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Jumbo Records was a record label set up in Britain in 1908 as a subsidiary of the Italian company Fonotipia. The 10-inch 78 rpm records were initially manufactured in Frankfurt for marketing in the UK, and then in Tonbridge , Kent , but in 1913 manufacturing moved to a new factory at Hertford .
Universal Music's sales manager, Marc Fayd’Herbe, has described Record Store Day as "the single best thing that has ever happened" for independent record shops. [5] The 2013 event was credited with the highest U.S. vinyl sales, [6] and the 2014 edition resulted in independent retailers recording the highest percentage of physical album sales, since the SoundScan system was introduced in 1991 ...
Peaches was known for its vast selection with many locations in buildings the size of a typical grocery store. [5] Stores were also known for autograph signing events, [6] huge reproductions of the album covers of the latest releases on the side of its buildings and for selling records from wooden crates with the chain's colorful fruit-crate style logo on the side.
Minha Loja de Discos (Portuguese pronunciation: [miɲa loʒa dɛ dʒiscos]; English: My Record Store) is a Portuguese-language television documentary series introducing some independent record stores and presenting the local music scenes of different cities.
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In 1996, in Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia student Darius Van Arman, later Jagjaguwar's founder, was a music director at UVA's WTJU radio station, a clerk at the Plan 9 Records store, art director at Charlottesville's C-Ville Weekly, an overnight supervisor for an adult-care facility, and booking shows at The Tokyo Rose. [2] [3]
Steeltown Records was an American record company in Gary, Indiana. The company was founded in 1966 by William Adams (a.k.a. Gordon Keith ) and co-owned with Ben Brown (deceased), Maurice Rodgers , Willie Spencer (deceased), and Lou "Ludie" D. Washington (deceased).
In 2007, when Brown was head of Bull Moose marketing, an email chain with Michael Kurtz, head of the Department of Record Stores, [11] sparked the idea for Record Store Day. [12] Each year the co-founders at the Department of Record Stores collaborate with multiple artists for exclusive releases made especially for Record Store Day. [13]