Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Hard Goods - The Warner Brothers Sampler - 1974



A few dollars got you this 2-record set by mail in 1974. The groups include Steeleye Span, Neil Young with Graham Nash, Todd Rundgren, The Beach Boys, Deep Purple, The Marshall Tucker Band, Greg Allman, Robin Trower, Seals & Crofts, Graham Central Station, Leo Sayer, Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes, Frank Zappa, Montrose, The Doobie Brothers, Foghat, Bob Seger, Van Morrison, and Kiss.

Other groups such as the Talbot Brothers, Alan Price, Dooley Wilson, Chunky & Novie & Ernie, Terry Melcher, Osibisa, and Denver & Boise & Johnson are also included. There are 2 secret tracks as well. You get 28 mp3 files in all, each with nice tags. Link in comments.

3 comments:

Edfray said...

Here you go;

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B89KaWmAU4atZVhYeUJnc1ZmMkE/view?usp=sharing




Steve said...

Terrific stuff - many thanks.

Anonymous said...

According to Wikipedia, Albums like "Hard Goods" were referred to as "Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders" and were advertised in magazines.

Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders were a series of promotional sampler compilation albums released by Warner Bros. Records throughout the 1970s. Each album (usually a 2-record set) contained a wide variety of tracks by artists under contract to Warner Bros. and its subsidiary labels (primarily Reprise Records); often these were singles, B-sides, non-hit album tracks, or otherwise obscure material, all designed to arouse interest in the artists' regular albums.

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner/Reprise_Loss_Leaders )