Record club
A record club was a mail-order retail club for selling records promoted by the major record labels during the 1950s onwards.
Major clubs included
- EMI Records club founded in 1965[1]
- Columbia House (redirect from Columbia Record Club) established in 1955. It had a significant market presence in the 1980s
- Capitol Record Club, Capitol Records
- Britannia Music Club, Polygram
- World Record Club Ltd. company in the United Kingdom which issued long-playing records and reel-to-reel tapes, mainly classical
See also
- Beck's Record Club musical project initiated by Beck Hansen in June 2009
- Darlington Record Club club in the NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series from 1959 to about 2001, based at Darlington Raceway
References
- ↑ Peter Tschmuck Creativity and Innovation in The Music Industry 2012 p.131 "Such clubs however were not a complete commercial success and were partially sold later on."