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From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Underestimating the American Public's Taste (it can be done!)
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 17:29:53 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 28 17:29:53 1985
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>             "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste
> 	     (or intelligence) of the American public."
> 
> 		  --H.L. Mencken
> 
> 
> 		       --Rob Rosen
> 
Sorry Rob and H.L. Mencken, what about the people(?) who released
the movie "Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Culb Band?", starring
Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees. The movie and its accompanying
awful awful awful record stiffed big time. Why? The product was
Soooooooo bad it was beneath the tastes of the American public
and lost tons of $. Yes Virginia, there is justice in the American
entertainment industry, but not much.

P.S. The soundtrack LP enjoys the distinction of being the only
record ever to be RETURNED platinum.

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