[78-L] Color coded Columbia covers

[Michael Biel]

The first pop music stand covers were pink, and I am trying to remember
if I have seen a pink classical cover in the later cardboard style.  I
do know I have some of the cardboard classical covers in pale yellow.  I
have a JL kids record with a green cover in cardboard, and I don't
remember if I have one in paper.  The Canadian copies were sometimes
different colors.  

The year color-changes is an interesting theory, but I am trying to
consider if Columbia still made any of this type covers past 1949.  It
would be an interesting exercise to see when the early releases were
deleted and which ones got new covers before deletion.  A similar
exercise could be done on RCA Camden albums which got new covers when
the rules were changed to allow for the use of real performer
identities.  

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com    


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [78-L] Color coded Columbia covers
From: Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, July 02, 2009 2:01 pm
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

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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