Linda Ronstadt
Greatest Hits - Volume Two (Volume II on disc and wings)
Asylum 516-2 EUROPE: 252 255
made in West Germany for US & international markets
color scheme: light blue background with purple reticle and black lettering
genre: rock/pop
LP originally issued 1980


MADE IN WEST | | GERMANY BY POLYGRAM
This is the most common version (a).
Matrix number: 7559 00516-2 2893 270 01 (all target pressings have the same matrix number)
This same disc face also exists with MADE IN W. GERMANY BY PDO etched around the center hole (b).


MADE IN WEST | | GERMANY
MADE IN W. GERMANY BY PDO is etched around the center hole (c).
Known suffixes: CH


Front cover of the eight-page booklet.
Page seven states "Manufactured by PolyGram in Hanover, West Germany
Printed in West Germany"


Rear tray insert "Printed in West Germany." with old logo, and no barcode.
"516-2" over "EUROPE: 252 255" is printed on the reverse.
Disc variations (a) and (c) can be found with this rear tray card.
Disc variation (c) can also be found with "Alsdorf" paper inserts without a barcode.


Rear tray insert with barcode, no logo, and no manufacturing information.
"516-2" over "EUROPE: 252 255" is printed on the reverse.
Disc variation (b) can be found with this rear tray card.

Notes: This target CD is uncommon, but can be found with perserverance.

Jewel case info: a smooth frosted-top two-dimple case with "22" embossed on one tab, and "54" embossed on the back portion,
inside bottom center. Eight-prong disc tray embossed "Patents pending 16"

OTHER INTERESTING EARLY CD PRESSINGS OF THIS TITLE:


Asylum 516-2 // 252 255
"MADE IN JAPAN" (by JVC) at six o'clock.
Known matrix numbers: 516 2 M1E11, 516-2-U3E13, 516-2-U3E15
These matrix numbers suggest this issue was in print from 1984 to 1986.
The front cover is the same standard cover as the WG target issue.
Page seven states "Manufactured by JVC, Japan. Printed in Japan"
with an Elektra, not an Asylum, logo.


Asylum 516-2 // 252 255
"MANUFACTURED BY VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LTD. MADE IN JAPAN" at six o'clock.
Known matrix number: 516-2-U4C11
This number suggests this issue was in print starting in 1986.
The booklet is the same as above.


Rear tray insert "Printed in Japan" with an Elektra logo, no barcode.
"516-2" is printed on the reverse.
I have found both JVC discs with this tray card.


Rear tray insert "Printed in Japan" with an Asylum logo and barcode.
"516-2" over "EUROPE: 252 255" is printed on the reverse.
I have found both JVC discs with this tray card as well.


The "MADE IN JAPAN" disc was also issued in Japan as 38XP-58,
with the addition of this gold sticker obi. It's possible that
the WG target was also issued with this obi. I have no evidence either way.
Around 1986, this title was reissued in Japan as 32XD-478.

11/09/20 *