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Hogarth999 said:Do Argo still exist?
Unfortunately not.
There was a Radio 4 Archive Hour programme about Argo (the British one - there's an American Argo Records which is unconnected) a while back. A very eclectic mix of spoken-word, music and other sounds produced by a mildly eccentric Brit (I think) on a very low budget. He was also producing world-music before the term was invented. From the snippets of stuff played on the documentary you got the feeling that the entire collection was probably worth owning.
I've got a couple of Argo recordings, my favourite being one of Richard Burton reading Dylan Thomas.
Argo became part of Decca then Polygram and then its catalogue apparently passed to Universal - so the recordings probably still exist gathering dust in a basement somewhere. Given the growing popularity of audio-books maybe some bright-spark will think about re-releasing them. Or maybe in a few decades time some fusty academic will stumble on them while researching a history of the recording industry, secrete them under his tweeds, take them home for further study and wonder what it is that keeps scratching at his window overnight and why he can't seem to keep his bedsheets on.