Decca Records (o The Decca Record Company Limited) è un'etichetta discografica britannica, fondata a Londra nel 1929, dal 1999 di proprietà del gruppo Universal.
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Artisti di Decca Records
Roy Eldridge
1911–1989 · trombettista statunitense
Mel Tormé
1925–1999 · cantante e musicista statunitense
Tommy Dorsey
1905–1956 · trombonista e direttore d'orchestra statunitense
Madeleine Peyroux
n. 1973 · cantautrice statunitense
Raymond Scott
1908–1994 · compositore, musicista e inventore statunitense
Georgie Fame
n. 1943 · cantautore, tastierista e chitarrista britannico
Helen Humes
1913–1981 · musicista jazz, cantante, compositrice statunitense (1913-)
Lucky Millinder
1910–1966 · cantante e bandleader di un gruppo jazz
Sy Oliver
1910–1988 · American jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and…
Cleo Patra Brown
1909–1995 · cantante statunitense
Russ Morgan
1904–1969 · American big band leader and arranger, songwriter…
Roy Smeck
1900–1994 · American virtuoso guitarist, banjoist and ukulele player…
Stanley Black
1913–2002 · British composer (1913-2002)
Erskine Butterfield
1913–1961 · American musician (1913–1961)
Profilo dell'etichetta
Multinational label; also appears as Decca Records. Label code: LC 0171 / LC 00171.
This is the LABEL to use, regardless of whether the COMPANY behind is The Decca Record Company Limited (formerly owned by its founder Edward Lewis and PolyGram) or Decca Records, Inc. (formerly owned by MCA), or whichever else.
Former stockbroker Edward Lewis formed The Decca Record Company Limited in the United Kingdom on February 28, 1929. It was founded for Brunswick Ltd., which was founded locally by Brunswick-Balke-Collender and the German Polyphon Musik. The company started releasing records under the Decca trademark.
A US branch, Decca Records, Inc., was launched on August 4th, 1934. The first US Decca label was a Sunburst design (also referred to as three-dimensional), but that design disappeared in 1937. The sunburst design was replaced by a Decca in block lettering (also referred to as two-dimensional), mainly blue and red. This branch was sold off during World War II, but the UK & US companies continued to release each other’s recordings in their respective territories. In the UK, US Decca recordings were released on the Brunswick label from 1934 until February 1968, when the MCA Recor
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