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THIS SALE: 1954 Columbia Records Extended Play Catalog 
Popular Folk Masterworks Children


Lists 7" 45 rpm "Extended Play" Singles and Sets
Early EP sets were issues of album boxed sets of 45s (singles)
The EP covers have "Columbia Extended Play" at the upper right corner. Letter prefix codes: A = Masterworks; B = pop; H = country; J = juvenile / children's

Staple bound booklet 8x4.5" 80 pages


CONDITION:

Booklet in close to new condition: Interior clean, no markings, odor or animal hairs. Binding and covers sound. tiny soft bends on right side corners. ABOUT US: 15 years of experience in online selling with high customer satisfaction . BUY WITH CONFIDENCE - If you don't like the item, just return it in the way you received it and we will gladly return the purchase price.



Columbia Record Club was formed in 1955 by CBS/Columbia Records as an experiment to market music directly by mail,[4] spurring sales to rural consumers and heading off competition from mail-order companies from outside the record industry.[5] New members to the club were enticed with a free record just for joining.[4] To appease brick-and-mortar retailers, titles in the club's catalog were not made available until six months after retail release (later reduced to three months), and retailers that helped recruit members got a 20% commission. By the end of that year, the club had 125,175 members who had purchased 700,000 records[4] ($1.174 million net). The operation grew so quickly that, in 1956, it was moved from New York City to a new home base: a distribution center in Terre Haute, Indiana, a railway-accessible city where Columbia had recently opened a record pressing facility.[4] Within a year, the club had 687,652 members and had sold 7 million records[4] ($14.888 million net) and, by 1963, it commanded 10% of the recorded music retail market. 

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