March 1970 Billboard feature on a typical NMC rack location. NMC was a big rack jobber/distributor back then. Love the little kid in the cart, the giant Hair display, and how packed the Vocalists section is.
March 1970 Billboard correction ad from Buddah Records. The Tokens had to clarify they didn’t do the Clairol 'She Lets Her Hair Down' commercial (that was Don Young). Their actual single at the time was 'Don’t Worry Baby'.
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From the October 5, 1974 Billboard: Drummer Buddy Miles celebrates his birthday cake with Electric Flag co-owner Alan Pepper at NYC's Bottom Line club, while the reunited band played.
This full-page advertisement from Billboard magazine in June 1969 promotes the Newport ’69 music festival at Devonshire Downs, Northridge, California, over June 20–22. It lists Friday's lineup headlined by the Jimi Hendrix Experience (with guests like Don Ellis, Ike & Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, and Taj Mahal), Saturday featuring Creedence Clearwater Revival and Steppenwolf (plus Jethro Tull, Albert Collins, and Buffy Sainte-Marie), and Sunday closing with The Rascals and Chambers Brothers (including The Byrds, Three Dog Night, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, and Johnny Winter).
Tickets were $6/day advance ($7 gate) or $15 for three days, available at outlets like Valley States College and various record stores, produced by Mark 356-381.
This full-page trade advertisement from Reprise Records, dated November 1969, playfully contrasts Kenny Rogers & The First Edition's mainstream country appeal with underground rock stereotypes. It promotes the album Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (Reprise RS 6345), featuring the hit single "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" (written by Mel Tillis, recorded in one take in August 1969), which peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #39 on the Country chart. The ad highlights Rogers' "good voices, good songs, million-selling records" over "mystique" or "hip image," positioning the group as commercial hits akin to Reuben James amid hippie backlash against acts like Hendrix or Clapton.
Trade ad from Trans World Entertainment (USA), dated July 1987, pushing two action-packed VHS titles for video store owners. Game for Vultures (1982, R-rated, 113 min, $79.95) stars Richard Harris as a sanctions-busting smuggler in Rhodesia alongside Joan Collins and Richard Roundtree, with a prebook date of February 25 and on-sale March 11. The ad bundles it with Jaguar Lives! (1979, PG, 91 min, $79.95), a spy thriller led by Joe Don Baker as the cat-like secret agent needing all nine lives, offering a $6 discount on the Jaguar tape with every Vultures purchase.
Fateful Day. Heavy metal outfit Mercyful Fate’s King Diamond, left, and Timi Hansen recently signed copies of their album "Don’t Break the Oath" at Toronto’s The Record Peddler. The band’s recordings are available through Attic in Canada and Important in the U.S. Billboard Magazine, December 1984.