Jimmy Smith - root down OG check
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Hi all,
Does anyone know which one of these is the OG? The covers seem identical but the labels are not:
![](http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i199/lensky/50A68AE9-FF48-45AE-B1BF-5F417BA4D6B7-24595-0000160AD73F8EE4.jpg)
![](http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i199/lensky/8DBA5771-243C-4255-84BD-02F0BFE3A94E-24595-0000160AB6CF96F8.jpg)
I hope somebody can help me out here, thanks in advance,
Leon
Does anyone know which one of these is the OG? The covers seem identical but the labels are not:
![](http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i199/lensky/50A68AE9-FF48-45AE-B1BF-5F417BA4D6B7-24595-0000160AD73F8EE4.jpg)
![](http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i199/lensky/8DBA5771-243C-4255-84BD-02F0BFE3A94E-24595-0000160AB6CF96F8.jpg)
I hope somebody can help me out here, thanks in advance,
Leon
Comments
Label two just says "MGM."
Even with this difference, I think the label just pressed an extra older label they weren't using. Companies did that whenever they ran out of label blanks. I'm assuming they're both still originals. I believe MGM would have stopped that "Metro Goldwyn Mayer" business by 1972 (when Root Down was released).
As said record companies did not care which labels were printed/used.
The Sunset Blvd address was introduced in 1972*.
You should check markings in the dead wax for more clues to where each was pressed.
* According to Joe Lindsay's old Record Label Guide.
Thanks a lot for the help!
Leon