[78-L] Subject: Wing Records

[Kristjan Saag]

But not before July 1956:

http://books.google.com/books?id=QB8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=wing+mercury+billboard+1956&source=bl&ots=72YRQtzgCF&sig=PsxC4Kb3a86oyG58P_sW6IDjQ4w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2lpVT9zlFYfU4QSv5vHmDQ&ved=0CBoQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=wing%20mercury%20billboard%201956&f=false

Which should answer your original question.

Kristjan

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On 2012-03-06 01:08, Cary Ginell wrote:
>
> 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
>>>>>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
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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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cary Ginell
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