[78-L] MAJOR RECORDS

[David Lennick]

Some dramas specifically had music provided on Major Records. I've seen discs for The Glass Menagerie, a Mae Questel disc with two Boopish versions of "Button Up Your Overcoat" for "Goodbye My Fancy", and some ominious music by Paul Bowles, an important American composer once upon a time.

 

Thomas J. Valentino also cut the masters for 78 RPM issues of Cetra records in the US.

 

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> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:37:50 +0100
> From: ampex354 at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] MAJOR RECORDS
> 
> Major records: Sound effects producer Thomas J Valentino Inc of New York.
> Often used for such things as dramatic productions.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Margaret G. Still
> <mgstill at bellsouth.net>wrote:
> 
> > I recently bought several boxes of 78's at a library sale, including about
> > 3
> > dozen sound effects records on the Major Records label.
> >
> > My apologies if this has already been discussed to death here, but can
> > anyone tell me whom these records were produced for, and how they were
> > used?
> > What about Major Records - any interesting characters associated with them,
> > did they produce only sound effects records, how were the sound effects
> > collected, etc.?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Margaret G. Still
> >