Elektra
I found this inside a copy of Oscar Brand-The Wild Blue Yonder (Elektra EKL-168) a few months ago, and I've been meaning to share it ever since. This is a small tri-fold brochure showing all of the records then currently available from Elektra Records in the winter and spring of 1960. It also shows why I see so few of these records today. The prices seem to be a dollar higher than the other retailers of the day. All of the info I've found from major labels such as RCA Victor and Capitol shows that records were priced around $3.98 for hi-fi (mono) and $4.98 for stereo. Elektra was asking for an extra dollar each, and that was probably a tough sell. Anyhow, you can read the brochure and see the wide variety of artists on Elektra. Remember, this was many years before The Doors, or even the whole rock-n-roll movement.
what a find!
ReplyDeletelast year or so I purchased the Rhino Handmade re-issue of the "Daliance" series (see under "Bawdy" on the Elektra price sheet). clever songs full of sexual double-meaning (or double entrendre) done in renaissance ballad style.