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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 336.1 | 2 cents | NEMAIL::CARROLLJ | The Bright-Eyed Boy | Sun Dec 06 1992 12:59 | 6 |
| Re -.1
not sure, but my guess would be Bing Crosby.
-Jimbo
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| 336.2 | Guesses | FUNYET::ANDERSON | 21st Century computing starts today | Sun Dec 06 1992 18:25 | 4 |
| Other guesses, probably equally as wrong, might be Rumours (Fleetwood Mac),
Boston (Boston), or Saturday Night Fever (gasp).
Paul
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| 336.3 | | BUSY::SLABOUNTY | Politically impolite | Mon Dec 07 1992 09:30 | 7 |
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One problem you might have is that gold/platinum/etc. labels
haven't been around forever ... so the first album that went
platinum might not have been the first album to sell 1M copies.
GTI
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| 336.4 | | DPE::STARR | Two hot girls on a hot summer night | Mon Dec 07 1992 12:27 | 6 |
| I am pretty sure that the first official platinum album was The Eagles
"Greatest Hits" collection that came out around 1975. Although there were
certainly albums that sold 1M copies before this, (as someone already
mentioned) they didn't have the "platinum" award until that year.
alan
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| 336.5 | Gold Digging | TECRUS::ROST | I fret less these days | Mon Dec 07 1992 14:42 | 7 |
| Well, the Elton John "Capt. Fantastic" album was the first release to
*ship* platinum. What year was that?
The "gold" and "platinum" numbers vary from country to country, I was
just reading that "gold" in Israel means 20,000 copies.
Brian
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| 336.6 | update on the bet | BYTOR::SPRINGER | Grace Under Pressure | Mon Dec 07 1992 20:12 | 9 |
| Thanks for the info...
FYI - the groups and albums in question for the bet were:
The Eagles - "Greatest Hits"
- vs -
Iron Butterfly - note sure of the name - first album
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| 336.7 | | COMPLX::FERRIS | True wisdom only comes from pain | Tue Dec 08 1992 15:43 | 6 |
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Not for sure, but wasn't the first Iron Butterfly entitled "Heavy".
mike
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| 336.8 | Iron Butterfly | TECRUS::ROST | I fret less these days | Tue Dec 08 1992 17:21 | 6 |
| Yes, the first Iron Butterfly album *was* "Heavy" but I'm sure it was
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" that went platinum. That was one of the biggest
selling rock albums of all time. Weird, considering it's aged poorly
and the other Butterfly albums sold poorly (about what they deserved!).
Brian
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| 336.9 | in-a-bucket-of-garbage | RAGMOP::T_PARMENTER | | Tue Dec 08 1992 19:06 | 4 |
| IB *aged* poorly? It was *born* poorly!
I've been mad at them since 1968 when Janis Joplin was run off stage so
these phonies would have time to do *all* of I-a-g-d-v.
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