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Re: [ARSCLIST] Concertapes -- what became of it?
At 11:42 PM 10-11-2007 -0400, you wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
What was the history of Concertapes?...
Was there a "Concertape" label in the early LP era unrelated to the later
history of cheap generic R-2-R blank tape, and later cassettes...?!
>
>Steven C. Barr
Fine Arts Quartet (FAQ) [Chicago, IL 1940-1965 / Milwaukee, WI 1965-]
Thanks to Tom Fine, who started this thread with a URL I had never
seen before for the FAQ Archives at UW-Milwaukee, I have a new long term
project, write a complete discography for this quartet. I can't find one
on the Web, and, according to the response I just got from Ralph Evans, 1st
violinist since 1982, one has never been published in print. With Ralph's
assistance I have a complete list of all former members. However, I don't
know yet exactly who has lived in Wisconsin and who hasn't. For starters
the discography has only the three LP's I have,
http://www.folklib.net/index/wis_classical.shtml#FineAQ
http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/f/fine_arts_q2.shtml
They all are on the Concert-Disc label, for the last two, "an affiliate of
Everest Records, Hollywood / Los Angeles, CA". However, the first,
released in 1958, is on "Concert-Disc: Concertapes, Wilmette, IL". There
are two similar label writeups in the liner notes, so I'll only quote the
first paragraph of one, unless someone wants more.
"Concert-Disc, a product of Concertapes, Inc., is destined to become
the standard of the stereophonic disc field. Produced by the first company
to offer quality stereophonic tape recordings for the consumer market, the
Concert-Disc will maintain the top quality for which Concertapes is known,
not only in recorded material and artists, but in the exacting physical
requirements needed to reproduce true stereo."
So, yes Steven, there was such a label.
Does anyone know of an already published complete FAQ Discography so
I won't need to write one? It could take awhile, and at least two 90 miles
trips to view and document large holdings. There are 75 entries for the
Fine Arts Quartet in the UW-Madison catalog,
http://madcat.library.wisc.edu/index.html
and 89 entries in the UW-Milwaukee catalog,
https://millib.wisconsin.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First
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