[78-L] Pseudononymous Camden LPs

[David Lennick]

I had, but managed to lose, the issue of High Fidelity which identified all the 
orchestras. This was around 1955-6..anyone have it?

As for popular artists on Camden, I have CAL 120 here..admittedly a later 
pressing (pink label) with some high numbers listed on the back cover, but it 
lists the following pretty early releases:

CAL 125		THE GOLDMAN BAND: AMERICA MARCHES
CAL 133		JOE REICHMAN: PIANO REVERIES
CAL 135		RAYMOND PAIGE: STAR DUST MELODIES

Just noticed the extra syllable in the subject line. A pseudononymous sounds 
like a prehistoric beast that isn't what it seems to be.

dl

Randy Watts wrote:
> Thanks for the replies.
> 
> I suppose some astute record buyers managed to figure out who the real orchestras were underneath those pseudonyms. 
> 
> Popular albums don't appear to have shown up in the Camdens for a couple of years, based on listings I've seen, but once they did, they must have outsold their classical brethren by a pretty wide margin, given how quickly pop began to dominate the label's output.
> 
> Randy
> 
> 
> --- On Sun, 11/16/08, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Pseudononymous Camden LPs
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 11:13 PM
>> Didn't they give out a story about these artists
>> accepting lower royalty rates? 
>> Plus there might have been a desire to keep the cheaper
>> recordings from 
>> competing with full-priced albums by the same artists,
>> although pseudonyms 
>> weren't used on their popular albums.
>>
>> Here's something from Wikipedia, for what it's
>> worth:
>>
>> RCA Camden originally issued some classical recordings
>> using the real names of 
>> the orchestras. Then, to avoid competing with modern
>> recordings by the same 
>> orchestras, they adopted a series of pseudonyms. Thus, the
>> St. Louis Symphony 
>> Orchestra became known either as the Savoy Symphony
>> Orchestra or the Schuyler 
>> Symphony Orchestra, the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra (a
>> New York "pickup" 
>> orchestra, drawn from players in the NBC Symphony Orchestra
>> and the New York 
>> Philharmonic Orchestra) became the Golden Symphony
>> Orchestra, the Boston 
>> Symphony Orchestra became the Centennial Symphony
>> Orchestra, the London 
>> Philharmonic Orchestra became the Stratford Symphony
>> Orchestra, the Chicago 
>> Symphony Orchestra became the Cromwell Symphony Orchestra,
>> the San Francisco 
>> Symphony Orchestra became the World Wide Symphony
>> Orchestra, and the 
>> Philadelphia Orchestra became the Warwick Symphony
>> Orchestra.[1] The New York 
>> City Symphony Orchestra, created by Leopold Stokowski in
>> the 1940s, recorded 
>> for RCA Victor and some of its recordings were issued on
>> Camden under the name 
>> "Sutton Symphony Orchestra," not to be confused
>> with a British orchestra with 
>> the same name.
>>
>> --All early Camden orchestral LPs that I've seen use
>> pseudonyms..the real 
>> identities came on later re-pressings, although Leonard
>> Bernstein was 
>> identified as conductor on CAL 196 (of three pseudonymous
>> orchestras).
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Randy Watts wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any idea why Camden, RCA Victor's
>> budget label, used pseudonyms on most of its early LPs? The
>> performances are by name orchestras, reissued from RCA
>> Victor's back catalog, but are generally identified as
>> by Warwick Symphony Orchestra, Festival Concert Orchestra,
>> Sussex Symphony Orchestra, or some such, and with no
>> conductor credit at all.
>>> Randy 
>>>
>>>