Dexter Prestige Inquiry

JSngry · April 27, 2003

Imported from another thread:

2 things -

1) Re: THE PANTHER: That's the same photo as my old LP copy, but a different title layout. What gives?

2) I remember reading in an old Prestige discography that THE JUMPIN' BLUES was briefly issued with a 7600 series #, (or something like that - the point being that it once had a different number than the 10000 series). Anybody know any more about this, and if the earlier issue had a different cover?

Well, ok 3 things then - my copies of THE PANTHER and THE JUMPIN' BLUES are PR-10030 and PR-10020, respectively, yet THE PANTHER saw release first. Widespread release, anyway, as evidenced by reviews, poll results, and such. What's the story there, and does it relate the TJB's earlier release w/a 7600 #? Seems like a shift in the Prestige regime (or at least Don Schlitten's role in it) occured somewhere around that time.

As always, thanks in advance!

Chuck Nessa · April 27, 2003

The 10000 series was started by Fantasy after they bought Prestige. The Panther was issued by the old Prestige in the 7000 series, and The Jumpin' Blues was announced, but not issued. The artwork on the Panther cd is from the first issue, but the colors wrong. The title was in a red/rose.

JSngry · April 27, 2003

Thanks Chuck. Any idea why/how the 10000 series numberings of Panther and TJB came to be reversed from actual release sequence?

(God I miss relentlessly pursuing such epehmera....)

Chuck Nessa · April 27, 2003

When Jumpin' was issued for the first time, the 7000 series Panther was in print. When they eventually ran out of the original Panther, they reissued it in the 10000 series.