"Black-Listed No-More!"

In 1958, searching for anything he could do to boost his sagging record sales, Jackie tried to squeeze even more juice out of the liberal backlash against the practice of black-listing in general. He put out a full-color poster intended to publicize this long-forgotten excess of the early '50s and to garner sympathy. Unfortunately, the poster was an all-time low-seller, and he ended up giving them away free to any record store that would take them. Ironically enough, although Jackie even had trouble giving away his poster, this desperate act of self-promotion actually set the precedent for the practice of providing record stores with gobs of free promotional gimmicks, which would soon thereafter become widely used throughout the recording industry.

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