Somerset Records Discography
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Somerset/Stereo Fidelity by David Edwards, Patrice Eyries & Mike Callahan © 2018 by Mike Callahan Somerset/Stereo Fidelity Records Discography Somerset Records was a division of Miller International Co. located in Media Pennsylvania. David L Miller was the President and had previously owned, Essex Records and Trans-World Records. Somerset was started in 1958. The output of the label was popular, jazz and classical. Of the first 63 releases on Somerset, 62 of them were straight reissues of Trans-World albums. After Somerset/Stereo Fidelity, Miller was involved with two other budget labels Alshire and Sutton. The Sales Manager was Joe Martin and Miller handled A&R. Somerset was a budget label whose albums listed for sale for $1.98, when most albums sold for $3.98 in the ‘50s and ‘60s. A subsidiary label was Stereo Fidelity, the only difference between the two labels was that the monaural record was a Somerset and the stereo record was on the Stereo Fidelity label. The numbers were the same. Main Series Canadian LP’s in this series did not use the last two zeros, for example SF-12700 was SF-127, leading to endless confusion about the Somerset release numbers. P-100 S1 – Mood Music Sampler – Various Artists [1958] Reissue of Trans-World TW-100. How High The Moon - Ray Charles Chorus/Blue Coast - Billy Butterfield/Harbor Lights - The Mulcays/Aphrodesia - The Kingsway Strings/Walk With The Wind - Ray Charles Chorus/Doreen - Monty Kelly And His Orchestra/Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing - Don Costa, Orchestra And Chorus/Toselli’s Serenade - Jay White, Alto Sax/Our Serenade - Ray Charles Chorus/Gold Coast - Billy Butterfield/Safe In The Harbor - Don Costa, Orchestra And Chorus/Majorca - Monty Kelly And His Orchestra P-200 – College Jazz Sampler: Actual Jazz Concerts Recorded on the Campus - Billy Butterfield & Essex Five [1957?] Reissue of Trans-World TW-200. West End Blues/Dancing On The Ceiling//Deed I Do/Willow Weep For Me P-300 - Memories of Europe - Various Orchestras [1958?] Reissue of Trans-World TW-300. I Love Paris/Can Can/Taormina/Santa Lucia/Funiculi Funicula/Sorrento/Malaguena/Sunday In Seville/Blue Danube/Pizzicato Polka P-400 - The Best of Victor Herbert - Stockholm String Orchestra [1958?] Reissue of Trans- World TWLP-400. Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life/Old New York/Moonbeams/Kiss Me Again/Because You're You/Gypsy Sweetheart/Indian Summer/When You're Away/Toyland/March Of The Toys/I Can't Do The Sum/Italian Street Song P-500 - Songs for a Beautiful Dreamer - Hamburg Chamber Orchestra [1958] Reissue of Trans- World TW-500. Beautiful Dreamer/Wake Love/Sweet And Low/Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes/Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair/Another Kiss/La Mer/Long, Long Ago P-600 – Immortal Melodies – Kingsway Strings [195?] Reissue of Trans-World TW-600. Elege/Ave Maria/Padam-Padam/The Swan/Brahms Lullaby/Greensleeves/Humoresque/Strauss Medley/Mattinata P-700 – Waltzing by Candlelight – Kingsway Strings [195?] Reissue of Trans-World TW-700. After The Ball/As Shadows Kiss/Merry Widow/Candlelight Waltz/I'm Holding You Close/Vien, Vien/Autumn Waltz/Tales From Vienna Woods/Vilia 1 P-800 – Cocktail Time – Harry Grube with Helmut Shafberg [1958] Reissue of Trans-World TW- 800. Dark eyes/Waves of the Danube/Narcissus/Melody in F/Viennese Melody/Valse lente/Lieberstraum/Flower song/Traumeri/Waltz in A minor/Romance P-900 – Hail, Hail the Gangs All Here – Frank “88” Malone [1958] Reissue of Trans-World TW- 800. Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here/I've Been Working On The Railroad/When Irish Eyes Are Smiling/Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?/H-A-R-R-I-G-A-N Spells Harrigan/She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain/I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?/Beer Barrel Polka/Oh! Susannah/Bicycle Built For Two/Good Night Ladies/Show Me The Way To Go Home/Merrily We Roll Along/Little Brown Jug/There's A Tavern In Town/The Man On The Flying Trapeze/In The Good Old Summertime/Take Me Out To The Ball Game/Sweet Adeline/Cuddle Up A Little Closer/Shine On Harvest Moon/School Days/He's A Jolly Good Fellow/Auld Lang Syne P-1000 – Tap Dance: Beginners/Tap Dance: Advanced – America's Leading Tap Instructors [1958] Reissue ofTrans-World TW-1000. Dixie/Shine On Harvest Moon/Vampin/Ida/Harvest Moon/Robert E. Lee/China Town My China Town/Yankee Doodle Dandy/Medley P-1100 - Organ Stardust - Ashley Tappen at the Piccadilly Gardens, London [5/58] Reissue of Trans-World TW-1100. Stardust/El Choclo/La Paloma/American Patrol/I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen/Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider//Celito Lindo/I Had A Dream, Dear/Song Of India/Frankie & Johnnie/In The Evening By The Moonlight/La Golondrina P-1200 - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Hamburg Students' Choir [1958] Reissue of Trans- World TW-1200. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Oh Holy Night/The First Noel/Good King Wenceslas/Good Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem/Silent Night/While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night/It Came Upon The Midnight Clear/Adeste Fideles/Joy To The World/O Tannenbaum P/SF-1300 - Rock And Roll Dance Party – Various Artists [1954] Reissue of Trans-World TW- 1300. Crazy Man, Crazy - Bill Haley & Comets/Watcha Gonna Do - Bunny Paul/House Rockin Baby - The Aristocrats/Paradise Hill - The Escorts/Prince Of Wails - Don Costa/Hide And Seek - Ken Carson/Blue Jean Baby - The Swingers/Farewell, So Long, Goodbye - Bill Haley & Comets/Lovey Dovey - Bunny Paul/Banjo Boogie - The Swingers/Lonesome Road - Dinning Sisters/She Said I Don't Know - The Aristocrats/Honey Love - Bunny Paul/Truly - Dinning Sisters P/SF-1400 - Dixieland: Le Hot Jazz - The Left Bank Bearcats [1957] Reissue of Trans-World TW-1400. Monsieur Redwing/Chinatown, My Chinatown/Mighty Lak' A Rose/Mississippi Rag/Lonesome Railroad Blues/Oh, Them Golden Slippers/Bill Bailey, Please Come Home/When The Saints Go Marchin' In/The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree/Sunburst Rag/Mother Goose In Storyville/My Grandfathers Clock P/SF-1500 - Songs of the Golden West/Songs of the Deep South - The Hollywood Soundstage Orchestra [195?] Reissue of Trans-World TW-1500. Songs Of The Golden West: Home On The Range/Red River Valley/Yippe Ti-Yi-Yo/Streets Of Laredo/Oh My Darling Clementine/Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie/Songs Of The Deep South: In The Evening By The Moonlight/Old Black Joe/John Browns Body/Dixie/Old Folks At Home/My Old Kentucky Home P/SF-1600 - Complete Minstrel Show - Joe Kuhn & Lee Gordon Singers [5/58, stereo 1959] Reissue of Trans-World TW-1600. Cast includes Bill (Blackface) Ornsby, Gilbert Smith, the Southland Choir, Uncle Roland Ellis, Warren Biggs, and the Sliphorn Four. Opening March/Medley/Sweet Sixteen/Shine On Harvest Moon/Preacher And The Bear/Grand Old Flag/Wait Till The Sun Shines Nellie/Lassus Trombone/Asleep In The Deep/I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now/Grand Finale 2 P/SF-1700 – Robert Russell Bennett’s Symphonic Impressions of South Pacific and Oklahoma - D.L. Miller and New World Theatre Orchestra [1958] Reissue of Trans-World TW-1700. Excerpts from Rogers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma//Excerpts from Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific P/SF-1800 - George Gershwin's Immortal Rhapsody in Blue and Joseph Kuhn's Symphony for Blues - The Hamburg Philharmonia Orchestra [1958] Reissue of Trans-World TW-1800. Rhapsody in Blue//Symphony for Blues P/SF-1900 - Honeymoon in South America - The Rio Carnival Orchestra [1958] Reissue of Trans-World TW-1900. Orchids In The Moonlight/Honeymoon Cha-Cha/Jalousie/Florita/Tango De L'amour/Brazil/La Paloma/Moon Over Montivideo/El Manicero/La Cumparsita P/SF-2000 – Original Johann Strauss Waltzes - Jurgen-Wal Danube Strings [5/58] Reissue of Trans-World TW-2000. Tales From Vienna Woods/Blue Danube/Artists [Sic] Life/Acceleration Waltz/Wine, Women And Song/Voices Of Spring/Roses From The South/Die Fledermaus/Emperor Waltz P/SF-2100 - Warsaw Concerto/Nutcracker Suite - David Haines & Paris Theatre Orchestra [1958] Reissue of Trans-World TW-2100. Warsaw Concerto//Nutcracker Suite P/SF-2200 - I'm in the Mood for the Magic Trumpet of Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra - Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra [1957?] Reissue of Trans-World TW-2200. Street Of Dreams/Blue Coast/Moonlight On The Ganges/South Sea Island Magic/The Last Time I Saw Paris/I Cover The Waterfront/East Of The Sun/Gold Coast/The Swan/What's New P/SF-2300 - Let's Go Calypso - King Scratch & The Bay Street Boys [1957?] Reissue of Trans- World TW-2300. Man Smart, Women Smarter/Brown Skin Girl/Peas And Rice/Sly Mongoose/Christmas/Time In Nassau/Marianne/Calypso Man/Donkey Wants Water/Liza See Me Here/Wedding Bells/Pretty Boy/Jamaica Farewell P/SF-2400 – High Fidelity Pipe Organ Favorites - Georges Montalba [1957] Reissue of Trans- World TW-2400. Waltz of the Flowers/Aura-Lee/Anitra’s Dance/Melody in F/Stars Fell on Alabama//The Secret/Diane/Put the Moon Back in the Sky/Charmaine/Evening Star/Washington Post March P/SF-2500 - Honeymoon in Paris - Paris Theatre Orchestra [5/58, stereo 1959] Reissue of Trans-World TW-2500. La Siene/Monmartre Polka/Alouette & Frere Jacques/Autumn Leaves/Sur Le Ponte De Paris/Mademoiselle De Paris/Pavement Pigalle/I Love Paris/Champs Elysee Cafe/La Mer/Under Paris Skies And Can-Can Medley P/SF-2600 - Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade - Nord Duetches Symphony Orchestra [5/58] Reissue of Trans-World TW-2600. P/SF-2700 – Robert Russell Bennett’s Symphonic Impressions - New World Theatre Orchestra [1957] Reissue of Trans-World TW-2700.