The Stylistics - Rockin' Roll Baby FLAC

Any Phonogram IEP is a disgrace and this is no exception Painted in Phonogram's lilac paint also used for Charisma and Polydor's contracted Chelsea releases what can one say wow? Still Lilac is better than the Philips, Fontana, blue. The only very slight reedeming feature is the dinked 3pin Optional Centre, I still can not confirm if a dinker unit was incorporated in one of the automatic presses after the roller painting and drying cycle,, or if batches were taken and dinked manually as was the norm. The same goes for the 1 1/2" large hole die-cuts that Philips-Phonogram re-thrust on the UK public some 10years after we deemed Large Hole die-cuts pointless! Thank god RCA-Victor had no clout in the UK. These 1968+ LH die cuts were definitely punched-cut out by a die-cutter after pressing both paper labels and IEP's roller painted and dried, clearly a press could have had a die-cutter incorporated. The very very limited 2 sec footage of a Phonogram automated 7" IEP press in E17 shows the pressed records coming off un dinked or die-cut with just the standard universal small spindle hole.

UK Phonogram paper label copies of this edited single are like hen's teeth, rocking horse droppings etc, I have no paperwork or info if any UK contract pressings were done by CBS or EMI, clearly there were vats of lilac available and a lull in Donny Osmond titles!