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Is it a fake? Isn't it a duplication of names from a time when exclusivity and copyright were not really enforced?

After all, how many labels with identical names were there that existed simultaneuosly at various parts of the country? Particularly small labels with such utterly nondescript label artwork as this? Quite a few.

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No, that's a fake. That's a counterfeit of the BN 45 label.

The catalog # 101 & signed sleeve suggests that it was, hopefully, just a vanity pressing made up to be sold or even given away as a wink-wink-lol-if-only type of thing. At least one would hope so.

"Singingly yours"....eeeeEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!!!!!

Yeah, good luck, Mallory, for real. You've been genuinely Touched By Creepiness!

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Understandable that the BN diehards are touchy about someone possibly messing with their holy grail, but what would be so "fake-ish" about this particular record?

The few BN 45s that I've got look totally different - like this:

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And so do those you find in online listings.

Wouldn't "counterfeit" imply something that imitates the original much more closely?

Somebody may have been playing around with that name, but using such an uninspired label design that you had zillions of in the 50s/60s? This is not some kind of not even superficial "similarity" likely to fool too many fans of the "known" BN, IMHO.

Anyway, there have been lots of cases where several small 45rpm labels had the same name so who knows what's behind all this for real?.

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AFAIK those Climax 78s were no bootlegs but some kind of overseas licensing deal. And at least the Climax labels reproduced the BN layout a bit more faithfully so everybody knew what they were supposed to remind you of.

Previously discussed here: ;)

Whereas this "Blue Note" 45 has nothing in common with the actual BN but the name. Their label design and use of fonts, etc. (you CANNOT call this "artwork") is about as nondescript as those 45 labels got in that period. There must have been millions like that. One as bland as the other.

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Considering the state of the (non-)"art" of the 45s in the 50s and early 60s, they weren't doing that badly with that special font of the label name IMO.

To put it more bluntly, label design and "artwork" or 45s was largely in a "dark age" in the 50s and early 60s, at least compared to the 78 rpm era and the 45 rpm era starting from the mid- to late 60s. ;), some notable exceptions such as Roulette or Chess notwithstanding.

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