Early MANHATTAN RECORD Grand Opera Series...Arthur Collins??
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 4:34 pm
I've owned this 12 inch * MANHATTAN RECORD * GRAND OPERA SERIES * single-sided record for many years (along with many 10 inch MANHATTAN RECORD label records) and always laugh (well...grin, anyway) whenever I see this particular label.
This recording, "I'm Going Right Back To Chicago" by early comic, Arthur Collins, is not even close....make that LIGHT-YEARS from resembling a Grand Opera recording.
Among other oddities, I've always been interested in goof ups on record labels and, in this instance, with someone placing the wrong label type on a record.
I can imagine the employee(s) in charge of the labeling process that day presuming it was indeed a * Grand Opera Series * recording and went ahead with it. "Let's see now...ahhh...this is a 12 inch...got to have the Grand Opera label for this one...there we go. What's next..." No one afterward caught the mistake (or cared enough to change it!).
This recording, "I'm Going Right Back To Chicago" by early comic, Arthur Collins, is not even close....make that LIGHT-YEARS from resembling a Grand Opera recording.
Among other oddities, I've always been interested in goof ups on record labels and, in this instance, with someone placing the wrong label type on a record.
I can imagine the employee(s) in charge of the labeling process that day presuming it was indeed a * Grand Opera Series * recording and went ahead with it. "Let's see now...ahhh...this is a 12 inch...got to have the Grand Opera label for this one...there we go. What's next..." No one afterward caught the mistake (or cared enough to change it!).