[x] "Everyone"?

Here's a question of rules:

There is an album - it's from a TV series. The album is entitled "Songs from the series...". No primary 'Artist' is given. However, the songs on the back are all carefully anotated with the singers' names. A few songs are listed on the rear cover as 'Sung by Everyone'. This obviously means that all the artists on the album were on these songs.

How should we treat this. I think a 'band' has been formed - albeit without it having a name since it bore the name of the series. Should we credit them as 'Everyone' as though that were a band name? Should we invent a name (such as 'The Cast of ...')?

[www.peteatkin.com] http://www.peteatkin.com/images/play_front.jpg
[www.peteatkin.com] http://www.peteatkin.com/images/play_back.jpg

This is very important so that I can get this in:
[www.boomkat.com] http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=19971

I see no reason to not treat the album simply like a soundtrack, or any other compilation.

I don't like the idea of "Everyone" being a band in this context; it's hard for me to believe that they all got together thinking of themselves as a band called Everyone, but they're not referred to as anything else. If a band doesn't have a name, is it really a band?

That said, it doesn't appear that "Everyone" necessarily means everyone listed on the cover. I could be reading it wrong, but it seems more likely that "Everyone" is really a catchall for "everyone who was in the cast at the time the song was recorded," which may or may not be all of those people. (I'm speaking from near total ignorance on this point, with only the bottom two links to guide me, so if what I'm saying makes no sense, that's why.)

[en.wikipedia.org] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_School_%28UK_TV_series%29
[www.imdb.com] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236919/

Much as I'd love to see that band being added, I can only see it going in as a multi-person collaboration. But that doesn't seem right to me. It's not fair. Waah. (*throws tantrum*)

I'll get them in somehow - the problem will be proving that a singer on these has no previous releases....

I can, however, get the album in ... any suggestions as to who it was 'Released By'?

I'm not sure I understand the question. If we agree that it's a soundtrack, then the album itself wasn't "released by" anyone, and entries in b2b go in for each track, each released by the band listed for that track, like any other soundtrack.

It seems like a soundtrack to me. It's called "Songs from the BBC's Playschool & Playaway," which looks like a soundtrack title. Each song is listed as being sung by (a) particular singer(s), which would I guess indicate the "band" for the song in question.

It's hard to figure out who this is "released by" only if we don't think it's a soundtrack or compilation. Why wouldn't we think that? I suppose we could be thinking that there's some uncredited "house band" for all these songs and that the "Sung by" notation is simply to indicate the primary vocalist for that song (as if you had "Sung by Stevie Nicks" next to certain songs on a Fleetwood Mac album). But if the house band is uncredited, then no band exists and the songs are orphaned, IIRC.

To understand the question - you'd have had to have been as confused as me. Thanks for putting me straight!