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Range
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Front
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Back
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Details
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No 1
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1 - mar 1962
to
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Curved top |
Inside glued |
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No 2
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may 1962
to
aug
1962
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Curved top |
Inside glued |
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| Each
design after the first two was printed in ten colors. The reason for the
color pattern is because the disks were sold out of racks which had
ten places to hold ten disks. Therefore the phrase Top Ten Tunes.
The sightly different cut style means nothing, other than they purchased
sleeves from the cheapest supplier. |
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No 3 a
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oct 1962
to
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Cut straight/notch |
Glued left/right |
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No 3 b
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.
to
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Curved top |
Inside glued |
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No 3 c
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to
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Cut straight/notch |
Glued left/right |
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No 3 d
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to
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Curved top |
Glued left/right |
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No 3 e
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to
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Curved top |
Inside glued |
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No 3 f
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.
to
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Curved top |
Inside glued |
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No 3 g
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.
to
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Curved top |
Inside glued |
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No 3 h
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.
to
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Curved top |
Inside glued |
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No 3 i
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.
to
1969
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Curved top |
Inside glued |
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No 3 j
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.
to
1969
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Curved top |
Inside glued |
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No 4 a
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91 - nov 1963
to
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Cut straight/notch |
Glued left/right |
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No 4 b
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to
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Cut straight/notch |
Glued left/right |
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No 4 c
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to
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Cut straight/notch |
Glued left/right |
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No 4 d
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to
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Cut straight/notch |
Glued left/right |
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No 4 e
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to
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Cut straight/notch |
Glued left/right |
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No 4 f
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.
to
jan
1965
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Cut straight/notch |
Glued left/right |
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No 4 g
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.
to
jan
1965
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Cut straight/notch |
Glued left/right |
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CUT
CORNERS
The
"Modern Sound of the Hits" (No 4) sleeves were used starting in Nov 1963
when the singles were issued in compatible stereo. They raised the price
10 cents, but only briefly. They reverted back to 39 cents and cut the
49 cent price corner off the sleeve (example below). By about Apr 1965
they were back to the 39 cent "Music is Fun" (no 3) sleeve which was used
for the rest of the run until 1969. |
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No 4 x
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jan 1965
to
apr
1965
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Cut straight/notch |
Glued left/right |
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19
C OVERPRINTS
Info
from Sam Mathis: While in the Nashville
area I met a man who says his after-school job back in the mid-60's was
working in the Hit Records warehouse. He said he did everything from
sweeping the floors to packing and labeling boxes of records to be shipped
out. One of his jobs was to re-price returned records using a big
rubber stamp with an "X, a star and 19c" on it. He said small jukebox
venders and kids "in-the-know" would stop in the warehouse and purchase
these records for the 19 cent price. Often they were sold for even
less if they had sat around the warehouse long enough. He later took
me out to a shed and gave me about a dozen records and a couple of them
had the re-priced sleeves. |
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X 1
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to
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Cut straight/notch |
Glued left/right |
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X 2
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to
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Cut straight/notch |
Glued left/right |
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X 3
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.
to
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Sleeve not available
for scan
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19c Hits you missed
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Cut straight/notch |
Glued left/right |
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HITS
of the 60's
Unsold
disks were sometimes inserted into "Hits of the 60s" sleeves for resale. |
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No 5 a
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.
to
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Curved top |
Glued left/right |
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No 5 b
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to
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Curved top |
Glued left/right |
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No 5 c
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.
to
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Curved top |
Glued left/right |
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No 5 d
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.
to
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Curved top |
Glued left/right |
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No 5 e
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.
to
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Curved top |
Glued left/right |
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No 5 f
|
.
to
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Curved top |
Glued left/right |
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