[78-L] Columbia LP "5" prefix ???

[David Lennick]

I don't know if the 5 was added to albums they wanted to sell for more (although they had the K for that purpose) or just to keep them from looking like old releases after 1955. Seems to me the 1951 Prades Festival albums have ML 5xxxx numbers on grey label 6-eye pressings.

dl

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> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 05:34:32 -0400
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> Subject: [78-L] Columbia LP  "5" prefix ???
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> 
> I've noticed a number of COLUMBIA LPs which have a
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> star with the number "5" on the jacket, near the catalogue number.
> 
> Just noticed an album which actually incorporates the
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> 5 in the catalogue number:  the cast album of
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> Cole Porter's "OUT OF THIS WORLD"
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> issued on 78's as MM-980, on LP as ML-54390, 
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> reissued as OL-4390 according to
> 
> an Sondheim online database, and copies at auction/sale sites.
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> The CSP reissues use the 4390 number (COL or CML prefix).
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>  
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> WHAT is the significance of the "5" star on Columbia albums?
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> Was the Porter album ever issued as ML-4390 ??
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Best wishes, Thomas.
> 
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