[78-L] Color coded Columbia covers

[David Lennick]

Just checked a few Canadian pressings..JL 8002 (Many Moons + The Eager Piano) 
in blue AND green jackets, red label (they'd have gone to orange label by 
1951). CL 6006, Continental Tangos, pink jacket, red label.

Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit (Milhaud), Mitropoulos/Minneapolis is ML 2032.

dl

David Lennick wrote:
> Michael Biel wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit, cardboard, pink, US pressing.
> 
>> 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.  
> 
> Canada may not have changed the covers any more than necessary, which is why 
> I'm not citing Canadian covers..they kept the "card" style jacket into 1951 or '52.
>> 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    
> 
> Columbia also used odd forms, like a piece of cardboard with a piece of paper 
> glued to it, and THAT was supposed to house the record. Plus of course the 
> paper sleeves on the first albums.
> 
> I'm sure I have a few red label discs in blue jackets..just have to check on 
> whether they're US or Canadian.
> 
> dl
> 
>>
>> -------- 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