Legacy Collection

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.

Not to be confused with Legacy Recordings.

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
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

 [11]
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
  1. "Columbia Sets 'Legacy' Series Line". Billboard. September 5, 1960. p. 11.
  2. Roach 1970, p. 261.
  3. Roach 1970, p. 109.
  4. "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. 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. "The JFK Diary". Photoplay. 71 (4): 46. April 1967.
  11. 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. "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.

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