Hi, many thanks for your insite into what I think would make a very interesting book or an additional info page for both websites as it think it would be of value to collectors. 45cat is useful when working out when labels changed colour or wording. This site I think will be more difficult to achieve at this current stage, but I think most LPs changed at more or less the same time as there seven inch counterpart. If I were you, I'd contact the websites modulator if you like my idea.
Hi, again, Duckeggs001, You mentioned year dates. That was something missing off our labels until around 1971/72. Britain had that info from 1958, initially as "Recording First Published.....", then from 1965 or so, the year shown after an encircled 'P'(though Pye persisted with "Recording First Published...." until well into 1965. That was something else I really appreciated about British singles, though that info was not universally seen on all American or Canadian singles and not all European discs had that info either.
Hi Duckeggs001. From the time I got hold of my first imported single(Stevie Wonder's "I'm Wondering" - Tamla T-54157), I've always taken notice of label layouts and particularly how publishing company credits are shown. Here in Australia until late 1969, publishing credits were shown like trademarks(royalty stamp designs printed directly to the label). They looked ugly and took up vital "real estate" on the label which could've been put to better use. Then, in 1969 the put the publishing credit, as one word, alongside the composer credit. This was still wrong! Instead of seeing (for example) E.H. Morris & Co. Ltd., you just saw "Morris". J. Albert & Son Ltd. was reduced to "Albert". The British labels got it right! And yes, I do participate on 45cat, I was on that site before I joined here. I'd like to be able to post an example of how an Australian label SHOULD HAVE BEEN laid out... It would NOT be authentic, I know, but it would be a way to illustrate my point.
Hi Neil. Interesting comment well made, I have noticed some unbelievable lack of info on non British LPs over the years and like you have wondered why our example of have the Composer, Year Date and most of the time the Producers and other production info get listed. However do look at 45cat, I find in most cases American Singles more informative than Uk ones as they usually list the orchestra Name and Conductor. Incredible really when you consider most of the London Uk catalogue is made up of American Singles. Also if you're looking for a quick example look at Bobby Vee's singles. From the point of view of this website having all the data in one place saves a great deal of time when listing records. Please note I only put the labels up, the data was done by another member.
Oh I do love these British labels! Look at how the publishing credits are listed, exactly where and how they SHOULD be shown! Australian record companies would've done well to follow the British example. I look upon our examples from the major companies with a degree of shame when I compare them to their UK counterparts, though Astor and some other smaller operations did at least try to get it right(Sweet Peach, in South Australia, and Tempo in Victoria are two that made an effort, congrats to them for that much), but for the rest, a poor showing indeed!