[78-L] Earliest DJ/reviewers copy 78 [FWD]

[Bill McClung]

So that Survey record from 1946 was not an early dj record.  And the artists
had previously recorded.  Any other ideas about what it's purpose?  And
thank you, Mr. Biel and others.  I had no idea the preview records were so
early.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Mike Harkin <harkinmike at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Seems to have been a general practice, at least in the US and UK.
>  Gramophone reviewers frequently remark that their review copies have no
> notes, and/or that they are 'white label' copies with little or no data.
> Mike in Plovdiv
>
> --- On Sun, 1/17/10, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Earliest DJ/reviewers copy 78
> > To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > Date: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 7:29 PM
> > As I have been spending the past week
> > going thru record reviews in
> > American Record Guide, H Royer Smith The New Records, Down
> > Beat,
> > Billboard, and several other journals, I know that the
> > record companies
> > did supply PRINT reviewers with review copies.  I saw
> > a note in a review
> > for the Mercury Theater Macbeth C-33 in the Dec 1940 The
> > New Records
> > "The sample album we received was minus the booklet so we
> > cannot give
> > the cast of the present performance."  These journals
> > seem to be getting
> > advance copies making it possible to have a review in the
> > same issue
> > where an ad for the record announces it as a new
> > release.  My
> > dissertation has a note that credits Arnold Passman's book
> > The Deejays
> > p80-81 that by mid 1940 Columbia and Decca were providing
> > their records
> > to radio stations which forced Victor to do likewise.
> > Earlier pages
> > note that Benny Goodman had even paid Al Jarvis $500 in
> > 1937 to promote
> > a live appearance and play his records.  The 1930s
> > monthly articles
> > about jazz in American Record Guide always had info about
> > prominent
> > broadcasts including Make Believe Ballroom.
> >
> > Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> >
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Earliest DJ/reviewers copy 78
> > From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > Date: Sat, January 16, 2010 5:51 pm
> > To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >
> > I've seen stickers like that on English pressings that
> > probably go back
> > to the
> > 30s but not on US ones. (Thanks for covering the run-out,
> > ARC!)
> >
> > dl
> >
> > Cary Ginell wrote:
> > > Just came across (and listed on oy-Vey) the earliest
> > example of a DJ or reviewers' copy of a 78 I've seen.
> > Although the earliest examples where the label color was
> > actually changed and printing reflected that the record was
> > "not for sale" came around 1946, this record predates that
> > by a decade. Instead of printing special labels, stickers
> > saying "Reviewers' Copy - Not For Sale" were pasted over the
> > labels. This is a mid-30s black-and-gold Vocalion copy of
> > two Louis Armstrong records from the '20s. Were these
> > common?
> > >
> > >
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120518896284&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT
> > >
> > > Cary Ginell
> > >
> >
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