[78-L] inner sleeves on LPs

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

In Europe, London was the first to use what was called "cristal" paper 
inner bags. In 1950.

BC
Le 8 oct. 08, à 05:16, David Lennick a écrit :

>
> We began collecting LPs in 1950 and were on the promo lists for a few 
> record
> companies by 1954. Seems to me that inner sleeves began to become 
> standard at
> that point, but in varying degrees. Capitol had them for ten-inch, I'm 
> sure RCA
> didn't, nor Columbia and Decca (probably never did for ten-inch..at 
> least in
> Canada). London gave you a paper sleeve AND an outer plastic sleeve 
> which you
> could use as an inner sleeve, and an oversized jacket that allowed 
> room for the
> extra thickness (and which is still too high for the average record 
> shelf).
> Angel always had inner sleeves, no? Was Angel also the first to offer 
> "factory
> sealed" albums?
>
> Box sets had inner sleeves much earlier than single LPs. Columbia and 
> Decca
> used albums (like the old 78 ones), as did the labels they custom 
> pressed like
> Urania..seems to me RCA went immediately to box sets in 1950. By the 
> mid 50s
> Columbia and Decca were putting their album sets in sleeves, inside 
> albums,
> inside slipcases.
>
> In general, "about 1954" seems to be the time for inner sleeves to 
> become
> widespread..most of the ones I see which appear to be original (the 
> Decca
> rounded plastic sleeve, the RCA with lists of New Orthophonic albums, 
> the
> Capitol ones with the pretty girl showing you how to insert it [so to 
> speak]
> and the various Columbia designs) seem to date from this point.
>
> dl
>
> Randy Watts wrote:
>> When did record companies begin using inner sleeves with LPs? I don't 
>> think I've ever seen a 10-inch LP with a paper (or plastic) inner 
>> sleeve that wasn't a replacement.
>>
>> Randy
>>
>>
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