The Legacy Collection or Legacy Series was a series of releases by
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on Janua ...
(later, following a reorganization, called CBS Records) that combined
LP record
The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a ...
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. Items in the series were generally on historical subjects. The series was produced by
Goddard Lieberson, who started it as a way to "document important periods and events in the history of our continent".
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.
''The Badmen'' (1963), a collection for children about
outlaw
An outlaw, in its original and legal meaning, is a person declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, all legal protection was withdrawn from the criminal, so that anyone was legally empowered to persecute or kill them ...
s on the
American frontier
The American frontier, also known as the Old West or the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of United States territorial acquisitions, American expansion in mainland North Amer ...
, combines recordings of American folk music and spoken word performance with a 70-page book.
In 1965,
Stanton Catlin
Stanton Loomis Catlin (February 19, 1915November 26, 1997) was an American art historian, specializing in Latin America. After studying at Oberlin College and the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, he was to have studied European modern art. The Se ...
and
Carleton Beals shared the
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for ''Mexico''. ''Mexico'' 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. ''The Irish Uprising'' (1966), about the
Easter Rising
The Easter Rising ( ga, Éirà Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the a ...
, has a book with a foreword by
Éamon de Valera and recordings of
Irish ballads.
''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.
''The Russian Revolution'' has a recording of
Vladimir Lenin's voice.
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