Re: [ARSCLIST] regurgitators

[Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>]

Music Treasures of the World.  I have no paperwork from them in my files, 
though I sure remember the label.  I always assumed they were a Urania 
affiliate of some sort.  They seem based on the Urania Request series, 7- 
prefix rather than their main 7000 line.  But I notice that selected items 
from the 7- group were later given 7000 numbers and stayed in the Urania 
catalog that way once the 7- series was discontinued.

My catalogs have the 7- series available in 1953 and gone by Fall, 1955 as 
they are not listed in the catalog publihed with that date when they and 
Haydn Society briefly combined their shipping facilities.

I have three entrries in my index-in-progress to Classic Record Collector 
but no time to reread them with an eye to the MTW issue right now.

This could use some untangling.  Has anyone any mail paperwork from MTW?  Is 
any of it dated?

Steve Smolian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "david gideon" <david.rediscovery@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 1:20 AM
Subject: 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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