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| Decca
Records was a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.
Its U.S. label was established in late 1934. Because of World War II, the
link with the British company was broken for several decades.
The name "Decca" dates back to a portable gramophone called the "Decca Dulcephone" patented in 1914 by musical instrument makers Barnett Samuel and Sons. That company was eventually renamed The Decca Gramophone Co. Ltd. and then sold to former stockbroker Edward Lewis in 1929. Within years Decca Records Ltd. was the second largest record label in the world, calling itself "The Supreme Record Company". American Decca bought Universal Pictures in 1952, and eventually merged with MCA 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. The Decca name was dropped by MCA in America in 1973 in favour of the MCA Records label. The American Decca label went out with a big bang with its final release, "Drift Away" by Dobie Gray in 1973 ( # 33057), reaching #5 on the Billboard chart and receiving gold record status. |
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