[78-L] Clamp them records down,durium chevrolet

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron L'Herault" <lherault at bu.edu>
> I'm surprised no one else has answered. "The Columbia Double Disk Record
> twice the music for only a little more than the cost of a single face
> record", or something like that.  There were three different Columbia
> demonstration records, if I am not mistaken. I think the first one was 
> free
> and later ones were sold for a nominal fee (e.g. $0.25).  I've got at 
> least
> two of the three and maybe all of them.  I don't think they are terribly
> rare.
>
The first one (c.1910) was free; I don't think there was a Canadian 
version...?!
The second exists in both US and Canadian versions...the latter was priced
at 30 cents here and a quarter in the US. There was yet ANOTHER similar
Columbia promo disc...it bore the catalog number 1-S and, again, cost a
quarter (and had its own sleeve as well!).

I have also run across promotional records on Gennett and Perfect...possibly
others as well that currently "slip my mind" (as MANY things do, given my
age of 66.5 and a severe head injury back in early 1997!!).

But I can STILL recall the first Columbia promo disc..."The puh-pose of
this r-r-rec-ohd is to demonstrate the Co-lum-bi-ah double-disc 
r-r-rec-ohd...!"

...stevenc