[78-L] Columbia Record DIscography

[Randy Watts]

I don't have the set handy to check, but I'm almost positive it's from Smithsonian and that it dates from the early 1980s.

Randy


--- On Mon, 11/10/08, Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. <citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> > They were refusing to work together into the 1970s.
> Labels like Reader's Digest and Time-Life would have to
> decide whose special products division they wanted to work
> with: Columbia's or RCA's, because neither company
> would allow the other access to their masters. A boxed set
> of big band LPs I have got around this by arranging to have
> two of the four discs produced by Columbia Special Products
> and the other two by RCA Special Products. But the RCA LPs
> have no Columbia material on them and the Columbia's
> have no RCA.
> >
> >   
> I have a set called The Big Bands, released by McMillan
> (#48987), which 
> contains 3 records. One is Columbia, the second, RCA and
> the third, 
> Decca. It was a companion to the George T. Simon book of
> the same name. 
> It is supposed to be the only set the 3 companies ever
> cooperated on.
> There are quite a few on Ebay right now.
> What is the name of yours?