The Library Catalogue Thread (UK Edition)

[Moon Monkey]

Yeah, no problem. Give me a few days though.

[apmnut]

Sounds good! Thank you.

[kablamatic]

Under the 1976 supplement for Emil Ascher, what library labels have the catalog numbers FS 106, TMGG 1-6, and ERP X2 listed under the Harmonic Mood Music Library?

Tried typing them into the "Catalog #" input field on the advanced search page on Discogs, but couldn't find anything.

[apmnut]

worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ultimate-lot-27-reel-sfx-library-75273318

This is unrelated to the Ascher catalogs, but still, it's a rare new addition to the list that I encountered in my absence from the site. The final image in this archived eBay listing is the introduction page to a master catalog to a REALLY obscure sound effects library called Globe Sound (aka General Music), run by library music entrepreneur Gordon Zahler. What I'd do to read the full thing someday...

[Moon Monkey]

Under the 1976 supplement for Emil Ascher, what library labels have the catalog numbers FS 106, TMGG 1-6, and ERP X2 listed under the Harmonic Mood Music Library?

Tried typing them into the "Catalog #" input field on the advanced search page on Discogs, but couldn't find anything.

Good question! Just to be clear, that's TMGG 1 through to TMGG 6, then two discs with the ERP prefix. And, oops, FS 106 is another bloody typo - should have read FS 1-6 (again, FS 1 through to FS 6). I'll get some shots up in a few days time. IIRC, the very same pages also appear in the Music People folder from around the same period.

[Moon Monkey]

worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ultimate-lot-27-reel-sfx-library-75273318

This is unrelated to the Ascher catalogs, but still, it's a rare new addition to the list that I encountered in my absence from the site. The final image in this archived eBay listing is the introduction page to a master catalog to a REALLY obscure sound effects library called Globe Sound (aka General Music), run by library music entrepreneur Gordon Zahler. What I'd do to read the full thing someday...

Excellent find, thank you! Will add shortly...

[Moon Monkey]

OK, just done a few quick shots of the Ring pages and the mystery Harmonic listings.. Anyone know what they are?

https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/7e0b354b-3ac5-4540-ae8f-084a08c49440

link valid for 30 days, etc...


EDIT: These shots are from the Music People catalogue - the pages are identical to their Ascher counterparts apart from the branding at the bottom of the page.

[apmnut]

The "TMG" albums are reissues from the French Timing library, with different cat. numbers for some reason and retitled. For instance, Timing No. 2 (TIM 2) has been renamed to "Hard Water" (TMG 2).

The first Ring album, "Big Band Skyline", is a reissue of an album released on the Austrian WM Produktion label. The rest are early releases of some of the earlier Golden Ring albums.

[kablamatic]

Ah, yes, it should have occurred to me that FS stood for "Freesound".

For the ERP labels, on the other hand, they were originally releases from the "Kuckuck" label in Germany, and were licensed in the U.K. through C. Brull, Ltd., which was the company that distributed their own Harmonic Mood Music label.

Thanks for clearing this up!

[musictheorist]

OK, just done a few quick shots of the Ring pages and the mystery Harmonic listings.. Anyone know what they are?

https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/7e0b354b-3ac5-4540-ae8f-084a08c49440

link valid for 30 days, etc...


EDIT: These shots are from the Music People catalogue - the pages are identical to their Ascher counterparts apart from the branding at the bottom of the page.

Thank you for this. Regarding Regency Line. RL 1032 and RL 1035 have been missing. Does the catalog also mention which is which? RL 1032 could be the Baroque album Bruton reissued. RL 1035 could be India / Arabia?

[Moon Monkey]

Regarding Regency Line. RL 1032 and RL 1035 have been missing. Does the catalog also mention which is which? RL 1032 could be the Baroque album Bruton reissued. RL 1035 could be India / Arabia?

Bad news with this one - the Ascher and Music People catalogues both finish at 1033 but skip 1031 and 1032. They're both complete up to that point though.

[Moon Monkey]

UPDATES:

A few tweaks and additions to the KPM section:

KPM 1986 - added a much better photo of the cover, thanks to Retronic.

And the first catalogues I've seen that are Year 2K compliant! Two KPM catalogues on CD-ROM:

KPM Music Finder v2.0, 1999
KPM Music Finder v3.0, 2001

There's a cheap copy of v2.0 on French Discogs right now if anyone fancies one. There's also a not-cheap copy of v3.0 on eBay and Discogs too.

[Moon Monkey]

Also added recently:

Southern 1965 - a second variant
Southern 1965-66 Canadian Supplements
Southern 1966/67


And the first entry in a  new "Miscellaneous" section - a Mood Music catalogue for the general public, compiled by HMV:

Catalogue of Mood Music, Second Edition, with an Introduction by Compton Mackenzie, 1938-39?

[Moon Monkey]

UPDATES:


Bosworth Recorded Music: Supplement No. 4, 1973 (thanks Mr for this one!)
De Wolfe Ltd.: New High Fidelity Gramophone Records, 1956
E.M.I. Library of Incidental & Background Music, 1949 and EMI: Unknown Discography
Josef Weinberger Ltd, c.1989
KPM Compact Disc Listing, c.1991
Paxton: Assorted updates and additions 1952-1964, including a catalogue annotated by Den Berry and assorted supplemental sheets. 
Synchro 1958


EDIT: And expanded Peer 73-74

[apmnut]

Just going to bring this up while I think about it:
Should you ever wind up finding any more catalogues for the English labels in particular with tape-reel only tracks present besides the JW and De Wolfe ones, do let me know. There are several tracks that Berry and Brull had the rights to in their library that they never released on LP, but still managed to release in several places (such as Heinz Kiessling tracks published in the UK by Brull appearing on the BBC Test Card never seen on the any of the CBG LPs), and several Berry cues they licensed from Sonoton that appeared on both the Cards and in abridged form in the "Giant Size Economy Pack!" albums.

I've been curious about these releases for some time, and hope that one of the catalogues that you might wind up finding someday has some insight on these. Just really fascinating seeing what never released on vinyl, but sometimes reissued physically or digitially.