Police, The – Reggatta De Blanc A&M Records – SP-4792 d-25434 Small C on A&M logo. @W.B., do you know what the C means in this case?
I can't say exactly what the 'C' stood for, but that letter was definitely the code for Monarch / ElectroSound Los Angeles pressings as seen on the labels of A&M product. Other letters signified the following plants: - B (ElectroSound Group Midwest, Inc., Shelbyville, IN) - R (RCA, Indianapolis, IN) - W (Columbia, Carrollton, GA) - X (Columbia, Pitman, NJ) - Y (Columbia, Terre Haute, IN)
here's an oddity: The Brian Alexander Robertson Radio Show. Labels are blank with a hand-stamped title on side one, no catalog number. It would be a promo-only Ardent label LP, essentially. Matrices: Side one: STXS-0644 AS-0533 Side two: STXS-0645 AS-0534 with a delta of 18289. Also signed by Larry Nix on both sides. It leaves me wishing Ardent had done one of these productions for Big Star. (though, I know they did a huge press pack for them at one point.)
Does late 1973 make sense for the radio show? That's when it would fit into the chronology. You guys have been busy. I'll upload an update soon.
Yeah, that is likely right. I wrote a review of the actual album five years ago now (!) for a column I do, and at the time 1973 was what I triangulated as the release year. I remember doing a lot of digging to look for info about the album at the time and saw no references to this promo LP. Pretty neat. spotted these in the wild over the weekend (didn't cross check the list to see if you have em already): Grass Roots, Golden Grass, ABC/Dunhill DS 50047, delta 12506 Booker T & the MGs, Hip Hug Her, Stax S 717 (stereo), delta 10545 and found this yesterday: Bee Gees, Cucumber Castle, Atco SD 33-327, delta 14596
Had the Bee Gees album and had the mono release of Booker T, but we didn't have the Grass Roots album yet. Good spotting.
B.b. King Lucille Bluesway D-12303 B.b. King midnight believer ABC aa1961 D-23266 Otis spann The biggest thing since colossus D-14564
The Booker T above is the stereo version ... it's the delta number right after the mono one on the list. Just looked!
I saw the David Jones on Colpix today as 8304/8304-x it's listed on the update file as 8401. Just wondering if that's a typo or are there two versions? Or maybe I'm remembering it wrongly.
Yes, Jones is 8304 -- not 8301. I don't feel so bad, though, because you mistyped 8401 instead of 8301! Actually, I think I probably saw it in a matrix first, and the 4 looked like a 1. Then it showed up here, and I wasn't paying enough attention.
Dr. Gerald S. Bash - The Ramparts We Watch - DesKant A-1000 - △14314 Was helping a thrift store clean out their multi-year accumulation o' crap today. Saw lots of delta numbers, but we were going too fast to jot anything down. (I took a sealed copy of the above home with me. I'm a sucker for political stuff.) My point being, I don't think a truly comprehensive list is gonna happen, because today I saw delta numbers on foreign language, gospel, classroom LPs, organ music, polka compilations, vanity pressings, pretty much the entire Dot catalog, and assorted other random crap that I don't think anybody is ever going to collect - at least not anybody who gives a toot about delta numbers. We must do the best we can. If I hit the lottery in the next few weeks and can stop working altogether, I will return to the thrift store with a notepad and pencil. Totally irrelevant aside: I also spotted a late 1970s classroom LP on Educational Records that was a Microfusion pressing! You sure don't see those every day, especially when Cook Labs wasn't directly involved. Who the hell was running a Microfusion press in the late 1970s? And WHY?
Narkspud, you'll find that most of the A&M catalog exists as Monarch pressings, too. That includes Ode. Much of the Vee-Jay and Elektra catalogs should exist as Monarchs. Can we ever find them ALL? There may be numbers that were never used. Can we find the majority of them? Possibly. We have already found enough Monarch numbers that should you locate a Monarch out there in the "wild" (thrift store), you can tell within a few weeks' time when the record came out. That was the original goal of the list.
