BB Top Album Picks: July 25, 1981
BB New LP / Tape Releases: July 25, 1981
BB Full Page Ad: August 1, 1981 Escape debuted on the BB Top LPs & Tape chart on August 8, 1981 at #13
Produced by Mike Stone and Kevin Elson
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Number:848334 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By:checkm8 Description: Front Cover
Number:848335 Uploaded By:checkm8 Description: Back Cover
Number:848337 Uploaded By:checkm8 Description: Record Sleeve - Front
Number:848336 Uploaded By:checkm8 Description: Record Sleeve - Back
Number:848338 Uploaded By:checkm8 Description: Side 1 Label
Number:848339 Uploaded By:checkm8 Description: Side 2 Label
I don't doubt your expertise, but didn't US Columbia album prefix codes go from KC to PC to JC to FC?
Unless this is a Canadian copy.
Missed out PC first time around... I see now, looks like around 1981/1982 TC prefix followed on from JC, but older product kept the JC code which would I guess translate to a lower retail price.
When I was busy importing in 1978 to 1981 JC prefixes were $7.98 retail, (the then top price for a Columbia single album) and therefore cost me more wholesale.
I think the number shown as catalogue number BL 37808, is actually the Side B matrix number, although I'm not sure if the catalogue number is actually 37808, but 37408.
These should be the correct numbers.....
Matrix Side A - AL 37408
Matrix Side B - BL 37408
Columbia catalogue number (on spine of sleeve) – FC 37408 (also on labels)
There is also a Columbia Half-Speed Master Vinyl Album available, HC 47408, a CD, CK 37408, and the Canadian album version is TC 37408, and has the same matrices as the US copy as listed above.
For your information, next consecutive catalogue number was FC 37409 Wings - At The Speed Of Sound, 1980 Columbia reissue, Matrices: AL 37409, BL 37409.