The design of GPS is based partly on similar ground-based radio-navigation systems, such as LORAN and the Decca Navigator developed in the early 1940s, and used during World War II.

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 ".

Decca logo used on classical-music releases.

Starting in the late 1970s, British Decca developed their own digital audio recorders used in-house for recording, mixing, editing, and mastering albums.

The Decca Broadway imprint is used for both newly recorded musical theatre songs and Universal Music Group's vast catalogues of musical theatre recordings from record labels UMG and predecessor companies acquired over the years.

In 1938 ARC-Brunswick was taken over by CBS, which then sold the American Brunswick label to American Decca Records, which along with its ' other properties, Aeolian Records and Vocalion Records, used it as a subsidiary budget label afterward.

( The version used in the movie itself was by the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Karajan, uncredited, but copyright owner Decca Records didn't want to be associated with science-fiction.

Similar hyperbolic systems included the British / US Decca Navigator System used in the English Channel area, the US global-wide VLF / Omega Navigation System, and the similar Alpha deployed by the USSR.

Many of these Decca recordings have been used in such television shows and Hollywood movies as Homefront, ER, The Brink's Job, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Swing Shift, Raggedy Man, Summer of ' 42, Slaughterhouse-Five, Maria's Lovers, Harlem Nights, In Dreams, Murder in the First, L. A.

When the cover pictures were taken the group was not made aware by Decca that the shots would be used for a US album.

Image: 1960sMCAlogo. jpg | First MCA Records logo, used outside the United States and patterned after the 1960s American Decca logo.

The London name was also used by British Decca in the UK market to release American labels which British Decca licensed, such as Imperial, Chess, Dot, Atlantic, Specialty and Sun, as well as the first two UK releases from Motown.

Like his UHCA label, Gabler initially arranged for recording and pressing made by ARC, then Reeves Transcription Services and Decca, so both Commodore and UHCA used various matrix number series, depending on where the session originated from.

After World War II Gabler went to work for Decca Records, and his Commodore label was later used by Decca for reissuing earlier jazz recordings on LP.

In the UK, Decca used the Vocalion label mainly to issue US artists.

" Love Is the $ 64, 000 Question " ( 1956 ), which used the show's theme music by Norman F. Leyden with added Fred Ebb lyrics, was recorded by Hal March ( Columbia 40684 ), Karen Chandler ( Decca 29881 ), Jim Lowe ( Dot 15456 ) and Tony Travis ( RCA Victor 47-6476 ).

Decca initially conceived Deram Records initially as an outlet for stereo ' Deramic Sound ' recordings of contemporary pop and rock music, though not all of the early recordings on Deram used this technique.

The basic difference was that, instead of overdubbing and mixing 4 individual ( mono ) tracks from a 4-track recorder, the Decca recording engineers used a pair of 4-track machines to layer multiple 2-channel ( stereo ) recordings.

Deram has also been used as a reissue imprint for the Decca / London catalogue.

The Decca, Kapp, and Uni labels continued to be used for new releases for a short time, but in late 1972, new releases by their former artists began appearing on the MCA Records label ; before long their back catalogs had been transferred to MCA as well.

The name FFRR originally stood for Full Frequency Range Recording, which was an improved high-fidelity recording technique and marketing slogan used by Decca Records on its singles and albums — and especially its Western classical albums — in the 1950s and 1960s.

UK Decca used a system of 4 and 5-digit numbers with an F prefix.

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.

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.

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.

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.