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Track and time information found on a two-page stapled
fact sheet for a Japanese sample copy of NEBRASKA LP |
As I wrote in
the last blog, both the UK and certain US pressings of
NEBRASKA LP are issued with the misprinted Side 2 label that lists the incorrect play times for the three of the four tracks on this side, notably for
My Father's House as clocking
5' 43" instead of the actual
5' 03". This set me to examine whether there were more examples of copies bearing this erroneous label out there. Besides the
UK and
US copies, currently, I own the LP pressings from
Holland,
Spain,
Greece,
Ex-Yugoslavia,
Hong Kong and
Japan. The survey of my collection revealed that the
misprint was not limited to the US and UK copies, and the Hong Kong release (
CBS/SONY 25AP 2440) was found to be the case (see the image below). This result was rather unexpected to me, as the Hong Kong branch of the label had an obviously closer partnership to CBS/Sony Japan, in terms of at least geography and operation, when compared to the US Columbia or UK CBS. As I reported
previously, as far as the CBS/Sony label was concerned, the
Made In Hong Kong LPs were actually pressed in Japan and then exported there. Although the Japanese pressing does not print play time for any tracks on the record label, the accompanying linernote/lyric translation insert (and the fact sheet included in the sample LP) provide almost correct time-length information (for example,
5' 05" for
My Father's House). Then I wonder how this error could happen with the Hong Kong LP but not with the Japanese one. Even if assuming that the paper labels were prepared in Hong Kong independently of the vinyl disc, how the wrong information has come to be used?
