[Dixielandjazz] World's Records Closing Its Doors

[Robert Ringwald]

Here is a recent email from World’s Records.

Worlds Records is going out of business. In order to promote internet sales we are
offering a 5% discount on all web orders. This discount will show up in the final
invoice. After more than 40 years in business we will be closing when all inventory
is gone.
To this end we are inaugurating a new sale today. Every Tuesday we will be offering
all product from one or more Artist Listings on sale with a 25% discount. For example,
today we are offering all CDs by artists whose last name begins with C, such as Bob
Chester, Carmen Cavallaro, Rosemary Clooney, Benny Carter, etc. This applies to Various
Artist collections also. These various artist collections are listed by the first
letter of the title, such as Cabaret Echoes, Columbia Dance Bands, Chart Toppers
Of The Thirties, etc. These sales are limited to stock on hand. These sale items
for the week of February 25. Once again, this week's sale items can be found here:
http://www.worldsrecords.com/pages/artistindex/c.html
All sale items included in orders from our website will receive a 30% discount, 25%
from the sale product price and a 5% bonus discount on all items included in the
order (even if they are not on sale), calculated on final invoice.
We will continue offering New Releases as they appear. For instance we have recently
begun offering the Crystal Stream label (from Australia). We had a problem with these
CDs when they were first offered in 2002 and we discontinued selling them for ten
years. The problem, it turned out, was that paper labels were used on the discs and
an imbalance on some discs caused problems with many CD players. Now the discs have
information applied with ink; the sound is as great as ever and for those who enjoy
music of the 1920s and 1930s you will find these discs a wonderful addition to your
library.
Another label that we have not offered from many years, Classics Chronological Collections,
are available once again. These CDs were first offered in batches of 5 per month
over an incredible 15 year period. Over 765 titles were originally produced in France.
Now an ambitious project has resurfaced with the intention to bring back as many
of the original titles as sales warrant. The plan is to present all releases by an
artist at one time (or in the case of an artist like Duke Ellington who had 45 CDs,
in several batches). For instance the early artist reissues are by Ethel Waters (7
of the 8 CDs), James P. Johnson (8 titles), The Three Peppers (1 CD), etc.. These
CDs are manufactured in the United States.
Until next week...
Ren Brown
info at worldsrecords.com
Worlds Records


-Bob Ringwald
www.ringwald.com
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