[78-L] Inner sleeves

[David Lennick]

And some of them came in paper sleeves, and some of them came in very stiff 
cardboard jackets, and some of them had a flap at the top or the side, and some 
of them opened to the left or to the right or were open at the top. Columbia 
went through several types of jacket, including a flimsy piece of paper 
attached to one stiff sheet of cardboard, a sturdy paper sleeve, a flimsy paper 
sleeve etc. Decca, Capitol, MGM and Victor seem to have settled quickly on good 
cardboard sleeves. Mercury jazz and popular LPs (at least in Canada) came in 
glossy heavy duty paper sleeves with a flap on the LEFT, and no liner notes 
(and often no artist info). Some of their classical LPs came in very stiff 
generic cardboard jackets with a die-cut front hole and a catalog on the back, 
so the label was your only indication of the disc's contents. Remingtons were 
first issued in flimsy paper sleeves. All of these were in our house by 1952.

dl

DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> Like many of us, I was around and aware of record developments when the LP was introduced.  I think what we're dealing with here is not the introduction of the inner sleeve but the outer sleeve.  Most 78s were sold in a generic paper sleeve, (although some had an envelope with the record information on it, especially kid's records) and the first LPs were sold in envelopes which were slightly more sturdy with the record's contents described.  In the mid-fifties the cardboard outer sleeve came into common use.
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