We are all used to seeing " PROMOMOTION/PROMO printed on jackets and labels.... how about "EXPLOTATION RECORD"???
Yea thats right its on label of a 10" pressing from "Universal studio" recording for the motion picture "Your a sweetheart".
Were stations being exploited in play this "transcription" on the air?
If any one knows about these clue us all in.
dnw
--- On Thu, 10/1/09, Roger Kulp <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Roger Kulp <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Living Presence promo copies
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> Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 5:40 PM
> Columbia,like everybody,made test
> pressings from the 1900s on.
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> --- On Thu, 10/1/09, David Weiner <[log in to unmask]>
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> From: David Weiner <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Living Presence promo copies
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> Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 11:12 AM
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> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
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> On Behalf Of David Breneman
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> I've got a promotional copy of Bessie Smith's "Give Me
> a Pigs Foot" on a white-labelled Okeh pressing. It
> surprised me that a song this old was released this
> way. Would Columbia (who owned Okeh) have sent out a
> record like that in the late 40s or early 50s?
> Could it have been some sort of commemorative? I wish
> I could place my hands on it this morning, as I'd
> add more detail from the label.
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> It was likely sent out to promote the Columbia LP release
> of Bessie's
> recordings. I have early 50s white vinyl 78 promos by
> Louis Armstrong,
> Benny Goodman and Cab Calloway of vintage recordings done
> for that purpose.
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