First-year pressing
The Greatest! Count Basie Plays...Joe Williams… 1956 US Pressing (MG V-2016)
The Greatest! Count Basie Plays...Joe Williams Sings Standards by Count Basie
Mono
- Artist
- Count Basie, Joe Williams
- Title
- The Greatest! Count Basie Plays...Joe Williams Sings Standards
- Labels
- Verve Records MG V-2016
- Verve Records MGV-2016
- Country
- US
- Released
- October 1956
- Format
- LP, Album, Mono
- Format notes
- Orange Labels
Runout and matrix codes
Etched or stamped in the dead wax between the last track and the label. If yours match, you have this pressing.
- MG V-2016 AA side label
- MG V-2016 BB side label
- 50,062A side label, in parentheses
- 50,063B side label, in parentheses
- MGV 2016A - 1 50062 I IVA side runout
- MGV-2016B H /B side runout
Other US pressings of The Greatest! Count Basie Plays...Joe Williams…
- 1956Verve Records MG V-2016 / Verve Records MGV-2016LP, Album, Mono
- 1956Verve Records MG V-2016 / Verve Records MGV-2016LP, Album, Mono
- 1961Verve Records MG V-2016 / Verve Records MGV 2016LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
- 1962Verve Records V6 2016 / Verve Records MG V-2016LP, Reissue, Stereo
- ?Verve Records MGV-2016LP, Album, Repress, Mono
- ?Verve Records MG VS-6006LP, Album, Stereo
- ?Verve Records MG V-2016 / Verve Records SW-90558LP, Album, Club Edition, Stereo
- ?Verve Records MGV-2016 / Verve Records MGV 2016LP, Album, Repress, Mono
- ?Verve Records MG VS-6006LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
- ?Verve Records MG V-2016 / Verve Records W-90558LP, Album, Club Edition, Mono
- ?Verve Records MGV-2016LP, Album, Repress, Mono