[78-L] Packaging was Early 2LP Album 1950

[Michael Biel]

From: "Thomas Stern" <sternth at attglobal.net>
> speaking of dowels - early ANGEL single LP's had a dowel attached
> to the inner sleeve by a wrap with the information about the album
> (composer/work/title/performer/catalog number) which later appeared
> on the spine. Never understood why they did that - seems it would be 
> considerably more expensive....??  Best wishes, Thomas.

But it got your attention!!!  Those dowels were attached to the
innersleeve, not the album itself, which meant you needed to take care
of those innersleeves and not mix them up. By the early 60s they dropped
the dowels and pasted the embossed leatherette directly on the spine of
the album.  Also an expensive attention getter.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com