# Legacy Collection

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{{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](/source/Columbia_Records) (later, following a reorganization, called CBS Records) that combined [LP record](/source/LP_record)s 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](/source/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](/source/Billboard_(magazine))|page=11}}</ref> Items in the series were generally on historical subjects.{{sfn|Roach|1970|p=261}} The series was produced by [Goddard Lieberson](/source/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](/source/Cashbox_(magazine))|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](/source/Billboard_(magazine))|pages=1, 10}}</ref>

''The Badmen'' (1963), a collection for children about [outlaw](/source/outlaw)s on the [American frontier](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Stanton_Catlin) and [Carleton Beals](/source/Carleton_Beals) shared the [Grammy Award for Best Album Notes](/source/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](/source/McFarland_%26_Company)|year=1986|isbn=0-89950-204-0|page=[27](/source/iarchive%3Atonygrammyemmyco00fran%2Fpage%2F27%2Fmode%2F1up)|oclc=13396140}}</ref> ''Mexico''{{'s}} book is in Spanish and English. The record has music by [Carlos Chávez](/source/Carlos_Ch%C3%A1vez); some compositions are based on Spanish songs and others attempt to reconstruct [Aztec](/source/Aztecs) music.<ref>{{cite news|title=Magnificent 'Mexico' Leads World Tour|work=[The Wichita Eagle](/source/The_Wichita_Eagle)|date=January 10, 1965|page=18|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91491480/magnificent-mexico-leads-world-tour/|via=[newspapers.com](/source/newspapers.com)}}</ref> ''The Irish Uprising'' (1966), about the [Easter Rising](/source/Easter_Rising), has a book with a foreword by [Éamon de Valera](/source/%C3%89amon_de_Valera) and recordings of [Irish ballads](/source/List_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](/source/The_Pittsburgh_Press)|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91490901/who-fears-to-speak-of-easter-week/|via=[newspapers.com](/source/newspapers.com)}}</ref> ''John Fitzgerald Kennedy ... As We Remember Him'' includes a book reproducing photographs from [John F. Kennedy](/source/John_F._Kennedy)'s childhood and a recording of his mother [Rose Kennedy](/source/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](/source/Photoplay)|volume=71|issue=4|page=46|url-access=registration}}</ref> ''The Russian Revolution'' has a recording of [Vladimir Lenin](/source/Vladimir_Lenin)'s voice.{{sfn|Roach|1970|p=261}}

== Releases ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Title
!Year
![Catalog number](/source/Catalog_number_(music))
!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](/source/Library_Journal)|volume=92|issue=4|page=[867–869](/source/iarchive%3Alibraryjournal92jan%2Fpage%2F867%2Fmode%2F1up)|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](/source/Saturday_Review_(U.S._magazine))|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](/source/Cashbox_(magazine))|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](/source/Cashbox_(magazine))|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/>
|}

== Notes ==
{{reflist}}

== Sources ==
* {{Cite book|last=Roach|first=Helen|url=https://archive.org/details/spokenrecords0000roac|title=Spoken Records|publisher=[Scarecrow Press](/source/Rowman_%26_Littlefield)|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](/source/St._Martin's_Press)|year=1997|isbn=0-312-15121-7|oclc=35331403|url-access=registration}}

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