Vinyl Album - Dion - Dion (Abraham, Martin, And John) - Laurie

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Dion
Title:	Dion (Abraham, Martin, And John)
Label:	Laurie
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	SLP 2047
Date:	Nov 1968
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	21 Own, 3 Want
Price Guide:	$20
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PRICE GUIDE

$20

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Dion	Abraham, Martin And John	Dick Holler	10.0 Rate
A2	Dion	Purple Haze	Jimi Hendrix	Rate
A3	Dion	Tomorrow Is A Long Time / Everybody's Talkin'	Bob Dylan / Fred Neil	Rate
A4	Dion	You Better Watch Yourself (Sonny Boy)	L. Hopkins	Rate
A5	Dion	The Dolphins	Fred Neil	Rate
B1	Dion	He Looks A Lot Like Me	Dion DiMucci	Rate
B2	Dion	Sun Fun Song	Dion DiMucci	Rate
B3	Dion	From Both Sides Now	Joni Mitchell	Rate
B4	Dion	Sisters Of Mercy	Leonard Cohen	Rate
B5	Dion	Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever	S. Wonder, I. Hunter	Rate

Notes

BB - Nov. 16, 1968 (advert)

Arranged by John Abbott & Dave Mullaney
Recorded at Allegro Sound Studios
Engineer: Bruce Staple
Produced by Laurie Productions / Phil Gernhard
Cover by Max Bodden
Picture by IDO
Liner Notes by Phil Gernhard

Images

Comments and Reviews


lorangrecords SUBS 3rd Aug 2021		In the fall of 1968, Dion was back in the top 10, on Laurie again with "Abraham, Martin and John", and this album followed. I picked up this album a few years later in a discount bin, and immediately noticed the odd label on it, with the company name absent. I am not sure if it is a bootleg, or if Laurie ran out of gold ink. Hopefully some label and cover variations will be added here. This comment was moved from the notes by Lorangrecords.



leonard ● 15th Jan 2019		Added another label variant with "deep groove"



JWMmusic 12th Apr 2018		The album was released on or close to November 16, 1968 per this link (page 75).



TheDroid 13th Jan 2016		Added a third label variant from Monarch Records, Los Angeles, CA. The deltas for this are: Side One Δ 12612. Side Two Δ 12612-X.



W.B.lbl 9th Jan 2015		The "deep groove" as on {Images #642413 & 642416} is actually in reference to the circular indentation in the label area (with RCA pressings, an outer diameter of approx. 2.8125" and inner diameter of approx. 2.71875"). During 1968 RCA's Indianapolis plant had their LP pressing dies re-tooled away from the deep grooves that dated to the 78 RPM era in the 1940's, towards a small 1" diameter pressing ring that was already on 7" 33⅓ RPM pressings that RCA plants turned out - and, on here, is seen on {Images #511083 & 511084}. Therefore, the "regular" Laurie label, in order of production, may or may not have preceded the plain yellow label. (The changeover from deep groove to 1" ring would be applied to RCA's Rockaway, NJ plant in 1969, Hollywood in 1970, and Smiths Falls, Ontario around 1971.)



Trainman 9th Jan 2015		Added scans of the regular Laurie Label. Interesting tidbit I found on an old album re: the "deep groove". That was part of the "Gruve Gard" system. Back in the mid 50's RCA was promoting this. The idea was the raised ring in the center and a raised edge around the outer edge were supposed to protect the grooves when the records were stacked on a changer



W.B.lbl 4th Jun 2014		RCA Victor's Indianapolis, IN plant which pressed the {Images #511083 & 511084} variant, may have actually run out of Laurie LP label blanks at the time, hence their using generic yellow labels. At the time, they were the only plant amongst those owned and operated by RCA at the time, to use a 1" diameter pressing ring in the label area; Rockaway, NJ and Hollywood, CA both still had the old-style "deep groove" for a while longer - the former to fall 1969, the latter to fall 1970. I've been to Sony Music archives, and in my research came across three-ring-bound books with mounds of LP and 45 label sheet proofs printed between December 1972 and April 1978 by CBS Records' Graphics Department. The Laurie LP label design's bleed measured 4.140625" (approx.), to fit the RCA label sheet template whose LP labels were stepped 4.15625" center-to-center. Except on the proof printed by Columbia, the aforementioned labels had been stepped 4.25" center-to-center.

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Linked Releases

Australia - Horizon - 1971

USA - Laurie - 1976