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Tonight, we’re listening to music featured in Goldfinger!
The Musicor Records label was founded in New York City in 1960 by songwriter Aaron Schroeder and distributed by United Artists Records. By 1964, Mercury Records co-founder Arthur Talmadge bought the Musicor label from United Artists. The history of this label has seen it sold off many times during the past six decades, with over 1400 releases to date. As far as I can tell, it does still exist, but mostly for catalog content from the current owner, Gusto Records.
Musicor had its best-selling artists appear on releases in the 1960s and 70s. Some of the artists with releases on this label that I most recognize include Gene Pitney, Rupert Holmes, and country music singer George Jones, who recorded for Musicor from 1964 to 1972.
Some of the earliest recordings featuring the 1960s invention of the Moog synthesizer were also produced by Musicor. In 1972, Musicor had one last significant hit with the song ‘Popcorn’ from the one-hit wonder Hot Butter, reaching the Top 10. I did notice one other album in my collection from the Musicor label, as The Electric Moog Orchestra’s album ‘Music from Star Wars’ was released in 1977, featuring synthesized versions of music from the first Star Wars film.
The album that brought Musicor to my attention for today’s post is the 1965 compilation album ‘A Musicor Musicale.’ Besides a variety of musical genres covered from organs to Hispanic music (and some original recordings by the same well-known artists mentioned above), this album features a cover of John Barry’s ‘Goldfinger’ from big-band leader and trumpet player, Ralph Marterie. It is a jazzy trumpet-forward orchestral version of the Goldfinger theme, worth listening to. Unfortunately, I cannot find a recording of this online, so you will have to track one of Marterie’s albums with this piece to hear it for yourself.
130. A Musicor Musicale
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