[78-L] Durium Hit of the Week 'Hoard'

[joe@salerno.com]

I do not see an accounting for the word "jacket". In LP days, I called a 
cardboard "cover" a "jacket". A sleeve was the paper or plastic (or 
combination) container that housed the record inside the jacket. A box 
corresponded to a jacket, and each record inside the box had its own sleeve.

I never saw any printed for a specific LP, but I did see sleeves printed 
to sell more records. Columbia called theirs the "Inner Sleeve" and 
announced new releases, designing it to look like a newsletter or a 
newspaper. Note: I was collecting only classical records at the time.

joe salerno


Michael Biel wrote:
> From: "Hans en Corrie Koert" <koerthchkz at zeelandnet.nl>
>> We call these paper envelopes in Europe "covers".
>> Is "sleeve" a better description?
> 
> Very good question, and resuming my role as "word police" I don't have a
> definitive answer.  Generally we call things made out of paper "sleeves"
> and those made out of cardboard "covers" but that is not always true. 
> What about the nice cardboard replacements with stitched sides that many
> record stores in Europe used?  I still tend to call them sleeves, but
> apparently Europeans call them covers (?)  What about the thin
> paperboard Tombstone things that Columbia first packaged their first Lps
> in?  I think I have called them by both names, sleeves and covers.  And
> when we got the cardboard version we always call them covers.  Shortly
> afterward cardboard covers came with paper or plastic "inner sleeves". 
> And then there are "picture sleeves", which are printed for specific
> records.  For this last reason, I think that this would put the HOW
> paper wrappers into the sleeve category.  Even though they are printed
> for specific records and are usually not generic, they are like the
> later picture sleeves, and are sleeves.  
> 
> Now, about that word "envelope".  In the philatelic world, what
> civilians call envelopes are called "covers" as in "first-day covers". 
> Too many words.
> 
> But I have heard that it is NOT true that Eskimos have 50 different
> words for "snow".
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  
>  
> 
> 
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