[78-L] Album covers & sleeve info

[David Lennick]

And then once the LP era came along, both Columbia and Victor went back to 
generic covers for many of their late 78 classical albums!

Columbias began showing dates in tiny print on the front covers sometime after 
the war, but these are copyright dates for the artwork. Don't Decca's booklets 
often show a printing date?

dl

Ted Kneebone wrote:
> In going thru part of my "collection" of 78s, I find both albums and 
> sleeves.
> 
> 1.  Albums go from plain to very plain.  Just the name of the work, 
> performers, album number.  My copy of the Bloch Concerto Grosso is brown and 
> very plain, with gold stamping, Victor.
> 2.  The Columbia albums are either blue or green with circles containing the 
> info. And most of them are grey with info in a box.  Very plain.
> 3.  The sleeves are interesting. Acoustic sleeves sometimes have line 
> drawings of the artist.  On the back are lists of other records by same 
> artist, or other artist. The acoustic sleeves are really quite interesting: 
> type styles, line drawings of artists, line drawings of phonographs, etc. 
> The electric era was boring in comparison.
> 4.  The sleeves for electric discs say "Victor" or "Columbia" and on the 
> reverse are long lists of other classical discs.
> 5.  Record companies of the day seemed to want to hide dates from the 
> consumers. I don't think I have a single record, album, or sleeve with a 
> date.  LP era didn't change that.  That really frustrated me in my duties as 
> cataloger of LPs at Northern State.  The printed LC cards had dates.  I 
> don't know where the LC librarians found the dates.  I think it was sometime 
> in the late 1960s or early 1970s when dates started appearing on the versos 
> of LP jackets.  I don't recall ever finding dates on the record labels.  The 
> CD era changed all that.  Most of my CDs have dates.
> 6.  I have tried to scan some of my sleeves and albums, but for some reason 
> I can't locate them on my computer when done scanning!  Maybe I don't know 
> how to use this new HP scanner.  Think I will go back to my Acer.
> 
> Ted Kneebone. 1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401. Phone: 605-226-3344.
> 
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