Decca Records is a British record label established in by Edward Lewis. Inas a result of anticipating Nazi aggression leading to World War II, Lewis sold American Decca and the link between the U. Decca labels was broken for several decades. The British label was renowned for its development of recording methods, while the American company developed the concept of cast albums in the musical genre. Both wings are now part of the Universal Music Groupwhich is owned by Vivendi, a media conglomerate headquartered in Paris, France. The US Decca label was the foundation company that evolved into UMG. The name "Decca" was coined by Wilfred S. Samuel by merging the word "Mecca" with the initial D of their logo "Dulcet" or their trademark "Dulcephone. The name dates back to a portable gramophone called the "Decca Dulcephone" patented in by musical instrument makers Barnett Samuel and Sons. That company was eventually renamed the Decca Gramophone Co. Within years, Decca Records Ltd. Decca bought the UK branch of Brunswick Records and continued to run it under that name. In the s the American Decca studios were located in the Pythian Temple in New York City. In classical music, Decca had a long way to go from its modest beginnings to option up with the established HMV and Columbia labels later merged as EMI. The pre-war classical repertoire on Decca was not extensive, but was select. The 3-disc recording of Delius 's Sea Driftarising 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by being crammed onto six sides, being indifferently recorded and expensive; following issue in July they were already withdrawn by October the selling year. However, it won Decca the loyalty of the baritone Roy Henderson, who went on to record for them the first complete Dido and Aeneas of Purcell with Nancy Evans and the Boyd Neel option Purcell Club, 14 sides, issued February ; and Henderson's famous pupil Kathleen Ferrier was recorded and issued by Decca through the period 78rpm transition from 78 to LP — Heinrich Schlusnus made important pre-war lieder recordings put Decca. Decca's emergence as a major classical label may be attributed to three concurrent events: Decca released the stereo recordings of Ernest Ansermet conducting L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, including, inthe first stereo LP album of the complete Nutcrackeras well as Ansermet's only stereo version of Manuel de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hatwhich the conductor had led at its first performance in John Culshaw, who joined Decca in in a junior post, rapidly became a senior producer of classical recordings. He revolutionised recording — of opera, in particular. Hitherto, the practice had been to put microphones in front of the performers and simply record what they performed. Culshaw was determined to make recordings that would be 'a put of the mind', making the listener's experience at home not second best to being in the opera house, but a wholly different experience. To that end he got the singers to 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 engineering, took Decca into the first flight option recording companies. His pioneering recording begun in of Wagner 's Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Georg Solti was a huge artistic and commercial success to the chagrin of other companies. In the wake of Decca's lead, artists such as Herbert von TradingJoan Sutherland and later Luciano Pavarotti were keen to join the company's roster. However, Culshaw was, strictly speaking, not the first to do this. InColumbia Records executive Goddard Lieberson partnered with Broadway conductor Lehman Engel to record a series of previously unrecorded Broadway musical scores for Columbia Masterworks, including what Engel, in his book The American Musical Theatre: A Considerationtermed "Broadway opera", and inthey released the most complete Porgy and Bess option 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. UntilAmerican Decca issued British Decca classical music recordings. Afterwards, British Decca took over distribution through its new American subsidiary London Records. American Decca actively re-entered the classical music field in with distribution deals from Deutsche Grammophon and Parlophone. American Decca began issuing its own classical music recordings in when Israel Horowitz joined Decca to head its classical music operations. American Decca shut down its classical music department in Between and Decca championed new music through its Headline imprint. Works given their recorded premiere included pieces by Peter Maxwell DaviesHarrison Birtwistle, Luciano BerioHans Werner HenzeWitold Lutoslawski, Toru TakemitsuDavid BedfordThea Musgrave, Andrzej PanufnikIannis XenakisBrian Ferneyhough and John Cage. Performers included Roger Woodward, Stomu Yamash'ta, Salman Shukur, The Grimethorpe Colliery Band 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. When the MCA and PolyGram labels merged in and created Universal Music, the practice was no longer necessary. Its back catalogue includes several landmark and critically acclaimed recordings, such as the Solti Ringvoted the greatest recording of all time by critics with the BBC Music Tradingand Luciano Pavarotti remained an exclusive Decca artist throughout his recording career. In 78rpm, Decca bought out the bankrupt UK branch of Brunswick Records inwhich added such stars as Bing Crosby and Al Jolson to its roster. Decca also bought out the Melotone and Edison Bell record companies. In latea 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 Muskegon, Michigan, which were shut down infrom Warner Bros. Decca became a major player in the depressed American record market thanks to its roster of popular artists, particularly Bing Crosby, the shrewd management of former US Brunswick General Manager Jack Kapp, and the decision to price Decca at 35 cents. The US label also brought back the discontinued Champion label from Gennettas 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 Compo Company Ltd. Compo was acquired by Decca in although its Apex label continued in production for the next two trading. ByDecca and EMI were the only record companies in the UK. American Decca acquired Brunswick Records and its sublabel Vocalion Records in from Warner Bros. InBritish Decca head Edward Lewis sold his interest in American Decca because of World War II. Instock in American Decca began trading on the New York Stock Exchange as Decca Records Inc. Therefore, the two Deccas became separate companies and remained so until American Decca's parent company bought British Decca's parent company in during this time, US Decca artists were issued in the UK on the Brunswick label until when MCA Records was launched in the UK. InAmerican Decca released the first album of songs from the film The Wizard of Oz. However, it was not a soundtrack album but a cover version featuring only Judy Garland from the film, with other roles taken 78rpm the Ken Darby Singers. InAmerican Decca released the first recording of "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby. He recorded another version of the song in for Decca; to this day, Crosby's recording of "White Christmas" for Decca remains the best-selling single worldwide of all time. 78rpmAmerican Decca ushered in the age of the original cast album in the United States, when they released an album set of nearly all the songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein 's Oklahoma! The enormous success of this album was 78rpm by original cast recordings of Carousel and Irving Berlin 's Annie Get Your Sellingboth featuring members of the original casts of the put and utilizing those shows' vocal and choral arrangements. But Decca had made history by recording Broadway musicals, and the influence of these releases in the recording of theatrical shows in the U. Columbia Records followed with musical theatre albums, starting with the revival of Show Boat. InRCA Victor released the original cast album of Brigadoon. By the s, 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. Produced by Milt Gabler, the recording was initially only moderately successful, but when it was used as the theme song for the film Blackboard Jungleit became the first international rock and roll hit, and the first such recording to go to No. According to the Guinness Book of Recordsit went on to sell 25 million copies, returning to the US and UK put several times between and During the s, American Decca released a number of soundtrack recordings of popular motion pictures, notably Mike Todd's production of Around the World in Eighty Days with the music of veteran film composer Victor Young. Since Decca had access to the stereophonic tracks of the Oscar-winning film, they quickly released a stereo version in Because American Decca bought Universal Pictures inmany of these soundtrack albums were of films released by what was then called Universal-International Pictures. InAmerican Decca released the soundtrack album of Flower Drum SongUniversal Pictures's film version of the 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 RCA label severed its longtime affiliation with EMI 's His Master's Voice HMV label inwhich allowed British Decca to market and distribute Elvis Presley 's recordings in the UK on the RCA label later RCA Victor. British Decca had several missed opportunities. Inthey refused to release "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ray Peterson and even destroyed thousands of copies of the single. A cover version by Ricky Valance was released by EMI on put Columbia label, and it went to No. InDecca turned down a chance to record the Beatles with the comment "Guitar groups are on the way out", a historic mistake. Other refusals of note include the Yardbirds and Manfred Mann. Decca had earlier accepted London-born pioneer rock'n'roll singer Terry Dene, who was later known as the British Elvis Presley, and another Merseyside singer, Billy Fury. Option turning down of the Beatles led indirectly to the signing of one of Decca's biggest s artists, the Rolling Stones. Dick Rowe was judging a talent contest with George Harrisonand Trading mentioned to him that he should take a look at the Stones, whom 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. Staff producer Hugh Mendl — worked for Decca for over 40 years and played a significant role in its success in the popular field from the s to the late s. His first major production credit was pianist Winifred Atwell. He produced Rock Island Linethe breakthrough skiffle hit for Lonnie Sellingand he is credited as the put executive to spot the potential of singer-actor Tommy Steele. Mendl's other productions included the first album by humorist Ivor CutlerWho Tore Your Trousers? What a Lovely War and even an LP record of the Le Mans hour race, inspired by his lifelong passion for motor-racing. Mendl was a driving force in the establishment of Decca's progressive Deram label, most notably as the executive producer of the Moody Blues ' groundbreaking LP Days of Future Passed. He is credited with battling against Decca's notorious parsimonious treatment of their artists, ensuring that the Moody Selling 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 John Surman. British Decca lost a key source for American records when Atlantic Records switched British distribution to Polydor Records in in order for Atlantic to gain access to British recording artists which they did not have under Decca distribution. The Rolling Stones left Decca inand other artists followed. Decca's deals with numerous other record labels began to fall apart: RCA Recordsfor instance, abandoned Decca to set up its own UK office in Junejust before the Rolling Stones did the same thing. The Moody Blues were the only international rock act that remained on the label. The company's fortunes declined slightly during the s, and it put few major commercial successes; among those were Dana's two-million selling single, "All Kinds of Everything", issued on their subsidiary label Rex Records. Although Decca had set up the first of the British "progressive" labels, Deram, inwith such stars as Cat Stevens and the Moody Blues, by the time the punk era set inDecca had pop success with such acts as John Milesnovelty creation Father Abraham and the Smurfsand productions by longtime Decca associate Jonathan King. King had a hit, "Everyone's Gone to the Moon", on Decca while he was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge and Edward Lewis recruited him as his personal assistant and "talent spotter". Decca became dependent on re-releases from its back catalogue. American Decca also released several notable spoken word albums, such as a recording of Charles Dickens 's A Christmas Carol starring Ronald Colman as Scrooge, and a recording of the Christmas chapter from The Pickwick Papers read by Charles Laughton. These two separate RPM albums were later combined onto one LP. Other spoken word albums included Lullaby of Christmasnarrated by Gregory Peck, a twenty-minute version of Moby Dickwith Charles Laughton as Captain Ahab, and The Littlest Angelnarrated by Loretta Young. British Decca released on LP, inthe most complete version of Man of Trading Mancha 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. AroundAmerican Decca enjoyed success with LPS of soundtrack dialogue excerpts from the films of W. Fields, the Marx Brothersand Mae West. The Fields and Marx Brothers albums were narrated by radio personality and cartoon voice actor Gary Owens. From the late s on, the US arm of Decca had a sizeable roster of Country artists, including Kitty WellsJohnny Wright, Moon MullicanErnest TradingWebb Piercethe Wilburn Brothers, Bobbejaan Schoepenand Red Foley. Decca quickly became the main rival of RCA Records as the top label for American country music, and remained so for several decades. As part of a licensing agreement with 4 Star Records, Patsy Cline joined the Decca roster in after releasing three singles on Decca's Coral Records subsidiary, under the same agreement, beginning in While Cline's contract was held by 4 Star, the deal allowed Decca complete control of the recording sessions, including choice of Producer and musicians. However, it also restricted the choice of material available for Cline to record to only songs published by 4 Star. This proved to be a stipulation which hampered her career for several years. Between andCline recorded one album and multiple singles under the agreement, but saw limited chart success and very little money. Inshe signed directly with Decca. No longer bound by the restrictions of the 4 Star agreement, Cline went on to achieve tremendous success on both the Country and Pop charts. She recorded two more albums, and released numerous singles, before her untimely death in a plane crash. A number of posthumous singles and albums appeared in the years following. The Wilburn Brothers signed to the label inand were ultimately awarded a lifetime contract 20 years in Doyle Wilburn negotiated a recording contract for Loretta Lynnwho signed to Decca in and remained with the label for over 25 years. Loretta was known as the "Decca Doll" until she became better known as the "Coal Miner's Daughter. She was the biggest selling female country artist of the s and 70s. MCA Nashville reactivated the Trading label in the US, as a subsidiary, in Mark Chesnutt was transferred to Decca from MCA Nashville, while Dawn Sears was the first new act signed. Other artists signed to the revived label included Rhett AkinsLee Ann WomackGary AllanCarl Perkins and Dolly Parton. With the decline in the genre's popularity and the contraction taking place in the industry during the late s, MCA Nashville closed the Decca subsidiary in early shortly after UMG's purchase of PolyGram. Chesnutt, Womack and Allan were shifted to the MCA Nashville roster, while all other Decca artists were released. Inindependent of UMG's Nashville operations, the Decca Music Group signed Country act One Flew South to the label. One album was released before the group departed. In the UK, Decca has signed a few Country acts in recent years including Nathan Carter, Lucie SilvasUna Healy and The Shires. Full frequency range recording ffrr was a spin-off devised by Arthur Haddy of British Decca's development, during the Second Trading War, of a high fidelity hydrophone capable of detecting and cataloguing individual German submarines by each one's signature engine noise, and enabled a greatly enhanced frequency range high and low notes to be captured on recordings. Critics regularly commented on the startling realism of the new Decca recordings. While Decca's early ffrr releases on rpm discs had some noticeable surface noise, which diminished the effects of the high fidelity sound, the introduction of long-playing records in 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 s. The ffrr technique became internationally accepted and considered a standard. The Ernest Put recording of Stravinsky 's Petrushka was key in the development of full frequency range records and alerting the listening public to high fidelity in The long-playing record was launched in the USA in by Columbia Records not connected with the British company of the same name at the time. It enabled recordings to play for up to half an hour without a break, compared with the 3 to 5 minutes playing time of the existing records. The new records were made of vinyl the old discs were made of brittle shellacwhich enabled the ffrr recordings to be transferred to disc very realistically. In both the UK and the US Decca took up the LP promptly and enthusiastically, ingiving the British arm an enormous advantage over EMI, which for 78rpm years tried to stick exclusively to the old selling, thereby forfeiting competitive advantage to Decca, both artistically and financially. British Decca recorded high fidelity versions of all the symphonies of Ralph Vaughan Williams except for the ninth, under the personal supervision of the composer, with Sir Adrian Boult and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Benjamin Britten conducted recordings of many of his compositions for Decca, from the s through the s; most of these recordings have been reissued on CD. The British Decca recording engineers Arthur Haddy, Roy Wallace and Kenneth Wilkinson developed in the famous Decca tree, a stereo microphone recording system for big orchestras. Decca started first actual stereophonic recording in 13—28 Mayat Victoria Hall, Geneva, the first European record company to do so, only three months former, RCA Victor began first actual stereophonic recording in the U. The Decca Stereo format was called in succession to ffrr"ffss", i. Even after stereo became standard and into the s, Decca boasted a special, spectacular sound quality, characterised by aggressive use of the highest and lowest frequencies, daring use of tape saturation and out-of-phase sound to convey a lively and impactful hall ambiance, plus considerable bar-to-bar rebalancing by the recording staff of orchestral voices, known as "spotlighting. Big-band leader Ted Heath was an early pioneer of the Decca "Phase 4" sound. Decca recorded some quadrophonic masters that were released in Sansui's quadraphonic system called QS Regular Matrix. Starting in lateBritish Decca developed their own digital audio recorders used in-house for recording, mixing, editing, and mastering albums. Each recorder consisted of a modified IVC model P open-reel 1-inch VTR, connected to a custom codec unit with time code capability using a proprietary time code developed by Deccaas well as outboard DAC and ADC units connected to the codec unit. Later versions of the system used bit recording. With the exception of the IVC VTRs which were modified to Decca's specifications by IVC's UK division in Readingall the electronics for these systems were developed and selling 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 s. After the start of the new century, Decca became actively involved in pioneering a new generation of high-resolution and multi-channel recordings, including "Super Audio CD" SACD and "DVD-Audio" DVD-A formats. Decca is now routinely mastering new recordings in these formats. American Decca bought Universal-International inand eventually merged with MCA Inc. 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 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 Selling Decca recordings in the UK on their Brunswick Records US Decca recordings and Coral Records US Brunswick and Coral recordings labels; this arrangement continued through when a UK branch of MCA was established utilising the MCA Records label, with distribution fluctuating between British Decca and other English companies over time. In Canada, the Compo Company was reorganised into MCA Records Canada in The name remains untilwhen 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 Decca label, Linfair Records also distribute V2 Records' releases, and some independent labels. However, Linfair Records' releases outside Taiwan will continue to be released internationally via Universal Music. The Decca name was dropped by MCA in America in in favour of the MCA Records label. The first-run American Decca label went out with a big bang with its final release, "Drift Away" by Dobie Gray in label No. PolyGram acquired the remains of Decca UK within days of Sir Edward Lewis's death in January British Decca's pop catalogue was taken over by Polydor Records. Ironically, PolyGram descended from British Decca's former Dutch distributor Hollandsche Decca Distributie. The Decca option is currently in use by Universal Music Group worldwide; this is possible because Universal Studios which officially dropped the MCA name after the Seagram buyout in acquired PolyGram, British Decca's parent company inthus 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. InDecca absorbed Philips Records to create the Decca Music Group half of Universal Music Classics Group in the USA, with Deutsche Grammophon 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: A Journey Through Hitsville USA by Boyz II Menwhich reached No. In they won the race to sign English teen jazz sensation Victoria Hart and released her first album Whatever Happened to Romance in July. In Decemberit was announced that Morrissey would be joining the Decca roster. In Augustit was revealed that American Idol alum, Clay Aikenhad signed with Decca. It reentered the American country music scene in 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 Andrea Bocelli and Hayley Westenra. The London Records pop label that was established in the UK inrun by Roger Ames, and distributed by PolyGram became part of WEA in when he was hired to run that company. It is also the distributing label of POINT Music, a joint venture between Universal and Philip Glass '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 Deutsche Grammophon. Before Deutsche Grammophon founded its own American branch init had a distribution deal with American Decca until when distribution switched to MGM Records. American Decca's jazz catalogue is managed by GRP Recordsan imprint of Verve Records. The Decca Broadway 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 JanuaryUniversal Music Group, which owns the masters to Decca Records, announced that it was donatingof its master recordings from the s to the s 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, 78rpm Garland, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, the Andrews Sisters and other famous and 78rpm musicians who recorded during this time period. 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"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. Today, Decca distributes UMG's jazz holdings led by Blue Note Records and Verve Records along with the classical music holdings led by Decca Classics, Philips Records and Deutsche Grammophon. They also distribute recordings from the Concord Music Group and Rounder Records. Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter. You will soon receive an email at the address you entered. After you click the confirmation link in the email, you will receive the newsletter. Below you have the option to let us know about your music preferences. Log in with Facebook Log in option Google. Label Decca Records 0. Label info Country of origin: United Kingdom Distributor s: Decca Music Option US, UK Universal Music Group rest of world Founded: Kensington, London, United Selling Official website: Decca Records Decca Classics Parent company: Show me Label history Decca Records is a British record label established in by Edward Lewis. Decca Special Products developed a number of products for the audio marketplace. Decca Special Products was spun off, and is now known as London Decca. The American branch of Decca also marketed its own line of home audio equipment. The following matrix prefixes were used by Decca: Comments 0 Comments for this label. Please log in or register to leave a comment. The artistxite Highlights All the best deals, new releases and recommandations all in one spot! Music that inspires me: With artistxite I find the best music from more than 26 million songs. All downloads in high quality MP3. 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