[78-L] Sale of promotional product

[Michael Biel]

On 1/6/2011 10:44 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> Most of my promo LP's came from resale shops&  used record shops. A few from
> Goodwill&  the rest from Ebay.
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Thousands of mine have come from radio stations, DJs, record promo men, 
the producers of the records, execs of the record companies, packaged as 
bonus discs with regular catalog items, as well as used record stores, 
libraries, and other usual sources.

I can think of HUNDREDS of LPs that were given or sold with promotional 
markings.  ALL of the RCA Victor SP series, for example.  The Breck 1959 
sampler, the two 1956 samplers in the plastic sleeves, the Glenn Miller 
reissue shrinkwrapped with the Glenn Miller Today LP, the Moby Grape LP 
shrinkwrapped with Grape Jam, several classical rehearsal LPs enclosed 
in sets, and on and on and on.  The Victor Artists Party, for pete's 
sake.  I guess that was the FIRST free promo LP!!

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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> From: Dan Van Landingham<danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Thu, January 6, 2011 8:34:42 PM
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> That's interesting.I was getting out some of my LPs and ran across a promo album
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> called "Bac-
> chanal" by Frank DeVol and his Orchestra on Columbia.The album number is CL
> 1287.It came
> from the local Goodwill store in North Bend,Oregon.
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> From: Robert M. Bratcher Jr.<rbratcherjr at yahoo.com>
> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Thu, January 6, 2011 5:08:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Sale of promotional product
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> I don't see how they can reclaim the prono LP's I bought secondhand so I'll hang
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> onto them. As to the audio CD's&  DVD movies promo's plus the CD audiobooks  I
> get through the Amazon Vine program I'm keeping those too. Amazon says we have
> to keep all Vine items that the members order as they have the right to reclaim
> them at any time but then they've never done that in the 4 or 5 years that the
> free Vine program has been in existance. Oh&  some of the Vine members sell the
> stuff after they write a review for it on Amazon. I don't do that though..... 
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> From: Cary Ginell<soundthink at live.com>
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Sent: Thu, January 6, 2011 3:57:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Sale of promotional product
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> Those reverse embossings got nastier as time went on. Eventually, they claimed
> that the recordings remained the property of the record company, no matter what
> was done with them, and that they could reclaim them at any time. I wonder if
> they ever did that to anyone.
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> Cary Ginell
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