She also successfully sued MCA / Decca with the assistance of noted entertainment attorney Cy Godfrey.

The Decca deal also let Oldham use non-Decca recording studios, with Regent Sound Studios, a mono facility decorated by egg boxes on the ceiling for sound treatment, becoming the preferred facility.

Fitzgerald also recorded a number of sides with Armstrong for Decca in the early 1950s.

In 1946, Ronald Colman also made a three-record, 78 RPM album based on the film for American Decca Records.

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.

The Violin Concerto was also recorded by Hindemith for Decca / London, with the composer conducting the London Symphony Orchestra with David Oistrakh as soloist.

Besides the OKeh recordings, Parlophone also issued recordings from US Columbia, Brunswick as well as a few sessions produced at US Decca.

Decca also bought out the Melotone and Edison Bell record companies.

American Decca also released several notable spoken word albums, such as a recording of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol starring Ronald Colman as Scrooge, and a recording of the Christmas chapter from The Pickwick Papers read by Charles Laughton.

Loretta was also known as the " Decca Doll " till she was more known as the Coal Miner's Daughter.

The American branch of Decca also marketed its own line of home audio equipment.

In addition to Decca label, Linfair Records also distribute V2 Records ' releases, and some independent labels.

" In addition to backing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters and other artists, Paul's trio also recorded a few albums of their own on the Decca label in the late 1940s.

The group lost their record contract with Decca that year, which also saw the release of a single called " I'm Your Witchdoctor " ( produced by Jimmy Page ) in October 1965, the first credited to John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, followed by a return to Decca in 1966.

Further UK singles were: " Everyday " ( No. 44 ) in October 1965, another Pinder-Laine song, plus their later " This is My House ( But Nobody Calls )" ( Decca F 12498, 1966 ) and " Boulevard de la Madeleine " also issued in late-1966.

It also appeared on Decca with Vladimir Ashkenazy, with Charles Dutoit and Andre Previn for DG, and on Phillips and Sony with Bernard Haitink ( see Bernard Haitink for a complete list ).

Instrumental to the sisters ' success over the years were their parents, Olga and Peter ; their orchestra leader and musical arranger, Vic Schoen ( 1916 – 2000 ); music publishing giant Lou Levy, who died only days after Maxene, and was their manager from 1937 – 51 and was also Maxene's husband from 1941 – 49 ; and both Jack Kapp ( d. 1949 ) and his brother David Kapp, who founded Decca Records. Maxene was the mother of 2 children, Mark ( born -) & Shianne ( born ).

While the sisters specialized in swing, boogie-woogie, and novelty hits with their trademark lightning-quick vocal syncopations, they also produced major hits in jazz, ballads, folk, country-western, seasonal, and religious titles, being the first Decca artists to record an album of gospel standards in 1950.

Jimmy Dorsey also released the song as Decca 18799A with Dee Parker on vocals in 1946.

Because neither EMI nor Decca, for whom she also had recorded, were keen to sign her to a long-term contract, her father, whose own theatrical ambitions had been thwarted by his parents, teamed with Freeman to form the Polygon record label in order to better control and facilitate her singing career ..

* In 1970 Decca Records released a recording with Ernest Ansermet conducting the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, also including Frank Martin's Concerto for seven winds, percussion, and string orchestra.

It is also releasing some of American Decca Records ' albums from the 1940s and 1950s, such as those that Leonard Bernstein made for Decca in 1953, and the classic Christmas album that features Ronald Colman's starring in A Christmas Carol and Charles Laughton's narrating Mr. Pickwick's Christmas.

The Decca Navigator System was a low frequency radio navigation system which allowed ships and aircraft to determine their position by receiving radio signals from fixed navigational beacons with a receiving unit.

Decca employees used to joke that DECCA was an acronym for Dedicated Englishmen Causing Chaos Abroad.

When his Decca co-workers The Andrews Sisters began their engagement at the London Palladium directly on the heels of Kaye's incredibly successful 1948 appearance there, the trio was so well received that David Lewin of the Daily Express declared, " The audience gave The Andrews Sisters the Danny Kaye roar!

point to a joint-venture between what was then Decca, later Racal Avionics, now part of Thales Group, at Shannon Corner and a Korean chaebol in the 1950s as the start of the community.

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.

Later that year Decca producer Peter Sullivan saw Tommy Scott and The Senators performing in a club and directed them to manager Phil Solomon, but the partnership was short-lived.

The Choir has an extensive discography dating back to the 1950s, when it was signed to the Decca / Argo label under George Guest.

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.

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 ".

After leaving Essex Records in the spring of 1954, Bill Haley signed with the then-important Decca Records label, and the band's first recording session was set for April 12, 1954 at the Pythian Temple studios in New York City.

In 1989, Haley's original Decca recording was incorporated into the " dance mix " single " Swing The Mood ", credited to Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, but legal considerations forced the album version to substitute a patchwork of re-recordings from the 1950s and 1960s ( in Haley's case, a 1968 version of " Rock Around the Clock " recorded for Sonet Records ).

The most notable of these compilations was the 1955 Decca Records album Rock Around the Clock ( Decca DL 8225 ) which contained most of the tracks Haley recorded as singles for the label in 1954 and 1955.

In 1959, Haley's relationship with Decca collapsed and after a final set of instrumental-only recordings in the fall, Haley announced he was leaving Decca for the new Warner Bros. Records label.

Two additional groups claim the name Bill Haley's Comets and have extensively toured in the United States since forming in the 1980s: one originally Haley's 1965 – 68 drummer John " Bam-Bam " Lane, the other run by Al Rappa who played bass for Haley off-and-on between late 1959 and early 1969 ( the 1956 album " Strictly Instrumental " on Decca was Al Rappa's first recording session with Bill Haley & His Comets.

* " 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

The record ( Decca 18698 ) was # 4 to Cooley's # 5 on Billboard's September 15 " Most Played Juke Box Folk Records " listing.

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.