[78-L] Verve Label Colours

[David Lennick]

I have the Spike Jones 4 song disc with yellow & orange, and on a Canadian 
pressing at that. Ditto Ella Fitzgerald's "Hot-a Chocolate" (sp?). I've never 
seen either of the Ricky Nelson discs with anything but black & silver.

dl

agp wrote:
> My turn for a label colour question. In particular can anyone fill in 
> some time lines for the use of the black and silver Verve label 
> versus the orange and yellow Verve label. I'm not sure what year 
> Verve started up, was it maybe 1955? I know that in 1957 they used 
> the black and silver version on the Ricky Nelson releases on 78, but 
> there is also an orange and yellow version of his first release (I'm 
> Walking V-10047). Both it and the second release, You're My One and 
> Only Love V-10070 were on black and silver, I have nver seen a yelow 
> and silver version of the second one, so I wonder if it exists. The 
> anorak in me needs to know
> 
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