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7th Jul 2015, 7:05 PM
	Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3747 Points Moderator	Oh yes, and the progress... I've got my chart filling up quite well with little boxes filled to signify a label type found, and with notes in biro as to whether it's barcoded or not, has source label or not, black or red rim text on the label... And a pattern is emerging which suggests a chronology: There's a cluster from 3063 (Tygers of Pan Tang) thorugh the early appended 41-1s (3069 - Steely Dan, to 3081 - Beatles oldies) which have the black rim text in sequence... there are a couple of copies of others earlier in the sequence I've found so far with this: American Pie, and Japan - Quiet life, but this would suggest these are a tad later, and coincide with the pressing of others in this cluster, and also exist with the red rim text (I just haven't seen them yet)... It's the Beatles Oldies that has both red and Black rim text, and so far, nothing after has the black text... so this phenomenon itself would appear to have been a brief flicker of something they tried, but didn't stick. This cluster almost exactly corresponds with barcoded sleeves, which further re-inforces the chronological aspect of the sequence ( but to what degree, and how, is yet to be seen). Finally, I'm beginning to wonder if a few I can't yet find in the sequence may be due to coincidence with another label's cat number system, that begins to show up in search results quite frequently late on in the numbers (Brace yourself Neil!): MCA, have a few 3200s. So maybe they just left those numbers blank due to this (in which case, why not change the whole sequence?), or, as the Joe Cocker album may explain, a label like Capitol, may just decide to release it themselves, under their own name, even though Fame cat is already assigned (Which also could prove confusing, if later on, when CD Fames come into being, Capitol no longer want it, and it appears under the Fame logo!) but we shall see.