The
World Record Club Ltd. issued records and reel-to-reel tapes through a
membership mail-order system during the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to
titles imported from recording companies like Everest Records and Westminster
Records, it made a series of recordings of international artists using
its own engineers. Although often of great musical interest and very acceptable
technical quality, these recordings did not appear in shop catalogues of
the time as they were not available new through record shops. The label
was taken over by EMI in 1965 but continued to be used as a sub-label for
mail order, covering a wide range of musical genres, and distributing in
South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. |