Rock 'n' Roll Fridays

The Greatest Music Poster Story Ever Told

Michael Season 2 Episode 37

The Greatest Music Poster Story Ever Told. It is a classic interview with Mitch Diamond who through various circumstances came to meet Ravin’ Ray who would introduce Mitch to a loaded gun, his girlfriend, swing dancing, beers at a VFW hall, Alaska, The Country Music Hall of Fame, $60,000 in cash and one of the greatest finds in concert poster history.

Mitch Diamond has a love affair with music all his life. As a teenager he started collecting records and wrote record reviews for a small local folk music magazine . In the early 1970’s he began working in and managing record stores. About this time he began collecting movie posters with pictures of musicians on them.  He went on to work the wholesale side of the music industry by being an area rep for independent music labels.  Around 1980 I bought my first two concert posters, a 1941 Duke Ellington and a 1941 Cab Calloway.  He fell in love with the concert poster “Genre” and have been collecting them ever since.

He has written For “Goldmine Magazine”, been interviewed by “Worth Magazine-The Robb Report” and appeared on the T.V. Show “Chronicle“. My collection has appeared in “Time-Life Publications”, P.B.S. documentaries, news reports and many books.

His collection consists of what are called “boxing style” posters because of their similarity to posters used to advertise boxing matches. It includes all types of concert posters, flyers, handbills and musicians business cards from the dawn of recorded music until Dec 31, 1969  11:59 p.m.

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