It is, or always was, common knowledge that the gilded stamper is not that which is shown on the label. The typical vinyl record side contained 5 songs so the law of averages tends to work in favor of those making up the framed presentations. Of the 8 gold records in my discography, 2 are obviously not the same by track count. Curiously, one of my gold records (Cheryl Lynn's "Got to Be Real") shows four songs on the label and the gold record is the same. Perhaps I should play it sometime to see what it actually is. That said, a friend of mine, Rhys Clark, (Pronounced Reese) was the drummer on Billy Joel's "Piano Man" single and the album it came from. When Rhys & his wife were unpacking after a move, they discovered that the glass was broken on his gold single. Rhys took the opportunity to play the record and discovered that it was Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock". Rhys told me he thought that the gold record itself was more valuable than the record it represented! (LOL) Cheers! Corey Bailey Corey Bailey Audio Engineering At 09:15 PM 8/11/2010, you wrote: >--- On Wed, 8/11/10, Michael Biel <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Sure, >why not? The RIAA does things like this all the > time! Years ago >a performer mentioned playing his gold > record award and it wasn't >his record. I've seen gold records that didn't even have the same >number of tracks on the disk as were on the label. I thought it was >common knowledge that the records were just whatever junk pressing >that happened to be lying around.