To all that worked in audio salons.

Sheffield direct to discs, Fresh Aire, Pink Floyd, any MFSL, and any
Nautilus release were used on a daily basis in the 1970's and early 1980's
where I worked.

Never worked in one but I remember sales guys always pulling out Audio Alchemy, whoever the hell that is. I would ask, "got any real music?"

At one point when I was spending a lot of time auditioning speakers it seemed as if every store I went into pulled out Jennifer Warnes' "The Hunter" and played "Somewhere, Somebody." That happened six or seven times.

At some point later, after settling on speakers, I burned a demo CD with which to torture my friends and it started with "Somewhere, Somebody."

I worked at Lafayette Radio, TEch Hifi and Radio Shack at various points in my early years.

Here are teh recordings that I found most successful in selling systems back then:

1) JEff Wayne's "War of the Worlds". Most successful demo record overall. I used this on a system in front of the Radio Shack mall store playing into the mall area on the best system I could set up there and it attracted customers like flies.

2) Kraftwerk's "The Man Machine" also a big customer attraction

3) At TEch Hifi, we got the most mileage out of Steely Dan's Aja and Pink FLoyd's "The Wall".

4) At Lafayette, I used Spinozza by David Spinozza, Eric Clapton's Slowhand, Misfits by The Kinks, Grease and Saturday Night Fever soundtracks, and Octave by The Moody BLues to good effect.