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29th Jun 2015, 12:17 PM
	Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3745 Points Moderator	Also, I wonder if the choice of format digit is specific to the label, as it seems MFP have the 41 and 4 on only a couple, but others have 41 and 9. (What the 41 signifies, I don not yet know). Certainly we are dealing with a larger re-issue picture here, of which MFP, Fame, Classics for Pleasure, and probably a couple of others before it all goes purely EMI, are a the pieces, but eventually we should be able to have a sequence from 1 to 5000+ unbroken through all these labels. As Fame only runs to about a couple hundred (3 maybe) vinyl discs, I won't take too long to account for them all, and then start dating them (then label variant dates too). ...And this makes me wonder if maths may be of use here, in that we know the label was started in spring (March 1982), and followed the pattern of reissuing 4 -5 discs per month (maybe six) each year March to November = 8 months, at 5 discs per month, say, over 8 or so years = 320 discs (?) But that begs the question of where did the other discs over 300 go? so it would be more likely t be 3 or 4 per month 8 years x 8 months x 4 discs per month = 256, which is more like the figure the cat numbers suggest. In which case, where we have a month(s) with more than 4 releases, one in that month may be wrongly dated.