Blog: 30 Days Out

Sampler Daze: WB/Reprise Loss Leaders, Part 2

Sampler Daze: WB/Reprise Loss Leaders, Part 2 I didn't really think through how I was gonna do this series of blog posts: Warners released about 34 of these LP samplers between 1969 and 1980, sometimes springing three or four of 'em in one year. I don't have all of them, so maybe I will try and survey them year by year. After the success of the first three samplers in 1969 (there was a single-disc collection we didn't mention last time), Warners kept goin' in the new decade with The Big Ball and Schlagers! The label called these [...]