While looking over my CD collection on the shelves, this fact struck me: not very many A&M CDs actually have the classic A&M trumpet logo on their spine. I suppose it's a holdover from the days of vinyl when spines were really too small to do justice to a logo, and when A&M started pressing CDs, they basically stuck with the old way of doing things: artist, title, catalog number. And true to form, all of those CDxxxx discs just have text printing on them.
So where would one find an A&M CD with the logo on the spine? Looking first through my multitudinous collection of Carpenters discs, the first one I find with the A&M logo on the spine is the 2000 release of SINGLES 1969-1983. It's found on the spine of the slipcase of the Japanese release, as well as the spine on the US release. From there, there are quite a few Carpenters comps from Universal that have the logo on it - and some that don't. But it took until the Universal years for the logo to show up.
How about Herb? There is only one Herb Alpert CD in existence that I know of with the A&M logo on the spine and it's DEFINITIVE HITS. Again, it took until the Universal years for the logo to show up on the spine.
Sergio? Not too many. It's found on the 20th Century Millennium Collection and that's about it.
Harry
So where would one find an A&M CD with the logo on the spine? Looking first through my multitudinous collection of Carpenters discs, the first one I find with the A&M logo on the spine is the 2000 release of SINGLES 1969-1983. It's found on the spine of the slipcase of the Japanese release, as well as the spine on the US release. From there, there are quite a few Carpenters comps from Universal that have the logo on it - and some that don't. But it took until the Universal years for the logo to show up.
How about Herb? There is only one Herb Alpert CD in existence that I know of with the A&M logo on the spine and it's DEFINITIVE HITS. Again, it took until the Universal years for the logo to show up on the spine.
Sergio? Not too many. It's found on the 20th Century Millennium Collection and that's about it.
Harry