[78-L] album reissues vs new material

[Malcolm Rockwell]

After looking at today's offerings on ePay and seeing common 78rpm 
albums filled with re-releases I wondered "What was the first album set 
that contained new material recorded for the set, and not re-issues of 
earlier material?" I wouldn't be surprised if Classical music took 1st 
prize, and Kiddie music took 2nd, but when was it figured out that it 
could be applied to pop material?
And, a little more darkly, when was is some record promoter figured out 
that if one of their clients had a #1 single hit they could pad out 
another 9 or 11 tunes on an album (I'm talking of LPs here) and make BIG 
BUCKS on sales as well as on  publishing for the other turkeys that were 
on the album?
To me this was the set-up (well, one of the set-ups) that eventually 
helped bring down the music industry. That, and many other early errors 
I won't go in to here, plus the sheer stupidity of the "it worked great! 
Now we're doing it to the hilt and it's not working anymore so we'll 
just keep on doing it and hope for the best" mentality. Turned out to be 
no money in that business attitude.
Malcolm