Vinyl Album - Vaughn Meader - The First Family - Cadence

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Vaughn Meader
Title:	The First Family
Label:	Cadence
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	CLP 3060 / CLP-3060
Date:	Nov 1962
Format:	Mono LP (also Stereo LP)
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	33 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Vaughn Meader	Act I, Scene 1: The Experiment	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate
A2	Vaughn Meader	Act I, Scene 2: After Dinner Conversation	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate
A3	Vaughn Meader	Act I, Scene 3: The Malayan Ambassador	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate
A4	Vaughn Meader	Act I, Scene 4: Relatively Speaking	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate
A5	Vaughn Meader	Act I, Scene 5: Astronauts	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate
A6	Vaughn Meader	Act I, Scene 6: Motorcade	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate
A7	Vaughn Meader	Act I, Scene 7: The Party	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate
A8	Vaughn Meader	Act I, Scene 8: The Tour	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate
B1	Vaughn Meader	Act II, Scene 1: But Vote!!	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate
B2	Vaughn Meader	Act II, Scene 2: Economy Lunch	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	10.0 Rate
B3	Vaughn Meader	Act II, Scene 3: The Decision	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate
B4	Vaughn Meader	Act II, Scene 4: White House Visitor	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate
B5	Vaughn Meader	Act II, Scene 5: Press Conference	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate
B6	Vaughn Meader	Act II, Scene 6: The Dress	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate
B7	Vaughn Meader	Act II, Scene 7: Saturday Night, Sunday Morning	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate
B8	Vaughn Meader	Act II, Scene 8: Auld Lang Syne	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate
B9	Vaughn Meader	Act II, Scene 9: Bedtime Story	George Foster, Bob Booker, Earle Doud	Rate

Notes

An album of skits poking fun at the Kennedy family and presidential administration, while not mentioning any of them by name. Features voice actors Vaughn Meader, Naomi Brossart, Norma Macmillan, Bob Booker, Jim Lehner, Bob McFadden, Bradley Bolke, Mark Hunter, Chuck McCann, Sara Dolley, Zama Cunningham, plus George Foster and Earle Doud.

Recorded in mono and stereo (CLP 25060) at the Fine Recording Studios, New York City on October 22, 1962.

Among the main companies to press this album were Columbia and RCA Custom, with their respective matrix numbers:
- A side: XTV 86619 (Columbia), NO9P-3072 (RCA)
- B side: XTV 86620 (Columbia), NO9P-3073 (RCA)

Images

Number: 517356 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: mojofilter Edited By: mojofilter Description: The First Family - front cover	Number: 664618 Uploaded By: coveboy Description: Back	Number: 517423 Uploaded By: W.B.lbl Description: A side (label variant from Columbia Records' Bridgeport, CT plant).	Number: 517424 Uploaded By: W.B.lbl Description: B side (label variant from Columbia Records' Bridgeport, CT plant).
Number: 517904 Uploaded By: mojofilter Description: A-side label, RCA Custom pressing (Rockaway, NJ)	Number: 517905 Uploaded By: mojofilter Description: B-side label, RCA Custom pressing (Rockaway, NJ)	Number: 776148 Uploaded By: Vinyl Fan Description: Side A RCA Indianapolis	Number: 776167 Uploaded By: Vinyl Fan Description: Side B RCA Indianapolis
Number: 527913 Uploaded By: TheJudge Description: Variant A-side label (no matrix# shown) (from the image collection of Diognes_The_Fox)	Number: 1230325 Uploaded By: TheDroid Description: A Side Label	Number: 1230326 Uploaded By: TheDroid Description: B Side Label	Number: 1712325 Uploaded By: edlongus SUBS Description: A-side label variant
Number: 1712326 Uploaded By: edlongus SUBS Description: B-side label variant	Number: 2032229 Uploaded By: ZackMcBuick SUBS Description: Cadence CLP 3060 Side (1) - yet another label variety	Number: 2032230 Uploaded By: ZackMcBuick SUBS Description: Cadence CLP 3060 Side (2) - yet another label variety

Comments and Reviews


spacemissing 6th Sep 2021		Yes, there are copies in REAL stereo. I grew up with one, and I have at least one in my present collection. Not sure what pressing, though, and I can't easily check. I believe the one I grew up with had timings listed. On the stereo version the tinkling of glassware in the room is quite directional, so even without looking at the label or the jacket you would know for certain.



W.B.lbl 2nd Sep 2019		There was also another variant, Bert-Co typeset like {Images #1230325 & 1230326}, only with RCA's NO9P numbers rather than Columbia's XTV's on the label - and pressed by RCA Hollywood, with a deep groove same as Rockaway's {Images #517904 & 517905} and Indianapolis' {Images #776148 & 776167}.



ZackMcBuick SUBS 1st Sep 2019		Yet another label variety uploaded in re Images 2032229 / 2032230 which is distinguished from: 517423 / 517424: "The First Family" different typeset; different D.W. no. imprintment 517904 / 517905: Overall obvious use of different typesetting 776148 / 776167: Again, obviously different typesetting (e.g. small caps v. L.C. - 33 1/3 v. 33.3) 527913: Pretty similar, but there is a "with D.W." vs. "without DW" designation imprint distinction 1230325 / 1230326: "The First Family" in much larger typeset; different D.W. no. imprinted 1712325 / 1712326: Pretty similar; but typesetting (and location of phrase "Act I"/ "Act 2" different. Scenes printed in L.C. v. small caps So we have with this upload (so far) seven label varieties!



edlongus SUBS 22nd Jul 2018		Even more label variant scans added. My Mono copy has ACT I/ACT II printed ABOVE the center hole. And by my count, every thrift store in America with a record section has at least ONE copy of this album (plus at least one album by Ray Conniff, Johnny Mathis, Andy Williams and Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass)!!



Break-In Master 30th Oct 2017		Well, yeah, they DID mention them by name, Jack, Jackie, Caroline, Little John (or was it Baby John?), and I'm pretty sure one of the people in the press conference track mentioned the name, Mr. or Pres. Kennedy.



W.B.lbl 30th Dec 2016		Hand-etched 'H's' do indeed indicate a Columbia pressing from Hollywood; that, plus the XTV numbers and newer style pressing ring. (Pitman pressings used Bridgeport's label fonts as on {Images #517423 & 517424}.)



TheDroid 29th Dec 2016		Added a fifth label variant for this release. This has the Columbia matrix numbers listed in the notes section (perhaps a Hollywood pressing as there is hand etched H in deadwax). The front cover of this album came in both a glossy finish or a matte finish.



EMB2014 30th Aug 2016		The ratio of stereo FIRST FAMILY's to mono must have been worse than 80/20, given the handful I've seen relative to the zillions of mono copies you can still find everywhere there are used records. As for the 'stereo' edition, I have a copy, and while it can't really be deemed 'rechanneled' in the normal way we associate that word to Lp sonics, it's not true stereo, either. Sound effects are sometimes panned left-to-right-and-back-again, and voices do move around on occasion, but it seems manipulated and contrived, rather than even an ambient, 'in the studio' sound from a few microphones. One can guess that the unexpected phenomenon that was the album's success may have forced Cadence into asking for a stereo edition; or, having one planned but not expecting much in sales, pressed it in very limited numbers.



W.B.lbl 30th Aug 2016		Very few copies would have been pressed in stereo (in those days, it was a ratio of 80% mono to 20% stereo in terms of LP pressings), and whatever stereo copies on the market would likely have been destroyed upon the JFK assassination. So stereo copies may have existed at the time, before 22 Nov 1963. I did, however, come across at least one stereo pressing in my travels. Never got it, though, as it wasn't a Columbia pressing.



musictom SUBS 26th Aug 2016		Album jacket says in stereo as CLP 25060. However Tim Neely in American Records 1950 to 1975 doesn't list a stereo version. All copies listed on e-bay seem to be mono. Discogs has one listing for a stereo copy, but the picture is impossible to read. Wonder if this was really issued in stereo?



Vinyl Fan 16th Jun 2015		Added label variation scans fmc. This RCA Indianapolis variation has running times next to tracks.



Bill Fick 28th Jun 2014		For people over a certain age, who DIDN'T have this record?



W.B.lbl 21st Apr 2014		Ever notice how Columbia's labels had the running times on each track but RCA's didn't?



mojofilter 21st Apr 2014		RCA Custom labels added. Thanks to W.B.lbl for the Columbia labels.

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Linked Releases

USA - Cadence - 1962 [Stereo]

UK - London - 1963

USA - Cadence - 1963 [Mono]

USA - Cadence - 1963 [Stereo]

Canada - Cadence

USA - Congressional