[78-L] The Relative Price of a Record

[Royal Pemberton]

True....pop 78s on Victor and Columbia stayed 75 cents right on through the
Depression, for example, which helps account for their relative scarcity
compared with other labels producing records in that era.

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:31 PM, agp <agp2176 at verizon.net> wrote:

> Picked up some goodies at Whistlin' Willie's today and in looking at
> them, it made me wonder about the relative price of a record to the
> other items of the day like a meal, a loaf of bread, a gallon of gas, etc.
>
> For example, I got a copy of Victor 17213 which is The Funny Little
> Melody by Walter J Van Brunt and Maurice Burkhardt b/w You May be
> Irish Murphy, But I Think That You're in Dutch by Bily Murray. The
> label say 75 cents in USA.
>
> It occured to me that 75 cents in 1910 was a lot of money compared to
> other things. It also seems that through most of teh era of the
> 'single' (including 45s) that the price of a record stayed the same
> and didn't change with inflation.
>
> Any thoughts
>
> T
>
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