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August 09, 2016 15:34

Lately I have been busy classifying Philips and Fontana singles in series on the basis of the release numbers. EPs.

I also created background pages of the largest series.

The series can be found by searching on:

Philips singles series
Fontana singles series
Philips EP series
Fontana EP series

After searching, you will see the 3 largest series on the left. Click on the button "more" and you will get a complete list of all series sorted by number of items.

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Just an addition to this. The Phonogram singles in the sixties had their own series per country and label. All 6 numbers and 2 prefix letters. The first 3 digits indicate the sequence and the last three the sequential number in the sequence. (Eg 318 876 PF).

Early 1970s Phonogram changed the system; the prefix was dropped and the number of digits was increased to 7: the first four for the sequence and the last 3 for the sequence number. All series start with a 6 (eg 6012 017)

Countries were given their own series again, but there was no longer any link with labels. That meant that multiple labels were possible within a series. The series between 1970 and 1983 that I had also called Philips singles series have essentially a wrong name. Yesterday I renamed all these series to Phonogram singles series instead of Philips singles series. I have combined the Fontana singles series with it. Other labels such as Vertigo will follow.

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For years I have been using the magazine "Warm Sounds" to help me review new entered items. These magazines contain lists of singles released in the Netherlands sorted by release number. Unfortunately these books describe the releases of the 50s and 60s. There was nothing from the years after, so I decided some time ago to do that myself. Time over and all ;-). And to begin with: only the labels of Phonogram, worldwide and in the period 1970 - 1982. So the complete 6000 series. The first 30 series are ready and the first issue on series 6000, 6001 and 6002 can be found here on LastDodo.

Part 2 is finished, but still has to be printed. Corona is at odds here.

In addition to the booklets, there is also a website , which contains everything: the series that are finished, the two magazines and all kinds of information about Phonogram such as countries and their codes, data in the run-out groove and a brief history of Phonogram.

Everyone is invited to come and have a look.

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February 18, 2022 16:03
Just an update....
Booklet 4 is finished and is now also on LastDodo. In the meantime I'm already working on the series 6059. From the series 6000 to 6059 that are in LastDodo as a series, I have made background pages with info from my project. Here you will find an overview of the existing series  https://www.lastdodo.nl/nl/areas/more?include_all=1&q=phonogram+singles&sort_by=relevance&stamps_filter=0&type_id=102
For more detailed information about the Phonogram project see my website.
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February 23, 2022 21:55
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It looks good, Frans! My compliments!
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Thank you Rob! It's still fun to do and I keep discovering new things ;-)
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The Phonogram project is progressing steadily. Booklet 5 with the series 6012, 6013 and 6014 is finished and is already on the website and on LD. The first two series are "Dutch series with Dutch artists on the Philips and Fontana labels. Series 6014 contains foreign artists on the Island label.
Also the website has been updated.
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July 15, 2022 16:38
What a job. Cheers!
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Thank you ;-)  I am now working on a Greek series 6060 with about 350 singles... unreadable... ;-)
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Hats off Frans, what a masterpiece!
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It's a matter of continuing... ;-) As long as it stays fun at least.
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FransS 
You really are the 'Maestro' in the field of Phonogram/Philips singles in the period 1970-1983!
I am sorry that I was unable to contribute much to the reference book.
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Another compliment! It shouldn't get much crazier ;-)

You are already helping by completing the series here on LD. Quite important, because this shows that there is still a lot missing. The Dutch series 6012 contains more than 900 singles, but in LD not even half (430). Of the Greek series 6060, only 9 of the 350 have...
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They are indeed impressive releases and great to have
Tnx Frans
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The last issue in the series "Phonogram: The Singles" is part 6 and can be found in the catalog here . It contains the 6 series: 6015, 6016, 6017, 6018, 6019 and 6020. Except for 6017 (large Dutch series), these are Swedish, Norwegian and Danish series.
I just completed sequence 6069. This contains about 300 singles from Brazilian artists, but unfortunately only one can be found on LD and that is a Spanish football single by Pelé. While this single has also been released in the Netherlands as a Dutch pressing ;-) The next series contains Turkish singles and none of them can be found on LD. So it's about time that Brazilian and Turkish collectors report to LD ;-)
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I'll just ask my question here; I'm on the same wavelength.
It concerns the Polygram series; so far, these are only singles or LPs.
I have just modified two CDs, namely, #11716531 and #11716543 (there will be many more)
The label here is Mercury, so the Phonographic Copyright is PolyGram.
What do you think, can new series be created for such items?
This would then be, for these two, Polygram CD series 830

I also have another question, regarding, for example, a double LP.
Example, #4023775, where the Release Number is 184 216 + 184 217
The series is Polydor LP series 184
But what is the Number in the Series here, then?
Just 216 (doesn't seem right to me) or actually 216 + 217 (yes, those are also two different release numbers)
I have written to Ron about this before.
It is not in the Music Handbook
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We have raised that before.
The series are very nice, but like with Tommy, you can't use it properly.
Presumably, the album also has a different number and series number on the cover?
That happens more often at Polydor.
And with series, for example Book and Record, you can have a number in that series, but also the one from the label.
How to solve this?

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I have barely looked at CDs yet. It is possible to create Polygram CD series, for example. But as far as I know, those series already exist. There is an LP series 830, and one of those LPs is 830 077-1 (Van Morrison). That is also available as a CD, but with the number 830 077-2. The suffix -1 is used for LPs, -2 for CDs, and -7 for singles. Perhaps it is an idea to put LPs and CDs together in a series, but we need to figure out what the consequences are first.
Double and triple LPs are trickier. Sometimes they share one track, but sometimes each LP has a different one. Regularly, two different LPs were also merged later, such as Pink Floyd's #219933 A Nice Pair. The question is: how do we tackle this complex problem?
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As LP, CD, Single, I also think MC, etc.
Can that just be in the same series!
(You can then select by carrier)

Should we then adjust the naan and no longer call it a carrier?
Does the problem remain item multiple carriers
And a larger problem item in various series with separate numbering

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Frans, that the 1 stands for LP, the 2 for CD, and the 7 for Single is, yes, totally clear.
I once searched for Polygram under Series.
At LD, this is really neatly organized as Polygram LP series and Polygram Single series, with all sorts of different numbers after it.
I would really leave it like this.
For the CDs, I would personally choose the Polygram CD series followed by the corresponding number.

And now for Series with different Series. I've created an example, so you kill two birds with one stone, #2353963
This is a double LP with two different release numbers, and in Series it lists the Book and Record Series and the Phonogram LP series 6862.
Now I have put H141/4 + 013 + 014 under Number in series
I placed it like this because Book and Plate is at the beginning of the Series, so H141/4
And the Phonogram LP series 6862 is in second place, so the 013 + 014 before this.
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But now the item in the series label is no longer sequentially numbered.


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Just forget what I wrote about Book and Record and about places 1 and two.
This is an example item.
I have set it like this now, 013 + 014 + H 141/4; at least the order of the Phonogram series is correct again now.
I think it's a mess at Boek en Plaat. (Either the numbers aren't there or have been removed)
I have this #4457313 adjusted as well.
There, Number in series is now 011 + 012 + H 131/5
I think the numbering is correct now (but I'm not entirely sure yet).
In any case, in the numbering for Book and Plate, H 131/5 appears before H 141/4.
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How Books picture /NLC
how they made their numbering, I have no idea, really, there must certainly have been a reason behind it.
They also used their own numbering on the labels (e.g. Polydor)
That it's a mess!?
Depending on how you look at it, things have changed because the numbering was preferred by the label; was it a choice, or was it my choice? I don't think so; I have that series in the cabinet in "Book and record" number order.
And the fact that the order now seems correct counts for the label, not for the book and the record.
I started collecting that for a while to see if there was any logic to it?
not discovered to date!
And still searching for what NLC stands for!?
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Dick52, According to Discogs , that stands for "Nederlandse Lezerscentrale".
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Yes, I know they use that name, but look at the NLC logo and that is (not like with Book and Record: a book) but a horn, and that doesn't come across as reading, rather as listening.
I still hope to come across an old membership card.
But the chance is getting smaller and smaller.
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