(This is an obscure NY area label I've been fascinated by for a while due to the fact a number of its music was licensed by Robert Hall in the 60s/70s. I've shared the research I've done on this label with this forum's resident Robert Hall archivist NateTheDoofy - but in the event this information is of interest to anyone else here, I'm making this thread. Pretty much all info here is taken from searching through issues of
Business Screen and other magazines of the era looking for clippings on this firm.)
East Coast library and post-production company specializing in music and sound effects founded in 1959 by E. Robert "Bob" Velazco, son of organist and composer Emil Velazco (who had a library of his own in the 1940s and early 50s, "Emil Velazco Inc.", which advertised in a few trade publications of the day). Alan Cagan was promoted as VP of the firm in 1969. The company moved to Arlington, VA sometime in the 1970s, where it stayed until sometime in the 90s/00s (they filed for bankruptcy in 2009). Ads for the company make claims of the library being used in over 6,200 productions - of these, most are unknown barring
The Wonderful World of Julius Wile, a 1964 sponsored firm for said winery.
They offered several music and sound effect libraries for sale and lease, both on disc and on tape (including a "low cost jazz library" released on 20 reels of quarter-inch tape showcasing cues in such styles as "Tijuana Brass, Brubeck, Cal Tjader, Ramsey Lewis. Also Nashville, rock, dramatic, progressive, Latin, baroque jazz, Charlestons, bossa novas, blues and 'take a trip with psychedelic' ["Underwater Trip", a cue found on Robert Hall RH-204/205, might be one of those "psychedelic" tracks]). Ads for the firm seen in
Business Screen Magazine mention the company having 17 music libraries at their disposal, although these are most likely pre-existing supplemental libraries licensed by the company. Of these, the only one I can verify, as a cue from it shows up in the
Wile film is the Conroy library out of England.
Sometime in the 1960s (most likely), the New York music and sound effects company Robert Hall Productions licensed out a number of Musifex's original cues and released them on disc well into the 70s, albeit just crediting Musifex as publisher and none of the actual composers, although some of these cues have composer credits found on the ASCAP database (with such writers as Dick Lavsky, Kermit Levinsky and Tony Luisi credited). Evidently some of their sound effect discs are licensed from Musifex as well, as I've seen ads for musical sound effect discs from the company that have contents that appear to line up with those on RH 42/43.
None other than TV theme legend Edd Kalehoff also worked for this company for a while, being in charge of an offshoot called "Edward at the Moog", offering custom music for clients featuring Moog, Hammond organ and harpsichord.
