LP Labels (the circular bits glued on the vinyl)

[A Lark Ascending]

Thread as requested in Post a Pic thread.

Labels you find interesting, evocative, nostalgic, attractive etc.

A few from my (over-active) nostalgia banks:

Always liked that one much more than what they replaced it with...

...or...

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These two evoke my late-70s first steps into jazz:

(n.b. I only ever owned one of those as LPs - but had plenty of LPs with those stickers).

Edited May 9, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[sidewinder]

Edited May 9, 2015 by sidewinder

[sidewinder]

[JohnS]

One from my collection, posted before years ago but what the heck.

I was there Bob.My first jazz concert

[sidewinder]

Awesome !

That Plastylite Andrew Hill test pressing was also one heck of a find, John.

[JohnS]

Awesome !

That Plastylite Andrew Hill test pressing was also one heck of a find, John.

Probably about £1.50 in Asmans back in the 80s. No cover though. It was an especially good find as Smokestack was very hard to find at the time.

[mikeweil]

Still have a few of these, found them interesting, but they drove me mad as I always had to turn over to see what LP it was.

[Head Man]

Still waiting for the John Steven's Away albums to see the light of day on CD. They're all well worth reissuing.....

[BillF]

I was there Bob.My first jazz concert

Saw them in the Autumn (Fall) of '58 at the Bodega club in Cross Street, Manchester - no recording, though.

My first jazz concert was the Humphrey Lyttelton band - the "Kansas City" one with saxophone section of Tony Coe, Jimmy Skidmore and Joe Temperley - at Leeds Town Hall in 1957.

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[BillF]

I hope 78 labels are allowed on this thread, as this was one of ten 78 records by Bill Haley which I bought in 1956 at the age of 16:

[BillF]

But by 1957 I'd moved onto this (it may say 1949, but it still looked like this);

And this - also bought in 1957 (in Dobell's) - still looked like this:

But those were transitional times for formats and in the same year I got this:

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[BillF]

But by '58 I was on to the 12" LP format and you'll notice the music had changed, too:

[mikeweil]

I had an original 78 of Rock Around the Clock on Brunswick, but some dumb guy dropped it during one of our last removals ...

Similar to this, butmine was a German pressing:

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[GA Russell]

My Manfred Mann Chapter Three Volume Two had that one, Bob!

[GA Russell]

I liked this...

which I felt was inspired by this...

[JSngry]

[JohnS]