphia	And that Billy Paul LP, at the earliest, may've been May or June '70.
W.B.lbl 6th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The O'Jays - In Philadelphia	Added Columbia Pitman variant. The earliest this may've come out would've been July 1970; but not only the Chess matrix numbers but also the Columbia Chicago XCSV numbers pinpoint this timeline. And yes, 1969 was when these tracks were recorded. A few from those initial O'Jays sessions with Gamble-Huff didn't make it onto this album, namely "One Night Affair's" B side, "There's Someone (Waiting Back Home)," and "Christmas Ain't Christmas New Years Ain't New Years Without The One You Love."
W.B.lbl 4th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Eddie Rabbitt - Variations	Actually pressed by Columbia, in spite of the 'PRC-W' code being copied from PRC-Compton pressings.
W.B.lbl 4th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Joe South - Introspect	Also in existence is a Scranton variant.
W.B.lbl 4th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Merle Haggard And The Strangers - Close-Up Merle Haggard	With this "Close-Up" series, I suppose it was a good thing The Beatles' contract was renegotiated prior to the making and release of Sgt. Pepper, I shudder to think what a Close-Up The Beatles set would have looked like.
W.B.lbl 4th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Sonny James - Empty Arms	80734 was the record club version; the original was SW-734.
W.B.lbl 4th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Carl Smith - The Carl Smith Touch	The original album was 1960, but I doubt this reissue was. I suspect this was more 1963-64 or so. Also . . . don't you think in that pic he looks almost like a straight-arrow version of Nick Lowe?

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