The inner sleaves had the slogan the best biggest bargains on record.
Warner loss leaders vinyl.
A faux commercial from looney tunes and merrie melodies one of the series of loss leaders lp sets that were advertised on the inner sleeves of many wb releases in the 70s.
Looking through some crates at a local vintage resale shop that regularly turns up interesting vinyl i came across it.
Collectus interruptus pumping vinyl 1978 79 part thirteen.
The warner reprise loss leaders and pictures of the albums in the series the below of which.
They were all real.
Each album usually a 2 record set contained a wide variety of tracks by artists under contract to warner bros.
The catalog numbering has many gaps in it and these numbers were used for promotional items that were typically given to radio stations and were not used for the loss leaders series.
Often these were singles b sides non hit album tracks or otherwise obscure.
Records throughout the 1970s.
I believe this originally sold for the princely sum of 3.
Holiday samplers yulesville 1987 and winter warnerland.
And its subsidiary labels primarily reprise records.
A la carte monsters 1979 part fourteen.
The big ball a two record sampler from warner brothers loss leader series instantly i was blasted back into the mid 1970s when i would.
Mail order only promotional records that were released by warner brothers records starting in 1969 with the release of the 1969 warner reprise songbook pro 331 and concluding in 1980 with troublemakers pro a 857.
The big ball warner brothers 1970 loss leader series release turned up on a recent vinyl run and got us deep into the warner groove.
This was the final installment of warner bros loss leaders series sampler albums sold by mail order only and advertised on the inner sleeves of warner and affiliate label albums.