DECCA Bites The Dust

Subject: RE: DECCA Bites The Dust
From: Gurney
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 03:48 AM

Right, Woodsie. At one time Decca was almost the generic name for radar, radio, and asdic equipment in the UK.
I had a Decca stereogram 35 years ago. Good one, too. Not throwaway like you get today.

Sorry for the plant guys in the US, though. Been there, been done to like that. 5 times!

Subject: RE: DECCA Bites The Dust
From: GUEST,woodsie
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 11:46 AM

I think people are at cross-wires here. The UK Decca and the US Decca are/were two different companies. The UK company was based on the Albert Embankment in London. They were prime developers and manufaturers of RADAR equipment for the MOD and foreign export. Yes they did turn down The Beatles' but so did all the other major labels at the time, including EMI. It was George Martin who got them signed to the parlaphone subsidary of EMI.

Subject: RE: DECCA Bites The Dust
From: GUEST,Bob Schwarer
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 04:44 PM

I remember when I was a kid I had some old Decca single sided 78's.
Don't remember what happened to them. They may still be at the old place.

Bob S.

Subject: RE: DECCA Bites The Dust
From: GUEST,Bob Coltman
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 12:57 PM

Decca was adventurous for its time, not afraid to put out the then current generation of folk revivalists. Burl Ives, the Weavers. Marais & Miranda, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Josh White... all Decca alumni. Alan Lomax issued some of those early LPs (such as Josh's) in a folk music series presumably following on from his radio shows in NYC.

Not to mention the fabulous 30s when the fledgling Decca label had 78s bt everybody from the Carter Family and many another country act to innumerable bluesmen such as Sleepy John Estes and Brownsville Son Bonds.

Decca really died in '68 when MCA buried it. But it will indeed be missed.

Bob

Subject: RE: DECCA Bites The Dust
From: Auggie
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 08:06 PM

The Beatles would have been on DECCA too if geniuses Dick Rowe and Mike Smith hadn't decided in 1962 that they weren't good enough.

Subject: RE: DECCA Bites The Dust
From: The Shambles
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 07:20 PM

The Rolling Stones were first recorded in the UK on Decca.

Subject: DECCA Bites The Dust
From: Greg F.
Date: 05 Feb 05 - 04:51 PM

Universal Music Group to close record plant in May, citing popularity of CDs
Saturday, February 5, 2005

GLOVERSVILLE, NY -- A vinyl record plant with a history dating to the production of old-fashioned 78s will close in May, leaving 112 employees out of work, owner Universal Music Group announced this week.
        
Layoffs will start in early April, and the plant will shut down May 6, officials said.

The plant on Route 30A just outside the city has been owned by Universal since the late 1990s. It is the only Universal manufacturing plant producing just vinyl LPs, said spokesman Peter Lofrumento. The company is based in New York City; it is a division of French telecommunications giant Vivendi Universal.

The Gloversville plant has been on Route 30A since 1962, but had existed at a different location since the 1940s. It operated for decades under the name Decca before that company was taken over by MCA in 1968.

Record collectors said the plant printed all kinds of music over the years, from Bing Crosby to the Jackson 5. Art Simmons, a record collector from Northville, said the plant was responsible for printing the first American single from an early incarnation of The Beatles, called Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers...


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