Vinyl Albums - Comments by cassotto74

Vinyl Albums - Comments by cassotto74

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cassotto74 30th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album Bobby Darin - It's You Or No One (1960)	I'd like to know, are those LPs that have the sticker with the song titles later editions?
cassotto74 7th Jul 2016		Vinyl Album Bobby Darin - It's You Or No One (1960)	I've got a few questions about this album. First of all, was it ever released with yellow harp labels? The album was recorded in early 1960, and received the catalogue number it would have had had it been released that year, just before 'The 25th Day of December with Bobby Darin'. However, it was held for release until June 1963, by which time the harp label had been replaced with the bicolour one. I've never seen a copy of this LP with the harp labels, though I've seen in more than one place that it was first released with them. I wonder whether the persons who say so are misled by the catalogue number, or whether it was really so. The second thing I'd like to ask you about is the back side of the sleeve. I've seen two variations: one (shown here) with no song list in the right side, and another with the song titles in a blue box. Why is that so? I've seen an eBay listing whose photo shows the cover with the blue box, but the seller says that it's been glued onto the sleeve to cover a printing mistake in the song order. Is this right? Are all sleeves with the blue box really stickers? If it's so, were seeves without the song titles released first, and then someone realised that there was no song list in the sleeve? Or were they always released with a sticker, and whenever we see a sleeve without it it's because someone's peeled it off?
cassotto74 19th Mar 2016		Vinyl Album Bobby Darin - Oh! Look At Me Now (1962)	I'd like to know, is the original catalogue number of this album T-1791 for mono and ST-1791 for stereo, or W-1791 for mono and SW-1791 for stereo? Most of the records on this site seem to have T/ST catalogue numbers. Is the number the same in the sleeve and the record? I've seen a couple of T sleeves with W records. I've got a secondary question. How can one tell a USA album from a UK one just by looking at the front cover? Is it right to assume that the white band at the top of the sleeve has 'mono' or 'stereo' in big bock at the right corner in the UK, but not in the USA, where there is that sort of half black circle instead? As for the labels, the USA one has the Capitol logo at twelve o'clock, whereas the UK one has the logo at nine o'clock. Is this so?
cassotto74 29th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Bobby Darin - The Bobby Darin Story (1961)	Today, for the first time, I've seen a mono record with a black sleeve. No signature in trail-off area.
cassotto74 20th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Bobby Darin - The Bobby Darin Story (1961)	I've just added the front and back covers and the labels of: 1) The original mono pressing (white sleeve, yellow harp labels). 2) A stereo reissue with a white sleeve (and purple / brown bicolour labels).
cassotto74 20th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Bobby Darin - Twist With Bobby Darin (1961)	'Twist with Bobby Darin' was originally released with the white sleeve whose picture I've uploaded, but at some point this sleeve was replaced with a black one. The original pressing used the yellow harp labels, and the album was later released with the bicolour label (yellow / blue for mono records, purple / brown for stereo records) while still using the white sleeve. The change to black seems to have happened later on. Anyway, there are some variations that I have never seen, and I was wondering whether someone can confirm their existence (or non-existence). 1) A stereo record with a white sleeve (and any of the two labels). All white sleeves I've seen are for mono records. 2) Records (mono or stereo) with a yellow harp label and a black sleeve (not likely). Lastly (although this is not so important to me), have you ever seen this record with any later Atco label?
cassotto74 10th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Bobby Darin - The Bobby Darin Story (1961)	I've got two copies of this record: one mono with the original yellow harp label (1961), and one stereo with the reissue purple/brown label. Both have a white cover. I have seen (although I haven't got it) a stereo album with the yellow harp label and a white cover. As for black covers, I've always seen them in stereo, with different labels: the purple/brown one (1962-1968), the yellow one with multi-coloured logo shown above (1968-1979), a yellow one with a number of ATCO logos along the rim (1979-1982), and a white one with A-T-C-O written in green, blue, red and black (1982 on), ). I've even seen one black cover with the catalogue number at the bottom, not at the top, without the word 'Stereo'. All white covers have 'Mack the Knife' and 'Lazy River' in big print; black covers have only 'Mack the Knife'. So I'd say that both mono and stereo first editions (yellow harp label) had a white cover. Bobby Darin's official web site states that the album was reissued in 1972 with a black cover. If this is taken to mean that previous re-releases had a white cover, it would be consistent with my second LP (white cover, purple/brown label). But not with a purple/brown label inside a black cover (which I have seen). What I cannot really tell is whether this record was ever released in mono with a black cover. I've never seen such a thing.