Re: [ARSCLIST] mysteries

[david gideon <david.rediscovery@xxxxxxxxx>]

> is there any one source
> for the Standards or any way to trace their lineage?

We have reissued the majority of the Standard Treasury/Basic Library  
recordings. Without giving away all our secrets, I can tell you that  
they were both sourced from the Concert Hall catalog--without the  
knowledge or consent of Concert Hall! CH had licensed their catalog  
to Collier's as their arm in the USA, but Collier's apparently sub- 
licensed the recordings to Funk & Wagnalls for their Standard  
Treasury/Basic Library projects. Ironic that when the notes told  
buyers that they could not reveal the names of the performers because  
they recorded for name brand labels, they were telling the truth.  
Collier's did not have Concert Hall's permission to sub-license their  
catalog, and in fact Concert Hall never knew it happened--the founder  
of Concert Hall only learned about it after our releases made the  
information public.

> There are a number of labels I would like to know more about,like  
> the  "Synthetic Plastics" labels of Parade,Promenade,and  
> Diplomat,Family Records,and Acorn,Also there is so little known  
> about Eli Oberstein's later labels,like Rondo(lette),and the  
> sources of these recordings.I am aware ReDiscoveries has put a lot  
> of these out,in some incredible restorations,but how detailed are  
> the liner notes of these CDs,in explaining the soources of the  
> original recordings,and identities of the performers ?

With the exception of one item (a Rossini Overture) we have  
identified the sources and true identities of the performers in all  
the "mysteries" releases, and that information is detailed in the  
notes. Aside from the anonymous supermarket series, we have also  
reissued items from Acorn, Rondo, Crown, Design, Diplomat, Pirouette,  
and many other dubious sources. If you want a trip down memory lane,  
we have a gallery up of covers from some of the pseudonymous LPs we  
have remastered:

http://tinyurl.com/2jo5ts

dg

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