Fantasy Records - fake bulletins on new releases in the 50s

[Big Beat Steve]

Leafing once again through my archive of the Swedish ORKESTER JOURNALEN jazz magazine, the other day I came across an item (in the "Reports from the USA" column) in the February, 1956 issue that made me take note:

"Fantasy Records seems to be run by gentlemen with a sense of humor. When they mail their new jazz releases they also take the trouble to include funny accompanying letters not even strictly related to the items in question. The other day we received a promo letter where Fantasy announced that in order to compete with RCA Victor they had now set up a subsidiary under the name of RCA Irving. Which of course was a joke, as the hilarious list of the titles of the initial batch of LP releases clearly indicated ...:

> IRV 1 (three 12" LPs): "The Toscanini Story":
- Toscanini Plays Pretty
- Tosacanini at Oberlin
- Toscanini with Strings

> IRV2 "The Definitive Debussy" by Big Jay McNeely

> IRV7 "Tristan and Isolde" featuring Chet Baker and Edith Piaf

> IRV8 "German Lieder" by Dinah Washington

>IRV9 "Music to Listen to LPs By"

>IRV10 "Kostelanetz Plays Brubeck"

>IRV11 - "Our Best" - including a.o.:
"The Chase" by Gregor Piatagorsky and Pablo Casals
"Four Brothers" by The Budapest String Quartet
"Moody's Mood for Love" by Ezio Pinza

>IRV14 "Stan Kenton Plays Music"

>IRV16 "The Original Score From Up In Dodo's Room" by La Scala Opera Co. "

Quite hilarious - and fun to imagine what these recordings would actually have sounded like ...

The obvious question now: Has anyone ever seen this promo leaflet or a similar item from Fantasy from that era  FOR REAL? It might be amusing to see how this looked in complete form, typeset and all, or what else there was from them in the same vein ...

Edited July 28, 2022 by Big Beat Steve

[Late]

3 hours ago, Big Beat Steve said:

IRV14 "Stan Kenton Plays Music"

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

maybe made just for in-house like those sgt pepper covers with the capitol staff