[78-L] Westminster album design

[David Lennick]

Didn't 50 represent the year and then they went to 51--?
dl

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> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 16:23:23 -0500
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> Hi David,
>   My recollection re Angel is they offered a "thrift" edition of their
> releases which came in a
> generic jacket, pasted on label giving contents information but no notes or
> album art.  A few of their full price single albums had booklets - never
> recall one being missing, but would guess that if it were, a phone call to
> Angel would get one for free.
>   One could buy copies of Folkways  booklets if you wanted one and did not
> buy the record.  Folkways had many albums pressed and distributed before the
> booklets were printed which 
> contained a slip of paper you could send to Folkways to receive the booklet
> when it was available.
>   I think the Westminster albums I bought were all after they renumbered the
> albums to an XWN series.  In later years I found the earlier WL series, and
> the folk series when they were
> deleted.  The early albums went through a number of album designs, some with
> basically
> a generic jacket (big ben???), paste on sticker showing contents.  The early
> releases in the WL 5000 series started as WL 50-xx.  Guess they didn't think
> they would have more than 99 albums ???
>  Anyone know how high the xx went before they made it a 5000 series?  or how
> high the 5000 series
> went before they changed to the XWN 18000 series ??
>   Best wishes, Thomas.
> 
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> I seem to recall them doing something similar to Angel, where they'd offer a
> plain design for a dollar less and an option to send for the booklet....?
> dl
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> > Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 13:29:16 -0500
> > From: sternth at attglobal.net.invalid
> > Subject: [78-L] Westminster album design
> > 
> > 
> > Just came across a copy of WESTMINSTER WL 5278  Faure: La Bonne 
> > Chanson  /
> > Gounod: Blondina performed by Hugues Cuenod,
> > 
> > Franz Holetscher, piano.  This album was later issued as Westminster 
> > XWN 18707.
> > 
> > The jacket is designed like the Folkways albums - a single lp size 
> > sleeve with an additional piece of cardboard in the jacket
> > 
> > to form two pockets - one for the Lp, the other for the booklet of 
> > texts & translations.
> > 
> > First time I've seen this from Westminster.
> > 
> > Was this common with these early (WL series, pre XWN 18000 series) 
> > Westminster albums ??  Were other labels using this design for jackets 
> > of recordings which included text or notes booklets ??
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Merry Christmas!
> > 
> > Thomas.
> > 
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