Vinyl Album - Winston Churchill - The Famous I Can Hear It Now Album - Columbia Masterworks

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Winston Churchill
Title:	The Famous I Can Hear It Now Album
Label:	Columbia Masterworks
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	KOL 7000
Date:	Jan 1965
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Winston Churchill	Side 1		Rate
B1	Winston Churchill	Side 2		Rate

Notes

Narrated by Edward R. Murrow, with the voices of Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and Neville Chamberlain. Edited by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. Gatefold cover, with 15 page booklet.

Originally released in 1955 as ML 5066, then prefix changed to KL 5066

This release was a few months before Edward R. Murrow's own death

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W.B.lbl 11th Nov 2023		Oh, its reissue - and it was definitely Columbia Masterworks - was definitely pegged to Churchill's death, that's for sure. When this was first released, they still had the two-eye with "Guaranteed High Fidelity" in black print above the rim print. The John Beaman article was originally printed in 1959 in The New York Times, thus the "Reprinted by permission" notice. 1969-70 back-catalogue mono album pressings on Columbia Masterworks that are shorn of any "Masterworks" references on the label remind me of 1939-41 Masterworks 78's that use the regular Columbia design but are colored dark blue or dark green rather than maroon red. I had mentioned that the mono Columbia Masterworks design at that stage had gotten lost or destroyed or whatever; here is what that label design would have looked like.



edlongus SUBS 10th Nov 2023		W.B.lbl, I wasn't sure entering this, if it was a Columbia release (per the labels) or a Columbia Masterworks release (per the first page of the booklet and the back cover, upper-right)?!? There is also a 1959 reference on the right-gatefold cover. I based my original release month and year of this reissue on the article here (under the heading 'Churchill Death').



W.B.lbl 10th Nov 2023		{Images #3414964 & 3414965} was a pressing made between 1969 and 1970, by which time apparently the artwork for the Columbia Masterworks mono label design somehow got lost, and they were reduced to using the 1967-70 variant of the mono pop label (only using PMS 424 or 425 Grey instead of PMS 199 Red). (Click here for the usual color for this design layout.) This factor may've been the spur to radically redesign both the pop and Masterworks label designs to the "ring around" layout beginning in 1970 (sunburst orange on the red, amber orangeish yellow on the warm grey).

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Linked Releases

USA - Columbia Masterworks - 1955

UK - CBS - 1965