James Tobin wrote in reply to my post on the date of the Paillard Pachelbel
Canon:

>>I'm looking at the Musical Heritage Society Paillard LP and the liner notes
>>say the society licensed it from Erato in 1978.
>
>I wonder if this could have been a reissue. What is the catalog number on
>your copy?  Mine is MHS 1060.  It says recorded by ERATO of France, but I
>don't see a date.  The date I offered was from a library catalog record,
>which had a (?) after it.  The LC card number is 79-751510.  It would be
>nice if those first two numbers were the year, but I used to notice more and
>more divergence from the dates of issue.

My copy is also MHS 1060.  But the liner notes clearly state the
recording was issued in 1979 and licensed from ERATO (Editions Costellat)
in 1978.  The notes also include the Library of Congress catalog card
number 79-751510.  Perhaps, as James suggests, it is a reissue.  The cover
features a detail from a painting, "Fantastic Landscape," by Francesco
Guardi, whereas an MHS cover from the 1960s would have been without a
pictorial and black-and-white.

John Dalmas
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