Full Color Jazz - America's first EP given away free in a magazine.

This record, a 45RPM EP, was the first known record to have been included for free in a consumer magazine in the USA. The magazine was down beat (jazz magazine) in it's March 6th, 1957 issue. (The title card for this video states the magazine was from 1956, this was an error as can be seen from the actual cover picture.)
It features samples from 10 jazz albums issued that were issued that year by ABC Paramount Records, or Am-Par as they were known at the time.
No, this wasn't the first disc ever given away to consumers, but it was the first standard format 45RPM vinyl record. For the details and back story, see www.ctproduced...
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