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Collectables Records publishes the 'Priceless Collection' series of budget compilations. Many of the label's other releases combine the contents of two original LPs on a single CD. The company also manufactures multi-CD compilation box sets sold exclusively through retailers such as QVC, Costco and Sam's Club.
Penguin Books published three editions of The Penguin Guide to the Bargain Classics by March and his co-authors, in 1966, 1970 and 1972. [5] In 1975 they published The Penguin Stereo Record Guide containing 1114 pages and selling for £3.50. [6] From then until 2012, March and his team wrote a succession of Penguin guides.
The Chronological Classics series consists of 965 jazz compact discs compiled by Gilles Pétard in France. [1] Classics Records is a record company and label founded by Pétard in Paris in c. 1989. [2] The company also reissued recording by Rhythm & blues artists in a series which ran to 190 CDs.
An unaffiliated label, Neatworks, released alternate takes and misidentified master takes of jazz artists previously issued on Chronological Classics. In 1999, Chronological Classics issued a CD set that included tracks previously unavailable in the regular series and a bonus CD with corrected tracks from previous releases.
In 1997, Philips Classics Productions was reorganized as Philips Music Group. Parent Universal Music Group, which was formed in 1999 from the merger of the PolyGram and MCA families of labels, merged the label into Decca Records. Decca continued to use the Philips Classics label for re-editions until 2009 under a licensing agreement with the ...
Virgin Classics was a record label founded in 1988 as part of Richard Branson's Virgin Records. [1]The unit, along with EMI Classics, was acquired by Universal Music Group in 2012 as part of the takeover of the EMI Music Group, however the terms of the European Commission's September 2012 approval of the takeover requires divestment of the classical labels [2] which were sold on 7 February ...
Naxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music.The company was known for its budget pricing of discs, [6] with simpler artwork and design than most other labels. [7]
Original Jazz Classics (or OJC) is a record label that was founded in 1983 as an imprint of Fantasy Records. [ 1 ] Under this name original editions of jazz LPs have been reissued on CD and LP, and formerly on cassette as well.