Hall and / or Oates - Jingle Bell Rock

abagon wrote: Thank you for the answer, aaron! I image that the record company have given the 45 to retail record stores for free at the time, perhaps.

Some posts on Discogs indicate that this was included for free with
their Rock N Soul album, which came out in the advance of the holiday
1983 season.

That would explain why so many copies are in circulation. I recently
bought a copy of the promo 45 that happened to include a mass-printed
jukebox title strip. I was surprised that jukebox operators/suppliers
would have gone to the trouble to print those for a promo released only
to radio, but it makes more sense if RCA pressed these for consumers,
even in a limited run.

EDIT: I noticed that, while the record label notes a 1983 copyright, the
picture sleeve says 1985. Is anyone aware or a rerelease at that point?

Edited by eric_a