First-year pressing
Merry Christmas / Happy New Year 1953 US Pressing (9-48306)
- Artist
- Lightnin' Hopkins
- Title
- Merry Christmas / Happy New Year
- Label
- Decca 9-48306
- Country
- US
- Released
- 1953
- Format
- 7", 45 RPM, Single
- Format notes
- Richmond Pressing
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.
- (45-84975)Label A
- (45-84976)◈Label B
- 45 84975 7 3Runout A
- 45 84976 8 3Runout B
Other US pressings of Merry Christmas / Happy New Year
- 1953Decca 9-483067", 45 RPM
- 1953Decca 483067", 45 RPM, Promo
- 1953Decca 48306Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
- 1953Decca 483067", 45 RPM
- 1953Decca 48306Shellac, 10", 78 RPM, Promo
- 1980Home Of The Blues HOTB-107", 45 RPM
- 1980Home Of The Blues HOTB-107", 45 RPM, Promo
- ?Decca 483067", 45 RPM, Single, Reissue
- ?Decca 48306Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
- ?Decca 257617", 45 RPM, Reissue, Repress
- ?Decca 9-483067", 45 RPM, Single, Reissue
- ?Decca 257617", 45 RPM, Single, Promo, Reissue