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W.B.lbl 20th Mar 2024		78 RPM Walter Davis - Blue Ghost Blues / Hijack Blues	Looks like this was one of the postage-stamp-size labels (68.5mm before pressing onto the shellac which shrunk it to ~68mm) that were manufactured in the 1931-32 period in the depths of the Great Depression - and a pressing ring of between 63.0 and 63.25mm. Would I be close?
W.B.lbl 19th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Something New	Had there been a Columbia House ST 502108 edition of this, no doubt the track listings above and below the spindle hole would have been divided on Side 1 as A1-A3 on the top and A4-A6 on the bottom, and on Side 2 likely B1-B3 and B4-B5.
W.B.lbl 19th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Robert Margouleff And Malcolm Cecil - Tonto's Expanding Head Band	Wasn't Tama Starr one and the same as who, from the late 1980's onwards, ran the Artkraft Strauss sign company that produced many of the "spectaculars" up and down Times Square?
W.B.lbl 19th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Jerry Goldsmith - Planet Of The Apes	Must've been released in very early 1987, because this was among the last where the Pitman label type was used prior to that plant ceasing vinyl production and being converted to CD manufacture only.
W.B.lbl 18th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Billy Fury - The Sound Of Fury	I think the pseudonym also had something to do with a different music publisher than those on the album where Mr. Fury was listed as the writer as was. It was somewhat common in the U.S. for some writers to use assumed names, chiefly if, say, they were a BMI member but what they wrote or co-wrote was published by an ASCAP-affiliated concern. Another factor in using pseudonyms was, especially in the case with some R&B acts, for tax purposes (namely James Brown on many later '70's records including "Get Up Offa That Thing," and Joe Tex on "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)" which he had an aunt credited as co-writer with his producer Buddy Killen, though Mr. Tex did co-write that one himself).
W.B.lbl 18th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Billy Fury - The Sound Of Fury	I know some writers use pseudonyms in the U.S., if, for example, they're signed with BMI but write a number whose publisher is ASCAP. Notice on here, those tracks where Mr. Fury is credited as writer was handled by different publishers than those with the "Wilberforce" credit.
W.B.lbl 17th Mar 2024		78 RPM Dick Robertson - Twenty-One Years (Is A Long Time) / Mary And Mother	Let me guess, this had what appeared to be 68.0mm (shrunk from 68.5mm) labels and a 63.25mm pressing ring? I actually have records with those dimensions - made for home use, to record messages at home.
W.B.lbl 17th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Queen - Sheer Heart Attack	Given its release date, one of the very last Columbia Pitman typesetting jobs to use the old-style hot-metal Linotype fonts.
W.B.lbl 16th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Bessie Smith - The World's Greatest Blues Singer	Did any copies of this get pressed with the 2-eye MONO label design? I know this was in the transitory period when, in June of 1970, Columbia first unveiled the red/orange "ring around" label (which I've gauged to be PMS 199 Red and PMS 137 Orange).
W.B.lbl 16th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul	Still no representation of the Columbia Pitman variant? (As on, for example, here.)
W.B.lbl 15th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Yes - The Yes Album	Added Columbia Pitman variant that not only copied the 'PR' suffix directly from Presswell's label copy, but Columbia New York cutting engineers even put the 'PR' into the deadwax when spelling out their matrix numbers.
W.B.lbl 15th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Rusty Warren - Knockers Up '76	Having seen a physical copy of this at an East Village record store earlier this week, I can vouch that one side's pressing ring was 72.5mm and the other's was 72.75mm. That's what Allied had back then for their LP pressing equipment.
W.B.lbl 14th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Abbey Road	Any first-pressings from Winchester would have had a pressing ring of between 38.0mm and 38.5mm, just as the other three plants. It was around 1970 that it was set at between 35.0 and 35.5 mm, but as a borderline "deep groove" with an outer diameter of usually 37.5mm. If you have a ruler with metric measurements divided into 0.5mm, please double check the pressing ring dimensions. Side 1 after 1970 would have also had a smaller ring of between 9.5 and 10.0mm, and Side 2 about 13.5mm. If the pressing ring is 35.0 to 35.5mm, then Discogs would be in the right to call you on dating it as 1969. As to the 'P14' dash numbers you cite: That would have been cut around '71 by Capitol's New York studios, before that set of Scully 601's ('P' was the master, 'T' the slave) was replaced with a singular Neumann VMS-66 lathe that cut lacquers with 'R#' dash numbers. As of 1969, most stereo New York lacquers were cut with 'W' or 'X' dash numbers.
W.B.lbl 14th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Edward R. Murrow And Fred W. Friendly - I Can Hear It Now	Added c.1959 Bridgeport, CT variant, with massive layout change in label copy. (Came with a revamped cover with a drawing of Mr. Murrow by R.R. Bouché, unfortunately that cover got damaged by mold and had to be thrown out.) B.T.W., {Images #670764 & 670766} dates to between 1955 and 1957.
W.B.lbl 14th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album The Ventures - Guitar Freakout	And in the case of The Ventures, their newer LP's began carrying LRP-2000 / LST-8000 series numbers.
W.B.lbl 13th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Johnny Williams - Checkmate	JaMco Productions was owned by Jack Benny, thus the perpetual 39-year-old had a stake in this show.
W.B.lbl 13th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Glen Campbell - Glen Campbell's Greatest Hits	Release date confirmed from article in Record World, 13 Mar 1971.
W.B.lbl 10th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album The Robert Shaw Chorale - On Stage With Robert Shaw	It appears Hollywood was a bit delayed in getting the newer red "shaded dogs," as here it's still more or less "Dark Maroon Seal" rather than "Red Seal." Proof can be found here on an Indianapolis pressing.
W.B.lbl 10th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Chad And Jeremy - Chad & Jeremy Sing For You	A 7/2/2 string ratio, I see . . . funny that the producer and arrangers were West Coast-based, but the musicians were pretty much East Coast . . .
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album The Swingle Singers - The Joy Of Singing	This was their penultimate album before leader Ward Swingle broke up this French-based group upon moving to England and then starting up another outfit, Swingle II.
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - "Music Makers" Brass	I presume the pressing ring on this would be 33.25 mm (1.3091")?
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Miles Davis - Bitches Brew	This album would have been originally released with the earlier '2-eye' ' "360 Sound" Stereo' label design. As on here.
W.B.lbl 7th Mar 2024		78 RPM Mitch Miller - The Yellow Rose Of Texas / Blackberry Winter	Have at long last, uploaded the first-issue of Bridgeport labels for this.
W.B.lbl 6th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Mort Shuman - Mort Shuman	MS in fact stood for Mercury Sound Studios.
W.B.lbl 6th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Murray Perahia, English Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 8 & 22	Evidently, {Images #3509652 & 3509654} shows Santa Maria using up the last of the "Columbia Masterworks" label blanks (from a label sheet designated 2504), they apparently didn't yet get the CBS Masterworks label design with the same color scheme at that point.
W.B.lbl 6th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Andy Gibb - Flowing Rivers	Not on here yet: a Columbia Pitman variant which, for the time being, can be seen over here.
W.B.lbl 5th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Johnny Mandel - MAS*H	No, I'd say it was more a cash-in to Mr. Jamal's cover - that, plus the TV show which was just beginning its 11-year run. But the original instrumental theme that opened the show was basically snippets of the original movie theme, vocals removed and some tracks re-recorded.
W.B.lbl 5th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Andy Williams - The Andy Williams Christmas Album	Had Bridgeport done a label type variant for this, the selections' writing credits would have been: A1: -I. Berlin - Arr: R. Mersey- A2: -K. Thompson - Arr: M. Paich- A3: -M. Torme - R. Wells - Arr: R. Mersey- A4: -G. Wyle - E. Pola - Arr: J. Mandell- A5: -Arr: G. Wyle- A6: -Arr: J. Mandell- B1: -Arr: R. Mersey- B2: -A. Adams - Arr: R. Mersey- B3: -Arr: R. Mersey- B4: -R. MacGimsey - Arr: R. Mersey- B5: -K. Davis - H. Onorati - H. Simeone - Arr: R. Mersey- B6: -Arr: G. Wyle-
W.B.lbl 5th Mar 2024		78 RPM Sha Na Na - Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay / Lovers Never Say Goodbye	Though Columbia Pitman's label fonts are on this, it appears to be pressed by another plant; going by the fact that their die-cut 78 labels were 76.5mm (3.0118") shrunk by about 0.55%, and the pressing ring appears to be 70.0mm (2.7559") rather than Columbia's own 68.5mm (2.6969") to 68.75mm (2.7067").
W.B.lbl 4th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Berlin Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovitch • Kabalevsky • Prokofieff • Borodin Orchestral Works	They had reason to obscure the true origin of these recordings: The Cold War was still in full force, and the stench of the McCarthy era was still there even though he himself was brought down the prior year. No doubt the people running Urania didn't want to see themselves on the receiving end of a Congressional investigation into supposed Communist sympathies. (It was for the same reasons, when Gene Deitch directed the 13 Tom & Jerry cartoons for MGM in 1961-62, that certain names were toyed around with - as they were made behind the Soviet bloc in Prague, Czechoslovakia.)

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