{{Short description|Series of releases by Columbia Records}} {{Distinguish|Legacy Recordings}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2021}}{{Use American English|date=December 2021}} 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.
The Legacy Collection began in September 1960 with ''The American Revolution'', which contained an LP and 62-page book about the American Revolutionary War.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=1960-09-05|title=Columbia Sets 'Legacy' Series Line|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xx4EAAAAMBAJ|magazine=Billboard|page=11}}</ref> Items in the series were generally on historical subjects.{{sfn|Roach|1970|p=261}} The series was produced by Goddard Lieberson,{{sfn|Roach|1970|p=109}} who started it as a way to "document important periods and events in the history of our continent".<ref name="7new">{{cite journal|date=May 24, 1975|title=ABC Announces 7 New Appointments|url=https://archive.org/details/cashbox37unse|journal=Cash Box|volume=37|issue=1|pages=7, 29}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite magazine|date=June 18, 1966|title=Lieberson to Helm Group; Other Changes Made in the CBS Guard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0igEAAAAMBAJ|magazine=Billboard|pages=1, 10}}</ref>
''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.<ref name="shelton1963">{{Cite news|last=Shelton|first=Robert|date=1963-10-27|title=Fused Folk Arts|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1963/10/27/archives/fused-folk-arts.html|access-date=2021-12-31|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 1965, Stanton Catlin and Carleton Beals shared the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for ''Mexico''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Franks|first=Don|title=Tony, Grammy, Emmy, Country: A Broadway, Television, and Records Awards Reference|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=1986|isbn=0-89950-204-0|page=27|oclc=13396140}}</ref> ''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.<ref>{{cite news|title=Magnificent 'Mexico' Leads World Tour|work=The Wichita Eagle|date=January 10, 1965|page=18|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91491480/magnificent-mexico-leads-world-tour/|via=newspapers.com}}</ref> ''The Irish Uprising'' (1966), about the Easter Rising, has a book with a foreword by Éamon de Valera and recordings of Irish ballads.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Conroy|first1=Michael J.|date=October 23, 1966|title=Who Fears to Speak of Easter Week?|work=The Pittsburgh Press|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91490901/who-fears-to-speak-of-easter-week/|via=newspapers.com}}</ref> ''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.<ref name="jfkdiary">{{cite journal|date=April 1967|title=The JFK Diary|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_photoplay_1967-04_71_4|journal=Photoplay|volume=71|issue=4|page=46|url-access=registration}}</ref> ''The Russian Revolution'' has a recording of Vladimir Lenin's voice.{{sfn|Roach|1970|p=261}}
== Releases == {| class="wikitable" |+ !Title !Year !Catalog number !Reference(s) |- |''The American Revolution'' |1960 (reissue) |LL 1001 |<ref name=7new/><ref name=limbacher1967>{{cite journal|last=Limbacher|first=James L.|date=February 15, 1967|title=Recordings for Young People: The Legacy Series: A Retrospective Review|journal=Library Journal|volume=92|issue=4|page=867–869|id={{ProQuest|1948966327}}}}</ref> |- |''The Confederacy'' |1961 (reissue) |LL 1003 |<ref name=7new/><ref name=limbacher1967/> |- |''The Union'' |1961 |LL 1005 |<ref name=7new/><ref name=limbacher1967/> |- |''First Performance—Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts'' |1962 |XLP 57304 XLP 57602 |<ref name=limbacher1967/> |- |''The Badmen'' |1963 |L2L-1011 |<ref name=shelton1963/><ref name=limbacher1967/><ref>{{cite journal|date=April 1964|title=The Badmen|url=https://archive.org/details/annalsofwyom36121964wyom|journal=Annals of Wyoming|volume=36|issue=1|page=122}}</ref> |- |''Mexico: Its Cultural Life in Music and Art'' |1964 |LL-1015 LL-1016
XLP 76001 |<ref name=limbacher1967/><ref>{{cite journal|year=1967|title=Books and the Arts|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_mexico-this-month_march-april-1967_12_10|journal=Mexico This Month|volume=12|issue=10|page=18|url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author-link=Richard Freed|last=Freed|first=Richard|date=April 10, 1965|title=Mexico in Sight and Sound|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-review_1965-04-10_48_15|journal=Saturday Review|volume=48|issue=15|page=92|url-access=registration}}</ref> |- |''The Irish Uprising 1916–1922'' |1966 |32 B5 0001 |<ref name=limbacher1967/><ref name=cashbox1967>{{cite journal|date=February 25, 1967|title=All CBS Disk Units Contributed to Record Sales Year in 1966|url=https://archive.org/details/cashbox28unse_30|journal=Cash Box|volume=28|issue=32|pages=7, 44}}</ref> |- |''The Russian Revolution'' | |32-A5-0005-1 |<ref name=limbacher1967/><ref name=cashbox1967/> |- |''The Mormon Pioneers'' | |LL 1023 LS 1024 |<ref name=limbacher1967/><ref>{{cite journal|date=November 6, 1965|title=The Mormon Pioneers|url=https://archive.org/details/cashbox37unse|journal=Cash Box|volume=27|issue=16|page=32}}</ref>{{sfn|Roach|1970|p=125}} |- |''John Fitzgerald Kennedy ... As We Remember Him'' | |L2 L1017 |<ref name=jfkdiary/><ref name=limbacher1967/> |}
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== Sources == * {{Cite book|last=Roach|first=Helen|url=https://archive.org/details/spokenrecords0000roac|title=Spoken Records|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=1970|isbn=978-0-8108-0301-5|edition=3d|oclc=65513|url-access=registration}} * {{Cite book|last1=Stambler|first1=Irwin|url=https://archive.org/details/countrymusicency00stam|title=Country Music: The Encyclopedia|last2=Landon|first2=Grelun|publisher=St. Martin's Press|year=1997|isbn=0-312-15121-7|oclc=35331403|url-access=registration}}
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