[78-L] Two different Sun Johnny Cash pressings

[Michael Biel]

On 7/9/2011 11:54 AM, agp wrote:
> At 15:32 09/07/2011, DL wrote:
>> One possibility is that the record was selling so well, different pressing
>> plants were used.
> According to this website:
>
> http://www.anorakscorner.com/PressingPlantInfo.html

This has a lot of interesting info about the independent plants, but 
some of the info about the majors is all screwy.  For example, he 
confused the locations of their studios with pressing plants.

> Sun used Plastic Products in Memphis primarily. A few websites show
> that Sun also farmed our work to Monarch in LA.

I once spend an afternoon going through the 500+ Sun records in the 
Country Music Hall of Fame Library and found that there was no real 
consistency of pressing plants that was used by Sun.  There may have 
been a dozen or more.  Most of the price guides and articles are not 
written with any authoritative research behind them, such as going 
through the Sun books of payments.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> There are some images of Sun 241:
> http://boija.com/skivor/sun_singles_1.htm
>
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>    and other Sun goodies http://boija.com/
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