Garwin Sales

1960s distributor and manufacturer from Elk Grove Village, Illinois. National Distributor of Little LPs. Robert Garmisa at Garmisa Distributing set up this new company (Garwin Sales) in the fall of 1967 to take over the Seeburg catalog and distribution of jukebox Little LPs. Garmisa underestimated the problems of Little LPs production and by 1969 gave up. When Garmisa left the Little LP business, he sold the erstwhile Seeburg inventory to WIND-Chicago newsman Henry Baskin (aka Bill Churchill), along with partner Reuben "Rube" Lawrence. Baskin began offering this older stock including Little LPs from Columbia/Epic. Soma, Bomar, Warner Bros., Atlantic, London, UA, Blue Note, Hilltop, and Reprise at greatly reduced prices. With Garmisa exiting the business, output of Little LPs dropped to nearly zero. From 1969 to mid-1970, there were no firms actively producing and distributing large numbers of Little LPs for the big labels, and this marked the end of the first generation of the Little LPs.