[78-L] Sale of promotional product

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

That Victor Artists Party & the classical rehearsal LP's must be nice!! 




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From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thu, January 6, 2011 11:10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Sale of promotional product

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