Vinyl Albums - Comments by W.B.lbl

Vinyl Albums - Comments by W.B.lbl

« Member Page

Page 3 of 48 : Previous : Next :

Member	Item		Review/Comment
W.B.lbl 23rd May 2024		Vinyl Album Bob Dylan - Hard Rain (1976)	Frankly, the Pitman {Images #1838996 & 1838997} is better laid out than Santa Maria's {Images #1122997 & 1123001}.
W.B.lbl 23rd May 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - FM (1978)	Which label released this came with an irony, as within a year Steely Dan, Jimmy Buffett and Tom Petty would be on MCA or, in the last-named's case initially, a subsidiary, while Boston would end up on MCA later in the next decade.
W.B.lbl 18th May 2024		Vinyl Album Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (1973)	No, 'SON' in this case was Sonic Recording Products of Holbrook, NY. The combo of pressing ring and label fonts gave that away.
W.B.lbl 16th May 2024		Vinyl Album Raspberries - Raspberries (1972)	Looks like {Images #648375 & 648376} was from Winchester, and {Images #1550934 & 1550935} from Los Angeles. The pressing rings are the key to identification (Winchester's was between 35.0 and 35.5mm, Jacksonville's ~38.3mm, and Los Angeles' ~39.7mm.) NOTE: Also came in Record Club Of America and Columbia House versions. (Don't know about RCA Music Service, though it could have.)
W.B.lbl 16th May 2024		Vinyl Album Sunny - Doctor's Orders (1974)	Had this album come out in the U.S., it would have been on Epic, issued with a KE prefix somewhere in the 33200 range. Alas, they never did so - not even after Carol Douglas' version of the title track "made it" in the States.
W.B.lbl 15th May 2024		Vinyl Album The Toys - The Toys Sing "A Lover's Concerto" And "Attack" (1966)	{Images #3564089 & 3564090}, though using Columbia Pitman type of the period, would have to be from 1967, as it's an early copy with a small slight indent of 11.1mm (0.4370") on Side 2, which the RIAA would designate in their 1978 standards for record manufacture as "center of gravity."
W.B.lbl 12th May 2024		Vinyl Album Murray Perahia - Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Posthumous Etudes, Papillons (1977)	Looks like this time on the grey-and-amber label, the lighter PMS 143 was used for the brownish orange rather than the deeper PMS 144, alongside PMS 404 Grey.
W.B.lbl 12th May 2024		Vinyl Album The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! (1976)	{Images #3561837 & 3561838} is of the original ST-2663 ish', and does not belong in this reissue entry.
W.B.lbl 10th May 2024		Vinyl Album Frank Rosolino - Kenton Jazz Presents Frank Rosolino (1954)	The series was actually called "Kenton Presents Jazz." Unfortunately, the way the logo was laid out . . .
W.B.lbl 8th May 2024		Vinyl Album Sam Cooke - The Best Of Sam Cooke (1962)	Frankly, AFL1-2625 should be spun off. Though {Images #3559096 & 3559097} is a later pressings, this does bear the original cat. # - and more important, the matrix numbers.
W.B.lbl 8th May 2024		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - The Green Hornet (1966)	Sounds like this was prepared and released in anticipation of the short-lived TV series . . .
W.B.lbl 7th May 2024		Vinyl Album B. J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (1969)	Without question, the Pitman {Images #1087206 & 1087207} smites the Terre Haute {Images #3558206 & 3558207} in terms of type layout hands down.
W.B.lbl 7th May 2024		Vinyl Album Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio - Selections From "The Female Prisoner" (La Prisonnière) (1969)	Looks like the c.1970-73 {Images #3558261 & 3558262} pressing used PMS 404 Grey and PMS 144 Orange (a bit deeper than the PMS 137 used in connection with PMS 199 for the pop label). In any event, original pressings would've been 2-eye.
W.B.lbl 6th May 2024		Vinyl Album Seals And Crofts - I And II (1974)	Somehow, I'm not surprised . . .
W.B.lbl 3rd May 2024		Vinyl Album Barry White - Barry White Sings For Someone You Love (1977)	There was another variant, one with the label design as on {Images #1757708 & 1757709}, but with the rim print showing the address as 8255 Sunset Blvd.
W.B.lbl 3rd May 2024		Vinyl Album The Orioles - The Orioles	Glad you asked, both sides of that cover (front AND back) have modern phototypesetting. Also notice, on the top right of the back cover {Image #3554972}, "1024" inserted. Notice how it's in a different font from the "JLP." F.T.R., the front cover's type also screams "1970's phototypesetting." There were a couple of alternatives to Harris and to Linotype - I wonder if this was Alphatype's version of Times New Roman Bold. (If not them, whom? Any 1970's phototypesetting mavens on the boards here?)
W.B.lbl 3rd May 2024		Vinyl Album The Orioles - The Orioles	This does seem like a bootleg - especially given the use of a phototypesetting version of Times New Roman with Bold that was in use in some printing houses in the 1970's. In short, this would not have been made in the '50's. Indeed, I wonder if this and the copy actually marked 'bootleg' shouldn't be merged?
W.B.lbl 30th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Benny Goodman Quartet - Together Again! (1964)	Given where recorded and when released, shouldn't the prefix be PR4S- ?
W.B.lbl 27th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Carroll O'Connor - Remembering You (1972)	No question. The Columbia Pitman {Images #1692661 & 1692662} layout wins hands down over ALCO-typeset, Monarch-pressed {Images #3549546 & 3549547}.
W.B.lbl 27th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Charles Rosen - Pierre Boulez: Piano Sonata No. 1, Piano Sonata No. 3: Trope, Constellation (1973)	Looks like, in the early years of this design, PMS 404 Grey and PMS 144 Orange were used, before the latter was replaced with the somewhat lighter PMS 143.
W.B.lbl 27th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Hot Ones (1978)	What pressing plant would "55" be, anyway?
W.B.lbl 26th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Sonny Boy Williamson [II] - The Real Folk Blues (1987)	Moved original 1966 LP to its own entry.
W.B.lbl 26th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Bob Newhart - The Button-Down Mind Of Bob Newhart (1960)	Records with those patent numbers in the deadwax were pressed by Research Craft in Los Angeles, CA. Its president, Allan R. Ellsworth, was the holder of those patents. RE23946 was a reissue of US2631859 - which Capitol acquired title to in 1956.
W.B.lbl 26th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album John Lennon - Walls And Bridges (1978)	Had there been a Columbia House issue of this, the cat. # would have been shown as SW 503416.
W.B.lbl 26th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album John Lennon - John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band (1978)	Had a Columbia House issue been made of this, no doubt the cat. # would have been SW 503372.
W.B.lbl 24th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Dionne Warwick - Dionne Warwick's Golden Hits (1967)	Notice one track that is conspicuously missing from this set, though it was also a big hit - "Message To Michael." This was the number that, despite Bacharach and David having written it, they had absolutely nothing to do with its production, which was made in France and essentially produced by Ms. Warwick herself, albeit credited to their entity "Blue Jac Productions." (This seemed to be made up for when compiling Part 2, though.)
W.B.lbl 24th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Alfred Hitchcock - Music To Be Murdered By (1958)	"Wilson" on A5 would have been Stanley Wilson, music supervisor for Alfred Hitchcock Presents; no doubt it was his arrangement on Gounod's "Funeral March Of A Marionette." Also, if this were proposed, say, five years later, would it have been on Decca?
W.B.lbl 24th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Alfred Hitchcock - Music To Be Murdered By (1958)	From what I could see as here, Sides 1 and 2 are of the same order as on the stereo. Says so on the back cover, and the matrix numbers are such: - Side 1 (begins with "Music To Be Murdered By") - IX-105 - Side 2 (begins with "Suspicion") - IX-106 Also . . . were this done five years later, would it have been on Decca (given, by then, his having moved to Universal to make his movies, starting with The Birds?
W.B.lbl 21st Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Deodato - Prelude (1973)	Added original label variant from Columbia Pitman; Side 1 {Image #3544623} has an old-style deep groove whose inner diameter is 68.2mm (2.6850") and whose outer diameter is 70.7mm (2.7835"). (Side 2's {Image #3544624} pressing ring is 68.6mm [2.7008"].)
W.B.lbl 19th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Years Of #1 Hits (1973)	I noticed another #1 missing from this set - Mitch Miller's "The Yellow Rose Of Texas" from 1955. They were also stretching it on "Cry," as: a) its #1 run began at the very end of 1951, and b) it was on OKeh; but its very success led to Johnnie Ray being moved to the main Columbia label for the rest of his time with the company. But even in their consideration of the other two charts in fashioning this, there was something conspicuously absent: Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" (a Cash Box #1 in 1965). Yet that Johnny Mathis' "Chances Are" is on this is also, in a way, a reflection on the "Whitburnization" of chart compilations; it only made #1 on Billboard's "Most Played by Jockeys" chart. And don't get me started on the fake stereo used on the early years' of selections.

Page 3 of 48 : Previous : Next :