The Australian World Record Club

This is the first in a series of articles describing the history, activities and repertoire of the World Record Club Australia (WRC).

The Australian World Record Club – Part 2 The early years  By David Edmonds   The first article in this series...

Part 3 – presentations in the early years  (Continued from September article, click HERE to read the full series)  The sleeves of the initial releases had comparatively...

The 1960s and 70s saw the pinnacle of LP production of classical music worldwide, now recorded in stereo.  Major recording artists, both well-established and emerging, were contracted to one or other of these labels.

WRC continued to issue innovative colour designs and photos throughout the 60s but by the 70s this aspect had notably cheapened and become more basic.  

WRC offered a number of different genres in addition to classical music, among them operettas, musicals, jazz, vocals, music hall, Christmas music, world music and spoken word. 

The World Record Club (WRC) issued many types of non-classical recordings throughout its lifetime and this article describes other genres with examples taken from a much larger number of releases.