[78-L] Color coded Columbia covers

[Royal Pemberton]

I'd wonder if they were just colour-coordinated to match the record
labels?  I've seen pix of red tombstone sleeves of early pop items,
for instance.

On 7/2/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 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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