Re: [ARSCLIST] regurgitators

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Add the 1956 RCA Jazz History series to this list..12 ten-inch LPs sold in 
supermarkets, one a week for 99 cents each. Alternate and unissued takes in 
many of them..I found a rave review of this series in High Fidelity (1957, 
including it in an overview of other jazz reissues).

dl

Steven Smolian wrote:
> 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" 
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> 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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