GREAT to hear
from you again! Sorry we lost touch. Hard to believe that some of you have
been with us for 35 years!
Be sure to see the info
below on the
Revised & Reprinted
Volume 5 & 2004 Supplement
As you know, the first Edition of "THE DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN 45 R.P.M. RECORDS" was published in 1974 (then called "A Discography Collection of Artists and Labels"). Since then, it has grown and evolved into the largest, most comprehensive reference on American singles ever available. It has been updated, supplemented, edited and reprinted several times over the years and is now a gigantic 5-Volume Reference with more than 4,200 discographies (soon to be 5,500), covering the period 1949 up through the present. The research has never stopped, and each change has enlarged it significantly. And we're still at it!!
How much your set of "THE DIRECTORY" needs updating depends on how long ago you bought it or last updated it. Need some help in assessing the damage? We've got it!
If
you purchased/updated your set since 2000...You need only the 2004 Combo to update your
set
If you bought your set before 2000, you'll need to check each volume individually:
Volume 1*
If ...
1--Your Volume 1 has 532 pages -
You
need only the 2004 Combo to update Volume 1
2--Your Volume 1 has less than 532 pages - You need the reprinted Volume 1 + the 2004
Combo
Volume 2**
If...
1--Your Volume 2 has 1150 pages, look at the Arista discography...
A--If the disc-dating chart includes listings
through 1999 -
You need only the 2004 Combo to update Volume 2
B--If the disc dating chart does not go through 1999 -
You need the 1997 Supplement + the 2004 Combo
2--Your Volume 2 has less than 1150 pages -You need the reprinted
Volume 2 + the 2004 Combo
If...
1--Your Volume 3 has disc-dating charts at the end of each label...
A--If the disc-dating charts include listings
through 1999 -
,
You need only the 2004 Combo to update Volume 3
B--If the disc-dating charts are there, but
don't go through 1999 -
You need the 1997 Supplement + the 2004 Combo
2--Your Volume 3 has no disc-dating charts - You need the reprinted
Volume 3 + the 2004 Combo.
Volume 4**
If...
1--Your Volume 4 has 818 pages -
You
need only the 2004 Combo to update Volume 4
2--Your Volume 4 has less than 818 pages - You need the reprinted
Volume 4 + the 2004 Combo
*
= Reprinted in early 90's
**= Reprinted in mid-80's
Prices:
2004 Combo (Revised Volume 5 + 2004
Supplement) - $87.50 (outside US, add $25 for
postage)
1997 Supplement Regularly $32.50 Yours at 20% off - $26
New Volume 1 Regularly $55
Yours at 20% off - $44 (without a new binder
New Volume 2 Regularly $65 Yours at 20% off - $52 (without a new binder
New Volume 3 Regularly $65 Yours at 20% off - $52 (without a new binder - $45
New Volume 4 Regularly $60 Yours at 20% off - $48 (
If your total, even with the discount, is high - say over $125 - why not consider the following special only for current owners!!
– Regularly $265 –
US S&H -
1
volume-$5, 2 volumes-$9.00, 3, 4 or 5
volumes-$15
International S&H -
Each volume - $20
2004 REVISED
VOLUME 5 - Newly expanded &
reprinted
$55.00 +
$5.00 S&H ($20 outside the US)
Four years ago, we introduced a brand new Volume 5 to the 4-Volume "Directory
of American 45 RPM Records". It included 1,522 never before available
label discographies, including many of the small independent labels. We also
included a new Picture Sleeve Supplement, listing about 12,000 45 RPM picture sleeves
(more than any other publication). The response to the smaller labels was so
terrific that we assembled the old research gang and started digging some more. The
result was so not only thousands of additions to those labels, but the reconstruction of
over 1,120 label discographies not included previously. Great doowop labels, soul
labels, bluegrass labels, pop labels, gospel labels and rock labels. Volume 5 was
introduced with 453 pages, half of which was the Picture Sleeve Supplement. The New
Revised Volume 5 has 536 pages WITHOUT the Picture Sleeve Supplement (which due to
hundreds of additions, will be revised later as a separate publication). The result
is a Revised Volume 5 that far outshines the original, with
almost 2,700 label discographies, 2/3 of the 4,200+ label discographies in "The
Directory".
LIST OF NEW AND OLD LABEL
DISCOGRAPHIES IN VOLUME 5
2004 SUPPLEMENT
$35.50 + $3.50
S&H ($15 outside the US)
This Additions/Corrections
supplement for Volumes 1-4, the first in four years, contains 240 pages (twice as thick as
previous supplements) of new additions and corrections and replacement pages for active
labels, updating "THE DIRECTORY" so that it now covers 55 years of the little
record with the big hole - from 1949 through the end of 2003. Thousands of new
listings.
SPECIAL! Order the 2004
COMBO (both) - $87.50 & save 13%!
(Customers
outside the US, please add $25 for postage)
Thanks for your continuing support of "THE DIRECTORY", and WELCOME BACK!
Ken Clee
Author
Stak-O-Wax
8 ANGUS DRIVE
STEVENS, PA 17578
Questions? E-mail here!
