Musicor Records apparently had several different budget subsidiaries. Their main subsidiary started life as "Music Disc Records," and changed to "MusicO Records," apparently also pronounced "music disc." The other subsidiary is rather more obscure. "MusicVoice Records" reissued some of the Musicor medley albums, but apparently not the stars like Gene Pitney, George Jones, and the Platters.

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The record album cover logo was quite similar to the oval Musicor logo, while the logo on the 45s and album labels resembled the early Musicor logo and Musicor label logo. The MusicVoice label was dark blue with silver print.

MUSIC VOICE LABEL DISCOGRAPHY

Cover	Number - Title - Artist - [Release Date] Contents
	MVS 009 - 51 Great Motion Picture Favorites - Vincent Bell [1966?] Reissue of Musicor MS 3009. La Dolce Vita/How The West Was Won/Ruby/Laura/Three Coins In The Fountain/Hi Lili Hi Lo/High Noon/Somewhere Over The Rainbow/Love Is A Many Splendored Thing/An Affair To Remember/(41 others in a series of medleys)
	MVS 010 - 51 Greatest Broadway Favorites - Milton Delugg [1966?] Also issued on reel- to-reel tape as MusicTapes MTR T-401. My Fair Lady/Roberta/Fanny/Can Can/Porgy & Bess/Showboat/Gypsy/Do Re Mi/Camelot/Bells Are Ringing/(41 others. There are five tracks on each side, named Medley #1, Medley #2, etc.)
	MVS 011 - 51 Country Club Dance Favorites - Ralph Marterie [1966?] Also issued on reel-to-reel tape as MusicTapes MTR-19. I Cried For You/Jada/Charmaine/Peg O' My Heart/Street of Dreams/Shangri La/Rum & Coca Cola/Stairway to the Stars/Don't Get Around Much Anymore/How Blue/(41 others in a series of medleys)
	MVS 012 - 51 Organ Skating Favorites - George Stone [1966?] Oh, You Beautiful Doll/Charleston/Dancing In the Dark/Tea For Two/Cailifonia/Bye Bye Blackbird/Ain't She Sweet/Smile/Till We Meet Again/April in Paris/(41 others in a series of medleys)
	MVS 021 - 51 Belly Dancer Favorites - Gus Vali [1966?] Reissue of Musicor MS 3021. Medley No. 1- Turkish & Greek: Kashlarin Inge Inge- Erzurum-Delilo-Beyruit-Adanaly-Verisario-Itya-Golfo/Medley No. 2 Greek & Turkish: Yelakaika-Nina Nay Nay-The Canary Song-Fiyeh Fiyeh-Oglan Oglan-Danny Lo Lo-The Maharajah-Moustafa- Vatikiotissa/Medley No. 3 Israeli: Hava Nagila-Shalom Alechem-Dayeynu-The Tailor-And The Angels Sing-I'll Take Two-The Peasant Dance-Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen//Medley No. 1 Turkish & Arabic: Tamzura-Shee-Marinella-Arabamin Atlari-Gelin Gelin-Ishtar-Marmara-Rampee/Medley No. 2 Turkish: The Procession of the Sardar-The Wheat Song-Sirun Archik-Timuraga-Kara Biberim-Dontor-Hos Bilezik- Tin Tin- Birini-Yavrum/Medley No. 3 Arabic: Farfara-Uskadar-Konyali-Habon Gonda-Shishkabob- Lookoomi-Arabic Delight-Lorge-Bachelerde

THE MUSIC DISC/MUSICO LABEL

The Music Disc label was a budget label run out of Skokie, Illinois, a subsidiary of Musicor Records, based in New York City.

The Music Disc logo had a small record disc that resembled a capital "O" between the words "Music" and "Disc," making the label name resemble "Music O Disc." The first dozen or so albums, all issued simultaneously, had the blue "Music Disc" label. Perhaps thinking that "Music O Disc" with a disc in the middle was redundant (Music Disc Disc?), or perhaps because the name was previously used by another company, the label name was shortened to MusicO by deleting the word "Disc" at the end of the label name. Although the new label name actually is the word "Music" with the small disc after it, so the label is "Music Disc," the result was that the label is now usually called "Musico," very close to Musicor, their parent company and from whose catalog most of their albums were drawn.

Most of the known Music Disc/MusicO albums were compilations taken from various Musicor albums, although very few were straight reissues. Cover art tended toward "tear and paste" adaptation from the Musicor album art for the first dozen or so albums, where faces would be torn from the color artwork and pasted into a collage. Albums typically had ten songs, and many of the early album covers also had the phrase "10 Big Hits" besides the title and artist.

	The first Music Disc label is light blue with a dark blue logo running from left to right across the center hole, with the logo's disc in the center hole of the label.
	With the change from "Music O Disc" to MusicO, the label first changed to orange with black print.
	Later, the label changed to a very basic black with silver print.

MUSIC DISC/MUSICO LABEL DISCOGRAPHY

Cover	Number - Title - Artist - [Release Date] Contents
	MDS 1001 - Saturday Night at the Movies - Hugo Winterhalter [1969]
	MDS 1002 - Only You - Platters [1969] Only You/Harbor Lights/Doesn't It Ring A Bell/How Beautiful Our Love Is/Washed Ashore (On A Lonely Island In The Sea)//With This Ring/Fear Of Losing You/Sweet Sweet Lovin/Going Back To Detroit/I Love You Because
	MDS 1003 - Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Gene Pitney [1969]
	MDS 1004 - George Jones and Melba Montgomery Sing the Great Country Duets of All Time - George Jones & Melba Montgomery [1969] Let's Get Together (One More Time)/Feudin' And Fightin'/Party Pickin'/Let's Both Have A Cry/Living On Easy Street//The Day I Lose My Mind/I'll Be Loving You/Long Walk Off A Tall Rock/We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds/Everybody Oughta Sing A Song
	MDS 1005 - Town Without Pity - Gene Pitney [1969]
	MDS 1006 - America's Greatest Country Songs - George Jones & Gene Pitney [1969]
	MDS 1007 - 51 Belly Dancer Favorites - Gus Vali [although no artist credited] [1969] Reissue of Musicor MS 3031. Medley #1 - Turkish & Greek: Kashlarin Inge Inge- Erzurum-Delilo-Beyruit-Adanaly-Verisario-Itya-Golfo/Medley #2 Greek & Turkish: Yelakaika-Nina Nay Nay-The Canary Song-Fiyeh Fiyeh-Oglan Oglan-Danny Lo Lo-The Maharajah-Moustafa- Vatikiotissa/Medley #3 Israeli: Hava Nagila-Shalom Alechem-Dayeynu-The Tailor-And The Angels Sing-I'll Take Two-The Peasant Dance-Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen//Medley #1 Turkish & Arabic: Tamzura-Shee-Marinella-Arabamin Atlari-Gelin Gelin-Ishtar-Marmara-Rampee/Medley #2 Turkish: The Procession of the Sardar-The Wheat Song-Sirun Archik-Timuraga-Kara Biberim-Dontor-Hos Bilezik- Tin Tin- Birini-Yavrum/Medley #3 Arabic: Farfara-Uskadar-Konyali-Habon Gonda-Shishkabob- Lookoomi-Arabic Delight-Lorge-Bachelerde
	MDS 1008 - Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa - Gene Pitney [1969] Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa/There's No Lovin' Without Your Lovin'/Last Chance To Turn Around/Lonely Drifter/In Love Again//Looking Through The Eyes Of Love/Run, Run, Roadrunner/Down In The Subway/Count The Days/Born To Lose
	MDS 1009 - The Best of Tito Rodriguez - Tito Rodriguez & His Orchestra [1969]
	MDS 1010 - The Race Is On - George Jones [1969] The Race Is On/Let A Little Living Come In/The Selfishness In Man/The Sea Between Our Hearts/From Here To The Door//Developing My Pictures/Till I Hear From You/Take Me/Love Bug/I Can't Get Used To Being Lonely
	MDS 1011 - Latin Lovers - Tito Rodriguez & His Orchestra [1969]
	MDS 1012 - Dommage, Dommage - Steve Rossi [1969] Dommage, Dommage (Too Bad, Too Bad)/'Till/If I Ruled the World/In Love with You/Dolce Amore//Love is a Many Splendored Thing/Melinda/Like Someone in Love/Pathfinder/Since My Love Has Gone
	At about this point, label name changes to MusicO.
	MDS 1013 - "Pop" Parade - Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra [1969] Those Were The Days/This Guy's In Love With You/I Can't Help Remembering You/The Impossible Dream (The Quest)/Goin' Out Of My Head//Love Is Blue/What The World Needs Now Is Love/There's A Kind Of Hush (All Over The World)/When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love/By The Time I Get To Phoenix
	MDS 1014 - Baby, I Need Your Lovin' - Gene Pitney [1969]
	MDS 1015 - Latin Reflections - Xavier Cugat [1969]
	MDS 1016 - Twilight Time: Greatest Hits - Three Suns [1969] Ten of the sixteen tracks from Musicor 2090/3090.
	MDS 1017 - Country Favorites - Various Artists [1969] Walk Through This World With Me - George Jones/Can't Stop Loving You - Roger Miller/I'm Looking For The Man - Melba Montgomery/Take It Back And Change It For A Boy - Rex Allen/Sweet Dreams - Don Gibson//Four-0- Thirty Three - George Jones/Run, Boy - Don Gibson/Don't Keep Me Lonely Too Long - Melba Montgomery/I've Got Five Dollars And It's Saturday Night - George Jones & Gene Pitney/You're Forgetting Me - Roger Miller
	MDS 1018 - The Best in the Country - George Jones [1969] Treasure of Love/I Stopped Living Yesterday/Blue Side of Lonesome/King of the Road/Things Have Gone to Pieces//Flowers for Mama/Tender Years/Family Bible/The Unclouded Day/If You Believe
	MDS 1019 - The Best of Heart and Soul - Various Artists [1969] Artists include Jerry Butler, the Platters, Inez & Charlie Foxx, Sam Cooke, and Tommy Hunt.
	MDS 1020 - The Beat Is Here - Ralph Marterie & His Orchestra [1969]
	MDS 1021 - Pearl Bailey at Her Best - Pearl Bailey [1969]
	MDS 1022 - For Evermore - Dinah Washington [1969
	MDS 1023 - The Greatness of Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan [1969]
	MDS 1024 - Mame (Original English Cast) - Beryl Reid & Joan Turner [1969]
	MDS 1025 - Sisters of Soul - Various Artists [1969] Artists include Dinah Washington, Inez Foxx, Maxine Brown, Irma Thomas, and the Toys.
	MDS 1026 - Great Stars of Song - Various Artists [1970] Artists include Jerry Butler, Brook Benton, Gene Pitney, Lou Rawls, and Al Martino.
	MDS 1027 - Country Hall of Fame - Various Artists [1970] Artists include George Jones, Tommy Cash, Don Gibson, Marvin Rainwater, and Jimmy Dean.
	MDS 1028 - Country Hall of Fame, Volume 2 - Various Artists [1970]
	MDS 1029 - Midnight Cowboy - Hugo Winterhalter & His Famous Orchestra [1970]
	MDS 1030 - The Greatest Hits from the 50's to the 60's - Various Artists [1970] Artists include Frankie Lymon, Little Anthony & the Imperials, the Moonglows, the Platters, the Hearts, the Weavers, the Revilers, Buddy Knox, and Tommy Edwards.
	MDS 1031 - Songs of the Islands - Hawaiian Surfers' Orchestra [1970]
	MDS 1032 - 51 Popular Skating Favorites - George Stone [197?]
	MDS 1033 - Greatest Hits by the Megatons - Megatons [197?]
	MDS 1034 - Only Love Can Break a Heart - Gene Pitney [197?] Only Love Can Break A Heart/I Can't Run Away/It Hurts To Be In Love/Marianne/If I Never Get To Love You//More/As Long As She Needs Me/Anywhere I Wander/Princess In Rags/All The Way
	MDS 1035 - The Great Pretender - Platters [197?] The Great Pretender/I Love You 1000 Times/Smoke Gets In Your Eyes/Red Sails In The Sunset/If I Had Love//Alone In The Night/Devri/Love Must Go On/The Magic Touch/Heaven On Earth
	MDS 1036 - Airport Love Theme - Hugo Winterhalter [1971]
	MDS 1037 - Together - Gene Pitney and George Jones [1971]
	MDS 1038 - His Best in the World of Country Music - George Jones [197?]
	MDS 1039 - Soul Explosion - Various Artists [1970] Artists include Little Anthony & the Imperials, Sam Cooke, Inez Foxx, Joe Tex, Ray Charles, Lou Rawls, Brook Benton, the Toys, Jerry Butler, Dinah Washington, Frankie Lymon, Jimmy Soul, Maxine Brown, and Tommy Edwards.
	MDS 1040 - Motion Picture Hit Themes - Hugo Winterhalter [1971]
	MDS 1041 - Together - George Jones & Melba Montgomery
	MDS 1042 - The Best of the Motion Picture Hits - Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra
	MDS 1043 - Sleepy Lagoon - Three Suns
	MDS 1044 - 51 Polka Favorites - Al Soyka & His Orchestra [but no artist credited] [197?] Reissue of Musicor MS 3024. Medley #1: Polkas/Medley #2: Polkas/Medley #3: Obereks/Medley #4: Polkas/Medley #5: Waltzes/Medley #6: Polkas//Medley #1: Polkas/Medley #2: Polkas/Medley #3: Czardas & Obereks/Medley #4: Polkas/Medley #5: Obereks/Medley #6: Polkas
	MDS 1045 - George Jones' Country & Western Song Book - George Jones & Jones Boys
	MDS 1046 - Black is Beautiful - Various Artists [1970] Artists include Pearl Bailey, Inez Foxx, Melba Moore, Marie Knight, Eartha Kitt, Maxine Brown, and Sarah Vaughan
	MDS 1047 - Getting Together With - Various Artists [1972] You Don't Have To Be Over Twenty-One To Fall In Love - Jackson 5/Some Girls Want Me For Their Lover - Jackson 5/Washed Ashore (On a Lonely Island In the Sea) - Platters/Doesn't It Ring a Bell - Platters/Just Tell Me When - Brook Benton//Mockin' Bird - Inez & Charlie Foxx/Count The Days - Inez & Charlie Foxx/Lost Without You - Jerry Butler/Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon/Human - Tommy Hunt
	MDS 1048
	MDS 1049
	MDS 1050 - Big Hits - Gene Pitney

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