299:- this was, in my estimation, the largest custom record label of its time, and perhaps of any time. As a collector, I very frequently run across the products, seems like 80% of all high schools used this company at one time or another between 1960 and 1975 for their band and choir. Not sure if I can make this meet GNG or not, but I'd like to be careful before deleting this one. PS, 18 years isn't shabby bad by record label standards.
396:, the lifespan of record labels – particularly those of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s – are akin to dog years. Eighteen years is an eternity for an independent label, particularly one that served a niche, non-profit sector – albeit a large sector that extended from coast to coast. For me, looking at a label can be frustrating when nothing is known, namely, among other things, whether it is dead or alive or custom or commercial. –
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under keywords, "Century" and "Saugus" (screening for "sound recordings"), you might get about 966 hits. In other words, its notability, or the possibility of any perceived notability, might better be ascertained by composers and music oriented academicians. The subject is obviously esoteric. Yet,
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