OK.I did not know the term applied to these too.

And the black and silver 78 set covers too..

You must admit,though,the Lp covers look more like tombstones than the 78 covers do.

Roger




--- On Thu, 1/27/11, Michael Biel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Michael Biel <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Columbia Masterworks 78rpm discography
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011, 11:08 AM

On 1/26/2011 2:06 PM, Roger Kulp wrote:
> By tombstones I assume you mean the Lp covers.

NO!  If you noticed, I was talking about 78s, and in the industry the 
term tombstone goes back to the Royal Blue albums which had the titles 
in a vertical silver sticker that had an arch top like an old fashioned 
tombstone.  Then came the gray Columbia covers with a horizontal 
rectangle much like a more modern tombstone.  The term does not require 
the column design of the first classical Lps because it is also applied 
to the popular covers which used a music stand graphic.  The term 
applies to any cover series that is uniformly plain with just the 
titling info in a provided space.  These are also called generic covers, 
but generic also applies to standardized company sleeves for singles 
which do not have identification of the specific record like a tombstone 
cover does.

> What has always intrigued me,was the way Columbia kept changing the covers of their Masterworks Lps,in the years before stereo,but kept the same catalogue numbers,and back covers.There are a couple of Bruno Walter records,that I have with three and four different US covers.Others where there is a tombstone,a cover with the large "Lp" symbol,and artwork.They weren't always content to keep the same photo,once they switched from the artwork to a photo cover either.  Roger

Why do you confine it to Masterworks?  You find examples of this in all 
their series, including popular and childrens.

Mike Biel  [log in to unmask]

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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Columbia Masterworks 78rpm discography
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> On 1/25/2011 10:13 AM, Steven Smolian wrote:
>> This looks pretty impressive.
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>> I didn't check- did you
>   include rerelease dates and data?  Some early albums
>> that originally came with generic covers were rereleased with pictorial
>> covers c. 1940-on.  I have some, but not all detail should you need it.
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> In most if not all instances these are not really re-issues but are repackagings of in-print albums with no change in catalog numbers or discographic data, although some of the albums might have been in wartime "retirement".  It also worked the other way around.  In every instance of pre-Steinweiss Columbia illustrated albums they reverted to plain tombstone covers in a few years.  This includes the Shakespeares and several other albums which had glued-on photographs or other illustrations.  I have images of all of these.
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