Talk:Liner notes

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[edit] Factual clarification of liner notes

Previously an author asserted, incorrectly, that liner notes descended from notes written on sleeves. This is an inaccurate claim. While there were some occasions when such notes appeared on the sleeve of the grammophone / LP record inner sleeve, in the overwhelming majority of cases, liner notes appeared on the rear of the jacket cover. I own several hundred LPs, from the 50s onwards, of jazz, classical, rock and world music genres. Only a handful have notes on the inner sleeve. The practice of putting notes on the sleeve was a relatively recent tradition, in the mid-1970s to the demise of the LP in the late 1980s. Perhaps the writer making the inner sleeve assertion was mainly familiar with that trend. Furthermore, one writer claimed that liner notes essays were often pretentious. That is clearly a violation of the NPOV ethos. Dogru144 03:14, 13 July 2006 (UTC)