Mendelssohn*, Nathan Milstein, Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Of New York, Bruno Walter – Concerto In E Minor For Violin And Orchestra Op. 64

Forgive me, please! Should be ATLANTIC CITY - and not Atlanta City!!! By the way, the 75th LP's birthday is coming. I mean 18.06.2023.
Jurek

Just a few remarks... 1/ Columbia presentation in Hotel Waldorf Astoria was made on 18.06.1948. So, I believe it should be considered as date of release of all 101 LPs presented then incl. ML 4001. 2/ 21.06.1948 was a day of internal Columbia dealers convention in Atlanta City. 3/ If the LP was born on 18.06.1948 in Waldorf Astoria, so, there were 101 chronologically first LPs. 4/ That initial Columbia catalog was organized in alphabetical order of composers. So, ML 4001 with Mendelssoh could not open this list. 5/ It was ML 4002 with Bach. 6/ 10" CL 6001 "The Voice of Frank Sinatra" was among those 101 LPs ex Waldorf Astoria.
For more details, please, look at my www.historyoflongplay.com.
Jurek

These red, green or yellow sleeves are NOT repressings or later pressings, just a better sleeve that replaced the flimsy blue and white paper envelope. The first repressing of ML4001 came in 1977 on the Odessey label, 34604.

This design was the last one for the original pressings of this, the first LP.

None of these ML4001 in the "tombstone" envelopes (paper envelopes or cardboard sleeves) are repressings. All are from the sequence of stampers made from the original master.

From my collection of 18 of ML4001, only the LPs in the blue and white top open envelope had the note/mic logo on the lower left of the label. I believe these envelopes were discontinued after only a few months in favor of the heavier cardboard sleeve in green, red, blue or yellow. The records in these side open sleeves all have the note/mic logo centered at the label bottom. All seem to come from the same 1948 pressings. I have read that the Columbia dealers raised hell about the original (cheap) kraft paper envelopes.

We can still find the Columbia ML4001, the first LP, by exhaustive searches through boxes of dusty records in their original blue and white top-open paper envelopes. Good luck!

Odd that HMV didn't use the original blue and white Kraft paper envelope from the first release of ML4001. The cardboard side open sleeve in red, yellow, green or blue came a few months later when Columbia found the paper envelope to weak.

This really is a lovely idea done well. I was expecting a crackly replica that, while cute as an artefact, wouldn't be an enjoyable listening experience. Nope, it's a proper clean remaster and sounds great.

I missed out on this on Saturday but happy to pick it up on eBay at a reasonable price, so I won't condemn the flipper!

Absolutely fantastic listening, shame to see people already re-selling this considering they would of picked this one up for nothing as it was given away!