[78-L] Subject: Wing Records

[Cary Ginell]

According to this article, published 9 years later, Wing WAS a budget label with a list price of $1.98. So sometime between its announcement in 1955 and this article, the status of the label changed.
 
http://books.google.com/books?id=UykEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6&dq=Wing+Records+Mercury&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0FRVT7K8MoqniQLr2Ly0Bg&ved=0CGUQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Wing%20Records%20Mercury&f=false
 
Cary Ginell
 

> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 00:05:30 +0000
> From: ampex354 at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Subject: Wing Records
> 
> The only Wing 78 I ever saw wasn't a jazz item. MOR pop/gospel it was:
> 'Army of the Lord' b/w 'The Bible tells me so' by Nick Noble (90001).
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:01 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
> 
> > Just to the right of the article about Wing is Columbia suing Sam
> > Meltzer's Jay
> > Records over a Ruth Etting lp!
> >
> > http://books.google.com/books?id=BRwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=wing+records+mercury&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=wing%20records%20mercury&f=false
> >
> > dl
> >
> > On 3/5/2012 6:43 PM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> > > Wing Records was launched in 1955, when regular LP prices in the US were
> > > $3.98, $4.98 and $5.98. RCA-Victor and Columbia had made price
> > > reductions in January that year:
> > >
> > >
> > http://books.google.com/books?id=zxkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12&dq=billboard+lp+%243.98+rca-victor+1955&hl=en&sa=X&ei=00tVT8PMM6n14QSo2pHXDQ&sqi=2&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=billboard%20lp%20%243.98%20rca-victor%201955&f=false
> > >
> > > ...and Mercury followed suit, but changed its price policy one month
> > later:
> > >
> > >
> > http://books.google.com/books?id=QxkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA27&dq=billboard+lp+$3.98+mercury+1955&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6UpVT6H0OOn74QS9963yDQ&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=billboard%20lp%20%243.98%20mercury%201955&f=false
> > >
> > > So Mercury's regular price for popular 12'' records (20 000 series) at
> > > the time when Wing Records was launched was $3.98.
> > > And Wing was not a budget label; it followed the price profile of the
> > > main label. See:
> > >
> > >
> > http://books.google.com/books?id=BRwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=wing+records+mercury&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=wing%20records%20mercury&f=false
> > .
> > >
> > > Kristjan
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2012-03-05 21:51, Cary Ginell wrote:
> > >> Thanks!
> > >>
> > >> Cary
> > >>
> > >> On Mar 5, 2012, at 12:30 PM, "Al Haug"<westbankal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> The "suggested list price" was indeed $1.98, according to the
> > >>> *Billboard*price list from October 1959..
> > >>>
> > http://books.google.com/books?id=SwoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46&dq=wing+1.98&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dyBVT7WMOqaqsQLh8envBQ&ved=0CFgQ6AEwCTgy#v=onepage&q=wing%201.98&f=false
> > >>>
> > >>> Message: 1
> > >>> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 11:59:55 -0800
> > >>> From: Cary Ginell<soundthink at live.com>
> > >>> Subject: [78-L] Wing Records
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> > >>> Does anyone know what the original retail selling price was for LPs on
> > the
> > >>> Mercury Wing label in the 1950s? I'm guessing $1.98.
> > >>>
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