chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 I would enjoy learning more about the history of "record-clubs" and how they operated, both from a business and audiophile standpoints, etc....like columbia house and Rca record club or what have you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel1969 Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 Columbia record club More Columbia record club Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted November 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 hmmm,,,thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 Here's one about the British company World Record Club, which seems to have started at about the same time as the Columbia club. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Record_Club RCA Victor also had a club, I think. And there was also Readers Digest, which was kind of the same. But I recall some reference to a very early record club before the war. Can't remember where it came from at present. If I think of it, I'll come back. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 (edited) The Capitol Record Club was where you got The Beatles & The Beach Boys & Al Martino & Nat Cole & all that EMI stuff. http://www.friktech.com/btls/rci.htm http://www.rarebeatles.com/photopg6/y&trcad.htm Edited November 27, 2008 by JSngry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 I used to belong to The Record Club Of America: http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/bs.../vpost?id=87267 Got my copy of Trane's Transition from them in fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 I was a member briefly of the RCA Record Club in 1966. I quit as soon as I saw what was available. They sold only albums that were months old, and as a teenager I only wanted the newest stuff! Of course it's the same today, but now I don't care if a record was released six months ago. To me now, that's new! I think the real revolution occurred in 1998 (as I recall) when BMG (the successor to RCA) put their entire inventory online, so that you no longer had to wonder what was available, and you could buy what you wanted most rather than what was featured in the latest mailing. I may be wrong, but I believe that record club items were not made of the same high quality vinyl as what was used for store-bought discs. That changed with the introduction of CDs of course. (I've never heard of whether there was much difference when the quality of store-bought vinyl plummeted in the 70s.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainwrong Posted November 28, 2008 Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 I used to belong to The Record Club Of America: http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/bs.../vpost?id=87267 Got my copy of Trane's Transition from them in fact. Funny. I just bought a mono Kulu Se Mama that appears to have come from the Capitol club. (It has a Capitol number on the spine.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted November 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 yes, i believe most if not all of the club releases were mastered from vault COPIES..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 Here's one about the British company World Record Club, which seems to have started at about the same time as the Columbia club. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Record_Club They also issued some nice British Jazz originals of the early 60s including sought-after titles by Tubby Hayes, Paul Gonsalves, Ronnie Ross, Bill LeSage etc. I have a couple of them and the sound quality is good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 Here's one about the British company World Record Club, which seems to have started at about the same time as the Columbia club. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Record_Club They also issued some nice British Jazz originals of the early 60s including sought-after titles by Tubby Hayes, Paul Gonsalves, Ronnie Ross, Bill LeSage etc. I have a couple of them and the sound quality is good. They also issued Hoagy Carmichael's Pacific Jazz album with Art Pepper etc. clearly sometime after EMI took over UA in 1980; I bought mine in 1989, but it might not have been a recent release, but it did say Liberty was part of Capitol. Don't like the pressing of this one much. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted November 30, 2008 Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 Someone told me recently (Friday in fact) that George Avakian came up with the idea for the Columbia Record Club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 The only record club I remember joining was Records Unlimited, back in the early 70s. I assume it worked like most record clubs, although it was an early convert to the not having to buy eight or ten LPs to finish your obligation. That was a pretty important difference to a high school kid... Strange that I can find no reference to this on the internet. Another forgotten aspect of life, I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 The Capitol Record Club was where you got The Beatles & The Beach Boys & Al Martino & Nat Cole & all that EMI stuff... http://www.rarebeatles.com/photopg6/y&trcad.htm By the time October of '66 rolled around, Yesterday & Today was very old news. I can't imagine a high school kid who was interested in owning that record not already having it by then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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