Comment [+] added to record 147 by slholzer
Comment by slholzer: I've not seen a Folk Music label like this one before. Has it been copied in black and white or is really black and white to start with?. In either case, it has the dark and light parts of the regular Folk Music labels reversed. It is not specifically designated as a promo copy, but color reversals of this type are not uncommon on promo labels industry-wide, so that is my best guess here.
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Comment [+] added to record 139 by slholzer
Comment by slholzer: The B-side, in its entirety, was also used on Folk Music 145.
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Comment [+] added to record 145 by slholzer
Comment by slholzer: The B-side in its entirety was also used on Folk Music 139.
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Comment [+] added to record 141 by slholzer
Comment by slholzer: Late, but relevant to Joe Wenderoth's inquiry, the entire B-side of this disc was also used on Folk Music 144. "Easy On The Eyes" by the Prairie Ramblers is in fact on that disc, as is The Gold Rush is Over, a vocal by Wally Moore.
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Comment [+] added to record 144 by slholzer
Comment by slholzer: the entire A-side was also used on Folk Music 141.
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Comment [+] added to record 136 by slholzer
Comment by slholzer: Al Britton has been listed here as the artist on both A-side tracks. This is one of two reasonable interpretations for the label as printed. The other, which is that no artist has been identified for the second track, is actually the correct one. When this exact same entire side was used on Folk Music 125, the artist for both tracks were identified and the artist for Hey Good Lookin' was Texas Slim.
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Comment [+] added to record 134 by slholzer
Comment by slholzer: Yet another example of a hybrid print: the old Folk Music Inc. logo on one side, the new Inc.-less logo on the other. I would speculate that the change must have taken a lot of people by surprise. Possibly they had a stock of pre-printed labels with the old logos already on that they needed to use up.
I suppose it could be a bizarre way of distinguishing the A side from the B, but I am not used to thinking in those terms with regard to multi-track EP issues. I am not sure there was ever a bona-fide hit recording that started life on one of these. Granted, Folk Music's EPs were probably a cut above the average in terms of the quality of the music issued, but the EP was still primarily targeted at the bargain-hunting market. Marketing people would have been horrified at wasting a hot track on an EP when it could be used to sell that many more singles with a higher profit margin.
It's worth noting thatt he Texas Slim side of the illustrated disc was also used in it's entirety on Folk Music 123 and Folk Music 127.
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Comment [+] added to record 132 by slholzer
Comment by slholzer: The illustrated disc is another example of a hybrid print, one side retaining the supposedly abandoned Folk Music, Inc. logo while the other adopts the new logo without the Inc. It is worth noting that, in this case at least, other copies of this disc exist with the new logo in use on both sides.
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Comment [+] added to record 131 by slholzer
Comment by slholzer: On this disc, the A-side reverted to the Folk Music, Inc. style logo while the B-side used the new logo without the Inc.
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Comment [+] added to record 129 by slholzer
Comment by slholzer: There are two distinct versions of Folk Music 129. Besides the illustrated version, there is one that features Nearer My God To Thee/Old Rigged Cross by Mac Farland on one side and Just A Closer Walk With Thee/Whispering Hope by Karen and Don Johnson on the other.
Both versions of Folk Music 129 bear the label version that dispensed with the "Inc." in the logo, leaving a blank spot between the comma and the upside down musical note. They are the lowest number I have so far seen with the new label. It may have been implemented somewhere in the undocumented numbers 126-127-128.
It is also worth noting that the Al Britton side of the illustrated disc was also used on Folk Music 124.
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