Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Custom Fidelity, Inc. Presents 24 Golden Hits For Your Station!

"Take two high-quality stereo LPs, put then in a full-color jacket, add a beautiful sexy gal on front, and candid photos of the KQ jocks inside, put 24 all-time KQE Oldies on the two LPs, and YOU'VE got a BOMBSHELL!" Custom Fidelity of Hollywood created this LP circa 1970 to send to American radio stations to convince them to press their own branded double-LPs with 24 hit songs from the years 1961-1970 to sell to their listeners. Because popular music is popular! At least 14 stations went for it (you can find a list of their records here). Side 1 contains a ten-minute sales presentation, and side two is all music beds with collages of bits from the 24 hit songs in question, strung together in the classic minimum-duration-for-recognition style from which GenX and all who followed learned that American hit music of the past existed only in the form of single verses quoting the titles of the songs! It's an operators-are-standing-by cornucopia of allgoldgreat24solids!

Record audio & artwork

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