RARE AMERICOM POCKET DISC record The Bee Gees 1968
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Americom Pocket Disc....produced in 1968......Company only operated for just a few years....Produced by Atco Records....I've Gotta Get A Message To You...Kitty Can ..... Some scratches. Has jacket, writing in ink on bottom. Shipping free. Rare Find.
The Pocket Disc arrived on the scene in 1966, courtesy of Americom Ltd.
The idea was simple if, perhaps, a little ambitious. Pocket Discs were, quite literally, discs you could carry around in your pocket; medium thickness flexidiscs, admittedly, but discs all the same. (A similar effort had been attempted by the Enterprise label during the late 1950s/early 1960s, for inclusion with boxes of Carnation dried milk)
Just four inches across, Pocket Discs were issued in a generic blue or red sleeve and retailed through Americom’s own vending machines. The difference was, whereas many flexis are the fruit of one-off deals which find them glued to magazine covers or arriving unsolicited in the mail, Pocket Discs went straight to the top, striking licensing deals with many top record labels including, during 1969, Apple. In fact, Apple releases, while extremely scarce, are the best known and certainly the best documented of all Pocket Disc releases.
A series of Hip Pocket Discs, marketed by Philco, appeared a short time after the Americom issues. A number of popular issues were made, including a very rare Doors single (“Light My Fire”/“Break On Through”), but the series did not survive long.
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