"The Bornand Collection"
This is a summary listing only - see further information on the Bornand records distributed by Saydisc.
The Bornand Collection is first mentioned in Vol. 1 No. 1, the January 1963 edition of The Music Box, which also makes mention of the availability of the records thus, "As well as buying and selling musical boxes, repairing and overhauling musical boxes, Mrs. Bornand sells long-playing gramophone records - of musical boxes!" (p. 18). Curiously, however, whilst pointing out that the records existed, the journal did not, at any point, review any of the available records, not even later when distributed via Saydisc. Meanwhile, Mrs. R. Bornand of 139, Fourth Avenue, Pelham, New York, U.S.A (i.e. the proprietress of the Bornand Collection, which was housed at the same address), despite having written an article for the journal as early as Vol. 1 No. 2 (Easter 1963) (p. 5), is listed as a new member (number 121) in Vol. 2 No. 1, the January 1965 edition of the journal (p. 40). Find out more about the Bornand Collection in this New York Times article from 1979.
These records were of US manufacture and distributed in the UK by Saydisc. The 'Bornand Collection' as a grouped entity is first mentioned (as far as I know) on a Saydisc advert on p. 311 of the Christmas 1969 edition (Vol. 4 No. 4) of The Music Box (the Journal of the Music Box Society of Great Britain). Prior to this the records were listed in the Saydisc October 1968 'Historic and Specialist Records' catalogue, though ungrouped. AB 1 had been superseded by an updated version and assigned another number by the time Saydisc began distributing these in the UK.
All below were LPs except where indicated.
All below were LPs except where indicated.
Christmas Music Box (AB 2)
This was a 7" EP, in picture sleeve, of extracts from AB 3, below.
This was a 7" EP, in picture sleeve, of extracts from AB 3, below.
Christmas Music Box (AB 3)
Music Box Waltz Memories (RCB 4)
Home Sweet Home (A 2060)
This was a 7" EP, in picture sleeve, of extracts from AB 5, below. This was not included in the discography and was only discovered in The Music Box advert documented above. There seems to be no further mention of this record after Saydisc's January 1970 catalogue, so perhaps it was not distributed for long. This was on the Columbia label rather than on Bornand's own label, hence the odd catalogue sequence.
This was a 7" EP, in picture sleeve, of extracts from AB 5, below. This was not included in the discography and was only discovered in The Music Box advert documented above. There seems to be no further mention of this record after Saydisc's January 1970 catalogue, so perhaps it was not distributed for long. This was on the Columbia label rather than on Bornand's own label, hence the odd catalogue sequence.
Golden Music Box Favourites (AB 5)
Regina Sings Opera (RCB 6)
Symphonion Music Box: The 'Eroica' Three Disc (RCB 7)
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