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Re: [ARSCLIST] regurgitators
Re: Bonner's book...
I don't know if they offer a discount. I will add that David was quite frustrated that they wanted to charge so much for it. He had hoped it would have some popular appeal, and actually sell to people and not just libraries.
I should add that we still hope to reissue some of the discs. The estate is divided between the three children and one has been very slow to respond.
And also on the subject of plugging publications...I had mentioned, almost a year ago, that I would be issuing on my label, Pierian, some of the Ampico popular music rolls of people like Edgar Fairchild and Adam Carroll...they are at press and should be available at the usual places like amazon in time for your Christmas giving! The discs are titled, "It's De-lovely ! (not suprisingly, all music of Cole Porter) and "Let's Face the Music and Dance," music of Kern, Gershwin, et al. We have another disc ready to go, devoted entirely to performances of Grofe, but don't have the cash on hand...
Karl
David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I forget, does Scarecrow offer an ARSC discount? Not that I want to take food
out of Mr. Bonner's mouth, but..
dl
Karl Miller wrote:
> I forwarded the question to David Bonner, who supplied the response below. It also seemed an appropriate opportunity to plug his forthcoming book which provides more detail.
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> Karl
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> David Bonner wrote:
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:06:49 -0500
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] regurgitators
> From: David Bonner
> To: karl.miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> ARS, MTW, Philharmonic Family Library were all owned by the same company. MTW licensed most of its stuff from Urania; a couple of titles were from Vanguard; several others were original recordings, made in Europe during the ARS sessions. MTW started in 1954. I don't have any specific issue dates, though the year can be approximated by the copyrights on the "Music Appreciation" pamphlets which accompanied each record. (Mike Biel was a longtime subscriber, so maybe he kept some of the paperwork; he seem like the kinda guy who keeps things.) I've cross-referenced most of the MTW/Urania titles, if that of any use.
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> I think America Recording Society (not to be confused with AmericaN Recording Society, of course) was affiliated with the Catholic weekly magazine AMERICA. I don't know why I think this, but I do. Would I make up something like that?
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> One of the guys behind Basic Library of the World's Greatest Music (the GREEN ones) was named Mac Gache. An old-time mail-order guy. He had a couple of partners, and they had rights to the Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedias. I think they eventually sold out to Dun & Bradstreet.
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> OK, I will now take this golden opportunity plug my forthcoming worst-seller book, which adds more detail to the trivia above.
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> http://www.scarecrowpress.com/Catalog/Flyer2.shtml?SKU=081085919X
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> -David B.
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