Talk:World Record Club

This article is under construction as a contribution to the series relating to recording companies listed at List of record labels starting with S. The present contributor wishes only to set out information relating to the early phase of this company, which is not very well documented, but accounts for a large amount of vinyl in circulation and many interesting recordings, mostly classical, which are not listed in shop catalogues as this was a mail-order company. He hopes that others will add more info concerning the company, especially after 1966 and in the non-classical area of interest. Please watch this space for progress forthcoming. Thanks, Sedgefoot 02:25, 6 October 2007 (UTC) It would also be very helpful if anyone has access to good 3rd party sources as reference for this data, which is mostly derived from WRC own publications, owing to nature of subject. These sources are clearly reliable but not 'library'-type. Sedgefoot 10:13, 15 October 2007 (UTC) I would be interested to see the evidence for WRC starting production of records in the UK in 1956. All the references I have read point to 1958 as the starting year. Did it really have 150 thousand members by 1958? That would be an amazing number. I would be interested in some evidence for that too. Wrcresearcher (talk) 22:11, 6 September 2010 (UTC) WRCresearcher

Recorded Music Circle It's misleading to say that it was mainly issues of chamber music. The first ten issues were chamber music but after that there are lots of issues of symphonies, concertos, operatic extracts, song-cycles and so on.Wrcresearcher (talk) 22:11, 6 September 2010 (UTC) WRresearcher

Availability of recordings
I was involved with the production of the WRC tapes whilst I was working in EMI tape records dept. I was surprised to find this year (2009) some Stereo tapes at 7.5ips half track. Does anyone have any of these tapes, or a list of what was available. I would be glad to purchase them. Also does anyone have a complete list of the WRC releases.

[Originally posted by 92.8.121.151; moved here from main article]   DragonflyDC (talk) 02:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

QUALITY OF RECORDINGS AND PRESSINGS
The Everest albums cited in the article such as the Goossens Sheherazade etc licensed from the USA were originally high quality audiophile releases but the tapes used here were the two track 1/4" dubbed reductions from the original 3 channel half inch and 35mm magnetic film masters so sound quality is compromised. Original productions by WRC such as the Tauno Hannikainen Sibelius were of demonstration stereo quality able to compete with anything else on the market. Early WRC records were also pressed on standard thickness vinyl at the EMI Hayes factory with no difference in quality to their other records. They are therefore most definitely collectable if in mint condition. 2A02:C7C:E0AC:3200:195D:1DE7:396C:C656 (talk) 21:20, 26 March 2024 (UTC)