Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label, founded in 1929 by Edward Lewis . The American label arose late in 1934 . Later, the link with the British company was broken for several decades. Famous for his recording methods (in the UK) and the development (in the US) are both wings part of the Universal Music Group, owned by Vivendi, a media agglomerate in France .

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 * 1 Artists
 * 2 Decca Classics
 * 3 See also
 * 4 External link

Artists
If Decca label for pop music had its heyday in the 60s, with well-known artists such as The Rolling Stones , Louis Armstrong , Billie Holiday , The Andrews Sisters , Bill Haley & His Comets , Duke Ellington , Ricky Nelson , Dolly Parton , The Who , Tom Jones , The Moody Blues , Small Faces and many others.

Notorious is the fact that Decca refused the Beatles, after an audition on New Year's Day in 1962 to provide a recording contract. By Decca people were convinced that the music The Beatles made had no future. The manager of The Beatles, Brian Epstein, therefore, was told that "guitar groups are on the way out". [1] The auditionEpstein had however recorded material that he could hear representatives of other plates size labels. Eventually this led to the Beatles by George Martin got a record deal with Parlophone, a label of EMI . Decca Records later fell into the same error; one saw Jimi Hendrix not sit; a left-handed guitarist was too much of a good thing.

The Netherlands. Decca was, from 1930, for the Netherlands by Dutch Decca Supplies. The owner of this man company was Heinrich Wilhelm ("Hank") of Zoelen that Bussum 'Ultra Foon House "ran. In 1936 the company continued under the name "Hollandsche Decca Distribution (Decca Dutch Supplies) SA". The shares were acquired in 1942 by Philips. In addition to international artists on the Decca label in the Netherlands were released by Phonogram (see above), there was also a group of Dutch artists on Decca. Examples Boudewijn de Groot and Mouth & MacNeal .

Decca Classics [ edit ]
In the 70s Decca lost his position as pop label, both in the Netherlands and abroad. Decca continued as a label for classical music. After the dramatic changes in parent company PolyGram in 1998, which resulted in the Universal Music Group came from the name Decca preserved. It has become the name of the classic branch of Universal, where all the classic operations of the Philips and Decca labels are accommodated inClassics Decca .

In the US Decca however, still active in different fields. Thus, the most recent album was Elton John released on Decca and other country and pop albums. Decca USA also has a label that movie soundtracks and Broadway musicals are released.