[78-L] Westminster album design

[Thomas Stern]

There is an online Westminster list here:
http://hayes.cside2.jp/vinyl/westm.html
I see no indication that the 50-xx was a year, the numbers do not jump to
51xx or 52xx etc but
seem continuous.

The creator of the list does not indicate when the 50-xx became 50xx, but
only lists up 
to 50-9 before showing numbers as 5000 series.  I've seen a 50-17 and think
they may have
gone at least up to the 40's....  

I see WL 50-1, also issued as WL 5001 (Kodaly Te Deum/Theatre Overture) so
the early albums
were re-numbered in the 5000 series for later pressings, adding jacket art
and annotations.
(this, Westminster's first release. also issued as XWN 18455, and W 9729)

Cheers, Tom.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2015 4:49 PM
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Subject: Re: [78-L] Westminster album design


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

> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 16:23:23 -0500
> From: sternth at attglobal.net.invalid
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Westminster album design
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David 
> Lennick
> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2015 1:44 PM
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Westminster album design
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> > To: ARSCLIST at LISTSERV.LOC.GOV; 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > 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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