[78-L] Capitol Compact 33s

[Randy Watts]

The last Capitol album I could find noted in Ruppli's Capitol discography as being issued as what he calls a "7 in. LP" was Merle Haggard's SOMEDAY WE'LL LOOK BACK, from 1971. From the mid-late 1960s on the format seems to have been used exclusively for "adult pop" artists and country music material.

For whatever reason, the CD reissue of Judy Garland's THE GARLAND TOUCH album has the "Capitol Compact 33" logo across the top of the CD.

Randy

--- On Sun, 2/28/10, Sean Miller <smille1 at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> Jukebox only issues by Capitol on
> compact "mini LPS" and many other
> companies lasted way into the 1970s.  Beatles '65
> wasn't issued in that
> format, true, nor were any other Beatles issues after
> Something New, but
> lots of other Capitol stuff was, like almost every Nancy
> Wilson LP and Peggy
> Lee, who's "Big Spender" mini LP is sitting right
> here.  
> 
> I doubt the home format was terribly successful, judging by
> how few of them
> turn up in private collections.  These same issues
> though were also used by
> jukebox operators prior to the jukebox only "Stereo LP
> Album" issues, I've
> got just about all of them, most obtained from a retired
> jukebox operator.
> Seven inch stereo "33 singles" were issued as singles and
> packs of five
> complete with a slick of the LP cover for Seeburg jukeboxes
> and their
> "Artist Of The Week" promotion beginning in 1960.
> 
> Sean (a collector of these jukebox only issues)