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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Looking for some obscure release dates |
| Date | Sat, 07 Feb 2004 19:24:04 -0500 |
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At Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 18:26:52 Robert Berry wrote:
>If anybody can help me with this, the members of this list can...
>
>I'm looking for the exact release dates of several records from the '70s.
>I'm pretty sure all of them are from 1974 or thereabouts, but ideally I'd
>like to find exact release dates (or at least months). I have an old
>cassette on which snippets of all of these can be heard, and I'm trying to
>determine the earliest possible date on which it could have been recorded.
>
>The records in question are:
>
>- "The Streak" by Ray Stevens (single)
It entered the Billboard chart (US) AND the CHUM Chart (Canada) on the same
day: Saturday April 27, 1974. Given the fast build-up at radio in those days
it may have been released that week or the week before (traditionally
Tuesdays are release dates in North America) making the song's street date
possibly April 23 or April 16, 1974.
>- "Energy Crisis '74" by Dickie Goodman
Similarly, the song hit the US Billboard chart on February 23,
1974...meaning the song would have come out the previous Tuesday (February
19) or the week before (February 12).
>- "Cinemoog" by the Electronic Concept Orchestra
>- "Music Power" compilation by K-Tel
The labels involved in licensing stuff to K-Tel would have made them wait
until the last of these songs fell off the charts. In Canada, the line-up of
songs on "Music Power" features the final charting track the second week of
March 1974. K-Tel had big clout back then so processng the licenses could
have been done within a few months of the request...meaning that the
Canadian version of 'Music Power' would have hit the streets by June or July
1974.
K-Tel Canada was a branch office of Valley Rouge Products (a subsidiary of
K-Tel International) and would have had their regional version of this album
hit the streets simultaneously with the US version [featuring a much
different running order]. Safe to say that the US version would have come
out right around the same time for the summer sales frenzy.
Hope this helps,
Jaimie Vernon,
Bullseye
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