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Richard Burton
Love Poems Of John Donne

Album US 1963 on Caedmon Records label
Spoken Word (Poetry)

Dating of 2 or three versions of Caedmon TC 1141 releases are a conundrum. THIS release fully-documented: (c) 1958 on back cover and (p) 1963 on LP labels. Comparison with other releases given last. Front Cover, upper right corner, over two lines, with label name enlarged: "CAEDMON / TC 1141" Front cover, upper edge/spine, from upper left to upper right: "Caedmon TC 1141 [ . . . ] Love Poems of John Donne Read By Richard Burton [ . . . illegible] Front cover, left edge spine - same data in same order: "TC 1141" repeated on right. Front cover bottom corner: "33 1/3 RPM LONGPLAYING" Back cover, lower left corner: (c) 1958 [ . . . ] ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - small print "WARNING" notice follows below over two lines, including business address as: "1995 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 10023" - third line follows in italics: "Made and printed in U.S.A." Other back cover data consistent with the other release in evidence: - large CAEDMON and slogan "A third dimension for the printed page" inside a rectangle - Name of release, identity of key participants, track-names in two columns - Notes in lower left third over two columns - single Column list of "Other Caedmon Recordings" on right "TC 1141 LOVE POEMS OF JOHN DONNE (RICHARD BURTON)" facing edges on lower left and upper right edges LP Labels: - simple blue on off-white and off-white on blue labels - CAEDMON at the top only - includes on right edge facing in: "STEREO Intended for use on either Monoaural or Stereo Phonographs" - "(p) 1963 Caedmon" at bottom of central circle Love Poems Of John Donne Alleged 1958 release provides only poor-resolution front cover image. Unable to confirm accuracy of date claims. Upper right identifier "Caedmon TC 1141" appears small over a single line, thus different from THIS release. Love Poems Of John Donne Different fancy LP labels - black on light blue, light green and white. Back cover lower edge provides copyright data in a single line and with a different business address: "(c) 1962, CAEDMON RECORDS . . . 461 Eighth Avenue, New York 1, New York" This appears to be a later generation of the cover, yet claims an earlier release date that the (p) date of THIS release. Study of Caedmon TC-Series Releases and Label Designs: The blue and white LP label design of THIS release is relatively uncommon, but was used mush more frequently prior to 1962. It includes the (p) date on a consistent basis. Only one later example was observed (a Sherlock Holmes release). This release is typical: James Joyce Finnegans Wake The four-colour "fancy" label design is the most common, particularly after 1962. Earlier examples do occur but the (p) date is consistently omitted, leaving open the possibility that many or all earlier usages are actually later reissues. Several other label designs were also observed - simple one colour or series labels, scattered across this time frame. The general tendency of TC-series releases is clearly chronological, but earlier and later exceptions appear through any section of the sequences observed for 1958-1964. The placement of TC 1141 to 1963 is consistent with the majority of releases in that numeric sequence. Both of these observed tendencies raise the suspicion that these other releases have been mis-dated.

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