Talk:The Rock Machine Turns You On

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Price

My recollection is that the album was priced at 14/11 rather than 15 shillings. Contributed greatly to establishing that price point. I think regular albums were 21/6, but I couldn't swear to it. A bunch of contemporary ska albums such as Wreck a Pum Pum, Bang Bang Lulu, helped establish 14/11 as normal as a discount price. Wwwhatsup (talk) 03:53, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

My recollection is similar, but the source says 15/-. It's all a very long time ago...!! Ghmyrtle (talk) 06:40, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm googling around and yet to find a good source. The source that is quoted - a review - is hardly reliable. I know for sure that 14/11d was the standard budget price of the period - actually printed on the sleeve of Listen Here! - see [1]. I just took a PROD off that one too, btw. Wwwhatsup (talk) 13:27, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Sales

Incidentally, this ref states the sales were 140k. Wwwhatsup (talk) 03:53, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

That's mentioned in the article. Ghmyrtle (talk) 06:41, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Oh. So it is! Wwwhatsup (talk) 13:27, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Context

As noted, but not fully detailed in the article, the first Billboard ref talks about how the original "rock machine's" were USA instore displays. It was the UK team that turned the concept into a sampler compilation. Another later Billboard article [2] (June 1968) - you'll have to jump through a few pages - talks about the state of play in the UK record industry at the time. CBS had changed the game by buying Oriole Records (UK) which included manufacturing. That was in 1964. Oriole's main business, incidentally, had been to produce the budget Embassy Records, sold at Woolworths. One might speculate that it took a couple of years to fully digest, perhaps tool up for LP's and re-organise distribution. CBS then implemented some american-style marketing muscle. The Billboard article notes that the stodgy old "big four" UK majors were being trounced as US labels CBS and Polydor, plus some other indies achieved 34% share the previous week. The pioneering move into budget makes more sense in this context, as they had cut production costs and, since the Embassy deal was over, had capacity to fill. Wwwhatsup (talk) 14:40, 6 August 2011 (UTC)