[78-L] record distributors/retailers

[Gene Baron]

Not sure if this is what is being asked for -- I had mentioned my
experiences (but that was in the 1970's) where the record chain where
I worked was owned by a local/regional distributor of independent
labels and couldn't get product that was distributed by another
regional distributor because of some long-running feud between them,
so we had to limit ourselves to buying the most popular titles on
London (as one example) from a one-stop kind of place.

Gene
gene.baron at gmail.com


On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
> Label exclusive franchises died out by the late 1920s. The only
> exceptions were special labels made for specific stores such as Romeo
> W.T. Grants, Diva for Daviga, Challenger and Silvertone for Sears,
> Montgomery Ward for, uh, guess who, and one of the budget RCA labels for
> Woolworths I believe.  But none of those are RECORD STORES, and ev3en
> these died out by 1935-36.  I can see from the newspaper ads in the
> early 30s that RECORD STORES carried all labels that they wanted to.
> There was a wonderful thread about NYC record stores over on ARSCList
> earlier this week, including some neighborhood ethnic stores.  It's a
> topic I've been wanting to write about, but we might discuss it at the
> collector's session at ARSC in May and try to arrange a formal session
> for the following year at the national and also local NYC ARSC.
>
> As for the changover years from the 78 to LP, if you look thru the
> earliest Schwann catalogs you will be amazed at how few labels produced
> LPs in 1949 and 1950.  There were some small short-lived labels that
> entered and left the field in 1950-52.  These catalogs are fascinating.
> This might have been part of the story in that posting you are referring
> to.  Can someone link it to us, or can the writer come out and give the
> details?  I'd love to know the details.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [78-L] record distributors/retailers
> From: Rodger Holtin <rjh334578 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, March 15, 2013 6:50 pm
> To: 78-List <78-l at 78online.com>
>
> One of our members remarked a few weeks or months ago about working for
> a store about the time of the 78/Lp changeover and noted that the store
> where he worked only carried certain labels.  It seems this was also
> true in the early days as there were contractual obligations locking
> that stuff in place for departments stores, music sstores and maybe even
> mom n pop stores that sold only Victor, for instance, as I recall.  By
> the time I was old enough to buy records in the late 1950s it appeared
> all labels were available everywhere.
>
> When did this system of exclusive distributorships/retailers come to an
> end, and were there any shops in the early days that transcended those
> boundaries?
>
> Rodger
>
> For Best Results use Victor Needles.
>
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