[78-L] 1st Family

[Don Chichester]

I seldom see "It's in the Book" down here.  It was very brittle and broke easily.

Don
 
> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 19:27:52 -0500
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] 1st Family
> 
> I wonder if folks held onto that one as well..or broke it? I rarely find it in 
> thrift stores. On the other hand, "It's In the Book" still turns up everywhere 
> and in Canada, pressed (by Sparton) on 3 types of material..heavy shellac, 
> light shellac-vinyl mix, and laminated.
> 
> dl
> 
> Don Chichester wrote:
> > In the early '50s I was working part-time at a record store. The manager told me that a new Stan Freberg 78 was about to be issued, and the Capitol rep told the store owners to buy a lot of them, pre-issue date. The record? St. George and the Dragonet. It sold out immediately!
> > 
> > Don
> > 
> >> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 19:04:02 -0500
> >> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> >> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> >> Subject: Re: [78-L] 1st Family
> >>
> >> David Lennick wrote:
> >>>>> As a matter of fact, people stopped listening to the album after the
> >>>>> assassination, Volume 2 was withdrawn, and sales of comedy albums were
> >>>>> dismal for the next fifteen years.
> >> I disagree. Cosby, Newhart and Smothers Bros were big sellers. I see 
> >> no real lasting continuing sales of Steve Martin. They went up and down 
> >> the charts like pop records. Of course Cosby and Newhart started their 
> >> careers while JFK was still alive, but they never stopped selling.
> >>
> >>> Don't have sales figures, but I hardly ever run across even Richard Pryor's 
> >>> more popular albums in the Goodwill. Or for that matter Bob Newhart or Bill 
> >>> Cosby. Rusty Warren, yes.
> >>>
> >>> dl
> >>>
> >> As for Cosby and Newhart, I think we have the Caruso effect. These are 
> >> the albums they save when they throw the others out. I worked for a 
> >> rack jobber record distrubutor in 66 and 67 and can tell you that the 
> >> sales of Cosby were HUGE, and Newhart and Smothers Bros were good. We 
> >> sold very few Jon Winters, Tom Lehrer, Mort Saul, Shelly Berman, Dave 
> >> Gardner, Myron Cohen. Homer & Jethro and others that were on the major 
> >> labels. But 5 albums of Cosby and perhaps 2 or so each of Newhart and 
> >> Snothers Brios were always in our top 120 album sales lists. (We 
> >> didn't rack Warren, Foxx, or Pryor.) We had a lot on Nichols & May in a 
> >> huge Mercury overstock sale.
> >>
> >> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
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