Re: [ARSCLIST] regurgitators

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thought I might have found some when clearing my parents' house a few months 
ago..not in the box where I put all sorts of other record catalogues, release 
sheets etc. We subscribed to MTW in 1954 (I still have the Strauss 
Waltzes/Bizet L'Arlesienne Suite) but I'm not seeing any paper as yet. We 
didn't get too many of the releases ..most that I've found have been 
second-hand or when tons of them were on sale at Sam The Record Man around 1961 
for 69 cents each.

Incidentally, I've also been going through old issues of High Fidelity (same 
basement) and the September 1956 Music Makers column notes that "In midsummer, 
[Concert Hall] and its affiliated mail-order clubs [were] bought out by the 
Crowell-Collier Publishing Company; future plans, as a result, have been 
somewhat dislocated. Until the change of ownership, Concert Hall's chief fall 
program [centers] on its new series of binaural tape recordings."

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