International Recorded Music Society

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Does anybody know anything on that record label? Reason I'm asking is that I scored a few of them in a 50 cent record bin but I've never heard of that label. Interestingly the lowest price I can see for the few I found is $14 on Ebay, with some asking $50 which is high for classical music. I'm just wondering what's it all about.
 
Hmm, don't know. Then again I pay very little attention to labels unless they are really stick outs or weird because it's too confusing to me and I pay no attention to perceived record monetary value. I'm still trying to figure out two odd labels I have.
 
If this is that same entity, they were a record club in the '70's which issued boxes of classical records (usually 2-6 in a box, which was cream colored with the same or similar labels to the originals) from the Philips and Deutsche Gramophone labels which were pressed in Italy, not in the usual Netherlands or Germany. I subscribed back then, and the prices were quite cheap compared with the normal Philips and DGG prices. However, the catalogue numbers were different from the original pressings. The pressings were quite decent, not at the quality of the original releases, but at half the price or so of the originals. BTW, RCA and Columbia and probably others would sell record club issues which often were not pressed at the same plants as the "real" issues.

Larry
 
Wow! Larry, you an expert or something? Just look at all that info on the label! Nice one!

I'm still trying to figure out "San Francisco Records" for one. That is the label of one of my It's A Beautiful Day albums and I have not seen it on any other copy since well more than a year ago when I got it. I've seen the Capital Records label, but not the San Francisco label like mine. I heard somewhere that the San Francisco label is part of Capital records, but I see no evidence of that on my copy, but that still doesn't mean it is not.
 
MusicDirector said:
Wow! Larry, you an expert or something? Just look at all that info on the label! Nice one!

I'm still trying to figure out "San Francisco Records" for one. That is the label of one of my It's A Beautiful Day albums and I have not seen it on any other copy since well more than a year ago when I got it. I've seen the Capital Records label, but not the San Francisco label like mine. I heard somewhere that the San Francisco label is part of Capital records, but I see no evidence of that on my copy, but that still doesn't mean it is not.
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Hopefully, I am correct about that one, it may be a different label! No expert, but I have a lot of records, about 15,000, almost all classical, which I started collecting in college in 1963.

I think I have actually seen the SF Records label of It's a Beautiful Day, though I don't have the album. They were an SF based group and I saw the album featured at Tower Records, back in the late 60's and early '70's. Check out this website: History of Its A Beautiful Day
At the very bottom is a list of 45's they did, including the first two released by San Francisco Sound in 1968 and 1969, followed by 3 released by Columbia. My surmise is that IABD was first released on the SF label and then rereleased into wider circulation by Columbia.

Larry
 
astrotoy said:
Hopefully, I am correct about that one, it may be a different label! No expert, but I have a lot of records, about 15,000, almost all classical, which I started collecting in college in 1963.

I think I have actually seen the SF Records label of It's a Beautiful Day, though I don't have the album. They were an SF based group and I saw the album featured at Tower Records, back in the late 60's and early '70's. Check out this website: History of Its A Beautiful Day
At the very bottom is a list of 45's they did, including the first two released by San Francisco Sound in 1968 and 1969, followed by 3 released by Columbia. My surmise is that IABD was first released on the SF label and then rereleased into wider circulation by Columbia.

Larry
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That sounds about right and it was Columbia. I got it confused with Capital, my bad. I like the band a lot, I knew of their hit White Bird and picked up the album out of curiosity. I was delighted when I heard what else they could do! Great band! I have the rest of their stuff now as well. It makes that album all the more special because all I ever see is the Columbia labeled ones.

I have to see the other one I'm trying to figure out. It's a various artist record from the 60s. I love the fun stuff and the somewhat weird stuff like Hugo Montenegro does Dawn of Dylan for example.

Wow, 15,000 records. I would not have room for that many and I hope you have an Autodesk RCM or Klaudio or something with a number that high. As fortunate as I am to have it I would hate to even think about trying to do that many on a VPI 16.5 or similar.

(I have me 3 box sets of classical. I like getting classical that way instead of individual LPs. I need another box set of Mozart. I also like full orchestra over solo piano and such).

~Eric
 
Thanks Larry,

It would make sense as I had found the Concert Hall Musical Society which also used the Handel Society as orchestra and Walter Goehr as conductor. CHMS also was a mail order catalog for classical music in the mid 50's, they dissolved in the late 50's from what I read. I guess someone picked up the catalog and re edited it under International Recorded Music Society. By the way I'm impressed with the quality of the recordings, the one's I listened to are all mono's but with the right cartridge they sound really nice.
 
Hi Dan, from your information about the records being mono, my sense is that it is not the same outfit that did the Philips and DGG record reissues that I posted about. I remember my parents having a subscription to the Concert Hall Musical Society or some similar organization in the '50's which issued mono recordings and I remember Walter Goehr as the conductor of some or all of them. They were 10" records. So this International Recorded Music Society sounds like the successor to that. The records I mentioned, International something Society, are also often in the 50 cent or dollar bins of record shops and used book stores and are very good values, all stereo and artists like Colin Davis conducting the LSO. A few boxes I remember having (but then upgrading to the original issues for more money) were the complete Paganini Violin Concertos with Accardo, the Haydn "Name" Symphonies with Colin Davis, Guitar Concertos with the Romeros, and many more.

Larry
 
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