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| 6th Dec 2018, 2:50 AM | #1 REPORT | |
 | OzGuitar Member since May 2018 3 Points | Hi, Hope someone can help with my query. I have two Australian pressings of Gerry Rafferty's City To City LP, now what is unusual is that both are exactly the same album and catalog number and record label, but the vinyl label on the record is totally different from each other! See pics here: https://ibb.co/jvfxcf4 https://ibb.co/k475rGP I looked this up on Discogs and various other sites and all say the label with the sun and clouds is the official catalog release, yet the grey label one is not, yet it was released as well in Australia and some sites also claim this is also an official release. Am confused, what is what and why two different labels??? OzGuitar |
| 6th Dec 2018, 7:46 AM | #2 REPORT | |
 | JLC135 Member since Aug 2014 2720 Points Moderator | Same label, different design; perhaps one is a later pressing? |
| 6th Dec 2018, 7:56 AM | #3 REPORT | |
| JLC135 Member since Aug 2014 2720 Points Moderator | A quick search through the United Artists label discography seems to suggest that they used the plain "grey" label before they changed to the "cloud" label in the late '70s. |
| 6th Dec 2018, 3:11 PM | #4 REPORT | |
 | Lee Wrecker If you can't dig me, you can't dig nothin' Member since Nov 2013 2282 Points | And a quick look here at the Stranglers Australian siningles will narrow the timing of the change to between March and October 1978. Looks like ELO's "Mr. Blue Sky" was one of the last uses of the older label before Rafferty's own single of "Baker Street" in April 78 used the new design. They my have had old labels to get rid of when they pressed the LP "City To City" so they could even be from the same pressing. |
| 6th Dec 2018, 8:49 PM | #5 REPORT | |
 | PhilMH🍰 Member since Jan 2012 1055 Points | I would say that the beige (rather than "grey") label is the earliest one, using UA's previous label design. 45cat shows that the new design was introduced on singles (including the title track of this album, released before "Baker Street") in late 1977, but Festival must have still had a number of old LP labels to use up. |
| 6th Dec 2018, 8:55 PM | #6 REPORT | |
| OzGuitar Member since May 2018 3 Points | Thank you to all for your helpful replies, especially Lee and Phil, had no idea about the change in company during 1978. I looked it up and indeed the company changed ownership during 1978 and eventually to EMI which from 1980 issued all of those UA label album under EMI/Liberty. I have another pressing of City To City with this exact EMI/Liberty label. |
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