Vinyl Albums - Comments by W.B.lbl

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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.
W.B.lbl 18th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Tokens - It's A Happening World (1967)	Columbia's plants appear to have been among the first to have an indented "center of gravity" ring measuring 11.1mm (0.4370") on LP pressings; Santa Maria's were among the more pronounced, and I suppose it was they that pressed {Images #688428 & 688429}.
W.B.lbl 18th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Lee Morgan - Cornbread (1975)	Shouldn't the mono {Image #3542561 & 3542562} cover and {Images #3542563 & 3542564} label get its own mono entry? Given that this is the '75 re-pressing of the stereo, and there's already an original '65 stereo on here?
W.B.lbl 17th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Homer And Jethro - Fractured Folk Songs (1964)	One of my favorites from this . . . [YouTube Video]
W.B.lbl 14th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Mimi And Richard Farina - The Best Of Mimi And Richard Farina (1971)	Added labels for this set, with Pitman, NJ type, pressed in Santa Maria, CA.
W.B.lbl 12th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Vaughn Meader - Vaughn Meader And The First Family (1963)	It just occurred to me: {Image #518060}'s label copy was printed upside-down in relation to the position of the Cadence label design, compared with {Image #518059}.
W.B.lbl 12th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Sonny Stitt And Bunky Green - Soul In The Night (1966)	The labels {Images #3537535 & 3537536} were of the mono issue, for which a new entry has been created.
W.B.lbl 12th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Robert Francis Kennedy - Robert Francis Kennedy...A Memorial... (1968)	This would have been one of the last, on the mono disc, to use the 2-eye mono label as was on {Images #2378141 & 2378142}; around 1969 the artwork for that design was lost or whatever, and for back-catalogue mono-only LP's they were reduced to using the 2-eye mono design for the pop Columbia label, only using PMS 424 or 425 Grey rather than the usual PMS 199 Red.
W.B.lbl 12th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album André Kostelanetz And His Orchestra - Strauss Waltzes (1948)	{Images #2455157 & 2455158} would be a Bridgeport pressing from the U.S., was this somehow sold in Canada?
W.B.lbl 11th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Sammy Davis Jr. - Now (1972)	Added Columbia Pitman type variant.
W.B.lbl 11th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Just Us - I Can't Grow Peaches On A Cherry Tree (1966)	{Images #3536607 & 3536608} looks like an RCA Hollywood pressing with Bert-Co label type, no?
W.B.lbl 11th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Beatles - The Beatles' Story (1964)	Had this and other Beatles' albums been available from Columbia House, their version would have been STBO 502222.
W.B.lbl 9th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Paul Revere And The Raiders - Here They Come (1965)	Track B6 was included in the 1967 Columbia Special Products compilation SUPERstars - superHITS. It wasn't exactly a "hit."
W.B.lbl 9th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Paul Revere And The Raiders - Here They Come! (1965)	{Images #3534988 & 3534989} would date to between August and December 1965 in terms of when pressed.
W.B.lbl 7th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Years Of #1 Hits (1973)	Also . . . noticeably absent from this compilation was Steve Lawrence's "Go Away Little Girl" which made #1 in early '63. Columbia most likely lost the rights to that after he and Eydie Gorme left the label. And one wonders if Paul Simon had veto power, due to the absence of the three #1's he and Art Garfunkel had ("The Sounds Of Silence," "Mrs. Robinson," "Bridge Over Troubled Water"). It also looks like they figured in what made #1 on the Cash Box and/or Record World charts as well as Billboard in compiling this. (It was for the reasons of the label losing the rights to certain masters why Jo Stafford's biggest hit for them - 1952's "You Belong To Me" - was likewise conspicuously absent.)
W.B.lbl 7th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Vladimir Horowitz - Schumann Kinderscenen And Chopin Mazurkas (1950)	I know that when RCA Victor first pressed LP's in early 1950, their center label size at die-cutting was 103.5mm (4.0748"), a size which was more or less used on their 78's from the mid-1910's (around the time the "batwing" label design was first introduced) to about 1920. When pressed onto the record the label size was shrunk by ~0.65%, to approx. 102.83mm (4.0483"). Would I be close in the label measurements here as on {Images #3533688 & 3533689}?
W.B.lbl 7th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)	As you can see, I go by a lot of criteria - pressing rings are one, the higher lacquer numbers compared with early pressings are another. But glad you could confirm your copy was later.
W.B.lbl 6th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The O'Jays - In Philadelphia (1973)	Added Terre Haute, IN first-pressing with Pitman, NJ typesetting.
W.B.lbl 6th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The O'Jays - In Philadelphia (1970)	And that Billy Paul LP, at the earliest, may've been May or June '70.
W.B.lbl 6th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The O'Jays - In Philadelphia (1970)	Added Columbia Pitman variant. The earliest this may've come out would've been July 1970; but not only the Chess matrix numbers but also the Columbia Chicago XCSV numbers pinpoint this timeline. And yes, 1969 was when these tracks were recorded. A few from those initial O'Jays sessions with Gamble-Huff didn't make it onto this album, namely "One Night Affair's" B side, "There's Someone (Waiting Back Home)," and "Christmas Ain't Christmas New Years Ain't New Years Without The One You Love."
W.B.lbl 4th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Eddie Rabbitt - Variations (1978)	Actually pressed by Columbia, in spite of the 'PRC-W' code being copied from PRC-Compton pressings.
W.B.lbl 4th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Joe South - Introspect (1968)	Also in existence is a Scranton variant.
W.B.lbl 4th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Merle Haggard And The Strangers - Close-Up Merle Haggard (1969)	With this "Close-Up" series, I suppose it was a good thing The Beatles' contract was renegotiated prior to the making and release of Sgt. Pepper, I shudder to think what a Close-Up The Beatles set would have looked like.
W.B.lbl 4th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Sonny James - Empty Arms (1971)	80734 was the record club version; the original was SW-734.
W.B.lbl 4th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Carl Smith - The Carl Smith Touch (1960)	The original album was 1960, but I doubt this reissue was. I suspect this was more 1963-64 or so. Also . . . don't you think in that pic he looks almost like a straight-arrow version of Nick Lowe?
W.B.lbl 2nd Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Alain Barrière - Une Chanson (1981)	Seeing the cover in postage-stamp size, I thought that was Hoyt Axton . . .
W.B.lbl 1st Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Years Of #1 Hits (1973)	We're still waiting here, but on the other side, here's how Pitman laid everything out.
W.B.lbl 30th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album The DeFranco Family Featuring Tony DeFranco - Save The Last Dance For Me (1974)	Each of Columbia's three pressing plants contributed their own label type for this. {Images #1118922 & 1118923} is Santa Maria. The other database also has a Terre Haute variant. Neither this nor the other has what I have: a Pitman. Unfortunately, that copy is not accessible to me at this point. There was a Pitman variant on eBay that ended with a sale in January (click here, but it's time sensitive). Suffice it to say, Pitman's type layout was way different. That copy also appears to be the latest Pitman used "deep groove," meaning the last such copies would have been in 1974.
W.B.lbl 29th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Barry White - Is This Whatcha Wont? (1976)	Something tells me {Image #3443846} belongs over here, given the reference to Pye and Precision Tapes. Images moved to UK release (mod.edit)
W.B.lbl 28th Mar 2024		Vinyl Album Barry White - Is This Whatcha Wont? (1976)	Added Columbia Pitman pressing with older 8255 Sunset Blvd. address in label rim print.

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