Hello, I'm new to the forum (see my introduce yourself post)
My name is Bill and I'm a music nerd / record collector / lover of history / billiards / American football. Nice to meet yall!
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I recently attended a record convention and acquired 5 vinyl "albums" that were mailed to radio stations and each played only once at said station for the radio program "The Weekly Country Music Countdown"
These "albums"are each 3 LPs and they all include "cue sheets" that outline the time stamps of the program when/what are songs being played, ads, interviews, etc... and each one includes 4 printed sheets.
These were intended to be played once and either destroyed or shipped back to the label (?) This was common practice but most promo/broadcasted materials like this just have the corners clipped or a hole punched thru the whole album/sleeve/inserts because "nobody would buy them"
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After chatting with the vendor he told me he has an additional 130 of these. All in consecutive weekly order ranging from sometime in 1989-1991. I made an offer to buy them all in bulk, he accepted, but they won't be in my possession for a couple months
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In anticipation of waiting to have them in my possession I've been trying to find an archive of the radio broadcasts that's just text of the songs played but I can't find anything. I've attached pictures including the cue sheets of one of the five I have in hand. I think I'm mostly doing this because I'm so ecstatic about the purchase and can't wait haha
Can anyone help me find anything online that might exist that logged what the songs played were? It's not super important or necessary I'm just astonished I've been unable to find something.
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When I have all the records in hand I have plans to digitize them, and perhaps create a website or social media account that includes high quality scans of all the records, call sheets, etc...(any advice or input / suggestions is greatly appreciated)
I also plan to ask a few friends who own record stores to display 3 months at a time coinciding with the social media posts so that someone could see them and go to the record store to see them In person and even listen to them on the store's stereo system
I'll update y'all when I have the whole lot in my possession!
My name is Bill and I'm a music nerd / record collector / lover of history / billiards / American football. Nice to meet yall!
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I recently attended a record convention and acquired 5 vinyl "albums" that were mailed to radio stations and each played only once at said station for the radio program "The Weekly Country Music Countdown"
These "albums"are each 3 LPs and they all include "cue sheets" that outline the time stamps of the program when/what are songs being played, ads, interviews, etc... and each one includes 4 printed sheets.
These were intended to be played once and either destroyed or shipped back to the label (?) This was common practice but most promo/broadcasted materials like this just have the corners clipped or a hole punched thru the whole album/sleeve/inserts because "nobody would buy them"
***
After chatting with the vendor he told me he has an additional 130 of these. All in consecutive weekly order ranging from sometime in 1989-1991. I made an offer to buy them all in bulk, he accepted, but they won't be in my possession for a couple months
!!!
In anticipation of waiting to have them in my possession I've been trying to find an archive of the radio broadcasts that's just text of the songs played but I can't find anything. I've attached pictures including the cue sheets of one of the five I have in hand. I think I'm mostly doing this because I'm so ecstatic about the purchase and can't wait haha
Can anyone help me find anything online that might exist that logged what the songs played were? It's not super important or necessary I'm just astonished I've been unable to find something.
***
When I have all the records in hand I have plans to digitize them, and perhaps create a website or social media account that includes high quality scans of all the records, call sheets, etc...(any advice or input / suggestions is greatly appreciated)
I also plan to ask a few friends who own record stores to display 3 months at a time coinciding with the social media posts so that someone could see them and go to the record store to see them In person and even listen to them on the store's stereo system
I'll update y'all when I have the whole lot in my possession!
