Why Was It There? Uk Recordings

[Diddy Morgan]

i mean the printing of " sold in u.k subject to resale price conditions see price lists " and when did it stop ?

[dthedrug]

HI A good question, It's never stopped! in fact you here about it all the while, as it's information that the record is only for personal use! It was put on records by the insistance of the MU (musition union) before the Rock & Roll years, musicions got paid by the Band leader, and song poblishers got paid by selling sheet music, quite often they would by songs from the public at a cost of 10/- a song, the most famouse place to sell or by songs was in TIN PAN ALLEY (DENMARK STREET) SOHO,, However once the Rock & Roll records become popular and the record size ans speed changed in 1954, the first nails where being hamerd home and in 1958 the UK fuly embraced records from the US, even established continental radio sounded Americam and the first radio DJ become as popular as thhe music they played on RADIO 208 LUXEMBURG, PETE MURRY & ALEN(FLUFF)FREEMON, WHERE 2 OF THE STATIONS TOP DJ's with there Ausey twang to the vioce,

But the big threat come from a Yorkshire minor who persauded the Mecca Dancehalls to let him play records instead of the band trying to play the hits of the day, the DJ Was Jimmy "now then now then sad man" Savile. he was the first recognised DJ who played records from 2 turntables,

All this hapened very quick, and the MU members where loseing there jobs, as more DJs emerged, in london the all night cafe's that had been the start of the UK Tedy boy scene with it's trad Jazz or Skiffle music was replaced by a biger JUKE BOX,

the sound of black America took over and with the music the TEDDY BOTS & the TRAD JAZZ soap dodgers where replaced by a more astute sub culture who where comfortable in embracing black people and haveing fun in the seady SOHO Streets with it's gambling houses brothals strip tease XXX CINIMAS homosexuals talking polari! drugs and the SCENE CLUB OR THE FLAMINGO where the live music was MOD, as TIN PAN ALLEY CRUMBLED the biggest cick in the face come from the NORTH SEA with RADIO CAROLINE and RADIO LONDON, BIG L,as a kid I wasthe right age for PIRATE RADIO, but it was the final straw for the MU, up until 1965 the MU had banned live music from the US playing in the UK, this is why all black music had a white artist doing a cover, many people have wrongly made an assumption of racism, maybe but the main reason was for them to make money by releasing a UK cover, but some people like Ronan O'Rilty the owner of RADIO CAROLINE NORTH & SOUTH pot out 3 goergie Fame 45s on the indy label R&B at the same time the LONDON in-crowd played black music in the clubs and DAVE GODIN GUY STEVENS CHRIS BLACKWELL championed the cause also the rise in white bands with a newsort of band leader ALEXIS KORNER & JOHN MAYELL had so many top sesion players come through the ranks playing a truer black sound, and over 3 years even the Lyceam got rid of JOE LOSS (March of the MODS) did not save him, the biggest influance in this transition where the Beatles

In the early 1970s the musixions union had it's breakthrough, with the slogan "KEEP MUSIC LIVE" by making the BBC play at least 4 hours of live music in evey 18 hours of air time, this is why we had the RADIO SESSIONS IN CONCERT, and TOP OF THE POPS, THE OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST, LATER WITH JOOLSS

To conclude the writeing is for anyone who plays any record to a live audiance, they must list and pay the artist, failing todo this has a max sentance of 5 years in the HMP, since digital technolagy has ben with us as you are aware that bit of writing that 99.9% of soulsource DJs ignor sems small fry with illeagal downloads,

PLEASE DON'T MOAN ABOUT MY WRITEING DAVE

[Guest TONY ROUNCE]

i mean the printing of " sold in u.k subject to resale price conditions see price lists " and when did it stop ?

If you're referring to EMI-pressed items, that was plastered across the middle of their singles from earlyish 1964 onwards. It seems to have stopped around 1969 or thereabouts.

[AlanB]

i mean the printing of " sold in u.k subject to resale price conditions see price lists " and when did it stop ?

It was there because record companies set minimum prices at which shops could sell the records. A common practice in the 1960s in many industries but eventually outlawed for being anti-competitive. I agree that, as said above, it stopped for records in 1969.

Alan

Edited October 27, 2011 by AlanB

[Tony Smith]

Resale Price Maintenance (price fixing) was abolished in 1964, and replaced by a recommended resale price, this it self gradually broke down by 1969.