Re: [ARSCLIST] MERCURY RECORDS Rockabilly C&W Bio-Booklet 50's PROMO - (item 260144098761 end time Aug-06-07 17:00:00 PDT)

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Kohji-san:

Nice to see you here, too. In case other listmembers are not familiar with Kohji-san's website:
http://microgroove.jp/mercury/
there is much useful information here.

As far as I know, Mercury Living Presence didn't put together booklets, but there were several 
iterations of the inner sleeves listing many of the titles. In the early days (pre-stereo), there 
was a sampler 12" LP with a cover picture of the famous single U-47 mic. The inner sleeve of that 
contained all the Mercury-originated classical records up to that point; it did not include the 
pre-1951 reissues of European material, which were out of print by then.

Kohji-san has collected numerous other smaller-disk Living Presence samplers:
http://microgroove.jp/mercury/Sampler.shtml
Plus there was one other in the stereo era, a 2LP set called "Galaxy of Stars."

Anyway, when it came time to do the CD's, my mother did a similar thing with listing as many 
available titles as would fit in each booklet. Plus there were a couple of limited-run 
CD-booklet-sized printed catalogs that were sent out to those who mailed or called asking for one.

I do have one pocket-sized listing of Mercury Living Presence LP titles and catalog numbers from the 
early 60's. I think this was given to distributors and perhaps retail store buyers but was not 
distributed to the public as far as I know.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MATSUBAYASHI 'Shaolin' Kohji" <shaolin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] MERCURY RECORDS Rockabilly C&W Bio-Booklet 50's PROMO - (item 260144098761 
end time Aug-06-07 17:00:00 PDT)


> Hello to you all, this is my first post to this list.
>
> At Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:06:11 -0400,
> Thomas Stern wrote:
> > interesting bit of ephemera.
> > did they have booklets for other genres?
> > best wishes, Thomas.
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/MERCURY-RECORDS-Rockabilly-C-W-Bio-Booklet-50s-PROMO_W0QQitemZ260144098761QQihZ016QQcategoryZ104950QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> I have two other booklets - one from late 1940s or early 1950s,
> the other from 1956 or 1957. Both features Popular and Vocal artists
> with artist biographies, artist photo and list of Mercury releases.
>
> I wonder if there were booklets for Mercury Classical artists
> as well as those for Blues / Jazz artists, but I haven't seen 'em yet.
>
> Kohji
>
> P.S.
> Hi Tom Fine-san, nice to see your name here too :)
>
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