All on LP: Jazz at the Pawnshop, Dave Grusin Discovered Again. Also on the pile in the hi-fi shop’s listening room was Paul Simon Graceland.
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I have no idea what others listened to. I always brought my own recordings.
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1975
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We had a store called Crazy Kelly’s in Hamilton, Ontario. All crap stuff inside.
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Chuck Mangione’s FEEL SO GOOD…
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Both sound good and both offer quality music content.
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But were these used as demos to sell equipment?
I have heard Jennifer Warnes record played at stores, but never the Harry Connick one or Iron Butterfly. I suspect there may be a geography component here.
For the most part, the records listed by Harry Pierson were on hand in stores after he started publishing his picks.
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I did, too. My question doesn’t rule those out.
Heard these two used during equipment demos, used at trade shows and used during equipment reviews.
The title track of Crazy Eyes has great sound!
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Tea for the Tillerman…loved it so much that it was the first Half Speed Master I purchased when it hit the market.
Then Jeff Beck, Pink Floyd (five of them), and so on, and on, …
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Same here…Much easier o differentiate sonic qualities with known quantities.
I have no idea what were the big demo tracks at the time.
Tracks our B&W Luxman rep would bring in on visits:
- Ghost Box
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I worked at a Radio Shack in my youth that sold Alpine, Luxman, B&W , Clements so I was fortunate enough to get a couple dozen freebies of the Alpine, B&W, Scheffield Labs, DMP, Windham Hill & American Gramaphone Demo, Reference & Sampler CDs. Radio Shack even has a few demo / test cds that aren’t too bad.It was a good way to broaden one’s musical repertoire at a pre-internet young age …
It’s my ‘Not For Resale’ playlist… 
Oddly enough, we would use the Simpsons Sing The Blues cd quite often as a demo - it sounded pretty good!
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Play Clear as the Driven Snow for literally anybody and ask them to guess who it is. My take rate has been about 50%, correct guesses exactly zero. It’s an incredible piece for a stoner/biker band. If you do this as a regular thing, keep track of the guesses offered. Some are hilarious.