Hi Y'awll

Just bought a copy of Denise LaSalle - A love reputation on 'Tarpon' for about £22, so not too badly priced.

What I was wondering is that I believe that there are 2 label colours, A Turquoise green and a dark blue as far as I can make out.

Are they both the same release but different colour labels, or is one a re-press?

Thank you

A wee remix

Edited July 27, 201015 yr by steveluigi

Hi Y'awll

Just bought a copy of Denise LaSalle - A love reputation on 'Tarpon' for about £22, so not too badly priced.

What I was wondering is that I believe that there are 2 label colours, A Turquoise green and a dark blue as far as I can make out.

Are they both the same release but different colour labels, or is one a re-press?

Thank you

Turquoise is the original

I beg to differ Big man, both originals in my opinion.

The turquoise one is more common but both can be counted as originals.

Chris

I beg to differ Big man, both originals in my opinion.

The turquoise one is more common but both can be counted as originals.

Chris

but both more common than chess release? seems to be a tarpon copy on ebay every other week:yes:

Edited July 20, 201015 yr by east rob

dont which came first green or blue, however, green, blue & chess releases all came from the same stampers, the deadwax credits are exactly the same on all 3 releases

Hi Y'awll

Just bought a copy of Denise LaSalle - A love reputation on 'Tarpon' for about £22, so not too badly priced.

What I was wondering is that I believe that there are 2 label colours, A Turquoise green and a dark blue as far as I can make out.

Are they both the same release but different colour labels, or is one a re-press?

Thank you

:yes:Both are originals but blue is much rarer!!!!

I only ever see green copies in Chicago...and plenty of them too! But as stated previously the Chess copy is the harder release.

Chris

I beg to differ Big man, both originals in my opinion.

The turquoise one is more common but both can be counted as originals.

Chris

Never seen a blue one Chris

I only ever see green copies in Chicago...and plenty of them too! But as stated previously the Chess copy is the harder release.

Chris

Used to be the other way around before Ebay the Tarpon copies were harder than Chess IMO

I only ever see green copies in Chicago...and plenty of them too! But as stated previously the Chess copy is the harder release.

Chris

It appears that way at the moment Chess doesn't seem to turn up as much as Tarpon although back in the day the green Tarpon was the one to have and the blue only seems to have come to light much later!! personally if it's the backing you like then it's gotta be the original Nolan Chance-just like the weather,everytime imho:

Edited July 20, 201015 yr by mrtag

Maybe if the label was called 'TAMPON' it would have stopped the flow of the chess copies :-) Ho Ho!!

Well anyway I got a turquoise copy so looks like it's the easiest to find one.

Edited July 20, 201015 yr by steveluigi

Maybe if the label was called 'TAMPON' it would have stopped the flow of the chess copies :-) Ho Ho!!

Well anyway I got a turquoise copy so looks like it's the easiest to find one.

AT THAT PRICE IT LOOKS LIKE YOU GOT YOURSELF A BARGAIN ON WHATEVER LABEL !!! ATB. JOHN:yes:

AT THAT PRICE IT LOOKS LIKE YOU GOT YOURSELF A BARGAIN ON WHATEVER LABEL !!! ATB. JOHN:yes:

yeah looked at others and they were going for round about £45, so quite pleased with the purchase.

This is the one to have imo.

I like the look of the Tarpon label better, makes a change from the hundreds of Chess 45s I have. Anyways, 1st press is on turquoise, it hit & required a 2nd press on blue which was then superceded by the 3rd press on Chess & as stated above all used the same plates/plant & were made within a few months of each other in 1967. Cool little record. Not sure if Chess pressed it up in other plants or on styrene though, maybe by the time they got to it they only needed to do the pressing at one plant.

Edited July 21, 201015 yr by Kris Holmes

There is an old thread here:

P:)

Thanks all for the info, greatly appreciated!!!

I like the look of the Tarpon label better, makes a change from the hundreds of Chess 45s I have. Anyways, 1st press is on turquoise, it hit & required a 2nd press on blue which was then superceded by the 3rd press on Chess & as stated above all used the same plates/plant & were made within a few months of each other in 1967. Cool little record. Not sure if Chess pressed it up in other plants or on styrene though, maybe by the time they got to it they only needed to do the pressing at one plant.

If the blue one is a second press why was it on a Demo?

Why do you see lots of different shades of label from blue to green?

Its as though it started out getting printed one colour and ended up another!

If the blue one is a second press why was it on a Demo?

Why do you see lots of different shades of label from blue to green?

Its as though it started out getting printed one colour and ended up another!

As mentioned there are green & blue demos, the date of issue is pretty minimal between the two. what different shades?