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Subject: Cy Leslie, Entrepreneur of cut-price pop compilations has died
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/18/08 at 6:04 am
Obit Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00268/leslie_185x185_268506a.jpg
Seymour Marvin "Cy" Leslie was the founder of Pickwick Records has died on January 6, 2008.
Subject: Re: Cy Leslie, Entrepreneur of cut-price pop compilations has died
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 01/20/08 at 4:20 pm
Pickwick’s good run ended when big labels realised they could lease the original hits to labels such as K-Tel which squashed ten to a side.
I didn't realize until later why cut-rate compilers like K-Tel used to say "By the original artists" on their jackets...then I learned about this guy! Sometimes you'll find Pickwick records in the two-for-a-buck bins at flea markets. No matter how many millions were sold, they just weren't very durable--the cheap vinyl warped easily and the jackets disintegrated quickly--and nobody particularly valued them. Like the obit said, Leslie capitalized on the "impulse buy" at the supermarket rather than discriminating tastes at the record shop. Print a photo of a hot chick on something--anything--it'll sell!
As above, even though K-Tel used the original artists, 10 songs on one side meant low quality pressings of truncated songs. A 3:30 song was widdled to 2:55 usually with a ham-fisted fade-in/fade-out technique!
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