Jerry Greene established a new label, Collectables, in 1980, which reissued some of the Lost NiteĬollections, particularly when CDs became popular. Jerry Blavat sold his interest back to Jerry Greene and Jared Weinstein. Reissue labels in the country, specializing in doo-wops and group vocals. Stores - ultimately 23 stores in all - and Lost Nite became one of the foremost oldies From there, The Record Museum opened a slew of additional Oldies compilations, many of them simulated radio shows by Jerry Blavat and other oldies deejays.īoth the store and the label flourished. Jerry Blavat supported them by investing to the tune of a 50% interest. As a sideīusiness, they decided to re-issue oldies as a specialty on their own labels, Lost Nite and Crimson, and Store, like Times Square, specialized in oldies, and bought ads on Blavat's radio programs. Record Museum, located in a small storefront at 1005 Chestnut Street in downtown Philadelphia. The doo wop and group vocal oldies they knew from New York. TheyĬhecked out the radio and found that a local deejay named Jerry Blavat was not only popular, but played To Philadelphia with the idea of starting a record store in Philly like Times Square in New York. Some time later, Jerry Greene and Jared Weinstein decided to strike out on their own, and moved down Reformed when the Lost Nite release caused such a reaction. Ironically, the group had broken up in discouragement after the Planet release flopped, but quickly Weiss at Old Town Records, where it was released as Old Town 1094.
Kids distributing a record nationally was fairly unthinkable even then, so they brought the masters to Hy The copies were quickly snapped up and the demand was very high still. They pressed up a few hundred copies on red vinyl on a new label they invented called (They skipped also buying the publishing rights for an additional The label offered, however, to sell GreeneĪnd his friends the masters for $200. Some enterprising friends went over to Planet Records and bought ten copies, then bought another ten,īut that was about all that was left in stock at the record label. Instead of copies coming in, he got about a hundred Greene liked the record, andīrought it to a radio show and had them play it on the air, announcing that they would pay a dollar creditįor any copies of the record turned in to the store. It was "There's a Moon Out Tonight" by the Capris, on Planet 1010. One day a customer brought in aĬopy of a record from the year before, a record that was obscure enough that Greene had never heard it. Get people to bring in rare records for credit, so they could re-sell them. Times Square Records specialized in oldies, and Greene thought of a plan to In 1960, Jerry Greene was working at Times Square Records in New York City (working for records Lost Nite Album Discography Lost Nite Album Discographyīy Mike Callahan, Dave Edwards, Randy Watts, and Patrice Eyries
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