The World Record Club Ltd. was the name of a company in the United Kingdom which issued long-playing records and reel to reel tapes, mainly of classical music and jazz, through a membership mail-order system during the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to titles imported from recording companies like Everest Records and Westminster Records, which it obtained on franchise, it made a series of recordings of international artists using its own engineers. These, which are often of great musical interest and are mostly of very acceptable technical quality as recordings, do not appear in shop catalogues of the time because they were not available new through record shops. In modern times, however (when most vinyl is second-hand), they are frequently found by collectors, to whom an outline of the company's history will be valuable. The label was taken over by EMI in 1965 but continued to be used as a sub-label for mail order, covering a very wide range of musical genres, and distributing in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
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