In 2007, reports said that many RCA workers, including mogul Clive Davis, were unhappy with Kelly Clarkson's album My December.

From late 1995 through early 1996, the band recorded its third demo with funds from RCA records to record with producer engineer Eric Valentine, which resulted in the band gaining major label attention, including that of Clive Davis, who invited the band to perform a showcase for Arista Records in New York City.

On 12 October, Pearlman's company Trans Continental, in conjunction with RCA owner BMG Entertainment and BMG Ariola Munich sued Jive Records, Clive Calder, and the members of * NSYNC for $ 150 million citing, among other things, breach of contract.

North White High School " Vikings " football coach Jim Davis led the Vikings to an undefeated 14-0 season and class 1A football state championship in 1994 by defeating Sheridan High School 34-7 at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis.

From 2002 until April 2008, Davis was the Chairman and CEO of the RCA Music Group ( which included RCA Records, J Records and Arista Records ), Chairman and CEO of J Records, and Chairman and CEO of BMG North America.

BMG would buy a majority stake in J Records in 2002, and Davis would become president and CEO of the larger RCA Music Group.

Davis remained with RCA Label Group until 2008, when he was named chief creative officer for Sony BMG.

Barry Weiss, head of Sony's Zomba Group of Companies, replaced Davis as RCA Label Group's chairman.

Arista Records and J Records which were both founded by Davis were dissolved in October 2011 through the restructuring of RCA Records.

Arista, always an independently managed label at BMG, was merged with J Records in August 2005 and began operating under the newly formed RCA Music Group — of which Davis had become CEO, and thus again became in control of Arista.

Mundell Lowe recorded Porgy & Bess ( RCA Camden, 1958 ) at almost the same time as the Davis and Evans collaboration.

* Verdi: Falstaff ( Sweet, Lopardo, Panerai, Titus ; C. Davis, 1991 ) RCA

1 and 4, London SO / Davis, RCA

She started out as part of The Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Victor.

Eventually, the duo were signed by RCA Victor in 1951 ( earlier demo recordings were eventually released on Fortune Records after the act's RCA success which has led to some confusion that the Davis Sisters were on the Fortune label before RCA ).

RCA Victor producer Steve Sholes liked the Davis Sisters ' harmonies and offered the duo a recording contract in 1953.

* Love Calls ( 1967, RCA )-with Eddie Lockjaw Davis

The album was issued as " The Davis Sisters Sing Authentic Southern Style Gospel-Recorded In Live Performance ", RCA Victor LSP-2851, and had a color photograph on the cover of the Famous Davis Sisters in their choir robes singing around a microphone, reminiscent of the format of Savoy MG-14000, their first album which was issued almost ten years previously with much less professional photography and graphics.

The same year, J Records began functioning under the RCA Music Group, where Davis had been appointed president and CEO, and signed American Idol winners Fantasia and Ruben Studdard.

As a staff producer at BMG Classics ( RCA Red Seal ) for nearly a decade, he collaborated with many of their most important artists such as André Previn, Sir Colin Davis, Leonard Slatkin, The Tokyo String Quartet, János Starker, Luciano Berio and the pianists Alicia de Larrocha, Evgeny Kissin, Rudolf Firkusny and Van Cliburn.

Alabama wanted to sign with RCA, because they were the label that had Elvis Presley.

When RCA had asked if there was anything special he wanted as a signing premium, Nilsson asked for his own office at RCA, being used to working out of one.

The self-produced Nilsson Sings Newman also marked the end of his collaboration with RCA staff producer Rick Jarrard, who recounted in the Nilsson documentary that the partnership was terminated by a telegram from Nilsson, who abruptly informed Jarrard that he wanted to work with other producers, and the two never met or spoke again.

When the band wanted to resign from their deal with RCA, the label refused.

Unfortunately, the move to RCA did not work out because the person who had signed them there moved to another label shortly thereafter, and his replacement wanted to promote Alabama more than the Oak Ridge Boys.

During 1975, RCA producer Chet Atkins told an interviewer, " Jim wanted to be a tenor but I wanted him to be a baritone ... After he changed his voice to that smooth deeper sound, he was immensely popular.

The recordings were made by RCA Victor at the request of rival network NBC, which apparently wanted to monitor the then-rising young singer.

The group wanted " Gabinetes espaciales " to be the a-side of this single but RCA wished to promote " Pototo " instead.

While Betamax was believed to be the superior format in the minds of the public and press ( due to excellent marketing by Sony ), consumers really wanted an affordable VCR ( a VHS often cost hundreds of dollars less than a Betamax ); Sony believed that having better quality recordings was the key to success, and that consumers would be willing to pay a higher retail price for this, whereas it soon became clear that consumer desire was focused more intently on recording time, lower retail price, compatibility with other machines for sharing ( as VHS was becoming the format in the majority of homes ), brand loyalty to companies who licensed VHS ( RCA, Magnavox, Zenith, Quasar, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, even JVC itself, et al.

The quartet found it difficult to persuade RCA to give them as much work as they wanted or to pay them as their new reputation might justify.

Around this time, RCA Records announced that they wished to release the group's debut album, which was previously only released in Germany, in both the UK and US, however, wanted to make adjustments to suit both markets.

Meanwhile, Hill became head of A & R at BNA Entertainment on October 29 of that same year and immediately wanted to sign Allan to BNA, but the then current roster conditions and other circumstances related to the planned restructuring of RCA / BNA Nashville stood in the way.

RCA producer Steve Sholes wanted a strong single to be the next release, aware that there was not much good material available.

RCA Records wanted to release a big ballad during the holiday season like they did the year prior with " Beautiful " and felt that ' The Voice Within ' was the perfect candidate.

Decca started recording in stereo on 14 – 28 May 1954, in Victoria Hall in Geneva, the first European record company to do so, only three months after RCA Victor began recording in stereo in the U. S. Decca archives show that Ernest Ansermet and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande recorded Tamara by Mily Balakirev ; the overture to Benvenuto Cellini by Hector Berlioz ; Stenka Razin by Alexander Glazunov ; and Anatoly Liadov's Baba-Yaga, Eight Russian Folksongs, and Kikimora.

S / PDIF remained almost identical at the protocol level ( consumer S / PDIF provides for copy protection, whereas professional interfaces do not ), but changed the physical connectors from XLR to either electrical coaxial cable ( with RCA connectors ) or optical fibre ( TOSLINK ; i. e., F05 or EIAJ Optical ), both of which cost less.

: David Sarnoff, the president of RCA who had first proposed the " radio music box " in 1916 so that listeners might enjoy " concerts, lectures, music, recitals ," felt that the medium was failing to do this.

* April 4 – RCA Victor Records announces that it will release all pop singles in mono and stereo simultaneously, the first record company to do so.

RCA Victor is the label for blues music, world music, jazz, musicals and other musical genres which do not fit the pop music mold.

Lanza had been asked by his label RCA Victor to record the song, but Martino called and pleaded with him not to do so in order to let Martino's version have a clear run.

Presley had to do no more than provide RCA with three albums a year, and his film soundtracks did that for him.

In the notes for their third record, the group writes, " RCA decided that if our little basement tape could do so well, why not spend fifty times more money and it will be fifty times better!

Jarvis and RCA had nothing left to do but to fill the album with the live tracks mentioned above.

Many old B & O audio components do not use common RCA connectors.

* How do I download songs onto an RCA Lyra MP3 player?