Legacy Collection

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Not to be confused with Legacy Recordings.

The Legacy Collection or Legacy Series was a series of releases by Columbia Records (later, following a reorganization, called CBS Records) that combined LP records with books.

The Legacy Collection began in September 1960 with The American Revolution, which contained an LP and 62-page book about the American Revolutionary War.[1] Items in the series were generally on historical subjects.[2] The series was produced by Goddard Lieberson,[3] who started it as a way to "document important periods and events in the history of our continent".[4] When Columbia was reorganized in 1966, Legacy remained within Lieberson's remit when he took over as head of what was now called CBS Records, a division of CBS-Columbia Group.[5]

The Badmen (1963), a collection for children about outlaws on the American frontier, combines recordings of American folk music and spoken word performance with a 70-page book.[6] In 1965, Stanton Catlin and Carleton Beals shared the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for Mexico.[7] Mexico's book is in Spanish and English. The record has music by Carlos Chávez; some compositions are based on Spanish songs and others attempt to reconstruct Aztec music.[8] The Irish Uprising (1966), about the Easter Rising, has a book with a foreword by Éamon de Valera and recordings of Irish ballads.[9] John Fitzgerald Kennedy ... As We Remember Him includes a book reproducing photographs from John F. Kennedy's childhood and a recording of his mother Rose Kennedy.[10] The Russian Revolution has a recording of Vladimir Lenin's voice.[2]

Releases

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Title Year Catalog number Reference(s)
The American Revolution 1960 (reissue) LL 1001 [4][11]
The Confederacy 1961 (reissue) LL 1003 [4][11]
The Union 1961 LL 1005 [4][11]
First Performance—Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts 1962 XLP 57304

XLP 57602

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The Badmen 1963 L2L-1011 [6][11][12]
Mexico: Its Cultural Life in Music and Art 1964 LL-1015

LL-1016

XLP 76001

[11][13][14]
The Irish Uprising 1916–1922 1966 32 B5 0001 [11][15]
The Russian Revolution 32-A5-0005-1 [11][15]
The Mormon Pioneers LL 1023

LS 1024

[11][16][17]
John Fitzgerald Kennedy ... As We Remember Him L2 L1017 [10][11]

Notes

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  1. ^ "Columbia Sets 'Legacy' Series Line". Billboard. September 5, 1960. p. 11.
  2. ^ a b Roach 1970, p. 261.
  3. ^ Roach 1970, p. 109.
  4. ^ a b c d "ABC Announces 7 New Appointments". Cash Box. 37 (1): 7, 29. May 24, 1975.
  5. ^ "Lieberson to Helm Group; Other Changes Made in the CBS Guard". Billboard. June 18, 1966. pp. 1, 10.
  6. ^ a b Shelton, Robert (October 27, 1963). "Fused Folk Arts". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
  7. ^ Franks, Don (1986). Tony, Grammy, Emmy, Country: A Broadway, Television, and Records Awards Reference. McFarland & Company. p. 27. ISBN 0-89950-204-0. OCLC 13396140.
  8. ^ "Magnificent 'Mexico' Leads World Tour". The Wichita Eagle. January 10, 1965. p. 18 – via newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Conroy, Michael J. (October 23, 1966). "Who Fears to Speak of Easter Week?". The Pittsburgh Press – via newspapers.com.
  10. ^ a b "The JFK Diary". Photoplay. 71 (4): 46. April 1967.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Limbacher, James L. (February 15, 1967). "Recordings for Young People: The Legacy Series: A Retrospective Review". Library Journal. 92 (4): 867–869. ProQuest 1948966327.
  12. ^ "The Badmen". Annals of Wyoming. 36 (1): 122. April 1964.
  13. ^ "Books and the Arts". Mexico This Month. 12 (10): 18. 1967.
  14. ^ Freed, Richard (April 10, 1965). "Mexico in Sight and Sound". Saturday Review. 48 (15): 92.
  15. ^ a b "All CBS Disk Units Contributed to Record Sales Year in 1966". Cash Box. 28 (32): 7, 44. February 25, 1967.
  16. ^ "The Mormon Pioneers". Cash Box. 27 (16): 32. November 6, 1965.
  17. ^ Roach 1970, p. 125.

Sources

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