Vinyl Albums - Comments by W.B.lbl

Vinyl Albums - Comments by W.B.lbl

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2025		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 24 Groovy Greats (1965)	I doubt it's 1965. There are a few tracks from 1966 on this LP. 1967 at the latest.
W.B.lbl 25th Feb 2025		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Super Stars, Super Hits No.2 (1968)	I have {Images #3793921 & 3793922} . . .
W.B.lbl 23rd Feb 2025		Vinyl Album Noël Coward - The Noel Coward Album (1970)	The Columbia Masterworks label colors ({Images #3793271, 3793272, 3793274 & 3793277}) appear here to be PMS 404 Grey and PMS 144 Orange.
W.B.lbl 22nd Feb 2025		Vinyl Album Tom Jones - This Is Tom Jones (1969)	It was pressed by Decca/MCA. In Pinckneyville, IL. They also pressed Capitol LP's, the result of Longines taking over operations of the Capitol Record Club in late 1968. Of course, the ~24.7mm pressing ring and label fonts are other giveaways.
W.B.lbl 22nd Feb 2025		Vinyl Album Carole King - Tapestry (1971)	It, at the very least, was certainly prepared for release (i.e. jacket printing, label printing, pressing) in February, if the Pitman variant {Images #459299 & 459300} is of any indication; for a period dating to late 1969 up to around this point, whenever anything was set in 12 point Erbar Bold Condensed that had a hyphen, they used a hyphen from the 10 point size (as is clearly in evidence on the 'SP-77009' line). Compare to that font on her next LP release, Carole King Music. But also, the regular 12 point hyphen returned by the time Ode '70 released her "It's Too Late" / "I Feel The Earth Move" single. That's not counting, on the lines set in 6 point Spartan Heavy Condensed spelling out the matrix numbers, the use of an 'en-dash' rather than a hyphen.
W.B.lbl 21st Feb 2025		Vinyl Album Charles Wright And The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself (1970)	Here, y'all ain't gon' get any argument from me on that. Not only do I much prefer the mono o' this, I prefer this "Express Yourself" to Madonna's.
W.B.lbl 10th Feb 2025		Vinyl Album Hill Bowen And His Orchestra - Romantic Strings Play Dancing In The Dark (1963)	No way was this 1969. Aside from the deep groove, the record label design and matrix numbers (P2RS- prefices indicate this was processed thru' RCA's Thesaurus division) point this to 1963.
W.B.lbl 6th Feb 2025		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Great CBS Masterworks Recordings Of Baroque Favorites From "Kramer Vs. Kramer" (1980)	I know the new {Images #3780872 & 3780873} was Santa Maria, but which plant pressed {Images #3035720 & 3035721} - Pitman, or Terre Haute? I know that all plants were burning off what was left of "Columbia Masterworks" label stock (the color scheme at this point PMS 404 Grey and PMS 143 Orange), but the front cover {Image #3035718} has the label as CBS Masterworks.
W.B.lbl 22nd Jan 2025		Vinyl Album Deep Purple - The Book Of Taliesyn (1968)	{Images #2681823 & 2681825} would have been pressed after Bill Cosby bailed out of the Tetragrammaton partnership. Both that and {Images #982703 & 982704} had label typesetting from Columbia Pitman.
W.B.lbl 19th Jan 2025		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Festival Of Light Classical Music (1960)	Given the L7OP- prefix, shouldn't this release be 1960? Also, this is a 12-record set.
W.B.lbl 17th Jan 2025		Vinyl Album Peter Sarstedt - As Though It Were A Movie (1969)	Sounds like it's contingent on which pressing plant turned out which copy that had which label. {Images #1897117 & 1897118} was pressed by All Disc in Roselle, NJ, with Progressive Label & Litho type - and they were apparently the ones that turned out the World Pacific Jazz copies. Sounds like there was a blurring of what was what, once Pacific Jazz turned into World Pacific Jazz after the label designs were revamped to mention Liberty/UA, Inc., in the rim print.
W.B.lbl 16th Jan 2025		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Great Operettas (1962)	Based on the matrix numbers, the original release would have been 1962; but no doubt this was in the active catalogue for years and years.
W.B.lbl 12th Jan 2025		Vinyl Album Paul Robeson - Spirituals (1949)	Although the grey-label {Images #1956263 & 1956264} looks like 1961, judging from the pressing ring, but also it was before 'CBS' was added between 'COLUMBIA' and 'MASTERWORKS' on the top logohead.
W.B.lbl 19th Dec 2024		Vinyl Album Olivia Newton-John - Music Makes My Day (1974)	And the back cover {Image #794318} photo would be used as the front cover for her 1974 U.S. MCA Lp If You Love Me, Let Me Know.
W.B.lbl 7th Dec 2024		Vinyl Album The DeFranco Family Featuring Tony DeFranco - Save The Last Dance For Me (1974)	Added Pitman variant, finally.
W.B.lbl 2nd Dec 2024		Vinyl Album Vaughn Meader - Have Some Nuts!!! (1963)	I presume just before that day in Dallas. Alas, it turned out to be too little, too late.
W.B.lbl 30th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Hal Holbrook - Mark Twain Tonight	Ahem . . . it was issued both in mono and stereo in 1959. The first pressings would have had the 'six eye' design, as on here. Copies also exist on both forms of two-eye labels (pre- and post-1965) and the 1970-80 'ring around Columbia' Masterworks variant design.
W.B.lbl 27th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Two Hearts In 3/4 Time (1969)	Shouldn't the mono release be put in a separate entry?
W.B.lbl 24th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album The Rev. Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. - In Search Of Freedom (1968)	Funny that, in the type department, {Images #3722313 & 3722314} was from Columbia Pitman. I'm grateful, don't get me wrong, but for something that was put out more as a public service . . .
W.B.lbl 18th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Frampton's Camel - Frampton's Camel (1973)	{Images #3720224 & 3720225} is Columbia Terre Haute. A Columbia Pitman variant also exists.
W.B.lbl 16th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Jackie Lomax - Is This What You Want? (1969)	Notice, in the credits, only one Beatle was NOT involved: John Lennon.
W.B.lbl 15th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album The Ramsey Lewis Trio + Jean DuShon - You Better Believe Me (1965)	Funny, that was just duly changed.
W.B.lbl 14th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Walt Disney Presents The Original Soundtrack Of "Mary Poppins" (1964)	RCA had a special cat. # for this, suggesting that their issue was for customers of their Record Club.
W.B.lbl 7th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album "Big" Tiny Little - Honky Tonk Piano (1959)	A4 was for years the theme of The Joe Franklin Show on WOR-TV (Channel 9) in New York.
W.B.lbl 30th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Bobby Sherman - Bobby Sherman's Greatest Hits Volume 1 (1972)	Where was {Images #2383117 & 2383118} pressed, is my question. I could tell somewhat that Columbia Terre Haute pressed {Images #514168 & 514169} and Pitman {Images #1909664 & 1909665}. I also wonder if the affected plant that printed on the yellow label didn't have the blanks the other plants had.
W.B.lbl 29th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Morgana King - New Beginnings... (1973)	A variant with Columbia Pitman typesetting exists.
W.B.lbl 27th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Tyrone Davis - Without You In My Life (1972)	Also came in a Columbia Pitman label typesetting variant.
W.B.lbl 14th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Let It Be (1970)	That would've been on the second run of pressings as on {Image #451696}.
W.B.lbl 10th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Glenn Miller And His Orchestra - Glenn Miller (1969)	What's more, a true "reissue" with said earlier design would have had the label colored tan rather than orange.
W.B.lbl 4th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Glenn Miller And His Orchestra - Glenn Miller (1969)	The orange-label {Images #1618694, 1618696, 1618698 & 1618699} would have been on first-release; it would only qualify as a "reissue" if the paper were uncoated finish rather than coated as it was when this first came out in '69. The "black label, dog near top" as on {Images #1618689, 1618690, 1618691 & 1618692} was first inaugurated in the Summer of 1976, and thus pressed after that.

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