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All you need to know about the music business

by Donald S. Passman

and reality of promo records don't quite converge. While these records are meant for disc jockeys, they sometimes end up being sold in record stores. ...

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Billboard

But in the matter of promoting its records, Motown President EG Abner outlined ... of a shortage of vinyl already causing cutbacks on free promo records, ...

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Goldmine's Promo Record & Cd Price Guide

by Fred Heggeness

Not just for DJs, this book is tailored to collectors seeking the "rarest of the rare" from today's most collectible artists. 16000 promo CDs and records ...

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The dance music manual

by Rick Snoman

It also asks whether the track was enquired about (by Joe Public), which position it occupies in your charts out of 20 other promo records and what clubs ...

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Christie's rock & pop memorabilia

by Peter Doggett

Although acetates were occasionally used for this purpose, the vast majority of promo records take one of two forms. The first, and usually most valuable, ...

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Billboard

Columbia Records, and Dan Joseph. TK Records, at the forum promotional panel. In response to complaints from the audience that many promo people isolated ...

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Getting signed!

by George Howard

Free goods and promo records, used to either incentivize retailers to ... or in the case of promo records, records used to generate press or radio play for ...

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How to DJ right

by Frank Broughton

The way you thread your records together and the order in which you place them. promo records made to publicize or "promote" a song before it ...

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Mamaphonic

by Bee Lavender

21. buy record-mailers to ship your white label promo records to all these places once they arrive. the mailers are flat cardboard pieces with indentations ...

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Billboard

1o pro gram an increasing number of new and popular disco records. ... the day and night in search of promo records for club play Today his Miami-based club ...

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Copyright management

by Institute for Invention and Innovation

The second is the careful development and monitoring of lists of those who receive free record "service" (the regular shipment of promo records as each ...

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Inside the music business

by Michael Fink

The main tools are special promotional copies of the record, called "promo" records, which are placed in the hands of broadcasters and programming ...

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Goldmine Standard Catalog of American Records, 1950-1975

by Tim Neely

... used to describe a promo single that has the same song on both sides, ... Records, as with all collectibles, are only worth what someone will pay for ...

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Record Makers and Breakers

by John Broven

signing of the FTC consent decrees, the manufacturers started to squeeze the weaker distributors by curtailing “freebie” promo records and getting them to ...

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Tarnished gold

by R. Serge Denisoff

Services, promotional and publicity material ranging from promo records to press packages, outside the twenty-five major markets were varied and ...

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Open the Door

by William R. Bauer

Purchasing unsold records, Promo would proceed to unload copies of them wholesale onto discount retailers.47 Record companies typically designed artist ...

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Maximum rocknroll

So, we're looking for promo records, interviews with interesting people, skits, ... Thanks to those that have sent in promo records (they're starting to go ...

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Stiffed

by William Knoedelseder

Levy, who had an exclusive on Motown cutouts through his company Promo Records, found out about it and called LaMonte to a meeting at the Roulette Records ...

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The literature of rock, 1954-1978

by Frank W. Hoffmann

Outlines the events leading up to and following out of the CBS/Jet court proceedings against Promo Records concerning the ...

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A Music Lover's Guide to Record Collecting

by Dave Thompson

... more accurately, however, it describes only records, tapes, ... A number of conditions qualify a record as a promo, but the most pertinent is, ...

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