[78-L] Decca's Music of Our Time series

[David Lennick]

Actually "Songs Of Our Times". My thinking is that they were all released in 
1947. Numbering doesn't help since they initiated the 24000 series and used the 
individual years as the album numbers. 1942 and 1943 were the last in the 
series and were recorded after the ban, along with 1922. There were also 4 
albums of "type" songs, like Airplane Songs (can't think of the other three).

These also appeared on World Transcriptions, possibly before being issued as 
albums, since Decca owned World at that time.

dl

Harold Aherne wrote:
> Does anyone know when these sets were actually released? I notice that they were
> mostly recorded from April-July 1942, probably in anticipation of the recording ban
> (save for the 1922 set, which was apparently done in November of '44). They comprise
> the first 100 numbers of the 24000 series (four discs for each year from 1917 to 1941).
> Were they *all* released in 1947? And does anyone know how far Decca went in these
> surveys? (I'm pretty sure I've seen later years on mid-50s LPs).
>  
> -Harold
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