Not all of their artists...not The Beatles (at least as a group)...but for many artists.

In almost every case, two or more catalog titles for each of the selected artists were
chosen to leave EMD's distribution and become available from AEC. EMI still maintained
manufacturing rights. New stock #'s were created, but not much else was changed on
the product. So, AEC got two Alex Bugnon titles, two O'Jays, ect. The two Linda Ronstadt
titles that went into AEC distribution were Stone Poneys III and Heart Like A Wheel.

By the end of 1997, AEC was in financial trouble and was no longer distributing any of
the EMD titles. It took many years for this to get sorted out. Hundreds of titles were left
in limbo. Eventually the ones that EMD had enough demand for were picked up again,
but many of the less popular ones never went back into print.

Heart Like A Wheel after being lost for almost two years was finally resurrected, but
Stone Poneys III just faded away. The first two Stone Poneys' CD were deleted
from the EMD catalog 29 December 1997.

Below is the notification to us from EMD about this change. The next 2 documents are
are the pages with Linda's affected titles. The entire list of 450 titles will not be posted here. :)

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Stone Poneys Vol.III CD as distributed by Capitol
(0777-7-80130-2-0)

Stone Poneys Vol. III CD as Distributed by AEC
(7-62185-15232-4)

Note: temporary UPC tag on OUTSIDE of shrink wrap
...covering original Capitol UPC.

Heart Like A Wheel...as distributed by Capitol
(7777-46073-2)

Heart Like A Wheel...as distributed by AEC
(7-6218-51429-2-9)

Note: this UPC is printed along with the artwork, indicating
that the original supply of temporary stickers covering the old
Capitol UPC stock had been sold and EMI was now printing
stock with the new code.