Premium Stuff Posted March 16, 2012 Posted March 16, 2012 Hi everyone Can anyone give me some background on the Imperial (part of Liberty) demos - the white ones and the multi-coloured green & beige ones? Is there a rule of thumb about which ones are rarer, or are some East/West coast, or some similar kind of differentiation please? Cheers Richard
Premium Stuff Posted March 17, 2012 Author Posted March 17, 2012 Anyone got any info please? Cheers Richard
Premium Stuff Posted April 7, 2012 Author Posted April 7, 2012 Surely someone knows something ? Unless it's another one of my daft questions? Cheers Richard
Guest allnightandy Posted April 7, 2012 Posted April 7, 2012 Don't know anything about them but i do have one It's Fats Domino "It keeps raining" It's on White Imperial Audition copy and i bought it for £2 back in 1977 ! Andy
Kris Holmes Posted April 7, 2012 Posted April 7, 2012 Don't know anything about them but i do have one It's Fats Domino "It keeps raining" It's on White Imperial Audition copy and i bought it for £2 back in 1977 ! Andy wrong era Imperial.
Guest allnightandy Posted April 7, 2012 Posted April 7, 2012 (edited) wrong era Imperial. Where in his post did he put a date period on them ? He said White I got White ! End Of Edited April 7, 2012 by allnightandy
Kris Holmes Posted April 7, 2012 Posted April 7, 2012 how it works is the black & white ones correspond to the first lot under the Liberty ownership. The stock labels for these are this: The promos this: The green & beige ones come partway through the 661XX series. Stock it's this: Promo it's this: Of course with any label change over there are probably records appearing on both variants around the changeover period. Such as:
Kris Holmes Posted April 7, 2012 Posted April 7, 2012 Where in his post did he put a date period on them ? He said White I got White ! End Of Liberty period dude, it's right there.
Premium Stuff Posted April 7, 2012 Author Posted April 7, 2012 (edited) Thanks Kris! Much appreciated mate I'm interested in the 'crossover' period now - like the "I'll Never Forget You" on both the coloured and WDJ - which is best? Also - wasn't the O'Jays "No Time For You" also on both coloured and WDJ? Plus, even if the promos are different - are the issues always the same colour per release? Cheers Richard Edited April 7, 2012 by Premium Stuff
Kris Holmes Posted April 7, 2012 Posted April 7, 2012 I don't know which is best, I think from memory there are a mix of styrene & vinyl on both designs. I just checked the other O'Jays one you mentioned & you're right, it has the same variations. Must have been a pretty long changeover period. I have not seen the other stock variation (black/white/pink) on either of the O'Jays doing a quick search so maybe they were just pressing promos at a couple of different places & one place had more of the black/white labels than the other. Who knows for sure though?
Premium Stuff Posted April 7, 2012 Author Posted April 7, 2012 I don't know which is best, I think from memory there are a mix of styrene & vinyl on both designs. I just checked the other O'Jays one you mentioned & you're right, it has the same variations. Must have been a pretty long changeover period. I have not seen the other stock variation (black/white/pink) on either of the O'Jays doing a quick search so maybe they were just pressing promos at a couple of different places & one place had more of the black/white labels than the other. Who knows for sure though? Quality stuff - thanks Kris - top class Guess the 'white demo' mania will out with us in the UK though Cheers Richard
Kris Holmes Posted April 7, 2012 Posted April 7, 2012 early example of the new stock color coupled with the old promo
Kris Holmes Posted April 7, 2012 Posted April 7, 2012 Just did a search through some earlier titles & the O'Jays "I'll Never Forget You" on 66162 is the earliest example of the new promo design to come up. Out of interest, Canada seems to have used the black/pink/white stock label for longer on their releases as well. A title like Cher "Bang Bang" on 66160 has the green/black stock in the US but the black/white/pink in Canada.
Kris Holmes Posted April 7, 2012 Posted April 7, 2012 66179 California Suns is the latest one I've found which has both promos. Have yet to find any with both stock variants.
Dave Pinch Posted April 8, 2012 Posted April 8, 2012 thought the white label vinyl copies were east coast and the green and beige styrene one west coast
Kris Holmes Posted April 8, 2012 Posted April 8, 2012 thought the white label vinyl copies were east coast and the green and beige styrene one west coast maybe, but the AC Jones 66150 wlp I have is vinyl pressed at Monarch on the west coast. could be an anomaly though as I guess no one knows for certain.
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