* American singer-songwriter, Brenda Lee, released the rockabilly song " Let's Jump The Broomstick " on Decca Records in 1959.

The ' Opera in Six Scenes ' was subsequently recorded by Decca between March and June 1979 and released on the Argo label in November 1979.

* A 2007 recording was released by Decca Broadway in honor of West Side Story's 50th anniversary.

* In late March 1976, the first truly complete recording of the opera Porgy and Bess is released in a 3-LP set, by Decca Records in England and by London Records in the U. S. It stars Willard White and Leona Mitchell.

In addition to this, another LP was released on Decca ( DL 7-9188 ), and was later reissued by Varese Sarabande on black ( STV-81072 ) and green ( VC-81072 ) vinyl.

Although originally released to vinyl at a running time of 2 minutes and 8 seconds, most digital / CD releases of the original 1954 recording, starting with the " From The Original Master Tapes " compilation of Bill's work with Decca Records, mastered by Steve Hoffman and released in 1985, clock in at 2: 10.

In April 1981, Bill Haley & His Comets returned to the British musical charts once again when MCA Records ( inheritors of the Decca catalog ) released " Haley's Golden Medley ", a hastily compiled edit of the band's best known hits in the style of the then-popular " Stars on 45 " format.

* " Thirteen Women ( And Only One Man in Town )" / "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock " ( Decca 29124 )-" Rock Around the Clock " was initially released as the B-side

British record label Decca began development of their own 2-track digital audio recorders in 1978, and released the first European digital recording in 1979.

In May 2010, Playbill. com reported Minnelli would be releasing an album on the Decca Records label entitled Confessions, which was released on September 21, 2010.

It was first released by American Decca in 1944 as a four-record 78-rpm set, but was afterward transferred to LP.

The film's soundtrack was first released by Decca Records in 1944 as a collection of three 78rpm singles.

A studio cast recording of the film's songs was released by Decca soon after the film, with Danny Kaye, Jane Wyman, and a backup chorus singing the songs from the film, also including two Sylvia Fine originals made specifically for the album, " Uncle Pockets " and " There's a Hole at the Bottom of the Sea ", and Danny Kaye's narration of two Tubby the Tuba stories by Paul Tripp.

This edition was screened on NBC in the US the following day, and the soundtrack was released by Decca Records.

Glass Harp's original Decca studio albums were re-issued on CD in 2005 by Music Mill Entertainment ( having first been released on CD in 1993 by Line Records in Germany before quickly going out of print ).

In April 1945, a year after the song was recorded, Decca released " Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well ".

The last recording made of the original two-act version — Christoph von Dohnányi conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, with Anja Silja in the title role ( Decca / London, recorded 1976 and released 1978 )— presented it in this form.

In 1940, American Decca released the first album of songs from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

In 1942, American Decca released the first recording of " White Christmas " by Bing Crosby.

In 1943, American 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 !, performed by the same cast who appeared in the show on Broadway, and using the show's orchestra, conductor, chorus, and musical and vocal arrangements.

In 1954, American Decca released " Rock Around the Clock " by Bill Haley & His Comets.

During the 1950s, American Decca released a number of soundtrack recordings of popular motion pictures, notably Mike Todd's production of Around the World in Eighty Days ( 1956 ) 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 1958.

** New Musical Express, a British music magazine, publishes a story about two 13-year-old schoolgirls, Sue and Mary, releasing a disc on Decca and adds " A Liverpool group, The Beatles, have recorded ' Love Me Do ' for Parlophone Records, set for October 5 release.

The two songs were issued as a single on Decca ( 32890 ).

Decca engineers later combined the two versions together into one version.

Entering a recording studio for the first time, Harris sang on two of the five cuts that day, " Hurry, Hurry " and " Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well ", for the Decca label.

( Compo was acquired by Decca in 1951 although its Apex label continued in production for the next two decades.

In 1960, she signed with Decca outright and released two more albums and numerous singles while she was alive and several more albums and singles produced after her untimely death in a 1963 plane crash.

There are two Universal Music label groups now using the Decca name.

The first British recordings of skiffle were carried out by Colyer's new band in 1954, but it was the release by Decca of two skiffle tracks by Barber's Jazz Band under the name of " The Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group " in late 1955 that transformed the fortunes of skiffle.

A four track Extended Play release titled: " The Moody Blues " featuring both sides of their first two Decca singles was issued in a colour picture sleeve in early 1965.

In 1941, Tatum recorded two sessions for Decca Records with singer Big Joe Turner, the first of which included " Wee Wee Baby Blues ", which attained national popularity.

Tiara Records, along with The Shirelles ' contract, was sold to Decca Records in 1959 for $ 4000 ; Greenberg stayed as the manager, securing performances for the group, including one at the Howard Theatre in Washington D. C. After two singles did poorly, including their first release — with Coley as lead vocalist — of " Dedicated to the One I Love ", a cover of The " 5 " Royales song of the same name, Decca returned them to Greenberg and gave up on them, considering them a one-hit act ; On Greenberg's new label, Scepter Records, they re-released " Dedicated to the One I Love " as a single, which peaked at # 89 ; Wayne Wadhams, David Nathan, and Susan Lindsay in Inside the Hits attribute the low rating to poor distribution.

Less than two months later — on July 30, 1956 — Decca Records offered her a contract, and her first record was " Jambayala " backed with " Bigelow 6 – 200 ".

Though she turned 12 on December 11, 1956, both of the first two Decca singles credit her as " Little Brenda Lee ( 9 Years Old ).

It was recorded at Decca Records ' number two studio at their West Hampstead complex, as was the B-side, a version of Ray Charles ' 1959 classic cut, " What'd I Say?

The first two songs were released on " Swan " 45rpm records, and the third released on a " Decca " LP record:

This line-up recorded two further singles-" Goodbye, Dolly Gray ", for Decca, and " Until My Baby Comes Home ", for Liberty-before disbanding in September 1966.

He did a solitary session for Decca in 1940 and two sessions for OKeh in 1941.

* Fire ( a band with future Strawbs member Dave Lambert on guitar ) released two singles in 1968, Father's Name Was Dad, ( produced by Tony Clarke ) and Round The Gum Tree, on Decca with Apple publishing credits

Jimmy Dorsey remained with Decca Records as the two brothers were now competing with each other musically.

Besides the first disc release in May 1965 ( pictured above ), two more Decca disc releases occurred before Donny Osmond took the spotlight.

Four episodes of the TV series were re-recorded and released on LP format, two by Pye on the 1961 album Hancock (" The Blood Donor " and " The Radio Ham ") and two by Decca Records on the 1965 album It's Hancock (" The Missing Page " and " The Reunion Party "), which was reissued as The World of Tony Hancock in 1975.