The Merry Widow - Highlights

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Album Info

Release Date: 1959-09

Label: Decca

Recorded 10 - 17 March 1958 in the Sofiensaal, Vienna.

Highlights from the complete recording, which was issued in the UK in 1958 with cat# SXL 2022-23

Early UK stereo version for this cat#.
First label, but there may be slightly earlier sleeve variants with 'half-moon' flipbacks or a triangular Decca logo on the front.

LABELS:
- Black/silver 'grooved wideband' labels
- "ORIGINAL RECORDING BY" at 11 o'clock
- "Made in England" at bottom
(labelography code: ED1)
- "N.C.B." and "B.I.E.M." in a box on both sides
- "Chappell & Co." on both sides
- Matrix numbers printed upside-down

SLEEVE:
- Front laminated
- Straight flipbacks
- Boxed "DECCA" logo on front and on back
- Large "STEREO" on front top left
- Thin spine with no text on it
- "Printed in England by Robert Stace." on back
- "© The Decca Record Co. Ltd., London, 1958" on back

1st cat# on sleeve.
2nd cat# on labels.

Corresponding mono issue has cat# LXT 5520

Tracklisting taken from back of sleeve.
Sub tracks are not banded on vinyl.
No track duration info on sleeve or labels.

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