There is a complete (?) discography of the Silvertone record club on the web:
http://settlet.fateback.com/SRC.htm ,but it gives very little info,other than a listing.It doesn't even list the artists.
I would like further information about just how these records came about myself.For starters,what is the year on these records ? I have heard they are from around 1946.Is this correct ?Milstein had already recorded for Columbia,so these were of dubious legality.I am assuming the "Chicago Philharmonic" is the CSO,in a similar situation to that of "The Stadium Symphony Orchestra"at Everest,perhaps our friend Don Tait can enlighten us further ?The Leinsdorfs are not listed in most Leinsdorf discographies,either.
Some of the Leinsdorf,and Enesco sides,were compiled onto a budget Lp,issued by the Hollywood label,in1956,which I have.
I haven't thought about this label much,as I have not seen them that frequently.I believe I own two,a Leinsdorf,and a Milstein.
Roger Kulp
In trying to learn more about these records,I found this Nathan Milstein discograpy :
http://my.dreamwiz.com/fischer/Milstein/discography-milstein.htm
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"Russell W. Miller" <rwm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: As we have some Mercury expertise here, who knows the real story of
Silvertone Record Club, and what involvement Mercury or its principals might
have had? Is there any documentation of session dates/locations,
particularly the Enescu and Leinsdorf records? I have a Sears catalog from
1946 (Summer, as I recall) that doesn't list any records, but surely they
must have come along soon after.
Russell