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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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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! 
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Record World Buyers Guide
 
Consumer Publication given out at Record Stores 
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Country Music Who's Who 1970
 Country Music Who's Who 1972
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Country Music

Who's Who
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Annual  Directory
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Aug 4
Buyer Guide
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Last issue
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Record World