promotion – Page 6 – Robin Johnson

Times Square UK Press Kit (post 1 of 4)

20 July, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The UK Press Kit is an even nicer package than its US counterpart, with its own logo featuring Nicky atop the theater marquee. Inside the big white folder is a smaller silver folder that holds the materials. (The reflective silver didn’t scan very well, I did what

On The Road, 1980

10 July, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Robin and Trini, but mostly Robin, crossed the country and later traveled the world doing publicity for Times Square. They did The John Davidson Show together, and Robin was a guest on The Merv Griffin Show. I didn’t see the John Davidson appearance, but I managed to record Robin’s Merv

US Magazine, Vol. 4 No. 18, December 23, 1980

10 June, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“… a pouty thrush named Robin lights up Times Square.” RSO’s and AFD’s publicity departments were sure that Times Square would be a hit, and more importantly, that Robin would be the breakout star, and the Hollywood press agreed long enough for US magazine to run her picture as one

Soundtrack Ad, Melody Maker, November 15, 1980

11 May, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“AFTER ALL THE MOVIE ALBUMS RELEASED THIS YEAR COMES THE DEFINITIVE ROCK SOUNDTRACK FROM THE FORTHCOMING ROBERT STIGWOOD FILM ‘TIMES SQUARE'” Even as Times Square was opening and closing in the United States, the mighty RSO promotion machine was hard at work in the United Kingdom,

Rolling Stone No. 329, October 30 1980

21 April, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Sorry to jump back in time a few weeks, but I only just got this one. It’s another full-page movie teaser ad, this one from page 29 of the the October 30 Rolling Stone. It’s the same as the others, only bigger. Well, that and the colors behind the tagline

Movie ad from the Trenton Times, October 19, 1980

1 April, 2016 Sean 2 Comments 1 category

Well. This was in the local paper Sunday, October 19, and since I wouldn’t have clipped it before I’d seen the movie, Kurt and I must have seen it either opening night or Saturday. I remember we’d been looking forward to the New Tim Curry movie, and I

Another Full-Page Times Square Teaser Ad

12 March, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The same ad as last time, this one appearing on the inside front cover of Circus No. 248, dated October 28, 1980. As the ad is for a movie opening October 17, the magazine must have come out before then. Either that, or it came out bursting with hope as

Tiger Beat Vol. 17 No. 2, November 1980

2 March, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The November Tiger Beat also came out before Times Square’s October release, judging by the full-page teaser ad that ran on page 29. In fact we can narrow down the date it came out to sometime between the releases of the first two singles from

Canadian Movie Poster

21 February, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The movie poster for Times Square in Canada is almost identical to the U.S. poster. In fact, it is a U.S. poster, with two white stickers affixed to the bottom, one covering the American “R” rating barring under-17’s without a parent or guardian, and the other adding the Canadian “R”

Seventeen Magazine, Vol. 39 No. 10, October 1980

11 February, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Again presuming that any magazine dated October probably came out in September before the movie opened, here’s an interview with Robin that appeared as two pages of Edwin Miller’s “Spotlight: Movies, records, personalities” column. The full column led off on page 93

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