[78-L] Color coded Columbia covers

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Jul 2 10:06:17 PDT 2009


Here's one for Mike Biel, or any others who've researched early LPs. A longtime 
collector whose father was in line to buy the first Lps and the first player in 
1948 says that Columbia's tombstone jackets changed color each year, and as LPs 
were re-pressed and not given original Steinweiss artwork, the covers changed 
color..makes sense, since I've seen early albums with blue and green jackets. 
Any truth to this? The order would probably be

1948:	BLUE
1949:	GREEN
1950:	PINK
1951:	YELLOW (just guessing at the order of these last two)

dl



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