Pretty neat find inside of an LP sleeve last night.

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Last night my friend was hanging out with me and I got on the topic of early Chicago. My friend hasn't really been exposed to a lot of the older music besides from what I have shown him over the years and he had never heard It Better End Soon. So I decided to go shuffle through my records and show it to him by means of the original pressing. We ended up listening to all of that side and I decided to show him Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon as well since we had the album out already.

We had finished up that side and when I went to go put the album back into the sleeve I just couldn't get it to go back in. I pulled the record out and looked inside and found this sitting in the bottom.

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It's an old clipping from The Houston Post dating to January 25th, 1978. The article is describing how the band plans on continuing even after the death of guitarist Terry Kath. I found it interesting how I had been talking to my friend about how great the band was in their early days and how much of an impact Terry had and then find this in the sleeve when putting it back up. Funny how things like that happen sometimes.

Also on the back, don't forget to go check out the latest hit Saturday Night Fever at a local theater near you!
 
I thought you were gonna find some weed.
That what I was also thinkin'.


Also on the back, don't forget to go check out the latest hit Saturday Night Fever at a local theater near you!
Screw that... Bandit is playin' on the left. :cool:

Nobody go to the theaters in the middle.


Good on you playing some good ol' 33's for a friend. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
 
Even more amazing is that there's an ad for Smokey and the Bandit 6 months after it came out. How long did movies run in the theaters in the 70s?
If the film was a hit, a lengthy release could be expected because there was no other way to watch a movie except on broadcast TV, where it would be edited and interrupted by commercials. Not even home video or cable (which, since we're here, killed X-rated cinema fast).
 
The Turning Point must have been a dud since it had a much smaller ad and only came out 2 months earlier..... The song by Toto is pretty cool though.
Best Picture Oscar nominee (among 10 other noms), but a film about ballet assuredly had more niche appeal than Smokey.
(Sorry, I'm kind of a geek about this stuff.)
 
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