Platinum Plus

Do not use as a Series for gold-stamped, remaindered ABC or MCA releases. Document the stamp in Notes only. Midline series ($5.98 retail) on MCA Records debuting August 8th, 1980, per article in Cash Box magazine dated 19th July 1980. The series concentrated on hit albums from MCA Records, and from the ABC Records group of labels which MCA acquired in early 1979. Artists featured included Elton John, Neil Diamond, Tom Petty, Steely Dan, etc. A new catalogue number series MCA-37xxx was created for these reissues, with many of the initial pressings being original pressings with the new catalogue number and the series name Platinum Plus stamped on the front covers in gold, with subsequent pressings (if any) showing the new numbers on all parts of the releases, in a similar fashion to other MCA reissue series like "Past Performance" (MCA-27xxx numbers), "Golden Gospel Greats" (MCA-28xxx) and "MCA Impulse!" (MCA-29xxx). By 1986, "Platinum Plus" reissues were appearing in the MCA 14xx, 15xx, 16xx and 25xxx series, some of these being further renumberings of releases previously in the 37xxx series.