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Re: [ARSCLIST] regurgitators
The Philharmonic Family Library. Source: Music Treasures of the
World, =
possibly Urania (David gideon). Were these a mail-order outfit
drawing =
on Concert Hall?
Music Treasures was mail order; Philharmonic Family Library was one a
week (anonymous artists but the same performances as the identified
performers on MTotW) at the grocery store in dark red individual
boxes. Neither had anything to do with Concert Hall, and both got
their recordings via American Recording Society--a label that
primarily specialized in contemporary music. But they did produce
some standard repertoire stuff and that came out on MTotW and
eventually the PFL, with additional European Urania-style stuff
licensed in to fill out the contents. The credits for the
Philharmonic Family Library included several people from ARS so they
were probably the primary producers of this series. Some of the ARS
originals in this series later appeared on the ARS's own label in
stereo, and eventually on Audio Fidelity.
Standard Treasury of the World's Great Music. 16 records in an
unweildy =
album.
A one-a-week anonymous grocery store set in a very heavy binder. It
was produced by Funk & Wagnalls.
Basic Library of the World's Greatest Music. 24 Volumes. Published
by =
Standard Reference Works. Supervised by the Funk & Wagnall's
Editor in =
Chief.
Also a one-a-week anonymous grocery store set, but it used the same
recordings as the Standard Treasury plus a few more. They were,
however, packaged completely differently: no unweildly album, but
individual greenish boxes. (The packaging was almost a clone of the
Philharmonic Family Library, just as the packaging of the Standard
Treasury was nearly identical to that of the Webster Library. But
oddly, the sets packaged similarly had different performances from
each other.)
We have reissued most of the Basic Library/Standard Treasury, much of
it from half-track stereo tapes, which sound a lot better than the
Basic Library LPs. Interestingly, the Standard Treasury LPs often
sounded distinctly superior to the same recordings in the Basic
Library, particularly re frequency response. But the ST only had 16
LPs to the BL's 24.
dg
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