Talk:Everest Records

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This definitely needs some rewriting, which I will do when I can, but I encourage others to help out too! --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 01:45, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should probably also have some stuff about their folk & blues reissues in the early 60s. These pop up in used record shops all over the East Coast, USA and seem to be compilations of other labels' tracks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.79.220.58 (talk) 17:20, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Everest label had a much more interesting life than this article indicates. First of all, once it left the custodianship of Belock and Whyte, like the proverbial "fallen woman," it gradually descended under subsequent owners to the point where by the 1970s it was a $1.98 dumping ground of sloppily reissued material, mostly in "electronic stereo". It would be great if someone would research "all things Everest". The reissues referred to in the above comment date from that later period, not the early 60s as stated. But even if the article just covers the original Belock-Whyte period, it should have included the extensive "genuine Everest" catalog of jazz (and pop possibly?)LPs. For a sampling of these releases, see the Itunes compilation "Everest Jazz Digest" (Most of vocalist Gloria Lynne's albums from her popular early-60s prime were on Everest, but seem to postdate Belock-Whyte.) Abr88 (talk) 15:25, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Giveon Cornfield's memoir "Note-Perfect: Thirty Years in Classical Music Recordings" has some useful sections on working for the Bernie Solomon Everest operation in Wilshire Boulevard L. A. He has few kind words. My favourite recordings from what was undeniably a fallow part of the Everest story are the handful of Gregg Smith Singers albums, especially An American Triptych, which are absolutely marvelous in every respect. Also, don't forget that the appetite for licensing recordings and bringing to the market affordable collections gave us the Fine Arts Quarter's Beethoven Complete Quartets and the first ever release of a complete cycle of Beethoven's Symphonies (this time in 35mm recorded by Belock Everest but never released by them until AFTER the company was divested) so the picture has to be drawn accurately. The Fine Arts Quartet continued with Bloch albums. The Shostakovich 13 was also another world premiere that happened when the company was in Hollywood. Cornfield being from a musical background was interested in contemporary classical music and there are albums of that to celebrate. The major criticism of this era was the excruciating poor quality of the pressings, unbelievably bad at times, which entirely BURIED the original concept of Everest as a state of the art hi fidelity record label. I trust this helps. If this article is rewritten please ensure you do not lose any of the information, after much personal research, I contributed to it. Have a nice day. David Murphy. 2A02:C7C:E0AC:3200:918C:7B8:DAA1:987E (talk) 20:29, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]