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the Columbia shown above is most likely from the late '50s. So it doesn't fit the Vacant Lot, but looks cool anyway.
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the Columbia shown above is most likely from the late '50s. So it doesn't fit the Vacant Lot, but looks cool anyway.
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vinyl01
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I submitted a yellow sleeve which they added # 3 i . Sent in other scans too which they added.
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I love this thread - keep them coming! I have a good number of the US ones shown, but I love seeing all of the super cool Canadian, Australian, etc. ones. This past summer I hit a junk shop where several large boxes of 60s/70s country promo 45s had been dumped. One additional two-foot long cardboard box was just empty sleeves, and for $3 I got hundreds of pristine company sleeves from the mid-60s through the early 70s for all the major labels (each in quantity, most with multiple variations), as well as lots of oddball ones and a healthy dose of white ones. Still matching them with 45s, but they are great to have on hand to 'dress up' discs that used to be hanging out in plain-jane attire.
They were an L.A.-based pressing plant. While the majority of their work was slipped into Capitol, Bethlehem and Riverside sleeves, they seem to have done a little national distribution themselves. I suspect somebody bought them out at the tail end of the fifties.
Regardless, that's a cool sleeve.
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Thanks Dominic. Could it be possible that test pressing or acetates used in this sleeve?
I don't know, but my gut reaction to seeing the sleeve was that it was for dictation discs. The info I found was from Billboard.
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It's interesting to observe how many of these old sleeves boast "Truest Fidelity", "World's Highest Quality Sound" etc. Quality of sound was an important aspect of record production in those days, unlike now. In those days, studios and labels were actively pushing the boundaries of recorded sound quality, in fierce competition with other labels. Hence the amazing results achieved by labels like UK Decca in the mid '60s. For example the Rolling Stones "Satanic Majesties" LP.
These days, the public has been brainwashed to believe that every modern CD is inherently endowed with "perfect sound forever", and the emphasis on quality and innovation has largely been abandoned.
Doubling the sample rate does not necessarily constitute an improvement in sound quality.
These days, the public has been brainwashed to believe that every modern CD is inherently endowed with "perfect sound forever", and the emphasis on quality and innovation has largely been abandoned.
Doubling the sample rate does not necessarily constitute an improvement in sound quality.
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? does my Pink Finks - Louie Louie on Mojo really live in a filthy white sleeve!! ?
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Here's how both my Mojo 45s are wrapped. However, I'm not sure if this is a generic '60s Australian sleeve, or an actual sleeve used by the Mojo label
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Still rather cute though and the blues do match. Mine was actually in a Finky Pink Parlophone sleeve when I found it at a record fair in my hometown in the UK. Along with 2 Purple Hearts and Black by The Throb The seller was colour coordinating his Australian 45's. He knew not what he had, 3 or 4 quid each.
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Most people don't understand about the inferior sound of mp3's and many CD's dueto compression. Anytime I mention that word, I have to give a long detailed explanation of what compression is and its effect on sound quality.
Similar to the doubling the sample rate concept is the new video technology with filming at 48 frames per second rather than the standard 24, again supposedly improvingthe visual quality.
The biggest criticism I've read about the film is due to this factor. Namely, that the human eye/mind cannot handle all the extra information with the result of a loss of realistic look. I'd guess that would be similar to the effect produced by the overuse of CGI. (Though it was pointed out that most theaters aren't set up for the 48 FPS version, so have to show it in the normal 24.)
Unfortunately, too many people are fooled into thinking that technological progress is always for the better.
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I love Peruvian surf and garage music. And the sleeves are so bold and SUPER EXITOS! Here's a dozen contenders.
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Being a pretentious technophobe for a long time, playing 60's 45's only on 60's equipment, I was surprised when transferring music to digital and silencing the clicks and pops on the waveform map, rather than using the click removal option, the ear (or my ear) can not hear a silence of <0.01 seconds. The eye is the same. Actually, the brain is the filter. If we had big digibrains zzzt zzzt maybe increased sample rates would be a factor but we ain't yet. Anyone blind here? Would be interesting to see if a blind persons hearing would notice.
Anyone noticed how these moving cartoons are so freaking jerky. No the brain joins it up and makes sense of it somehow. Remember those flick books? Very smooth visuals.
