By R&B (138.238.41.215) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 03:44 pm:

YOU KNOW,MOST RECORDS ARE BLACK IN COLOR,BUT HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE RECORDS THAT ARE OF A DIFFERENT SHADE SUCH AS..RED,BURGUNDY,BLUE,YELLOW,I'VE EVEN SEEN A GREEN RECORD!HOW MANY COLORS DO YOU HAVE?

By KevGo (64.115.26.80) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 03:59 pm:

I have a few jazz LPs on Fantasy Records that were pressed on red vinyl as well as some childrens 45s from Capitol pressed on yellow vinyl as well.
Kevin Goins - KevGo

By STUBASS (152.163.188.68) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 04:20 pm:

OK GUYS!!!...BACK IN THE 70'S...MY BROTHER BRUCE WAS CALLED IN TO ARRANGE TWO PROJECTS ON WHITE DIGITAL VINYL!!!...THEY WERE FULL ORCHESTRATIONS...ONE FOR DIANNE CARROLL...AND THE OTHER FOR THE MERCER ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA (DUKES SON)!!!...DIGITALLY MASTERED (A RARITY BACK IN THE 70'S)...AND PROBABLY A COLLECTORS ITEM TODAY!!!...DIDN'T THINK I'D REMEMBER THAT ONE...HUH BRUCE???!!!...STU

By Funkyone D J Dollar BILL (216.221.81.96) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 04:24 pm:

Every color in the rainbow as well as clear and marble.RCA Victor used to do alot of red '45's and The Beatles had quite a few special edit. pressings.Have a glow in the dark one too!

By MichaelOH (24.157.156.82) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 04:24 pm:

I have an Elvis LP that was pressed on gold vinyl... ;) It's called "A Canadian Tribute".

MichaelOH

By Funkyone D J Dollar BILL (216.221.81.96) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 04:25 pm:

Not to mention all the red and green Christmas '45's over the years

By dvdmike (12.84.41.31) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 04:29 pm:

Well, when I was little there were golden records for children.

By Funkyone D J Dollar BILL (216.221.81.96) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 04:31 pm:

LOL.The Fisher Price record player!All the colors there too!

By fayette (205.188.209.109) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 04:56 pm:

i'm still wondering how i'm going to play
some 8tracks i got. will i have to go to the moon
to find a 8track player? i can't believe i
admitted to having a 8track.

with hands over face
elite angel
fayette

By Eli (141.151.78.96) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 05:27 pm:

When Fat Larry's Band had a hit on my song Zoom,
Virgin records pressed up a special edition collector's item version in pink which was shaped like Larry hiself done in carricature and the part that played on your phono was in the middle with the rest being Larry with a big smile on his face.

NO DISRESPECT INTENDED!!

By MEL&THEN SOME (212.159.48.132) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 05:30 pm:

I Have a Bobby Patterson
'My babys coming back to me' on the
Orange see-thru vinyl on Jetstar.
Have seen a lot of various coloured 45s.
mel.

By medusa9e (66.73.6.124) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 07:47 pm:

well....I happen 2 have an orange colored 45 recording of Johnny Guitar Watsons'"Real Motha For You" and it sounds soooo good

By SisDetroit (68.42.209.170) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 07:52 pm:

Fayette - You should go to a pawn shop. You can probably find an 8track player there.

By Weldon A. Mc Dougal III (68.80.162.3) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 08:23 pm:

Motown used to make red records for promotion only, red for "hot" and DJ would play it because of that.
WELDON

By Wonder B (81.53.221.102) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 09:01 pm:

Color records are not a thing that was invented in the second part of the 20ieth century... many 78 rpm on the VOGUE catalogue from the 30's (I believe as I am not an expert) were already picture discs... they are worth a good price these days..
Talking about colored vinyls, SUN (the funk band) issued 'Live On'on orange vinyl, SIDE EFFECT 'Going Bananas' was on yellow vinyl, EASTSIDE CONNECTION 12" singles on the Rampart label were multi colored, Prince issued one of his promo 12" on gold vinyl and the 'Purple Rain' has a purple vinyl edition too, and in the direct to disc category there were a few on 'clear vinyl' (also the name of the label if I am not mistaken)
Anyway? there are so many it's hard to mention them all...
Since Bobby Eli mentioned the great Fatback shaped single, anybody here remember the RUFUS 'Party 'til You Broke' single in the shape of a dollar bill? Very nice too...
I also have a 7" single by old school rap group Hurt'em Bad & the S.C Band called 'Football rap' in the shape of a football... nice to see it spin... LOL
If we go deeper... there's one (a real favourite of mine) CD single 'The Imperial March' (Darth Vader theme song) that was issued in the shape of Darth's helmet!!!! I can't even understand how the CD is properly balanced to spin at 500 rpm without generating any vibrations but indeed it does play well! Sorry this one's far from the soul section but I just love that theme!!!!

By Funkyone D J Dollar BILL (216.221.81.96) on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 10:19 pm:

That was Fat Larry Blaise!Don't go playing about the Fatback Band around me!You know better!And what no catalog numbers for the other records you mentioned?LOL Wonder B even has some records on black vinyl!The pressing quality on the picture discs were junk and alot of vinyl purists wouldn't buy the marble ones because they weren't "virgin" vinyl.I think Germany had to produce the most colored vinyl titles,paticularly during the height of 12" E.P.'s in the mid to late 80's. Maybe our nect thread can be on the cardboard and flexi-discs.Remeber puting a dime on the record and not the tonearm?LOL

By Eli (141.151.78.96) on Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 12:02 am:

Affirmative on Fat Larry!!!

By Heikki (62.71.79.239) on Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 04:40 am:

Hi!
In the 60s a Scandinavian company used to release the Righteous Brothers' Spector singles in all colours - blue, yellow, green...
Heikki

By Ritchie (62.254.0.9) on Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 08:07 am:

In the eighties the (UK) Motown Chartbusters albums were reissued on coloured vinyl. Volume three was pressed on clear vinyl - presumably to correspond with the metallic silver sleeve. It looked great, but was damn-near impossible to play. The dificulty was in finding the run-in groove, when the grooves from the other side showed through!

By MEL&THEN SOME (217.14.178.94) on Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 08:10 am:

Fayette,
I have been in touch with the Count,
and he has asked me to tell you that he can help you out regards the 8 track thing.
But he hasnt got your E.Mail address,can you please mail him.
many thanks
mel.

By Wonder B (80.11.231.42) on Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 09:22 am:

Yes Bobby and $Bill... I typed that mistake just to see if anybody here would read it... (LOL no seriously it was 3am over here and I had almost fell into coma... I was on auto-pilot as far as typing was concerned!)
Of course it was the Fatback.. I mean Fat Larry's Band LOL! I do have that record so how could I mess this up...
$ Bill I know what you mean about the virgin vinyl purists but I still play that Eastside Connection 12" with great pleasure and the sound is great even so...

By Uptight (24.55.6.144) on Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 09:44 am:

I was happy to find the Yellow Magic Orchestra LP on yellow vinyl recently, as I enjoyed a cousin's copy when it was first released.

Also I recently found a fluorescent yellow used copy of Kraftwerk's "Pocket Calculator" single. This would replace the one I gave away back in the day.

By nikki (24.46.200.124) on Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 09:57 am:

In the mid '70s a label called VINTAGE had only colored vinyl 45s! Colors ranged from bright pink, yellow, orange, purple, blue, etc.! The artists and music on these 45s was basically doowop.

Nikki
http://www.harmonytrain.com

By John Lester (213.123.146.81) on Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 11:37 am:

I have a clear one too....some Detroit things on it.

A vinyl reissue of Motown Chartbusters used all the colours and more.

I have the Supremes Rogers And Hart album on an orange Japanese label.

The unedited Freda Payne Band Of Gold version was initially issued with a green label and "gold" vinyl. The match was a bit hard on the eyes!

By drums (155.91.6.72) on Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 12:51 pm:

Hey ,

What is an album? Or this vinyl thing that you guys are talking about ;)
Daren

By Funkyone D J Dollar BILL (216.221.81.98) on Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 03:24 pm:

Really big C.D.'s I have a bunch of gold and silver CD's too!

By R&B (138.238.41.128) on Friday, May 02, 2003 - 08:24 am:

HEY DRUMS,DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT,YOU'D HAVE TO HAVE A TURNTABLE TO UNDERSTAND.

By R&B (138.238.41.118) on Friday, May 02, 2003 - 10:54 am:

I WOULD LOOOOOOOOOVE TO HAVE ONE OF THOSE CLEAR ONES,I WOULDN'T EVEN PLAY IT,I'D JUST HANG IT ON THE WALL AND LOOK AT IT!

By Funkyone D J Dollar BILL (216.221.81.96) on Friday, May 02, 2003 - 12:38 pm:

We used to make clocks out of some of the picture discs and colored vinyl.Kinda looks like the one to my left.
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By Sly fan (64.169.104.84) on Friday, May 02, 2003 - 04:28 pm:

WONDER B!!! REALLY GOOD CALL!!!You beat me to it..I have a lot of the RAMPART releases and yeah that bugged me out too when I saw the pinkish multi colored wax!! Eastside Connection was a really great group.."Frisco Disco" is still my jam!!

I have a red heart shaped 45 on Bobby Caldwell's "What You Wont Do For Love" 45..its really sweet...

I always love the promos...