Enq: Readers Digest LPs 1890s songs

Subject: Enq: Readers Digest LPs 1890s songs
From: GUEST,Mark
Date: 01 Nov 19 - 04:25 PM

Years ago I recall seeing a (Reader's Digest?) boxed set of LPs featuring songs from the 1890s; "In My Merry Oldsmobile", "After The Ball Is Over" etc.....
Can anyone tell me the name of the collection?

Subject: RE: Enq: Readers Digest LPs 1890s songs
From: GUEST,John Bowden (not a typo!)
Date: 01 Nov 19 - 04:57 PM

Is this it? (I just googled "Readers' Digest" and "In my merry Oldsmobile"

https://lpsoncd.com/Item/GaslightVarieties-ReadersDigest-RDA71

Subject: RE: Enq: Readers Digest LPs 1890s songs
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Nov 19 - 06:59 PM

Thanks John, that's the one, with updated cover art.

Subject: RE: Enq: Readers Digest LPs 1890s songs
From: GUEST,John Bowden (not a typo!)
Date: 02 Nov 19 - 06:28 AM

You're welcome!

Subject: RE: Enq: Readers Digest LPs 1890s songs
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Nov 19 - 07:04 AM

Eclectic mix

Subject: RE: Enq: Readers Digest LPs 1890s songs
From: GUEST,Lou
Date: 03 Nov 19 - 08:56 AM

One person asks online, and another finds the answer in the usual way: Searching.

50 years ago you might ask a friend, who would open a dictionary for the answer.

Is the internet making us lazy, or is this a normal human social interaction?

The best version of Moonlight Sonata I ever heard was in a RD box set...
Oh looky! I found it all by myself:

:-)

Subject: RE: Enq: Readers Digest LPs 1890s songs
From: GUEST,Lou
Date: 03 Nov 19 - 08:57 AM

https://www.amazon.com/Readers-Digest-Music-Moonlight-Favorite/dp/B000Y2NOV6

:-)

Subject: RE: Enq: Readers Digest LPs 1890s songs
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 03 Nov 19 - 06:00 PM

If you are looking for the "real thing" rather than these modern performances, check out the ARCHEOPHONE cd catalog:

https://www.archeophone.com/store/

Bear Family Music Hall box

https://www.bear-family.com/various-history-round-the-town-4-cd-box-and-132-page-book.html

Cheers, Thomas.

Subject: RE: Enq: Readers Digest LPs 1890s songs
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Nov 19 - 09:26 PM

Spotify has an album titled Reader's Digest Music: Gaslight Varieties: Early 20th-Century Favorites, by the Gaslight Singers. It has only 14 cuts on it.

I used to pick up Reader's Digest collections cheap in the used records stores. They'd typically have 4 CDs of music by well-known artists. It was a good way to make a collection of my favorite classical music, and I believe they had similar collections of top-40 music by the original artists.

-Joe-