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May 25, 2013 · In 1963 Mercury introduced a budget line of classical LPs entitled “MERCURY WING CLASSICAL FAVORITES”, featuring mono and stereo recordings from the Living Presence series. The albums have typically uninspired front covers, abbreviated notes on the back covers, and often inferior pressings.
Jul 10, 2012 · With hi-fi best-sellers like the 1954 mono and 1958 stereo recordings of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture (Mercury MG 50054 and SR90054), Living Presence also marks the one and, perhaps, the only time when audiophile recordings crossed over to become modest hits among mainstream listeners.
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Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. Mercury Records released rock, funk, R&B, doo wop, soul music, blues, pop, rock and roll, and jazz records.
- 1945; 78 years ago
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Wilma Cozart Fine has transferred over 200 Mercury tapes that date back from the years when analogue recording was an art as well as a science. She mixed the many legendary tapes to a DAT recorder from which the CD-masters were made.
Apr 14, 2010 · She started working for Mercury Records when it was mostly a pop label, taking over its quite small classical section. She built it into a force to be reckoned with, imitated by all the major American labels, even RCA Victor.
Sep 25, 2009 · Wilma Cozart Fine, a record producer who, with her husband, C. Robert Fine, ran the classical division of Mercury Records in the 1950s and early ’60s, producing hundreds of recordings that...
