[78-L] album reissues vs new material

[David Lennick]

"Cheerio" would be my guess, or the English Singers set, both on Roycroft 
around 1928. But both are somewhat specialized.

dl

On 3/21/2014 1:17 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> 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
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