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A sampler is a type of of compilation album offered at a reduced price to showcase a selection of artists signed to a particular record label. A compilation album is an Album ( Music or Spoken-word) featuring tracks from one or multiple Recording artists, often culled from a variety of The format became popular in the late 1960s as record labels sought to promote artists whose work was primarily available in album rather than single format, and therefore had little opportunity to gain exposure through singles-dominated radio airplay.

CBS’s The Rock Machine Turns You On, Liberty Records' Gutbucket and Island Records' You Can All Join In were the first samplers, setting the standard for those to follow. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. The Rock Machine Turns You On and its follow-up Rock Machine I Love You, were bargain priced Sampler albums released by CBS Records Liberty Records was a United States -based Record label. It was started by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Alvin Bennett as president Gutbucket (An Underworld Eruption is a 1969 Sampler album released to promote artists on the Liberty Records label Island Records is a Record label that was founded by British record producers in Jamaica. You Can All Join In is a Sampler album, released by Island Records in 1969 arguably instrumental in breaking world-class bands such as Free Many of the most important and innovative folk and rock artists of the time featured on the samplers of their respective record labels, particularly in the UK, and as a result their work reached an audience which would have otherwise been inaccessible. Amongst the most well regarded, and subsequently collectable, were those from Island Records, CBS, Decca Records, Liberty Records, Vertigo Records and Harvest Records. Island Records is a Record label that was founded by British record producers in Jamaica. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Decca Records is a British Record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Liberty Records was a United States -based Record label. It was started by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Alvin Bennett as president Vertigo Records was the name Philips Records chose in the sixties for its Record label to counter the progressive labels of its rivals EMI (with Harvest Records was a Record label created by EMI in 1969 to promote Progressive rock music and to compete with Philips' Vertigo and By the end of the 1970s, however, the format became less relevant. The rise of indie rock labels and bands in the late 1970s and early 1980s revitalised the sampler as a marketing tool, but the format was all but dead by 1985[1]. Indie rock is genre of Alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent Underground music scene Since then, the increased influence of the World Wide Web as a medium for distributing content has made the sampler album format increasingly redundant.

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Important Samplers

Island Records (UK)

CBS/Columbia (UK/US)

Atlantic/Atco(US/UK)

Elektra

Harvest Records (UK)

Dandelion Records (UK)

Transatlantic Records (UK)

Liberty (US)

Probe

Dawn(UK)

Warner/Reprise

Stones Throw

References

  1. ^ The last "mainstream" sampler, issued as a disc or CD was arguably the ZTT Records sampler of 1985
You Can All Join In is a Sampler album, released by Island Records in 1969 arguably instrumental in breaking world-class bands such as Free Nice Enough To Eat is a Sampler album released by Island Records in 1969 Bumpers was a double Sampler album from Island Records, released in Europe and Australasia in 1970 there were minor variations in track listings within The success of its predecessors in marketing Island Records ' roster of artists perhaps made this compilation inevitable the budget priced album format had established its credentials The Rock Machine Turns You On and its follow-up Rock Machine I Love You, were bargain priced Sampler albums released by CBS Records Fill Your Head with Rock is a double Sampler album from CBS Records, released in the UK in 1970 Rockbuster was the second double Sampler album from CBS Records released in the UK in 1970 Together! was one of a number of Sampler albums issued by the CBS record label in the early 1970s The Music People is a triple Sampler album from CBS Records released in the UK in 1972 Atco Blockbusters is a sampler album released in the UK in 1969 and featuring acts which in the US appeared on the Atco label (part of Atlantic) a long pedigree The Age of Atlantic is the second in a series of Rock music samplers released by the Atlantic label The New Age of Atlantic, released in 1972 was the third in a series of Rock music samplers released by the Atlantic label Picnic - A Breath of Fresh Air is a sampler issued by the Harvest Records label originally released in 1970 and is remarkable for including the full-length version Harvest Heritage 20 Greats is a sampler album issued by the Harvest Records label in 1977 to promote its budget reissue line There is Some Fun Going Forward is the only sampler album released by John Peel 's Dandelion Records label and was marketed by Polydor Listen Here! is a Sampler album released by Transatlantic Records in 1968. Gutbucket (An Underworld Eruption is a 1969 Sampler album released to promote artists on the Liberty Records label Handle With Care is a Sampler album released by Probe Records in 1970 The Dawn Take-Away Concert is a sampler album released in 1971 by Dawn Records, the Progressive rock subsidiary of Pye Records. Has it Dawned on You? is a 1975 sampler album issued by the Dawn record label A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio
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