Luck chain letter. "Brill Bldg"  (Entertainment Ind.) parody of DL type. Re-type note. US, 1979.

Prayer: (Postulate) TRUST IN YOURSELF WITH ALL YOUR HEART..AND WHAT YOU SEE IN YOUR MINDS' EYE...YOU WILL BE, DO OR HAVE...(YOU WILL PRODUCE A HIT RECORD, FILM, PLAY, OR SERIES, OR WHATEVER..OR BE A HIT YOURSELF!)

This prayer (postulate) has been sent to you for good luck. The original copy came from the Brill Building. It has been down highway 61 and Route 66, around the world via jet arriving subliscensed in all territories. The luck has now been sent to you! You obviouly deserve it. You will receive good luck within four working days after receiving the letter. This is no JOKE!!! Your good luck is in the mail. Send twenty-five copies of this letter to people you know who can use a bit of luck. Please do not send money....Promotional records are O.K. Do not place this letter in your out file for your secretary to take care of after she has done her nails. It must leave within ninty-six hours after you receive it. Add your name to the bottom of the list (Professional names are O.K.) and leave off the top name when you photo or re-copy the letter. You may add information about what happened to you if you have ever received this letter before. NO HYPES PLEASE AND GOOD LUCK.

Col. Tom Parker received this chain in 1953 and asked his valet to make up copies to send along with services rendered. One week later he discovered ELVIS PRESLEY and CLIVE DAVIS. A record company executive, Ron Alexenberg received the chain and lost it among his bills. Five days later his office was dismantled. He found the chain letter several years later while forming his own record label. He sent out fifty copies and as a result every release his company had went gold. Barry Gibb received this letter back in 1975, during this time the Bee Gee's had broken up; after sending out thirty copies, Barry reunited with his brothers for the first time in two years and recorded the Bee Gee's hit "Jive Talkin". Rita Coolidge received this letter two weeks before "Anytime, Anywhere" was released, she followed the instructions to a "T" and this album launched her multi-million $ career. Jay Graydon, a studio Musician, received this letter last year and as a result became a staff record producer at RSO records. ROBERT STIGWWOD received this letter and put it out with the garbage... The result: "Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band" was a flop at the box office. You figure it out! Jimmy Record apologizes for the banality of the idea, and has no idea whether or not it is for real, and is too chicken to break the chain.
FOR NO REASON SHOULD THIS CHAIN BE BROKEN!!

                  JIMMI RECORD        JEFF PORCARO      DIANA HUBBARD
                  ROBERTA FLACK       MAXINE GREEN      KAREN BLACK
                  ALISON PRICE BAKER  CHRISTINA MAY     TOM HILL
                  CHARLIE STAR        MARK ZIVIAN       FREYDA LABBE
                  HERMN TWEEDER       RON CHURCHMAN     GILL LABBE
                  JOHN FORD COLEY     BOB SHELLY
                  VAN MORRISON        WILLIE GIBSON  WILL HUTCHINS
                  STEPHEN GRIES       BIL GIM
                  JAMES BRUCKER.      JOHN HESS         SEAN WALDRON
                  TOM TOMLESON        MICHAEL DANE      CHUCK KORO
PAUL WINFIELD     JIM BRUCKNER        VICKERS           J.R. Koslowsky
RICCI CAMPBELL    TOMMY WEST          KEN JONES, JR.    M. Sage
CHUCK NORRIS      TOM SCHOLTZ         PHILLIP KING
TED TEMPLEMAN     SHAWN McNAMARA      KAT GALLION
ROD STEWART       SUSAN LA BARRE      INGRED LANDIS
JERRY NAMERO      HERB ALPERT         CATHERINE DEETER
WINSTON O'ROURKE  ROY THOMAS BAKER    KATHERINE LOBER
MIMI ROBERTS      WENDY BARRY         MICHAEL BARRY
KIM MUJERI        ROBBIE MARANTZ      BARRY IRA GELLER
ANNIE STAR        KAY LIEBERMAN       KEITH CODE
BOB WELCH         TOM SCOTT           ROLAND MOCHARY
                  SID SHERP           RONALD STRAUSS
                                      BEANO AGUNDEZ

(Re-typed 5/7/79 by
Joan Agundez/L.A.)

Photocopy (gen. 9+) of typed original. Sent to VanArsdale by Mary Sage, Los Angeles, 9/17/79. Sic "obviouly". Names in last column in different type, Will Hutchins signed large. Paragraphs preserved, keystrokes for names.

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