Someone here mentioned the Atlantic Records Shakespere records recently.A couple of months ago,I found the "Romeo and Juliet" at Goodwill.This was part of a very large collection of records,from St.Johns College in Santa Fe.It looks like they had they had gotten rid of most of their records.Some,like the fairly collectible Marice Abravenel "A Night In The Tropics",first original stereo copy I have found,and a couple of private issue records by The Seattle Symphony Orchestra,have card pockets glued to the cover,that cannot be removed without damage.I can see that,but over half of the records there,had no covers.Instead,they had those blank album binders,that look like 78 albums,made of some kind of plasticized cardboard,made by Gaylord Brothers of Syracuse,and Stockton.Hundreds and hundreds of records like this,with the original covers gone.I only got four,because they were the first copies of these records that I had ever seen.The aforementioned
"Romeo and Juliet",MS 6464,with the Yardumian Symphony No.1 and Violin Concerto,with Ormandy,a 1960s Japanese Angel Lp of the 1938 "Pathetique",by Furtwangler,and CS 6578 with the Borodin and Tchaikovsky by Silvio Varviso and L'orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
I am guessing when the library acquired these records with the covers,but discarded them at some point.This is not the first time I have seen records like this,but I could never understand the rationale behind it.I know there are people here who have worked at libraries,so could someone tell me why this was done?
Roger
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