Latest additions:
26-12-2022: Scans were added for Philips B 47164 L a jazz album by Miles Davis
25-12-2022: Scans were added for Philips B 10104 R, a jazz 10 inch album by Hank Frowan’s Atlantic Quintet
24-12-2022: Post “Looking back at 2022” added
24-12-2022: Scans were added for Philips BBL 7171, a Dave Brubeck album
14-11-2022: Scans were added for Philips B 10105 R, a jazz 10 inch album by Joe Hervey’s Metronome Quintet
(check the recent posts for details and more)
About this website
This website is dedicated to the Philips label and more specifically to the Minigroove issues (1951-early 1960’s). It’s meant to be a gallery in the first place, showing the covers and labels of the singles and albums that I own. I have no intention to offer a complete discography but I will continue to add artwork and information to the website.
I was drawn to the Philips label by the vinyl!-exhibition in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, hometown of the company. At the exhibition, I bought a book written by Leo Boudewijns, a former label executive, and read about the pioneering years of the label, the designers involved, etc. The book, like the exhibition, also showed loads of album covers, many of which had a charming, ‘retro’ beauty. I was impressed, so I decided to look around in (online) record stores and thrift stores. The result was that I built me a small collection of these ‘Minigrooves’ and then I launched this website.
Use the menu’s on top to find your way through genres and artwork (blue release numbers are linked to pages with images) or to read about general things worth knowing (‘Minigroove’ menu). The ‘news’ menu, like ‘recent posts’ at the right, show the most recent activities on the website. You can send me a message through the contact page; to say hello or if you have anything to add or to correct.
Robert
October 2019
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