(inner) Record Sleeves

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Sleeve from Adam VIII Ltd. advertising records and tapes available via mail order with a 10-day money back guarantee. Found within 1974 "Heavy Hits" compilation album containing 10 songs per side.

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Single-color Brunswick Records paper marketing sleeve, likely from mid to late 60s. Refers to availability of shown titles on "cartridge tape". Unsure exactly which tape format this describes. Found in an unrelated album jacket. Photographed with and without flash.

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Inner sales sleeve in full process color found inside Mercury Records catalog number MG-20377 Eddie Layton/ "Better Layton than Ever". Showcases exotic, easy listening, Jazz and Pop mood music albums available from Mercury in their Custom Series/ Popular Series. Commas abound in the description on the side with all time favorites and new releases, however the Oxford comma is notably absent (assuming that vocal stylings and keyboard stylings are separate categories, as in the parent album where no vocals are present with the organ). Parent album is available on Tidal but not on Spotify or SoundCloud as of the time of this post.

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This "specially designed protective envelope" is merely the same paper envelope all other record companies used for LPs. Branded "TOPS" with the somewhat meaningless "ultra-phonic sound" designation. The old album I found this in did sound very nice, but it may not have originally been paired with this pretentious inner sleeve.

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Atlantic Records sleeve. Indicia reads "Manufactured by Atlantic Recording Corporation" followed by address and U.S. printing origin. Reverse similar, though without indicia. Photos taken with and without flash. Found within 1969 Atlantic release SD 1537 - "Swiss Movement"/ Les McCann & Eddie Harris.

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Opaque plastic Windham Hill Records and Tapes sleeve found within 1985 "A Winter's Solstice" compilation album. Showcases other albums on label in white print, listing them with catalog numbers and noting whether they are available on CD in addition to BASF chrome cassettes. Notes A&M as distributor.

Inside sleeve was a tri-fold pamphlet offering their mailing list, a defective records return slip, and a statement from the Windham Hill CEO on the then-controversial issue of taping your records onto a mini cassette tape at home. Sleeve printed in Canada.

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Paper sleeve with plastic inner that includes detailed handling and playing instructions in grey print on the front. Decorated with stars and including a British patent number. Taken with and without flash. Reverse is blank. Found within London Records catalog number 5644 - mono pressing of "A Christmas Offering" by Leontyne Price and Herbert von Karajan with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus.

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Literally titled "The Inner Sleeve", this newspaper/ gazette-style marketing sleeve from Columbia solicits music lovers to send $3 to become a Columbia/ Epic adviser in what always to be a focus group who will receive and respond to sampler records supposedly containing "unreleased, or just-released songs". Displays a massive amount of text of questionable interest, even to an avid reader of liner notes like myself. Undated, but shows as edition 71 / 204 with a code on the reverse bottom of IC-3. Found within the 1957 album "Warm" with artist Johnny Mathis with Percy Faith and his Orchestra, catalog number CS 8039 from Columbia Masterworks - likely a reissue from the 1970s.

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Single color/ monochromatic lyrics sleeve found inside unopened 1988 New Choice / "At Last" album. Includes hair, makeup, and styling credits. Band logo layered transparently behind song lyrics. Shows catalog number 25752-1 in indicia. Music appears to currently be unavailable on streaming.

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Double-sided Warner Brothers Records advertising sleeve found within an unrelated album's outer sleeve. Unsure of exact year, but looks to be late 60s based on the albums shown.

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Epic Records/ CBS Records "Country's Best" inner sleeve with newspaper styled marketing format on reverse. Printed on semigloss paper. Found within 1981 George Jones and Tammy Wynette "Encore" compilation album, catalog number FE 37348 (I think). Johnny Paycheck image font resembles font used on some Impulse! label Jazz albums.

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Found within "You Must Be Love" performed by Love & Kisses, 1979. Reverse similar.

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1974 Concord Jazz Inc. plastic sleeve with silver print. Printed in Canada. Contains an odd silver box with the barely visible characters "CCP". Unlikely this means Soviet Union. Found within CJ-223 "Yesterday, Today and Forever" Shorty Rogers and Bud Shank.

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Elektra Musician inner sleeve with insightful quotes about music from various Jazz and Classical musicians and poets. Found within a 1982 Freddie Hubbard release on the label. Reverse shows sheet music for "Anthropology" by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie at top with president's statement below, surrounded by other releases.

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Paper sleeve with plastic liner and label window, made in USA. Found within 1975 Vanguard classical "connoisseur" record.

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Sleeve claiming that the thinner record within is superior to its predecessors. Found within an opened 1972 RCA release. Reverse similar.

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A&M Records sleeve found within The Carpenters first album re-released as "Ticket to Ride". Sleeve mentions that it is recycled as a deterrent to "pollution" in reverse. Address listed on obverse.