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In a message dated 6/10/2005 1:13:33 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: While we're on the topic, ML 4001 was the first 12" lp in the series. The first 10" lp, probably in the same release, was Beethoven's 8th Symphony with Bruno Walter and the New York Philharmonic, ML 2001. First popular release, CL 6001, was (as if you couldn't guess) "The Voice..of Frank Sinatra". Interesting that Columbia began numbering each series at 01 while Victor always started a series at 00. dl When I was visiting with Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman, he had a test pressing framed in his apartment that had been presented to him by Peter Goldmark of Columbia as being "the first LP record." The label reads Engineering & Research Development Department, Columbia Broadcasting System, Experimental Record No. (number is unreadable). Date: 2/27/46. Scheherazade, Part 2, Movements 3 & 4, referp 56755, Book 1. It is signed "To Jac from Peter Goldmark." A small plaque in the frame states: "The very 1st LP, 2/27/46, Gift to Jac Holzman from Peter Goldmark, director of CBS development team. No artist is listed. Cary Ginell Origin Jazz Library www.originjazz.com