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| From | "Mark Eichelberger" <markeichelberger@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: Best 'Box' music department |
| Date | Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:00:21 -0400 |
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Bill, I never knew Korvettes was in the midwest. And yes, I also scanned
their ads in the Sunday paper. My parents subscribed to the Philadelphia
Inquirer and I always checked out the Korvettes ads first thing Sunday
morning!
----- Original Message -----
From: "ABCD Klutho" <abcdklutho@earthlink.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 10:40 AM
Subject: Best 'Box' music department
> Growing up in St. Louis, the best 'chain store' music department had to
> be EJ Korvette's. I would tear to the Sunday paper because Korvette's
> would put entire labels on sale, not just the new releases of the week.
> It was one of the main reasons I started to know who was on what label.
> And because the labels actually signed bands and let them have a few LPs
> to mature, you could pick up someone's entire catalog for next to
> nothing. It didn't hurt the stores' credibility that Mark Klose, who was
> on the top radio station breaking artists at the time, K-SHE, worked
> there part time. The interesting part is that Klose and K-SHE are still
> going strong - though not at the same frequency. Korvette's on the other
> hand has joined fellow retailers like Zayre in the great checkout line
> in the sky.
>
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> Bill Klutho
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