First-year pressing
The Happy Beat 1963 US Pressing (CS 8749)
- Artist
- Ray Conniff And His Orchestra & Chorus
- Title
- The Happy Beat
- Label
- Columbia CS 8749
- Country
- US
- Released
- 1963
- Format
- LP, Album, Stereo
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.
- XSM-58225-1G D[Variant 1] Side A runout stamped
- XSM-58226-1B I HHI[Variant 1] Side B runout etched
- XSM-58225-1C H ||[Variant 2] Side A - etched
- P XSM-58226-1A HH |||[Variant 2] Side B - etched, [P - stamped]
Other US pressings of The Happy Beat
- 1963Columbia CL 1949LP, Album, Mono
- 1963Columbia Special Products C 11292LP, Album, Stereo
- 1963Columbia CL 11076LP, Album, Stereo
- 1963Columbia CS 8749LP, Album, Stereo
- 1963Columbia CS 8749LP, Album, Stereo
- 1963Columbia CS 8749LP, Album, Stereo
- ?Columbia CS 8749LP, Album, Stereo
- ?Columbia Special Products P 11497LP, Album, Stereo