[78-L] 60 Years of Music America Loves Best

[David Lennick]

 Volumes 1 and 2 were a mishmosh and serious collectors hated the things and were insulted when well meaning friends and relatives gave them as gifts (I know this from personal experience). The third production was split into two albums, popular and classical. And that Spike Jones album was a hoot!

dl     On Saturday, January 4, 2020, 4:06:03 p.m. EST, dlennick dlennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:  
 
   


 
 
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From: Lloyd Davies <all_my_linx at yahoo.ca.invalid>
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Date: January 4, 2020 at 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] 60 Years of Music America Loves Best


Rodger,    was this was a half-pop & half-classical set?  Or was it one series of Victor & one series of Victor Red Seal?  I did a *very quick* search of contemporary newspapers.
    Volume one reached #4 in the pop albums in Montgomery, Alabama in the Fall of 1960, and volume one reached #1 in the classical charts in that city.    At the same time, it reached #4 on both the English and French pop charts in Ottawa, Ontario.
    The Cincinnati Enquirer reviewed it in October of 1960:<<<"60 Years of Music America Loves Best" (Victor LM 6088) is one of those compendiums of committee taste over the years, committee taste is always atrocious and this album is a monument of its kind. It begins with Caruso singing Verdi and ends with Fiedler playing Khatchaturian. In between are 28 other entries, from Belafonte to Wayne King, Toscanini to Eddie Fisher, Grace Moore to Perry Como. Rachmaninoff. Casals, Warren, Lanza the list goes on. The recording quality varies as you might expect. The price, by the way, is $4.95 for two records.>>>
    
    At this point in history, Spike Jones had left RCA for Liberty records.  His next album was "60 Years of Music America Hates Best".  Can there be any greater compliment?
    - Lloyd in Calgary
 
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