Often the most exciting times are an introduction to people who used to work for record labels as they can be rich sources for interesting items, especially if they worked in the promo department or as reps selling the records, in person, into the shops as they tended to be well stocked with interesting promotional items to solicit orders from the shops or encourage point-of-purchase sales.

In this instance it was indeed a sales rep, someone who worked for one of the better labels, United Artists. Once we got past the … READ MORE