Originally Posted by
RobertZ
From my first awareness of the LP [[about 1963, via: my parents' collection) through the mid '70s AC artists such as Sinatra, Patti Page, The Ray Conniff Singers, Tony Bennet, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis, Andy Williams, and many many more each released several LPs yearly. This were lushly but simply produced discs featuring usually either songs-of-the-day cover versions, or concept LPs. These were all mid-career and middle-aged artists.
Here's my question. This concept occurs no longer. The artists we love release rarely if at all. What has changed, either in "society" or the music industry, to have eliminated this practice? Were those '63 - mid '70s LPs such HUGE sellers for all of the artists concerned [[I doubt it)?
Anybody know?
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