[78-L] Jackson death

[Jeff Sultanof]

Cary,

Just FYI, I worked for WB Music Publications from 1979 until 1994 (in the
years before they moved to Florida, I was the editorial director), and I
remember well preparing those Michael Jackson books. Believe me, they will
start selling big again.

Jeff Sultanof



> I work for Alfred Publishing and we own the print rights to Michael
> Jackson's songbooks. Sales have been sluggish of late, but we're preparing
> to reprint everything because the tidal wave will hit any moment.
>
> Guess this is turning out to be Jackson's best career move in years.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [78-L] Jackson death
> From: soundthink at aol.com
> Date: Thu, June 25, 2009 6:39 pm
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
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> If you want to see morbid frenzy, check out the Michael Jackson auction
> items on eBay. It's like 1977 all over again, when Elvis died.
> Everything with his name on it is selling. Crazy, nutty, insane prices.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
> Leah had just asked me if this would boost the sales of his records when
> your posting came in.  The morning after Elvis died (if he really died)
> I went down to Rose Records in Chicago and saw a feeding frenzy.  There
> was one woman in particular holding at least 35 LPs and pulling out
> more.  After she paid over $150, a Chicago Tribune reporter interviewed
> her.  After that I went up to the reporter and explained that these
> people thought that his records would no longer be available, but that
> it would be the exact opposite, that RCA would reissue the LPs they had
> already deleted.  And they did, but then re-deleted them and put most of
> the stuff onto Camden.  Then I went up to Sounds Good Records where Rich
> Markow worked.  A delivery had just come in, and there was a box or two
> of the Moody Blue LP -- in BLACK pressings.  RCA had originally
> announced that the blue pressings were a limited edition, and the fact
> that I saw boxes delivered the morning after he died with black
> pressings that had been manufactured before his death proved that the
> legend that the black pressings were RCA's mourning tribute was not
> true.  What RCA did was resume pressing blue copies.  Thus the black
> ones are the rare ones.  No, I did not get a black pressing when they
> were sitting in front of me in quantity, I then wanted a blue one, not
> knowing that the blue ones would be pressed again.  I did finally get a
> mint black copy at the Lexington flea market for $5 a few years ago.
>
> Mike (no, i don't have a copy of thriller) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> (but I do have a copy of Weird Al's "Worse" to place next to a copy of
> "Bad")
>
> "The Insider" just had a promo and opened th
> e show with "Is Michael
> Jackson dead?"  The show is fed in the early afternoon, which was before
> there was news, so this would have been a scoop if he was alive now and
> died later.
>
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