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Its US label was established in late 1934 by Lewis, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kapp" title="Jack Kapp">Jack Kapp</a> (the first president of the Decca Record company of the USA) and <a href="/wiki/Milton_Rackmil" title="Milton Rackmil">Milton Rackmil</a>, who later became American Decca's president too. In 1937, anticipating <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi</a> aggression leading to <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, Lewis sold American Decca, and the link between the UK and US Decca label was broken for several decades.<a href="#cite_note-google19412-1">[1]</a> The British label was renowned for its development of recording methods, while the American company developed the concept of <a href="/wiki/Cast_albums" class="mw-redirect" title="Cast albums">cast albums</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Musical_theatre" title="Musical theatre">musical</a> genre. <table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org" style="background-color: #000000"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239334494">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}</style>Decca Records</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Decca_Records.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Decca_Records.svg/220px-Decca_Records.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Decca_Records.svg/330px-Decca_Records.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Decca_Records.svg/440px-Decca_Records.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="272"></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent company</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Universal_Music_Group" title="Universal Music Group">Universal Music Group</a> (UMG)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1929; 95 years ago (1929)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Lewis_(Decca)" title="Edward Lewis (Decca)">Edward Lewis</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Distributor(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Decca Music Group (UK)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Verve_Records" title="Verve Records">Verve Label Group</a> (US)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Universal_Music_Group" title="Universal Music Group">Universal Music Group</a> (International)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category">Various</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country of origin</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Kensington" title="Kensington">Kensington</a>, London, United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official website</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://decca.com">Decca Records</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.deccaclassics.com">Decca Classics</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.deccagold.com">Decca Gold</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.deccarecordsus.com/">Decca Records US</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> In 1947, following World War II, British Decca re-established distribution in the United States through its new subsidiary <a href="/wiki/London_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="London Records">London Records</a>. The London trademark name has also been used in other countries such as <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> and <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>. In 1973, the US Decca label became <a href="/wiki/MCA_Records" title="MCA Records">MCA Records</a>, which formed half of what is now <a href="/wiki/Universal_Music_Group" title="Universal Music Group">Universal Music Group</a> (UMG). The UK and US divisions of the former Decca label were combined under UMG in 1998 and the MCA brand was retired in 2003 (with the exception of the American <a href="/wiki/MCA_Nashville" class="mw-redirect" title="MCA Nashville">MCA Nashville</a> country music imprint). <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Label_name">1 Label name</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Classical_music">2 Classical music</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Popular_music">3 Popular music</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Spoken_word">4 Spoken word</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Country_music">5 Country music</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Technology_developments">6 Technology developments</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Full_frequency_range_recording_(ffrr)">6.1 Full frequency range recording (ffrr)</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#The_LP">6.2 The LP</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Stereo_(ffss)">6.3 Stereo (ffss)</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Digital_recording_and_mastering">6.4 Digital recording and mastering</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Decca_Special_Products">6.5 Decca Special Products</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#Later_history">7 Later history</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#Decca_matrix_prefixes">8 Decca matrix prefixes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="#See_also">9 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#Notes">10 Notes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#References">11 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#External_links">12 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Label_name">Label name</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Decca_Records&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Label name" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> The name dates back to a portable <a href="/wiki/Phonograph" title="Phonograph">gramophone</a> called the "Decca Dulcephone" patented in 1914 by musical instrument makers Barnett Samuel and Sons. The name "Decca" was coined by Wilfred S. Samuel by merging the word "<a href="/wiki/Mecca" title="Mecca">Mecca</a>" with the initial D of their logo "Dulcet" or their trademark "Dulcephone".<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> Samuel, a linguist, chose "Decca" as a brand name as it was easy to pronounce in most languages. That company was eventually renamed the Decca Gramophone Co. Ltd. and then sold to former stockbroker Edward Lewis in 1929. Within years, Decca Records was the second-largest record label in the world, calling itself "The Supreme Record Company". Decca bought the UK branch of <a href="/wiki/Brunswick_Records" title="Brunswick Records">Brunswick Records</a> and continued to run it under that name. In the 1950s, the American Decca studios were located in the <a href="/wiki/Pythian_Temple_(New_York_City)" title="Pythian Temple (New York City)">Pythian Temple</a> in New York City.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Classical_music">Classical music</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Decca_Records&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Classical music" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Decca_1929_Sea_Drift.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e1/Decca_1929_Sea_Drift.jpg/160px-Decca_1929_Sea_Drift.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="162" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="314" data-file-height="318"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 160px;height: 162px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e1/Decca_1929_Sea_Drift.jpg/160px-Decca_1929_Sea_Drift.jpg" data-width="160" data-height="162" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e1/Decca_1929_Sea_Drift.jpg/240px-Decca_1929_Sea_Drift.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Decca_1929_Sea_Drift.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Original 1929 Decca release of Sea Drift by <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Delius" title="Frederick Delius">Delius</a>, first published recording of the work, but deleted by 1936</figcaption></figure> In classical music, Decca had extensive work from its roots to be equals with the established <a href="/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice" title="His Master's Voice">HMV</a> and <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Graphophone_Company" title="Columbia Graphophone Company">Columbia</a> labels (later merged as <a href="/wiki/EMI" title="EMI">EMI</a>). The pre-war classical repertoire on Decca was not extensive but was select. The 3-disc 1929 recording of <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Delius" title="Frederick Delius">Delius</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Sea_Drift_(Delius)" title="Sea Drift (Delius)">Sea Drift</a>, arising from the Delius Festival that year, suffered by being crammed onto six sides, being indifferently recorded and expensive; following issue in July they were already withdrawn by October the same year.<a href="#cite_note-auto-4">[4]</a> However, it won Decca the loyalty of the <a href="/wiki/Baritone" title="Baritone">baritone</a> <a href="/wiki/Roy_Henderson_(baritone)" title="Roy Henderson (baritone)">Roy Henderson</a>, who went on to record for them the first complete <a href="/wiki/Dido_and_Aeneas" title="Dido and Aeneas">Dido and Aeneas</a> of <a href="/wiki/Henry_Purcell" title="Henry Purcell">Purcell</a> with <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Evans_(opera_singer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nancy Evans (opera singer)">Nancy Evans</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Boyd_Neel" title="Boyd Neel">Boyd Neel</a> ensemble (Purcell Club, 14 sides, issued February 1936<a href="#cite_note-auto-4">[4]</a>); and Henderson's famous pupil <a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Ferrier" title="Kathleen Ferrier">Kathleen Ferrier</a> was recorded and issued by Decca through the period of transition from 78 to LP (1946–1952). <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Schlusnus" title="Heinrich Schlusnus">Heinrich Schlusnus</a> made pre-war <a href="/wiki/Lied" title="Lied">lieder</a> recordings for Decca. Decca's emergence as a major classical label may be attributed to three concurrent events: the emphasis on technical innovation (initially the development of the full frequency range recording [ffrr] technique, followed by the early adoption of stereo recording), the introduction of the <a href="/wiki/Gramophone_record" class="mw-redirect" title="Gramophone record">long-playing record</a>, and the recruitment of <a href="/wiki/John_Culshaw" title="John Culshaw">John Culshaw</a> to Decca's London office. Decca released the stereo recordings of <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Ansermet" title="Ernest Ansermet">Ernest Ansermet</a> conducting L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, including, in 1959, the first complete stereo LP recording of <a href="/wiki/The_Nutcracker" title="The Nutcracker">The Nutcracker</a>, as well as Ansermet's only stereo version of <a href="/wiki/Manuel_de_Falla" title="Manuel de Falla">Manuel de Falla</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Three-Cornered_Hat" title="The Three-Cornered Hat">The Three-Cornered Hat</a>, which the conductor had led at its first performance in 1919. <a href="/wiki/John_Culshaw" title="John Culshaw">John Culshaw</a>, who joined Decca in 1946 in a junior role, quickly rose to become a senior producer of classical recordings. He revolutionised recording – of <a href="/wiki/Opera" title="Opera">opera</a>, in particular. Hitherto, the practice had been to put microphones in front of the performers and simply record their performance. Culshaw was determined to make recordings that would be 'a theatre of the mind,' offering listeners at home not merely a second-best alternative to being in the <a href="/wiki/Opera_house" title="Opera house">opera house</a>, but an entirely distinct experience. To that end, he had the singers move about in the studio as they would onstage, used discreet sound effects and different acoustics, and recorded in long, continuous takes. His skill, coupled with Decca's <a href="/wiki/Sound_engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Sound engineering">sound engineering</a> capabilities, elevated the label into the top tier of recording companies. His <a href="/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen_(Georg_Solti_recording)" title="Der Ring des Nibelungen (Georg Solti recording)">pioneering recording</a> (begun in 1958) of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Wagner" title="Richard Wagner">Wagner</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen" title="Der Ring des Nibelungen">Der Ring des Nibelungen</a> conducted by <a href="/wiki/Georg_Solti" title="Georg Solti">Georg Solti</a> was a huge artistic and commercial success (to the chagrin of other companies). Solti recorded throughout his career for Decca, and made more than <a href="/wiki/Georg_Solti_discography" title="Georg Solti discography">250 recordings</a>, including 45 complete opera sets. Among the international honours given to Solti (and Decca) for his recordings were 31 <a href="/wiki/Grammy" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy">Grammy</a> Awards – more than any other recording artist, whether classical or popular.<a href="#cite_note-deccaweb-5">[5]</a> Following Decca's success, artists such as <a href="/wiki/Herbert_von_Karajan" title="Herbert von Karajan">Herbert von Karajan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joan_Sutherland" title="Joan Sutherland">Joan Sutherland</a> and later <a href="/wiki/Luciano_Pavarotti" title="Luciano Pavarotti">Luciano Pavarotti</a> were keen to join the label's roster. However, Culshaw was not the first to do this. In 1951, Columbia Records executive <a href="/wiki/Goddard_Lieberson" title="Goddard Lieberson">Goddard Lieberson</a> partnered with Broadway conductor <a href="/wiki/Lehman_Engel" title="Lehman Engel">Lehman Engel</a> to record a series of previously unrecorded Broadway musical scores for <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Masterworks" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia Masterworks">Columbia Masterworks</a>, including what Engel, in his book The American Musical Theatre: A Consideration, termed "Broadway opera," and in 1951, they released the most complete <a href="/wiki/Porgy_and_Bess" title="Porgy and Bess">Porgy and Bess</a> recorded up to that time. Far from being a mere rendering of the score, the 3-LP album set used sound effects to realistically recreate the production as if the listener were watching a stage performance of the work. <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Decca_Records_logo_(classical_music).svg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Decca_Records_logo_%28classical_music%29.svg/220px-Decca_Records_logo_%28classical_music%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="184" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="190" data-file-height="159"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 184px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Decca_Records_logo_%28classical_music%29.svg/220px-Decca_Records_logo_%28classical_music%29.svg.png" data-width="220" data-height="184" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Decca_Records_logo_%28classical_music%29.svg/330px-Decca_Records_logo_%28classical_music%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Decca_Records_logo_%28classical_music%29.svg/440px-Decca_Records_logo_%28classical_music%29.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Decca logo used on classical music releases</figcaption></figure> Until 1947, American Decca issued British Decca classical music recordings. Afterward, British Decca took over distribution through its new American subsidiary London Records. American Decca actively re-entered the classical music field in 1950 with distribution deals from <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Grammophon" title="Deutsche Grammophon">Deutsche Grammophon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Parlophone" title="Parlophone">Parlophone</a>.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> American Decca began issuing its classical music recordings in 1956 when <a href="/wiki/Israel_Horowitz_(producer)" title="Israel Horowitz (producer)">Israel Horowitz</a> joined Decca to head its classical music operations.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> To further American Decca's dedication to serious music, in August 1950, Rackmill announced the release of a new series of disks to be known as the "Decca Gold Label Series" which was to be devoted to "symphonies, concertos, chamber music, opera, songs and choral music."<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> American and European artists were to be the performers. Among the classical recordings released on Decca's "Gold Label" series<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> were albums by <a href="/wiki/Leroy_Anderson" title="Leroy Anderson">Leroy Anderson</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Symphony_Orchestra" title="Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra">Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra</a> conducted by <a href="/wiki/Max_Rudolf_(conductor)" title="Max Rudolf (conductor)">Max Rudolf</a> and guitarist <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Segovia" title="Andrés Segovia">Andrés Segovia</a>. American Decca shut down its classical music department in 1971.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Decca_Gold.svg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Decca_Gold.svg/220px-Decca_Gold.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="287" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="667"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 287px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Decca_Gold.svg/220px-Decca_Gold.svg.png" data-width="220" data-height="287" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Decca_Gold.svg/330px-Decca_Gold.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Decca_Gold.svg/440px-Decca_Gold.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Decca Gold logo once used for classical music released from the US</figcaption></figure> Between 1973 and 1980, Decca championed new music through its Headline imprint. Works given their recorded premiere included pieces by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Maxwell_Davies" title="Peter Maxwell Davies">Peter Maxwell Davies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harrison_Birtwistle" title="Harrison Birtwistle">Harrison Birtwistle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luciano_Berio" title="Luciano Berio">Luciano Berio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hans_Werner_Henze" title="Hans Werner Henze">Hans Werner Henze</a>, <a href="/wiki/Witold_Lutoslawski" class="mw-redirect" title="Witold Lutoslawski">Witold Lutoslawski</a>, <a href="/wiki/Toru_Takemitsu" class="mw-redirect" title="Toru Takemitsu">Toru Takemitsu</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Bedford" title="David Bedford">David Bedford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thea_Musgrave" title="Thea Musgrave">Thea Musgrave</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrzej_Panufnik" title="Andrzej Panufnik">Andrzej Panufnik</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iannis_Xenakis" title="Iannis Xenakis">Iannis Xenakis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brian_Ferneyhough" title="Brian Ferneyhough">Brian Ferneyhough</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Cage" title="John Cage">John Cage</a>. Performers included <a href="/wiki/Roger_Woodward" title="Roger Woodward">Roger Woodward</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stomu_Yamash%27ta" class="mw-redirect" title="Stomu Yamash'ta">Stomu Yamash'ta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salman_Shukur" title="Salman Shukur">Salman Shukur</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_Grimethorpe_Colliery_Band" class="mw-redirect" title="The Grimethorpe Colliery Band">the Grimethorpe Colliery Band</a>, as well as the composers themselves. For many years, Decca's British classical recordings had been issued in the US under the London Records label because the existence of the American Decca company precluded the use of that name on British recordings distributed in the US. The practice was no longer necessary when the MCA and PolyGram labels merged in 1999 and created Universal Music. Today Decca makes fewer major classical recordings but still has a full roster of stars, including <a href="/wiki/Cecilia_Bartoli" title="Cecilia Bartoli">Cecilia Bartoli</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Fleming" title="Renée Fleming">Renée Fleming</a>. Its back catalogue includes several landmarks and critically acclaimed recordings, such as the <a href="/wiki/Georg_Solti" title="Georg Solti">Solti</a> Ring, voted the greatest recording of all time by critics with the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Music_Magazine" title="BBC Music Magazine">BBC Music Magazine</a>,<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Luciano_Pavarotti" title="Luciano Pavarotti">Luciano Pavarotti</a> remained an exclusive Decca artist throughout his recording career. In 2017, Universal Music revived Decca's American classical music arm as Decca Gold under the management of <a href="/wiki/Verve_Music_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Verve Music Group">Verve Music Group</a>.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Popular_music">Popular music</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Decca_Records&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Popular music" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a list of artists on the Decca label, see <a href="/wiki/List_of_Decca_Records_artists" title="List of Decca Records artists">List of Decca Records artists</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Very_long_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style ambox-very_long" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section may be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_size" title="Wikipedia:Article size">too long</a> to read and navigate comfortably. Consider <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Splitting" title="Wikipedia:Splitting">splitting</a> content into sub-articles, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Summary_style" title="Wikipedia:Summary style">condensing</a> it, or adding <a href="/wiki/Help:Section#Subsections" title="Help:Section">subheadings</a>. Please discuss this issue on the article's <a href="/wiki/Talk:Decca_Records" title="Talk:Decca Records">talk page</a>. (November 2024)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> In Britain, Decca bought out the bankrupt UK branch of <a href="/wiki/Brunswick_Records" title="Brunswick Records">Brunswick Records</a> in 1932, which added such stars as <a href="/wiki/Bing_Crosby" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a> and <a href="/wiki/Al_Jolson" title="Al Jolson">Al Jolson</a><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> to its roster. Decca also bought out the <a href="/wiki/Melotone_Records_(US)" title="Melotone Records (US)">Melotone</a> and Edison Bell record companies. In late 1934, a United States branch of Decca was launched. In establishing the American unit, the founders bought the former Brunswick Records pressing plants in New York City and <a href="/wiki/Muskegon,_Michigan" title="Muskegon, Michigan">Muskegon, Michigan</a>, which were shut down in 1931, from <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a> in exchange for a financial interest in the new label.<a href="#cite_note-google19412-1">[1]</a> In 1934 <a href="/wiki/Guy_Lombardo" title="Guy Lombardo">Guy Lombardo</a> also recorded for Decca.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> Decca became a major player in the depressed American record market thanks to its roster of popular artists, particularly <a href="/wiki/Bing_Crosby" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a>, the shrewd management of former US Brunswick general manager <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kapp" title="Jack Kapp">Jack Kapp</a>, and the decision to price Decca at 35 cents. The US label also brought back the discontinued Champion label (from Gennett), as well as a short-lived version of the Broadway label. The following year, the pressing and Canadian distribution of US Decca records was licensed to <a href="/wiki/Compo_Company" title="Compo Company">Compo Company</a> Ltd. in <a href="/wiki/Lachine,_Quebec" title="Lachine, Quebec">Lachine, Quebec</a>, a breakaway and rival of <a href="/wiki/Berliner_Gramophone" title="Berliner Gramophone">Berliner Gram-o-phone</a> Co. of <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>, Quebec. (Compo was acquired by Decca in 1951 although its <a href="/wiki/Apex_Records_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Apex Records (Canada)">Apex</a> label continued in production for the next two decades.) By 1939, Decca and <a href="/wiki/EMI" title="EMI">EMI</a> were the only record companies in the UK. That same year, British Decca head <a href="/wiki/Edward_Lewis_(Decca)" title="Edward Lewis (Decca)">Edward Lewis</a> completed a three-year sale of his interest in American Decca to avoid a potential freeze on his foreign investments due to the threat of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> In 1941, American Decca acquired Brunswick Records and its sublabel <a href="/wiki/Vocalion_Records" title="Vocalion Records">Vocalion Records</a> from <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a>, which had a financial interest in Decca.<a href="#cite_note-google19412-1">[1]</a> In 1942, stock in American Decca began trading on the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange" title="New York Stock Exchange">New York Stock Exchange</a> as Decca Records Inc.<a href="#cite_note-google19412-1">[1]</a> Therefore, the two Deccas became separate companies and remained so until American Decca's parent company bought British Decca's parent company in 1998 (during this time, US Decca artists were issued in the UK on the Brunswick label until 1968 when <a href="/wiki/MCA_Records" title="MCA Records">MCA Records</a> was launched in the UK). In 1940, American Decca released the first album of songs from the 1939 film <a href="/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)">The Wizard of Oz</a>. However, it was not a soundtrack album but a cover version featuring only <a href="/wiki/Judy_Garland" title="Judy Garland">Judy Garland</a> from the film, with other roles taken by the Ken Darby Singers. In 1942, American Decca released the first recording of "<a href="/wiki/White_Christmas_(song)" title="White Christmas (song)">White Christmas</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Bing_Crosby" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a>. He recorded another version of the song in 1947 for Decca; to this day, Crosby's recording of "White Christmas" for Decca remains the best-selling single worldwide of all time.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> In 1943, American Decca ushered in the age of the <a href="/wiki/Original_cast_album" class="mw-redirect" title="Original cast album">original cast album</a> in the United States, when they released an album set of nearly all the songs from <a href="/wiki/Rodgers_and_Hammerstein" title="Rodgers and Hammerstein">Rodgers and Hammerstein</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma!" title="Oklahoma!">Oklahoma!</a>, performed by the same cast who appeared in the show on <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a>, and using the show's orchestra, conductor, chorus, and musical and vocal arrangements. The enormous success of this album was followed by original cast recordings of <a href="/wiki/Carousel_(musical)" title="Carousel (musical)">Carousel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Irving_Berlin" title="Irving Berlin">Irving Berlin</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Annie_Get_Your_Gun_(musical)" title="Annie Get Your Gun (musical)">Annie Get Your Gun</a>, both featuring members of the original casts of the shows and utilising those shows' vocal and choral arrangements. Because of the technical restrictions of recording on <a href="/wiki/78_rpm_record" class="mw-redirect" title="78 rpm record">78 rpm records</a>, none of these scores were recorded completely; they were shorter than cast albums made after <a href="/wiki/LP_album" class="mw-redirect" title="LP album">LPs</a> were introduced. But Decca had made history by recording <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> musicals, and the influence of these releases in the recording of theatrical shows in the US continues to this day – in Decca's home country, the UK original cast albums had been a fixture for years. <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Records" title="Columbia Records">Columbia Records</a> followed with musical theatre albums, starting with the 1946 revival of <a href="/wiki/Show_Boat" title="Show Boat">Show Boat</a>. In 1947, <a href="/wiki/RCA_Victor" class="mw-redirect" title="RCA Victor">RCA Victor</a> released the original cast album of <a href="/wiki/Brigadoon_(musical)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brigadoon (musical)">Brigadoon</a>. By the 1950s, many recording companies were releasing Broadway show albums recorded by their original casts, and the recording of original cast albums had become standard practice whenever a new show opened.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> Decca throughout the 1930s and early to mid-1940s was a leading label of blues and jump music with such best-selling artists as <a href="/wiki/Sister_Rosetta_Tharpe" title="Sister Rosetta Tharpe">Sister Rosetta Tharpe</a> and <a href="/wiki/Louis_Jordan" title="Louis Jordan">Louis Jordan</a> (who was the best-selling R&B artist of the 1940s). In 1954, American Decca released "<a href="/wiki/Rock_Around_the_Clock" title="Rock Around the Clock">Rock Around the Clock</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Haley_%26_His_Comets" title="Bill Haley & His Comets">Bill Haley & His Comets</a>. Produced by <a href="/wiki/Milt_Gabler" title="Milt Gabler">Milt Gabler</a>, the recording was initially only moderately successful, but when it was used as the theme song for the 1955 film <a href="/wiki/Blackboard_Jungle" title="Blackboard Jungle">Blackboard Jungle</a>, it became the first international <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a> hit, and the first such recording to go to No. 1 on the American musical charts. According to the <a href="/wiki/Guinness_Book_of_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Guinness Book of Records">Guinness Book of Records</a>, it went on to sell 25 million copies, returning to the US and UK charts several times between 1955 and 1974. But due to management and promotion decisions, Decca lost its place as a major hit label on the US R&B and pop charts as Bill Haley's popularity started to fade, in the late 1950s. Decca's strong country catalogue did very well throughout this period and they had several crossover-to-pop hits, as well as the blockbuster success of <a href="/wiki/Brenda_Lee" title="Brenda Lee">Brenda Lee</a>, but many R&B and rock music artists passed through Decca with little success (<a href="/wiki/The_Flamingos" title="The Flamingos">The Flamingos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Billy_Ward_and_his_Dominoes" title="Billy Ward and his Dominoes">Billy Ward and his Dominoes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Darin" title="Bobby Darin">Bobby Darin</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Shirelles" title="The Shirelles">The Shirelles</a>, etc.) American Decca embraced the new post-war record formats adopting the LP in 1949 and the 45 rpm record around a year later while continuing to sell 78s.<a href="#cite_note-google19412-1">[1]</a> During the 1950s, American Decca released several soundtrack recordings of popular motion pictures, notably <a href="/wiki/Mike_Todd" title="Mike Todd">Mike Todd</a>'s production of <a href="/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_(1956_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)">Around the World in Eighty Days</a> (1956) with the music of veteran film composer <a href="/wiki/Victor_Young" title="Victor Young">Victor Young</a>. Since Decca had access to the stereo tracks of the Oscar-winning film, they quickly released a stereo version in 1958. Because American Decca bought <a href="/wiki/Universal_Pictures" title="Universal Pictures">Universal Pictures</a> in 1952, many of these soundtrack albums were of films released by what was then called Universal-International Pictures. In June and July 1957, Decca Records released the soundtracks from <a href="/wiki/Hecht-Hill-Lancaster_Productions" class="mw-redirect" title="Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions">Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions</a>' film <a href="/wiki/Sweet_Smell_of_Success" title="Sweet Smell of Success">Sweet Smell of Success</a>. It was a landmark event in the soundtrack industry; the first time that a film had two separate soundtracks, each featuring completely different music.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> All of the music from Sweet Smell of Success was published by <a href="/wiki/Calyork_Music" class="mw-redirect" title="Calyork Music">Calyork Music</a>, a music publishing company founded by the film's producers <a href="/wiki/Harold_Hecht" title="Harold Hecht">Harold Hecht</a> and <a href="/wiki/Burt_Lancaster" title="Burt Lancaster">Burt Lancaster</a>, along with Hecht's brother-in-law, established music publisher <a href="/wiki/Loring_Buzzell" title="Loring Buzzell">Loring Buzzell</a>, who secured the releasing of the music through Decca Records.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> The first soundtrack LP featured the jazz score composed by <a href="/wiki/Elmer_Bernstein" title="Elmer Bernstein">Elmer Bernstein</a>,<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> while the second soundtrack LP featured music composed and performed by the <a href="/wiki/Chico_Hamilton" title="Chico Hamilton">Chico Hamilton Quintet</a>, a band that appears in the film.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> In 1961, American Decca released the soundtrack album of <a href="/wiki/Flower_Drum_Song_(film)" title="Flower Drum Song (film)">Flower Drum Song</a>, Universal Pictures' film version of the 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. In a reversal of the usual situation, in which American Decca had released original Broadway cast albums of three Rodgers and Hammerstein shows, this was the only film soundtrack album of a Rodgers and Hammerstein show ever released by Decca, while the Broadway cast album had been released by Columbia Masterworks. The American <a href="/wiki/RCA" title="RCA">RCA</a> label severed its longtime affiliation with <a href="/wiki/EMI" title="EMI">EMI</a>'s <a href="/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice" title="His Master's Voice">His Master's Voice</a> (HMV) label in 1957, which allowed British Decca to market and distribute <a href="/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a>'s recordings in the UK. on the <a href="/wiki/RCA_Records" title="RCA Records">RCA</a> label (later RCA Victor).<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> British Decca had several missed opportunities. In 1960, they refused to release "<a href="/wiki/Tell_Laura_I_Love_Her" title="Tell Laura I Love Her">Tell Laura I Love Her</a>" by licensed artist <a href="/wiki/Ray_Peterson" title="Ray Peterson">Ray Peterson</a> and even destroyed thousands of copies of the single.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> In 1962, Decca <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles%27_Decca_audition" title="The Beatles' Decca audition">famously turned down</a> a chance to record <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a>, believing "guitar groups are on the way out."<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> Other refusals of note include <a href="/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds">the Yardbirds</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Kinks" title="The Kinks">the Kinks</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who">the Who</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Manfred_Mann" title="Manfred Mann">Manfred Mann</a>. Decca had earlier accepted London-born pioneer rock'n'roll singer <a href="/wiki/Terry_Dene" title="Terry Dene">Terry Dene</a>, who was later known as the British Elvis Presley, and another Merseyside singer, <a href="/wiki/Billy_Fury" title="Billy Fury">Billy Fury</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The turning down of <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a> led indirectly to the signing of one of Decca's biggest 1960s artists, <a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones">The Rolling Stones</a>. Dick Rowe was judging a talent contest with <a href="/wiki/George_Harrison" title="George Harrison">George Harrison</a>, and Harrison mentioned to him that he should take a look at the Stones, who he had just seen live for the first time a couple of weeks earlier. Rowe saw the Stones and quickly signed them to a contract. Decca also released the first recording of Rod Stewart in 1964, "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"/"I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town". Decca also signed up many rock artists (<a href="/wiki/The_Moody_Blues" title="The Moody Blues">The Moody Blues</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Zombies" title="The Zombies">The Zombies</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Applejacks_(British_band)" title="The Applejacks (British band)">The Applejacks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dave_Berry_(musician)" title="Dave Berry (musician)">Dave Berry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lulu_(singer)" title="Lulu (singer)">Lulu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alan_Price" title="Alan Price">Alan Price</a>), <a href="/wiki/The_Marmalade" class="mw-redirect" title="The Marmalade">The Marmalade</a>, with varying degrees of success. Staff producer <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Mendl" title="Hugh Mendl">Hugh Mendl</a> (1919–2008)<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> worked for Decca for over 40 years and played a significant role in its success in the popular field from the 1950s to the late 1970s. His first major production credit was pianist <a href="/wiki/Winifred_Atwell" title="Winifred Atwell">Winifred Atwell</a>. He produced <a href="/wiki/Rock_Island_Line" title="Rock Island Line">Rock Island Line</a>, the breakthrough <a href="/wiki/Skiffle" title="Skiffle">skiffle</a> hit for <a href="/wiki/Lonnie_Donegan" title="Lonnie Donegan">Lonnie Donegan</a>, and he is credited as the first executive to spot the potential of singer-actor <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Steele" title="Tommy Steele">Tommy Steele</a>. Mendl's other productions included the first album by humorist <a href="/wiki/Ivor_Cutler" title="Ivor Cutler">Ivor Cutler</a>, Who Tore Your Trousers? (1961), <a href="/wiki/Frankie_Howerd" title="Frankie Howerd">Frankie Howerd</a> at The Establishment (1963), a series of recordings with <a href="/wiki/Paddy_Roberts_(songwriter)" title="Paddy Roberts (songwriter)">Paddy Roberts</a> (best known for "The Ballad of Bethnal Green"), numerous "original cast" and soundtrack albums including <a href="/wiki/Oh!_What_a_Lovely_War" title="Oh! What a Lovely War">Oh! What a Lovely War</a> and even an LP record of the 1966 <a href="/wiki/Le_Mans" title="Le Mans">Le Mans</a> 24-hour race, inspired by his lifelong passion for motor racing. Mendl was a driving force in the establishment of Decca's progressive <a href="/wiki/Deram_Records" title="Deram Records">Deram</a> label, most notably as the executive producer of <a href="/wiki/The_Moody_Blues" title="The Moody Blues">The Moody Blues</a>' groundbreaking 1967 LP <a href="/wiki/Days_of_Future_Passed" title="Days of Future Passed">Days of Future Passed</a>. He is credited with battling against Decca's notorious parsimonious treatment of their artists, ensuring that the Moody Blues had the time and resources to develop beyond their beat group origins into progressive rock, and he also used profits for pop sales to cross-subsidise recordings by avant-garde jazz artists like <a href="/wiki/John_Surman" title="John Surman">John Surman</a>. British Decca lost a key source for American records when <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Records" title="Atlantic Records">Atlantic Records</a> switched British distribution to <a href="/wiki/Polydor_Records" title="Polydor Records">Polydor Records</a> in 1966 for Atlantic to gain access to British recording artists which they did not have under Decca distribution.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> The Rolling Stones left Decca in 1970, and other artists followed. Decca's deals with numerous other record labels began to fall apart: <a href="/wiki/RCA_Records" title="RCA Records">RCA Records</a>, for instance, abandoned Decca to set up its own UK office in June 1969, just before the Rolling Stones decided to also abandon Decca in favour of forming their label. <a href="/wiki/The_Moody_Blues" title="The Moody Blues">The Moody Blues</a> were the only international rock act that remained on the label. The company's fortunes declined slightly during the 1970s, and it had few major commercial successes; among those were <a href="/wiki/Dana_Rosemary_Scallon" title="Dana Rosemary Scallon">Dana's</a> 1970 two-million selling single, "<a href="/wiki/All_Kinds_of_Everything" title="All Kinds of Everything">All Kinds of Everything</a>", issued on their subsidiary label <a href="/wiki/Rex_Records_(1933)" title="Rex Records (1933)">Rex Records</a>. Although Decca had set up <a href="/wiki/Deram_Records" title="Deram Records">Deram</a> in 1966, the first of the British "progressive" labels, with such stars as the Moody Blues, Cat Stevens and <a href="/wiki/Ten_Years_After" title="Ten Years After">Ten Years After</a>, Decca in the 1970s became increasingly dependent on re-releases from its back catalogue. It had some renewed pop success in the late 1970s despite the growth of <a href="/wiki/Punk_rock" title="Punk rock">punk rock</a>, with hits by acts such as <a href="/wiki/John_Miles_(musician)" title="John Miles (musician)">John Miles</a>, novelty creation <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Kartner" title="Pierre Kartner">Father Abraham</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Smurfs_music" title="The Smurfs music">the Smurfs</a>, and productions by longtime Decca associate <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_King" title="Jonathan King">Jonathan King</a>. King had achieved an early hit with Decca in 1965, "<a href="/wiki/Everyone%27s_Gone_to_the_Moon" title="Everyone's Gone to the Moon">Everyone's Gone to the Moon</a>", while he was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Edward Lewis recruited him as his personal assistant and "talent spotter".<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> But contemporary punk rock signings such as <a href="/wiki/Slaughter_%26_the_Dogs" title="Slaughter & the Dogs">Slaughter & the Dogs</a> and the pre-stardom <a href="/wiki/Adam_and_the_Ants" title="Adam and the Ants">Adam and the Ants</a> (whose sole single with Decca, "<a href="/wiki/Young_Parisians_(song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Young Parisians (song)">Young Parisians</a>", would later be a UK Top 10 hit on the back of the band's success at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Records" title="Columbia Records">CBS</a>),<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> were second division when compared to the likes of <a href="/wiki/PolyGram" title="PolyGram">PolyGram</a>, CBS, EMI, and newcomer <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Records" title="Virgin Records">Virgin's</a> rosters of hitmakers. Ultimately Decca's founder Edward Lewis "was unable to appoint a successor or relinquish control of the business. As a consequence, in 1980, days before his death, the business, then in the grip of a serious financial crisis, was sold."<a href="#cite_note-dnb-33">[33]</a> PolyGram acquired the remains of Decca UK within days, and British Decca's pop catalogue was taken over by Polydor. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Spoken_word">Spoken word</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Decca_Records&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Spoken word" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> American Decca also released several notable spoken word albums, such as a recording of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>'s <a href="/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol" title="A Christmas Carol">A Christmas Carol</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Colman" title="Ronald Colman">Ronald Colman</a> as Scrooge, and a recording of the Christmas chapter from <a href="/wiki/The_Pickwick_Papers" title="The Pickwick Papers">The Pickwick Papers</a> read by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Laughton" title="Charles Laughton">Charles Laughton</a>. These two separate 78-RPM albums were later combined into one LP. Other spoken word albums included Lullaby of Christmas, narrated by <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Peck" title="Gregory Peck">Gregory Peck</a>, a twenty-minute version of <a href="/wiki/Moby_Dick" class="mw-redirect" title="Moby Dick">Moby Dick</a>, with Charles Laughton as Captain Ahab, and The Littlest Angel, narrated by <a href="/wiki/Loretta_Young" title="Loretta Young">Loretta Young</a>. British Decca released on LP, in 1968, the most complete version of <a href="/wiki/Man_of_La_Mancha" title="Man of La Mancha">Man of La Mancha</a> ever put on vinyl records, a 2-LP album featuring most of the dialogue and all of the songs, performed by the show's original London cast. <a href="/wiki/Keith_Michell" title="Keith Michell">Keith Michell</a> starred as Don Quixote and Cervantes, and <a href="/wiki/Joan_Diener" title="Joan Diener">Joan Diener</a> was Aldonza/Dulcinea. Around 1970, American Decca enjoyed success with LPS of soundtrack dialogue excerpts from the films of <a href="/wiki/W.C._Fields" class="mw-redirect" title="W.C. Fields">W.C. Fields</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Marx_Brothers" title="Marx Brothers">Marx Brothers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mae_West" title="Mae West">Mae West</a>. The Fields and Marx Brothers albums were narrated by radio personality and cartoon voice actor <a href="/wiki/Gary_Owens" title="Gary Owens">Gary Owens</a>. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Country_music">Country music</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Decca_Records&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Country music" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Deccanashvillelogo.png" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0c/Deccanashvillelogo.png/220px-Deccanashvillelogo.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="80" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="140"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 80px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0c/Deccanashvillelogo.png/220px-Deccanashvillelogo.png" data-width="220" data-height="80" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0c/Deccanashvillelogo.png/330px-Deccanashvillelogo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/Deccanashvillelogo.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Short-lived Decca Records country music label logo</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/MCA_Nashville_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="MCA Nashville Records">MCA Nashville Records</a></div> In 1934, Jack Kapp established a country & western line for the new Decca label by signing <a href="/wiki/Frank_Luther" title="Frank Luther">Frank Luther</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sons_of_the_Pioneers" title="Sons of the Pioneers">Sons of the Pioneers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Hamblen" title="Stuart Hamblen">Stuart Hamblen</a>, The Ranch Boys, and other popular acts based in both New York and Los Angeles. Louisiana singer/composer <a href="/wiki/Jimmie_Davis" title="Jimmie Davis">Jimmie Davis</a> began recording for Decca the same year, joined by western vocalists <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Wakely" title="Jimmy Wakely">Jimmy Wakely</a> and <a href="/wiki/Roy_Rogers" title="Roy Rogers">Roy Rogers</a> in 1940.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> From the late 1940s on, the US arm of Decca had a sizeable roster of <a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">country</a> artists. The main architect of Decca's success in country music was <a href="/wiki/Owen_Bradley" title="Owen Bradley">Owen Bradley</a>, who joined Decca in 1947 and was promoted to vice president and head of A&R for the Nashville operations in 1958.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="Technology_developments">Technology developments</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Decca_Records&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Technology developments" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Full_frequency_range_recording_(ffrr)">Full frequency range recording (ffrr) </h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Decca_Records&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Full frequency range recording (ffrr)" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Full frequency range recording (ffrr) was a spin-off devised by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Haddy" title="Arthur Haddy">Arthur Haddy</a><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> of British Decca's development, during the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, of a <a href="/wiki/High_fidelity" title="High fidelity">high fidelity</a> <a href="/wiki/Hydrophone" title="Hydrophone">hydrophone</a> capable of detecting and cataloguing individual <a href="/wiki/U-boat" title="U-boat">German submarines</a> by each one's signature engine noise, and enabled a greatly enhanced frequency range (high and low notes) to be captured on recordings.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> Critics regularly commented on the startling realism of the new Decca recordings. The frequency range of ffrr was 80–15000 Hz, with a <a href="/wiki/Signal-to-noise_ratio" title="Signal-to-noise ratio">signal-to-noise ratio</a> of 60 dB. While Decca's early ffrr releases on 78-rpm discs had some noticeable <a href="/wiki/Surface_noise" class="mw-redirect" title="Surface noise">surface noise</a>, which diminished the effects of the high fidelity sound, the introduction of long-playing records in 1949 made better use of the new technology and set an industry standard that was quickly imitated by Decca's competitors. Nonetheless, titles first issued on 78rpm remained in that form in the Decca catalogues into the early 1950s. The ffrr technique became internationally accepted and considered a standard. The <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Ansermet" title="Ernest Ansermet">Ernest Ansermet</a> recording of <a href="/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky" title="Igor Stravinsky">Stravinsky</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Petrushka_(ballet)" title="Petrushka (ballet)">Petrushka</a> was key in the development of full frequency range records and alerting the listening public to high fidelity in 1946.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_LP">The LP</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Decca_Records&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The LP" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The long-playing record was launched in the US in 1948 by <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Records" title="Columbia Records">Columbia Records</a> (not connected with the <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Graphophone_Company" title="Columbia Graphophone Company">British company</a> of the same name at the time). It enabled recordings to play for up to half an hour without a break, compared with the three to five minutes playing time of the existing records. The new records were made of <a href="/wiki/Gramophone_record" class="mw-redirect" title="Gramophone record">vinyl</a> (the old discs were made of brittle <a href="/wiki/Shellac" title="Shellac">shellac</a>), which enabled the ffrr recordings to be transferred to disc very realistically. In 1949, in both the UK and the US, Decca took up the LP promptly and enthusiastically<a href="#cite_note-google19412-1">[1]</a> giving the British arm an enormous advantage over EMI, which for some years tried to stick exclusively to the old format, thereby forfeiting competitive advantage to Decca, both artistically and financially. British Decca recorded high-fidelity versions of all the symphonies of <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams" title="Ralph Vaughan Williams">Ralph Vaughan Williams</a> except for the ninth, under the personal supervision of the composer, with <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Boult" title="Adrian Boult">Sir Adrian Boult</a> and the <a href="/wiki/London_Philharmonic_Orchestra" title="London Philharmonic Orchestra">London Philharmonic Orchestra</a>. <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Britten" title="Benjamin Britten">Benjamin Britten</a> conducted recordings of many of his compositions for Decca, from the 1940s to the 1970s; most of these recordings have been reissued on CD. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stereo_(ffss)">Stereo (ffss)</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Decca_Records&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Stereo (ffss)" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The British Decca recording engineers Arthur Haddy, Roy Wallace, and <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Wilkinson" title="Kenneth Wilkinson">Kenneth Wilkinson</a> developed in 1954 the famous <a href="/wiki/Decca_tree" title="Decca tree">Decca tree</a>, a stereo microphone recording system for big orchestras. Decca started the first actual stereophonic recording on 13–28 May 1954, at <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Hall_(Geneva)" title="Victoria Hall (Geneva)">Victoria Hall</a>, Geneva, the first European record company to do so; only two months before, <a href="/wiki/RCA_Victor" class="mw-redirect" title="RCA Victor">RCA Victor</a> had begun the first actual stereophonic recording in the US, 6–8 March 1954. Decca archives show that <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Ansermet" title="Ernest Ansermet">Ernest Ansermet</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Orchestre_de_la_Suisse_Romande" title="Orchestre de la Suisse Romande">Orchestre de la Suisse Romande</a> recorded <a href="/wiki/Antar_(Rimsky-Korsakov)" title="Antar (Rimsky-Korsakov)">Antar</a> by <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Rimsky-Korsakov" title="Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov">Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov</a> (Decca's official first actual stereo recording); <a href="/wiki/Stenka_Razin" title="Stenka Razin">Stenka Razin</a> by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Glazunov" title="Alexander Glazunov">Alexander Glazunov</a>; Tamara by <a href="/wiki/Mily_Balakirev" title="Mily Balakirev">Mily Balakirev</a>; <a href="/wiki/Anatoly_Liadov" class="mw-redirect" title="Anatoly Liadov">Anatoly Liadov</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Baba-Yaga" class="mw-redirect" title="Baba-Yaga">Baba-Yaga</a>, Eight Russian Folksongs, Kikimora; and <a href="/wiki/Le_Martyre_de_saint_S%C3%A9bastien" title="Le Martyre de saint Sébastien">Le Martyre de saint Sébastien</a> by <a href="/wiki/Claude_Debussy" title="Claude Debussy">Claude Debussy</a>. These performances were initially issued only in monaural sound; and in 1959, the stereo version of <a href="/wiki/Le_Martyre_de_saint_S%C3%A9bastien" title="Le Martyre de saint Sébastien">Le Martyre de saint Sébastien</a> was issued only in the US as London OSA 1104 (OS 25108); and stereo versions of others were finally issued from the late 1960s to the beginning of the 1970s as part of the "Ace of Diamonds" series and ""Decca Eclipse"" series (in the UK) or "Stereo Treasury" series (in the US on the London label).<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> The Decca stereo format was called (in succession to ffrr) "ffss", i.e. "full frequency stereophonic sound". With most competitors not using stereo until 1957, the new technique was a distinctive feature of Decca. Even after stereo became standard and into the 1970s, Decca boasted a special sound quality, characterized by aggressive use of the highest and lowest frequencies, novel use of tape saturation and out-of-phase sound to convey a livelier hall ambiance, plus considerable bar-to-bar rebalancing by the recording staff of orchestral voices, known as "spotlighting". In the 1960s and 1970s, the company developed its "Phase 4" process which produced even greater sonic impact through even more interventionist engineering techniques. Big-band leader <a href="/wiki/Ted_Heath_(bandleader)#1960s" title="Ted Heath (bandleader)">Ted Heath</a> was an early pioneer of the Decca "Phase 4" sound. Decca recorded some <a href="/wiki/Quadrophonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Quadrophonic">quadrophonic</a> masters that were released in <a href="/wiki/Sansui_Electric" title="Sansui Electric">Sansui</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Quadraphonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Quadraphonic">quadraphonic</a> system called QS Regular Matrix. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Digital_recording_and_mastering">Digital recording and mastering</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Decca_Records&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Digital recording and mastering" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Starting in late 1978, British Decca developed its own <a href="/wiki/Digital_audio" title="Digital audio">digital audio</a> recorders used in-house for recording, mixing, editing, and mastering albums. Each recorder consisted of a modified <a href="/wiki/IVC_(videotape_recorder)" class="mw-redirect" title="IVC (videotape recorder)">IVC</a> model 826P open-reel 1-inch <a href="/wiki/VTR" class="mw-redirect" title="VTR">VTR</a>, connected to a custom <a href="/wiki/Codec" title="Codec">codec</a> unit with time code capability (using a proprietary <a href="/wiki/Time_code" class="mw-redirect" title="Time code">time code</a> developed by Decca), as well as outboard <a href="/wiki/Digital-to-analog_converter" title="Digital-to-analog converter">DAC</a> and <a href="/wiki/Analog-to-digital_converter" title="Analog-to-digital converter">ADC</a> units connected to the codec unit. The codec recorded audio to tape in 18-bit linear PCM at 48 kHz, with a maximum of eight channels. Later versions of the system used 20-bit recording. Except for the IVC VTRs (which were modified to Decca's specifications by IVC's UK division in <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire" title="Reading, Berkshire">Reading</a>), all the electronics for these systems were developed and manufactured in-house by Decca (and by contractors to them as well). These digital systems were used for mastering most of Decca's classical music releases to both LP and CD and were used well into the late 1990s. After the start of the new century, Decca became actively involved in pioneering a new generation of high-resolution and multi-channel recordings, including <a href="/wiki/Super_Audio_CD" title="Super Audio CD">Super Audio CD</a> (SACD) and <a href="/wiki/DVD-Audio" title="DVD-Audio">DVD-Audio</a> (DVD-A) formats. Decca is now routinely mastering new recordings in these formats. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Decca_Special_Products">Decca Special Products</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Decca_Records&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Decca Special Products" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Decca Special Products developed products for the audio marketplace[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] and a line of home audio equipment.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="Later_history">Later history</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Decca_Records&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Later history" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> American Decca bought <a href="/wiki/Universal-International" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal-International">Universal-International</a> in 1952, and eventually merged with <a href="/wiki/MCA_Inc." title="MCA Inc.">MCA Inc.</a> in 1962, becoming a subsidiary company under MCA. Dissatisfied with American Decca's promotion of British Decca recordings and because American Decca held the rights to the name Decca in the US and Canada, British Decca sold its records in the United States and Canada under the label London Records beginning in 1947. In Britain, London Records became a mighty catch-all licensing label for foreign recordings from the nascent post-WW II American independent and semi-major labels such as Cadence, Dot, Chess, Atlantic, Imperial and Liberty. Conversely, British Decca retained a non-reciprocal right to license and issue American Decca recordings in the UK on their Brunswick (US Decca recordings) and <a href="/wiki/Coral_Records" title="Coral Records">Coral</a> (US Brunswick and Coral recordings) labels; this arrangement continued until 1967 when a UK branch of MCA was established utilizing the <a href="/wiki/MCA_Records" title="MCA Records">MCA Records</a> label, with distribution fluctuating between British Decca and other English companies over time. In Canada, the <a href="/wiki/Compo_Company" title="Compo Company">Compo Company</a> was reorganized into MCA Records (Canada) in 1970.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> The Decca name was dropped by MCA in America in 1973 in favor of the <a href="/wiki/MCA_Records" title="MCA Records">MCA Records</a> label. The first-run American Decca label's final release, "<a href="/wiki/Drift_Away" title="Drift Away">Drift Away</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Dobie_Gray" title="Dobie Gray">Dobie Gray</a> (label No. 33057), reached No. 5 on the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a> chart and received gold record status. <a href="/wiki/PolyGram" title="PolyGram">PolyGram</a> acquired the remains of Decca UK within days of Sir Edward Lewis's death in January 1980. British Decca's pop catalogue was taken over by <a href="/wiki/Polydor_Records" title="Polydor Records">Polydor Records</a>. Ironically, PolyGram descended from British Decca's former Dutch distributor Hollandsche Decca Distributie. In Taiwan, PolyGram acquired 60% of Linfair Magnetic Sound (founded in 1961) in 1992 and renamed it Decca Records Taiwan. The name remained until 2002, when it decided to sell its 60 percent stake, and changed its name to Linfair Records, making the company independent from Universal Music. In addition to the Decca label, Linfair Records also distributes V2 Records' releases and some independent labels. However, Linfair Records' releases outside Taiwan will continue to be released internationally via Universal Music. The Decca label is currently in use by <a href="/wiki/Universal_Music_Group" title="Universal Music Group">Universal Music Group</a> worldwide; this is possible because <a href="/wiki/Universal_Studios,_Inc." title="Universal Studios, Inc.">Universal Studios</a> (which officially dropped the MCA name after the <a href="/wiki/Seagram" title="Seagram">Seagram</a> buyout in 1996) acquired PolyGram, British Decca's parent company in 1998, thus consolidating Decca trademark ownership. In the US, the Decca country music label was shut down and the London classical label was renamed as it was able to use the Decca name for the first time because of the merger that created Universal Music. In 1999, Decca absorbed <a href="/wiki/Philips_Records" title="Philips Records">Philips Records</a> to create the Decca Music Group (half of <a href="/wiki/Universal_Music_Classics_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal Music Classics Group">Universal Music Classics Group</a> in the US, with <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Grammophon" title="Deutsche Grammophon">Deutsche Grammophon</a> being the other half). Today, Decca is a leading label for both classical music and Broadway scores although it is branching out into pop music from established recording stars: in 2007 its <a href="/wiki/Motown:_A_Journey_Through_Hitsville_USA" title="Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA">Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA</a> by <a href="/wiki/Boyz_II_Men" title="Boyz II Men">Boyz II Men</a> reached No. 27 on the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a> Top 200 Albums chart. In 2007 they won the race to sign English teen jazz sensation <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Hart" title="Victoria Hart">Victoria Hart</a> and released her first album Whatever Happened to Romance in July.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> In December 2007, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/Morrissey" title="Morrissey">Morrissey</a> would be joining the Decca roster. In August 2009, it was revealed that <a href="/wiki/American_Idol" title="American Idol">American Idol</a> alum, <a href="/wiki/Clay_Aiken" title="Clay Aiken">Clay Aiken</a>, had signed with Decca.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> It reentered the American country music scene in 2008. There are two Universal Music label groups now using the Decca name. The Decca Label Group is the US label whereas the London-based Decca Music Group runs the international classical and pop releases by such world-famous performers as <a href="/wiki/Andrea_Bocelli" title="Andrea Bocelli">Andrea Bocelli</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hayley_Westenra" title="Hayley Westenra">Hayley Westenra</a>. The London Records pop label that was established in the UK in 1990, run by Roger Ames, and distributed by PolyGram became part of <a href="/wiki/Warner_Music_Group" title="Warner Music Group">Warner Music Group</a> in 2000 when he was hired to run that company. Universal Music reacquired trademark rights in 2011, and Warner Records 90 Ltd. (formerly London Records 90), a company that controlled most of London's post-1980 catalogue, was acquired by French company <a href="/wiki/Because_Music" title="Because Music">Because Music</a> in 2017. They started licensing "London Recordings" name and logo from UMG, and Warner Records 90 was renamed London Music Stream Ltd. It is also the distributing label of <a href="/wiki/Point_Music_(label)" class="mw-redirect" title="Point Music (label)">POINT Music</a>, a joint venture between Universal and <a href="/wiki/Philip_Glass" title="Philip Glass">Philip Glass</a>'s Euphorbia Productions that folded shortly after the merger that created Universal Music. Ironically, the American Decca classical music catalogue is managed by sister Universal label <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Grammophon" title="Deutsche Grammophon">Deutsche Grammophon</a>. They include the recordings of guitarist <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Segovia" title="Andrés Segovia">Andrés Segovia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> Before Deutsche Grammophon founded its own American branch in 1969, it had a distribution deal with American Decca until 1962 when distribution switched to <a href="/wiki/MGM_Records" title="MGM Records">MGM Records</a>.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> <a href="/wiki/%C3%89ditions_de_l%27Oiseau-Lyre" title="Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre">Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre</a> is a wholly owned subsidiary specialising in European classical music of the 15th to 19th centuries. American Decca's <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> catalogue is managed by <a href="/wiki/GRP_Records" title="GRP Records">GRP Records</a>, an imprint of <a href="/wiki/Verve_Records" title="Verve Records">Verve Records</a>. The American Decca rock/pop catalogue is managed by <a href="/wiki/Geffen_Records" title="Geffen Records">Geffen Records</a>. American distribution of British Decca's rock/pop catalogue is handled by <a href="/wiki/Island_Records" title="Island Records">Island Records</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Decca_Broadway" title="Decca Broadway">Decca Broadway</a> imprint is used for both newly recorded musical theatre songs and Universal Music Group's vast catalogues of musical theatre recordings from record labels UMG and predecessor companies acquired over the years. On 10 January 2011, Universal Music Group, which owns the masters to Decca Records, announced that it was donating 200,000 of its master recordings from the 1920s to the 1940s to the United States Library of Congress. The collection of master recordings will be cleaned and digitised. Included in this group are Bing Crosby's original recording of 'White Christmas' and thousands more by Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, the Andrews Sisters, and other famous and lesser-known musicians who recorded during this time. Because of this transaction, once the Library has organised and cleaned the collection, the public will eventually have some degree of access to thousands of recordings that have been commercially unavailable for decades. According to the Los Angeles Times, "[a]s part of the agreement between UMG and the library, Universal retains ownership of the recording copyrights and the right to exploit the cleaned-up and digitized files for commercial purposes."<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> Today, Decca distributes UMG's jazz holdings led by <a href="/wiki/Blue_Note_Records" title="Blue Note Records">Blue Note Records</a> and <a href="/wiki/Verve_Records" title="Verve Records">Verve Records</a> along with the classical music holdings led by Decca Classics, <a href="/wiki/Philips_Records" title="Philips Records">Philips Records</a> and <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Grammophon" title="Deutsche Grammophon">Deutsche Grammophon</a>. It also distributes recordings from the <a href="/wiki/Concord_Music_Group" title="Concord Music Group">Concord Music Group</a>, which includes <a href="/wiki/Rounder_Records" title="Rounder Records">Rounder Records</a>.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><h2 id="Decca_matrix_prefixes">Decca matrix prefixes</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Decca_Records&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Decca matrix prefixes" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-8 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-8"> The following <a href="/wiki/Matrix_number" title="Matrix number">matrix</a> prefixes were used by Decca:<a href="#cite_note-Abs_Sound_1986_11-48">[48]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style> <table border="0" cellpadding="1" style="color:black; background:#fff;"> <tbody><tr valign="top"> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;">DL: </td> <td style="width:10%; text-align:left;">12-inch </td> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/78_rpm" class="mw-redirect" title="78 rpm">78 rpm</a> </td> <td style="width:60%;"> mono </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;">AL: </td> <td style="width:10%; text-align:left;">12-inch </td> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/78_rpm" class="mw-redirect" title="78 rpm">78 rpm</a> </td> <td style="width:60%;"> mono </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;">DRL: </td> <td style="width:10%; text-align:left;">10-inch </td> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/LP_record" title="LP record"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027">33+1⁄3 rpm</a> </td> <td style="width:60%;"> mono </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;">ARL: </td> <td style="width:10%; text-align:left;">12-inch </td> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/LP_record" title="LP record"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027">33+1⁄3 rpm</a> </td> <td style="width:60%;"> mono </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;">ZDR: </td> <td style="width:10%; text-align:left;">10-inch </td> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/LP_record" title="LP record"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027">33+1⁄3 rpm</a> </td> <td style="width:60%;"> stereo </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;">ZAL: </td> <td style="width:10%; text-align:left;">12-inch </td> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/LP_record" title="LP record"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027">33+1⁄3 rpm</a> </td> <td style="width:60%;"> stereo </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;">ENO: </td> <td style="width:10%; text-align:left;"> 7-inch </td> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Single_(music)" title="Single (music)">45 rpm</a> </td> <td style="width:60%;"> mono </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;">ZENO: </td> <td style="width:10%; text-align:left;"> 7-inch </td> <td style="width:15%; text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Single_(music)" title="Single (music)">45 rpm</a> </td> <td style="width:60%;"> stereo </td></tr></tbody></table> Key <dl><dd>A = classical</dd> <dd>Z = stereo</dd> <dd>L = London</dd> <dd>Xxxx = external recording</dd></dl> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Decca_Records&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Decca_Studios" title="Decca Studios">Decca Studios</a>, London, England</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Decca_Records_artists" title="Category:Decca Records artists">Category: Decca Records artists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Decca_Records_albums" title="Category:Decca Records albums">Category: Decca Records albums</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Decca_Records_singles" title="Category:Decca Records singles">Category: Decca Records singles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_artists_under_the_Decca_Records_label" class="mw-redirect" title="List of artists under the Decca Records label">List of artists under the Decca Records label</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_record_labels" title="Lists of record labels">Lists of record labels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Decca_audition" class="mw-redirect" title="The Decca audition">The Decca audition</a> by <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">the Beatles</a> in 1962</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Point_Music_(label)" class="mw-redirect" title="Point Music (label)">Point Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decca_Broadway" title="Decca Broadway">Decca Broadway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MCA_Records" title="MCA Records">MCA Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Decca_albums" title="List of Decca albums">List of Decca albums</a></li></ul></div> Selected affiliated labels <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brunswick_Records" title="Brunswick Records">Brunswick Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coral_Records" title="Coral Records">Coral Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deram_Records" title="Deram Records">Deram Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geffen_Records" title="Geffen Records">Geffen Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Threshold_Records" title="Threshold Records">Threshold Records</a></li></ul> </div> Personnel and staff <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Owen_Bradley" title="Owen Bradley">Owen Bradley</a> (1915–1998), head of Decca's Nashville operation and credited with helping to create the <a href="/wiki/Nashville_sound" title="Nashville sound">Nashville sound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Cohen_(record_producer)" title="Paul Cohen (record producer)">Paul Cohen</a> (1908–1970), longtime executive widely attributed for helping Nashville flourish in the recording industry</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milt_Gabler" title="Milt Gabler">Milt Gabler</a> (1911–2001), American Decca executive and producer from 1941 to 1971</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Jerome" title="Henry Jerome">Henry Jerome</a> (1917–2011), music director at Decca Records in the early 1950s; and A&R director for <a href="/wiki/Coral_Records" title="Coral Records">Coral Records</a> beginning late 1960s</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Kapp" title="Jack Kapp">Jack Kapp</a> (1901–1949), American Decca founder</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Lewis_(Decca)" title="Edward Lewis (Decca)">Edward Lewis</a> (1900–1980), financier who led Decca recording group for 5 decades</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Meehan" title="Tony Meehan">Tony Meehan</a> (1943–2005), drummer turned <a href="/wiki/A%26R" class="mw-redirect" title="A&R">A&R</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitch_Miller" title="Mitch Miller">Mitch Miller</a> (1911–2010), joined Decca in 1965</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Wharton" title="Alex Wharton">Alex Murray</a> (born 1939), A&R</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milton_Rackmil" title="Milton Rackmil">Milton Rackmil</a> (1906–1992) American Decca head from 1949 to 1972</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Rowe" title="Dick Rowe">Dick Rowe</a> (1921–1986), <a href="/wiki/A%26R" class="mw-redirect" title="A&R">A&R</a> executive</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nat_Tarnopol" title="Nat Tarnopol">Nat Tarnopol</a> (1931–1987), former president of Brunswick Records</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Thiele" title="Bob Thiele">Bob Thiele</a> (1922–1996), headed Coral Records</li></ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(10)"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Decca_Records&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Notes" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-10 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-10"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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The New York Times.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Israel+Horowitz%2C+Record+Producer%2C+and+Billboard+Columnist%2C+Dies+at+92&rft.date=2009-01-05&rft.aulast=Kozinn&rft.aufirst=Allan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F01%2F05%2Farts%2Fmusic%2F05horowitz.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecca+Records" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.immediatemediabristol.com/news/solti%E2%80%99s-ring-takes-top-spot-greatest-recording-ever">"Solti's The Ring takes the top spot as greatest recording ever"</a>. Immediate Media Co. 18 December 2011. 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Putting the Record Straight:the autobiography of John Culshaw. 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href="http://decca.com/">Official website</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Decca-West-African-recordings">Decca West Africa series</a> at <a href="/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library">British Library</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/DeccaComplete/mode/2up">Decca Classical Discography, 1929–2009</a> at <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://purl.org/pressemappe20/folder/co/047647">Clippings about Decca Records</a> in the <a href="/wiki/20th_Century_Press_Archives" title="20th Century Press Archives">20th Century Press Archives</a> of the <a href="/wiki/German_National_Library_of_Economics" title="German National Library of Economics">ZBW</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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