It's a Civil Defense symbol. In this context it means "In case of nuclear war, take this disc with you to the basement".
you know, ive always wondered what the heck that little symbol is too-----i always thought it was like "PUT CD IN THIS WAY"
maybe it has something to do w/ rights but these were on albums too long b4 copy protected cds n stuff
Is it being used on new releases? As I previously mentioned, I have a good 10 Columbia CD's at my office here and none of them have that, but these are all brand new releases.
Are you refering to the "walking eye" logo? I think when the logo was designed, CBS owned the label, so maybe the "walking eye" was a reworking of the famous CBS eye logo. To me, it kind of resembles a record, with some sort of stylus playing it on the bottom.
Derek Smalls: I raise a practical question at this point: Are we talking about the walking eye logo? Nigel Tufnel: No, we're not talking about the *&#$)%($ walking eye logo!
Well, I'm glad it's not me! Earlier in the thread, someone said it was a civil defence (CD) logo. Maybe it is... Here's an old Civil Defence / CONELRAD logo on a vintage radio. Maybe someone making the CDs was just being clever...
I'm very curious to know about this as well. At one point in time, I thought that little triangle was what people were referring to when they were talking about 'black triangle' pressings. I thought I had a veritable gold mine in my collection. Sigh.
I think the star on Apple comes from Capitol in LA, but I've always wondered what the heck this thing is:
I may be mistaken, but that symbol seemed to be on LP's and CD's, possibly cassettes as well (but not 45's, curiously enough), pressed at their Carrollton, GA plant; I did not see such a "white triangle in a black circle" on the labels of Pitman, NJ pressings.
From July 1974 to the end of 1975 (which was within the first year and a half from the time the list price of 45's was raised from 98 cents to $1.29), this symbol (a 26-star circle, as I'd call it, which I also saw on those wax-burned stamped notaries and on official proclamations with ribbons affixed behind them) was posted on CBS labels (and even, in the last months of their association therewith, Stax/Volt singles) to distinguish the new catalogue releases (i.e. Columbia 3-10000, Epic 8-50000, custom label ZS8 series) from their predecessors (4-40000, 5-10000 and ZS7 series, respectively). This symbol was on all releases pressed by all of Columbia's plants that were in operation then.
Though this "walking eye" was not what was referred to, I seemed to notice that its design appeared to be based on the "utchat," an ancient Egyptian symbol (albeit reversed), as seen on this link: http://www.ianslunarpages.org/wadjet.html
