![]() The first variety (1962-1963) featured the words “Guaranteed High Fidelity” at the bottom for mono LP’sĤ.3 Columbia Two-Eye “ 360 SOUND” STEREO – black typeĤ.4 Columbia 2-eye black font / black arrowsģ60 Sound stereo with black arrows. 2 Columbia Two-Eye “Guaranteed High Fidelity” US (mono) Matrix codes on this title CL 2038 are all mix -2, as mix -1 was withdrawn due to a track sequence error/ conflicting with the printed centre label.Ĥ. Stamps in runout include what looks like it might be a letter “T” (Terre Haute?”) and a “horse-shoe” shaped small oval ring. Europe was saddled with CBS local production after they acquired the UK Oriole label and its “clapped out” plants. In most cases I have auditioned, Oriole pressings are markedly inferior to both the earlier Philips UK pressings and the US counterparts. Two-Eye sound quality remains very much up there with the best, at least US pressings. Note “CBS” added to the Stereo “arrows”, matrix number in brackets, smaller font and different kerning, notably the large Side number.Ĭhanging times, the classic serif font is replaced and “modernised” by a gothic (sans-serif) font, the legendary Six Eyes reduced two. Many labelographies omit the CBS-overprint edition.ģ.2 Columbia CBS overprint Six-Eye Stereo US (1961) no DG The matrix confirms the cutting source as tape mix 1.The label says Six-Eye but the turnable says “hmmm…” May be just an end-of-run stamper artefact, but it sounds pretty poor – stodgy bass, blurred piano lacking transients, and Morello’s ringing cymbals all but disappeared. Note the CBS overprint now appears, positioned at 12 o’clock. Usually not DG, though there has been a sighting of CBS with Deep Groove. To judge from the few samples I have, the CBS Six-Eyes are inferior sonically to the original editions, in the case of my copy of Brubeck’s Time Out below, significantly so.ģ.1 Columbia CBS overprint Six-Eye Mono US (1961) The Six-Eye Columbias were the stars of Fifties audiophile recording engineering and pressing, however, however around 1961 corporate changes at Columbia were signalled by the introduction of the “CBS” name in addition to “Columbia”. The Holy Grail, Kind of Blue, six eye stereo KoB ![]() The design commences with the “Six-Eye”, which is later reduced to two-eye, and finally one-eye, symbolising the more economical rate of eye-consumption in the manufacture of Columbia records. ![]() The Magic Notes logo gives way to the “ Walking Eye” logo, a design which encompassed records TV and film in its ingenious ambiguity. Promo labels for mono and stereo, below, circa 1959Ģ.2 Columbia six-eye mono DG “walking eye” ™ (1956-61) Retailer promo of forthcoming releases – record store ephemera c.1955 The no-side is identifiable as the earlier, original pressing.Ģ.1 Columbia six eye promo, mono and stereo, and Retailer Repressings of popular titles can be found with both the early format, and the subsequent later format which includes the Side information. “Įarly Six Eye label titles CL 701 – 753 follow an information convention in which the Side (1/2) is not identified on the label (the matrix number XLP # each side increments by one) Side information 1 or 2 is added to subsequent titles CL754 and higher, right of the spindle hole, and the text NONBREAKABLE moved to the left side, beneath the catalogue number. Albums released as late as September 1955, have been found with the old label (the highest catalog number we have found is Columbia CL-664). Most albums released July 1955, or later have the new “six eye” label, but not all. (The Magic Notes symbol was licensed for use in the UK to EMI, hence the invention in the early ’60s of the CBS label to release Columbia recordings in Europe)īSN Pubs: “Doris Day’s soundtrack album Love Me or Leave Me, released in early June 1955 on CL-710, may have chronologically been one of the first albums with the “six eye” label. Updates: Two Eye label, black arrows 360 soundĭown at the 6 o’clock position above the circled “LP” is the “Magic Notes” symbol, a black beamed semi-quaver reversed out on a white circle, which was the registered trademark of Columbia.ġ.2 Red Columbia /Gold print “Magic Notes” logo (1954)
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