The latest news
on threatened record shop chain HMV is that
administrators Deloitte have announced that 66 of the 220 shops will close when
stocks run out - with no clear rescue plan for the remaining shops.
Here's a document
from an earlier period in the company's history. The first His Master's Voice
shop opened in London's Oxford Street in 1921, but seemingly in the early 1930s
many people still needed persuading that recorded music was worth buying. The
'Programme of His Masters Voice Record and Radio-Gramophone Demonstration' is
from a November 1932 event at the YWCA in London.
Seemingly the programme consisted of playing records by
among others Gracie Fields, Yehudi Menuhin and the Masses Bands of the National
Band Festival at Crystal Palace (as it happens I came across this programme in
Haynes Lane market in Crystal Palace last week).
'Recorded music gives entertainment which is obtainable
by no other means, for the programme can be made entirely to one's own taste and
mood'.
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