I finally found VOL. 1 Fleetwood Mac - Blues Jam In Chicago Vol. 1 Blue Horizon - BH 4803 Delta 14585
Hedge & Donna - Evolution - Polydor 24-4063 - Delta 16025/16025-X (Joe Walsh on guitar, Sterling RL pressing)
Nice to see you back, Frank. Is the web page down? heroinc.hostingsiteforfree.com/monarch/MonarchNumbers.pdf
Cecil Taylor - Looking Ahead! Contemporary Records S7562 Delta 18199 Side 1: LKS61 D3 MR ∆18199 (1) Side 2: LKS70 D4 REPL MR ∆18199x (5)
This one not on discogs from what I could tell. Good thing I took pictures. The Ambassadors The Ambassadors Gettogether Jubilee JLP-1088 △1030/△996 Still on deep groove
Okay, that Ambassadors album is cool for multiple reasons. First, of course it's a deep groove Jubilee from 1959. Next, the numbers are quite a ways from one another. It was announced in January as a February release and was introduced in the 2/9/59 issue of Billboard.
The Chuck Rainey Coalition Cobblestone CST 9008 delta 15033 A 1972 re-press of the original 1970 release on Skye Records, but using the same stampers.
Jerry Butler and Betty Everett, Delicious Together Vee Jay VJLP-10999 (mono), delta 6901 Vee Jay VJLPS-1099 (stereo) delta 6908 I suspect I've reported one of these before, possibly.
The Deep" - Music from the movie soundtrack - Casablanca NBLP 7060 -Delta 22317/22317-X Mama Cass - "Dream a Little Dream" - Dunhill DS-50040 - Delta 12372/12372-X (This one is on the list as Delta 12373 so not sure if that was a misprint or what)
I finally found one that wasn't a Presswell or CTH. Al Browne mastering and yes, it also has the Artisan stamp.
I have both a CTH and a Monarch copy. One of my favorite records. I'm sure the Presswell sounds good as well.
I don't remember if I've run across an RI pressing or not. What has surprised me is how difficult it has been to find a Monarch pressing here on the west coast. The few I've seen have not been in very good condition until the one I just found.
This was first released 1958, and according to bsnpubs, this label was Vee Jay's first. The job number doesn't align however and the deep groove is missing. I really wanted it but was too far gone. Jimmy Reed – I'm Jimmy Reed Label: Vee Jay Records – VJLP 1004 △2592/△2592-x
I purchased a copy new here on the West Coast and it was a CTH pressing. I don't know how many were farmed out to Monarch to be pressed. It was usually a distribution decision by the record companies, but it could have been that Monarch pressed a limited amount of pressings due to a possible backlog of other records being pressed at the time(it was a very busy period for them). The Monarch pressing company was not far from my home when I was living in Los Angeles and it wasn't that big of a building. I am surprised of how many records that came out of that little facility.
I hardly ever run into that record anymore. See a lot of the later ones, particularly '2' and 'Manassas,' but not the first. Used to be ubiquitous in resale and his albums are slow sellers so you'd think they'd be all over the place. I'm going to survey and see what comes up. I used to have a copy but it is long gone. There should be many Monarch copies as they were presumably the west coast plant under contract to AT. The CTH copies are probably in large part club copies so they'll be more common - this is true for '2' also. I've compared CTH Columbia mastered copies of '2' against AT-mastered Monarchs and they were inferior, not by a lot but noticeable. I always try to avoid Columbia mastered AT albums like that - things like Rascals, Dusty, Zep, CSN, etc.
