Over the years, I've picked up a mumber of CD's from the "Smithsonian Collection of Recordings." The last time I was at the store at the Smithsonian's history museum was 1999, and they had everything from the Smithsonian Collection of Recordings at clearance prices. They said the Smithsonian Collection of Recordings had been discontinued.

This was a separate operation from Smithsonian/Folkways, which is still going strong. It's too bad, because the Collection offered some wonderful music. Some folk, but mostly other styles of music. I especially liked their American Songbook series, which featured the works of the great American songwriters of the first half of the twentieth century.
-Joe Offer-