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To anyone who knows the chronological history of EMI / Angel classical mono issues:
I'm trying to determine the pressing year of an Angel red label mono LP I recently acquired (Prokofiev cello concerto, Starker/Susskind/Philharmonia) which ran through several pressings. Mine is an English pressing that has a plain brown cover with the title info printed on a gold label that extends laterally from one side of the front cover onto the back cover. Other pressings of this same title I've seen online have the same red Angel label on the vinyl, but have different covers: one similar but plain *blue* (not brown); and another with a photo of Starker and his cello on the front and the liner notes affixed to the back cover. I'm trying to figure out whether my pressing is *earlier* or *later* than other pressings with the same red LP label but different covers. I'm assuming that the plain-brown-cover Angels were earlier than the decorated covers holding the same red label vinyl, but I'm not sure.
Such is the burning question that occupies my mind at the height of apocalyptic world pestilence...
Follow Ups:
The Starker is a mid+ 1957 release - the earliest pressings possibly have an RT tax code (followed by XT) next to the spindle hole on one side.
Thanks very much for that info -- very helpful. I was unaware that they produced two "packages" simultaneously. No "RT" or "XT" on my copy (just "XAX 1005-2N"), so obviously a later pressing. I knew it was not early-early, but I've had trouble trying to place these plain-brown-cover pressings *relative* to the photographed covers. So it sounds like there may not have been a strict sequence.
For obvious reasons I've the UK pressings - but EMI appeared to retain the Purchase Tax code on these UK exports - this is 35162.
frankwm, I think you inadvertently omitted a verb from your last post ("I've [...] the UK pressings...").
Ah, so *that's* a Purchase Tax Code. My pressing of the Prokofiev concerto has a similar "R" and "T" on opposite sides of the spindle hole. When I first saw it I couldn't figure out what it was. At first I thought maybe previous owner initial stamp, but it's raised (not indented) and looked too professional for owner initials. Thanks for enlightening me about that!
Hi,
The covers with the artwork (and sometimes a dowel-rod inner sleeve) are the earliest covers. The ones with the plain brown covers were sold as a "Thrift Edition", right about the same time, presumably at a lower price. The discs were the same. The only way to tell how early a pressing it was is to look at the stamper numbers in the deadwax.
I hope this helps.
Thanks very much -- very helpful and informative. For some reason I was thinking that the plainer/less elaborate cover would likely precede the fancier cover, but now I see that the reverse is more logical (fiscally speaking). Interesting that EMI cut costs by simplifying the packaging rather than the contents, i.e. used the same discs and, presumably, same vinyl and stampers (?). So then I guess it's safe to assume (?) that if were to shop for another early EMI/(Red)Angel classical title from the 1950s, and if I were to see two versions for sale, one with the elaborate dowel cover and the other the plain generic brown cover, then I'm just as likely to get an earlier pressing -- or, at least, roughly as early --- in the plain-brown-cover-version as in the dowel-cover version. That's good to know, b/c I see that the plain-brown-cover versions are consistently less expensive (often significantly) than the dowel-cover versions.
In any case, my Red Angel pressing of the Starker performance sounds wonderful to my ears, even in 1957 mono.
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