Record World was a U.S. music industry trade magazine
published from 1946 to April of 1982. Until 1964 it
was called "Music Vendor"
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NOTICE Incomplete Issues
Many issues have missing pages or ads and articles
cut out. This is a very hard publication to obtain,
and we managed to get issues that had been saved at
a number of record companies like Del Fi and
Original Sound and had spent many years in storage.
We will attempt to fill in the missing issues and
missing pages, but for the moment this is a large
collection of a very rare magazine.
In general, music trade magazines often had their
charts removed to post in a record company office or
in a music store, so finding complete issues is a
challenge!
Our philosophy is "something is better than nothing"
so we post incomplete issues until something better
comes along.
If you have any of the needed or incomplete
issues, please donate or lend them for scanning. Or
CONTACT us for scanning
instructions
The date in GRAY indicates the position of a missing
issue.
Contributors
Valuable assistance in obtaining issues of this
magazine has come from Dave McAleer, Eugene Overton
and Nigel Maxey.
David Skinner was the cartoonist for Record World
from 1977 to "the end".
Click the cartoon to view this example in larger
size.
Click
here
to see his collection