The Soundtrack of Tomorrow: Kaye Records and the Forgotten Vinyl of the 1964–65 New York World’s Fair

This album cover is from Musical Memoirs: New York’s World Fair (1964-1965) but it’s really musical selection for the Belgium Village at the New York World’s Fair. The first title is Dominque by Gisele MacKenzie. The song Dominque was used in the film For Love or Money (1993) which is in my list of top fifty movies (password required). The album was produced by Kaye Records (mentioned in a previous post) of East Paterson, NJ.

According to ChatGPT:

This isn’t Belgium in any strict sense. It’s what Americans in 1964 imagined “Continental Europe” sounded like. France dominates the selections.

This makes sense since one of the featured highlights in the village was a museum with relics from the Battle of the Bulge (plus various weapons of World War II).

Here’s the audio ripped from the original vinyl. I’m using Audacity and a Behringer UCA222 with my Orbit turntable.

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