Purchased by Liberty in 1965, it was responsible for west coast pressing of Blue Note reissues, which they remastered from copy tape, not using Van Gelder original metal. CJ Hurtt is a record nerd and writer who lives in a remote fishing village in the Pacific Northwest. Possibly indicated by a ④ at the end of the runout with label fonts by Co-Service Printing. Tower Records Cover Slick Numbers - On many of the first three Pink Floyd albums, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, A Saucerful of Secrets, and More, a very small number can be found at the bottom of the back cover in the lower right corner. EDITED: nevermind....my misunderstanding. Trivia isn’t enough for you? Small 3 stamped by itself into runouts. ), Located in Indiana. This could explain why that cool Count Basie record you have sounds different than your friend’s copy of the same album. Back when Columbia was pressing records in Bridgeport, the common abbreviation for the state was ‘Conn.’; ‘CT’ was not used as a state abbreviation until starting in the later 1970’s; Thereafter, all East Coast pressing was transferred to Pitman, NJ which began some pressing late 1960 and became more fully operational by May 1961. What these inscriptions mean varies from record label to record label (and sometimes from pressing plant to pressing plant), but there are some commonalities. In 1968 Tom Boddie bought all the record pressing equipment from the Kelmar pressing plant in Cleveland and installed it in his home. A Research Craft pressing of Blue Note can best be identified by the font sets used to print the labels. By