my NATURAL SOUL has a PRAYER MEETIN' label stuck underneath the ri

[JSngry]

Sunset was a Liberty budget label.

[John L]

Or this one?

[JSngry]

did you just make that sonny side up cover on photoshop? nice try......

no dude, that was for real.

Or this one?

oh, that was one of those damn Applause abominations.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

just looking at that sonny side lp is giving me diaherrea....oh god...

[brownie]

[John L]

did you just make that sonny side up cover on photoshop? nice try......

no dude, that was for real.

Or this one?

oh, that was one of those damn Applause abominations.

Thanks. You really know your LP covers.

[sidewinder]

Typical Applause - even the print quality is blurred. They must have run out of brown print dye for that one though .

Those things are so bad that one day they'll probably become mega-collectables.

Edited December 3, 2009 by sidewinder

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

so BN just licenced these titles out? whats the story- why certain titles? i know they did cds too...

[JSngry]

By the time Applause came around "Blue Note" no longer existed except as a holding of Capitol Records. There were a few years when Blue Note really was dead & it looked like Applause was going to be the label - and packaging - by which Blue Note material came back onto the market. Those were dark days indeed.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

so blue note stopped in like 1977 and started up again in the mid 80s, is that right? what finally prompted them to stop? i bet they would of made great albums in the early 80s!

[clifford_thornton]

No money = no honey.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

so blue note stopped in like 1977 and started up again in the mid 80s, is that right? what finally prompted them to stop? i bet they would of made great albums in the early 80s!

No, the last new Blue Note album was issued in 1980 - Horace Silver's "Silver 'n strings play the music of the spheres" LWB1033, recorded November 1978 and October & November 1979.

But the LT series (Rainbow sleeves) of BN issues of stuff not previously issued continued until 1981 at least - Donald Byrd's "The creeper" came out in 1981. Subsequent releases on the BN LT series were from PJ or UA sources.

Applause was part of Capitol. Quite a few BNs were issued on that label - all but 3 of the 22 issues were BN reissues.

BN wouldn't have made great albums in the early eighties - they didn't have anyone there who was capable of producing great albums. (Personally, I'd have said they still didn't when the firm was resurrecteed in 1985.)

MG