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Lost Notes S1 Ep. 7: A Million Dollars Worth of Plastic

Lost Notes: Groupies
Lost Notes: Groupies
Episode • May 17, 2018 • 34m

In 1989 McDonald’s ran the biggest flexi-disc promotion ever, sending out 80 million discs (playing the “Menu Song”) as inserts in newspapers all over the country. A very special copy of this record was almost burned to heat a family home in Galax, Virginia. Instead, it ended up winning the homeowner a million dollars.

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