Vinyl Albums - Comments by Gizmobob

Vinyl Albums - Comments by Gizmobob

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Gizmobob 31st Oct 2023		Vinyl Album Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan [withdrawn version] (1963)	Although that label has the withdrawn songs listed, I highly doubt that the vinyl plays those tracks. The only vinyl that plays the actual deleted/withdrawn tracks have a Matrix Number in the dead wax -1A on both sides, in both Mono and Stereo. I personally own the Mono version.
Gizmobob 31st Dec 2022		Vinyl Album The Midnighters - Their Greatest Hits (1962)	Reissue has 3" wide "King" logo at top of labels, Original King Press from 1958 has 2" wide logo. See 1958 Pressing
Gizmobob 15th Jan 2022		Vinyl Album The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (1964)	Can someone help me determine my sealed copy of AHDN? It has 3 lines of Publishing Credit on the back with only This Boy (MACLEN). Lastly, it has the "Released Thru Alun Owen" and "Screenplay By United Artists" reversed (SC22). Yet everything I read says that the 3 lines of publishing credit for This Boy only are 1964, First Pressing covers, but, "Released Thru" & "Screenplay By" Error has only been listed on later covers with the 4 lines of Publishing Credits. Can someone shed some light on this for me? Thanks, Bob
Gizmobob 30th Nov 2020		Vinyl Album The Beatles - The Beatles' Christmas Album (1971)	The easiest way to discern the fakes from the original is that I've never seen a fake with the 1-1/2" diameter Capitol Records pressing ring around the spindle hole. All the fakes have a very large pressing ring similar to RCA and Columbia, which is about 2-3/4" in diameter. These two labels pictures above, have the authentic 1-1/2" pressing ring found on all Capitol pressed LPs at the time. Easiest way to tell the difference with the covers is that you can see "THEATRE ROYAL" above Lennon's head at the lower left second photo, and you can clearly see both of Ringo's eyes in the lower left photo... I've added pics.
Gizmobob 12th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - The Beatles' Second Album (1964)	The 1st Pressings have no times listed for the first two songs on side-2, and track two is credited to ASCAP (Earliest Pressings erroneously list last track on Side-1 as 2:23, instead of 2:33)(EC and WC, Mono and Stereo have been confirmed) The 2nd Pressings have the time added to the first 2 tracks on side-2. Earliest pressings credit track #2 and #5 to ASCAP, whereas later pressings change track #5 to BMI credit .(Only released on the EC in Mono and Stereo) The 3rd Pressings have the time added to track-1 only, and track-2 changed to BMI. Earliest pressing misspells "I Call You Name".(Released on the EC in Stereo Only)(2 label variations) The 4th Pressings have first two tracks credited to BMI, but no time listed for either (Released on the WC and Jax in Stereo Only) You'll note that there is only one West Coast Mono Label Variation, and no label with times for either song have been found on a West Coast Pressing.
Gizmobob 12th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Meet The Beatles! (1964)	The rarest, yet not most valuable, version of this mono album is the Fourth Pressing from Jacksonville. Although the deadwax displays the Hollywood Star, it was pressed in very small quantities in Jacksonville in 1966 using Hollywood Stampers. This 4th Pressing, Jacksonville, is rarer than a 1st Pressing Stereo. I've only seen a few copies pop up in the past 10 years. Most valuable version is the First Pressing, missing Publishing Credits (no BMI/ASCAP). There are 21 different black/rainbow label variations of the mono and stereo pressings from the '60's.
Gizmobob 12th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Introducing The Beatles [Version One] (1964)	This is the #1 Most Counterfeited Record in the World!