No subject

9632/9633 on the Columbia reissues}
There was a copy of G 4-14 sold which, as you surmise, is described as 6 45rpm discs.
I'm guessing the "MB" catalog number prefix meant Make Believe ballroom - were there any other albums sourced from this show?
Was the broadcast and subsequent release planned with the intent of raising funds for Henderson, or an afterthought?
Best wishes, Thomas.

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I've trawled through early-1990s correspondence with Russ Connor to find what he told me about this release; that plus Ross
Firestone's biography gives me this:

The record was sold "through the radio station," 2500 copies in toto, at $7.00. (This when LPs were retailing for $3.98 to $4.98).
Low-numbered copies were sold at a higher price: $15.00. Thus you'll understand why those who bought the highest-price copies got
upset when something they'd been led to believe would be an exclusive got public sale at retail about a year later.

I see copy #20 went through that big www auction site in the past couple weeks; was tempted but my budget forces me to stay with
copy #1745.

All best - Dave

Thomas Stern

    Tue Oct 22 18:23:43 PDT 2013



Thanks David!
Wonder - what was the price of the MB-1000 issue, and was it sold in stores, mail, or some other market channel ????  Any idea how
many copies were manufactured or sold ???
Thanks!
Best wishes, Thomas.
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