Korner made his first official record on Decca Records DFE 6286 in the company of Ken Colyer's Skiffle Group.

Following this performance, Decca Records signed him to a contract in February 1956, misspelling his name as " Holly ".

Petty contacted music publishers and labels, and Brunswick Records, a subsidiary of Decca, signed the Crickets on March 19, 1957.

Holly signed as a solo artist with another Decca subsidiary, Coral Records.

Category: Decca Records artists

Category: Decca Records artists

Category: Decca Records artists

Kaye teamed with the very popular Andrews Sisters ( Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne ) on Decca Records in 1947, producing the number-three Billboard smash hit " Civilization ( Bongo, Bongo, Bongo )".

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

He recorded the single " Muddy River Water " for ( Decca Records ), the Sunset soundtrack and appeared on the Roxy Cast album of Rocky Horror Show.

MCA later purchased the US branch of Decca Records, which owned Universal Studios ( now a part of NBCUniversal ), and thus Universal now owns these films, though EMKA continues to hold the copyright and technically are part of the television unit of NBC Universal.

Her relationship with the Capitol label spanned almost three decades, aside from her brief but artistically rich detour ( 1952 – 1956 ) at Decca Records, where in 1956 she recorded one of her most acclaimed albums, Black Coffee.

* March 25 – Jack Kapp, president of the U. S. branch of Decca Records ( b. 1901 )

* 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.

** The Beatles audition for Decca Records.

** 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.

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* The Dudley Moore Trio ( Decca Records ( LK UK ) / London Records ( US ) PS558 ) 1969

She left Decca and Granz, now her manager, created Verve Records around her.

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This was later shortened to "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock ", though this form is generally only used on releases of the 1954 Bill Haley Decca Records recording ; most other recordings of this song by Haley and others ( including Sonny Dae ) shorten this title further to " Rock Around the Clock ".

Nonetheless, rumors of a 1953 demo recording by Haley persist to this day, although surviving members of the Comets deny this, as did Haley himself ( quoted in the Swenson biography ) ; a late-1960s bootleg single of the Decca Records version of " Rock Around the Clock ", with " Crazy Man, Crazy " on the B-side and carrying the Essex label, occasionally turns up for sale with the claim that it is the demo version.

Artists signed to American Decca in the 1930s and 1940s included Louis Armstrong, Charlie Kunz, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Jane Froman, The Boswell Sisters, Billie Holiday, The Andrews Sisters, Ted Lewis, Judy Garland, The Mills Brothers, Billy Cotton, Guy Lombardo, Chick Webb, Louis Jordan ( the No. 1 R & B artist of the 1940s ), Bob Crosby, Bill Kenny & The Ink Spots, Dorsey Brothers ( and subsequently Jimmy Dorsey after the brothers split ), Connee Boswell and Jack Hylton, Victor Young, Earl Hines, Claude Hopkins, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the original ' soul sister ' of recorded music.

Decca throughout the 1930s and early-to-mid 1940s was a leading label of blues and jump with such best selling artists as Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Louis Jordan ( who was the best selling R & B artist of the 1940s ).

The Solti Ring was voted best recording of all time by readers of the influential magazine Gramophone and Luciano Pavarotti remained an exclusive Decca artist throughout his recording career.

Gerry Marsden began writing most of their own songs, including " It's Gonna Be All Right ", " I'm the One ", and " Ferry Cross the Mersey ", as well as their first and biggest US hit, " Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying ", which peaked at No. 4, and which Gerry Marsden initially gave to Decca recording artist Louise Cordet in 1963.

He was an admired recording artist, featured on RCA Victor, Columbia, Decca, Capitol, and MGM Records discs.

Jones is currently mentoring choirgirl Isabel Suckling, the youngest classical recording artist signed by Decca Records and first choirgirl to sign a record contract with a major music label to date.

and Decca was to be the first artist to record on the Claddagh label.

Puckett recorded as a solo artist into the early 1940s, creating a discography of more than 200 records on such labels as Columbia, Decca, and Bluebird.

Also in Britain ( where the publishers of " In the Summer of His Years " refused to allow the song a single release by any British artist ), Joe Meek, composer of The Tornadoes ' hit " Telstar ", released an instrumental titled " The Kennedy March " on Decca Records, with royalties marked to be sent to Jacqueline Kennedy for her to donate to charity.

She made over seventy records for Decca, had her own radio series ( the first black artist to have a long-term contract with the BBC ), and appeared on the stage, in films, and in nightclubs ( of which she owned her own, in New York, London and Paris ).

Once at the studio, producer Milt Gabler ( Uncle of actor Billy Crystal, who had produced Louis Jordan as well as Billie Holiday ), insisted the band work on a song entitled " Thirteen Women ( and Only One Man in Town )" ( previously written and recorded by Dickie Thompson ), which Gabler wanted to promote as the A-side of the group's first single for Decca.

Toward the end of the tour the band members became involved in a dispute with their manager, Decca Records ' Phil Solomon, over the revenues paid to the band ; that, coupled with the expiry of their work visas, meant the band returned from America dejected.

The record was not a success and the band moved to the Deram Records division of Decca Records ( UK ).

Without a band, but a contract to fulfill and pressure from Decca for a ' hit song ', Latimer was joined by an array of guest and session musicians, including David Paton, Chris Rainbow and Anthony Phillips at Abbey Road studio in early 1982.

In 1956 Holly's band ( then known informally as Buddy and the Two Tones ( meaning Buddy Holly with Sonny Curtis and Don Guess ), posthumous releases refer to The Three Tunes ) recorded an album's worth of rockabilly numbers in Nashville, Tennessee for Decca ; the records were no more than mildly successful, and the band didn't hit pay dirt until 1957, when producer and recording engineer Norman Petty hosted Holly's sessions in Clovis, New Mexico.

US Decca label from 1934 ( a late 1930s reissue label ) featuring the band of trumpet star Henry Busse.

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.

Soon, the band obtained a London-based management company, ' Ridgepride ', formed by ex-Decca A & R man Alex Murray ( Alex Wharton ), who helped them land a recording contract with Decca Records in the spring of 1964.

The band encountered management problems after the chart-topping hit and subsequently signed to Decca Records in the UK ( London Records in the US ) as actual recording artists.

The band were introduced to Decca staff producer Tony Clarke who produced a recording session which saw Justin Hayward's " Fly Me High " & Mike Pinder's older-styled " Really Haven't Got the Time " ( Decca F12607 ) as the ' Mark Two ' Moodies first single released in May 1967.

The album, despite being a lush concept album, was in fact cut in a very workmanlike manner, with the band recording a particular song, then the track being presented to Peter Knight who quickly composed a suitable " linking " orchestral portion which the Decca musicians (' London Festival Orchestral ') then recorded.

Decca staff producer Tony Clarke produced the album, and afterwards continued working with the band.

The album was much more pop-oriented, featuring decidedly fewer compositions from within the band ( David Clayton-Thomas, however, had already mounted a solo career as a singer / songwriter over this same time period, beginning with an album released in 1969 by Decca ).

Mayall was offered a recording contract by Decca and, on 7 December 1964, a live performance of the band was recorded at the Klooks Kleek.

After the tour, and with the contract with Decca coming to an end, a disillusioned Downey quit the band and had to be begged to return.

The band signed a management contract with management impresario Don Arden, and they were in turn signed to Decca Records for recording.

After a messy confrontation with the notorious Arden who tried to face down the boys ' parents by claiming that the whole band were using drugs, they broke with both Arden and Decca.

In 1934 the Dorsey Brothers band signed with Decca records, having a hit with " I Believe In Miracles ".

Future bandleader Glenn Miller was a member of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra in 1934 and 1935, composing " Annie's Cousin Fanny " and " Dese Dem Dose " both recorded for Decca for the band.

* 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