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RCA raised objections to the phrase " up against the wall, motherfucker " in the lyrics of Kantner's " We Can Be Together ," but the group managed to prevent it from being censored on the album, pointing out that RCA had already allowed the offending word to be included on the cast album of the rock musical Hair.
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Most of RCA Victor Records ' competitors quickly adopted the raised label and edges.
Hank Snow, born and raised in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, was signed to RCA Records in 1936, but became famous in 1950 when he was invited to appear at the Grand Ole Opry.
Nova Scotia's born and raised Hank Snow who signed with RCA Victor in 1936 and went on to become one of America's most innovative country music superstars.
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Several companies, including Fairchild Semiconductor, RCA and Texas Instruments, picked up on the invention and began development programs.
As a result, GE and Westinghouse gave up their ownership interests in RCA.
During WWII and beyond, RCA set up several new divisions, for defense, space exploration and other activities.
After moving to London, Vangelis signed with RCA Records, set up his own studio, Nemo Studios, and began recording a string of electronic albums, such as Heaven and Hell ( 1975 ), Albedo 0. 39 ( 1976 ), Spiral ( 1977 ), Beaubourg ( 1978 ), and China ( 1979 ).
In 1939, he showed colour television using a cathode ray tube in front of which revolved a disc fitted with colour filters, a method taken up by CBS and RCA in the United States.
Ultimately, Miranda wound up with a recording contract with RCA Records.
RCA had always insisted their performers stay still as they sang so the microphone would pick up the vocals ; even the slightest tilt of the head would result in missing sound.
Decca's deals with numerous other record labels began to fall apart: RCA Records, for instance, abandoned Decca to set up its own UK office in 1971.
") Nilsson acquired a manager, who steered him into a handful of TV guest appearances, and a brief run of stage performances in Europe set up by RCA.
One night, while opening up for Jackie Wilson, they did a spontaneous cover of Wilson's " Lonely Teardrops ", which caught the eye of a scout for RCA, who immediately told staff of the brothers.
He partnered up with RCA Records for distribution in 2005 and 2006 for the two studio albums License To Chill and Take The Weather With You.
However, the promise of the RCA system was so great that the National Television System Committee ( NTSC ) took up its cause.
" Good Thing Going " ( a cover of a song originally recorded by Michael Jackson in 1971 ) was picked up for distribution by RCA and reached Number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in March 1981, leading to an album of the same name.
Dorsey might have broken up his own band permanently following World War II, as many big bands did due to the shift in music economics following the war, but Tommy Dorsey's album for RCA, " All Time Hits " placed in the top ten records in February, 1947.
RCA also released some " extended play " ( EP ) discs with running times up to 7 minutes per side, primarily for classical recordings.
RCA set up its own British distribution in 1971.
In September 1965, RCA and Lear Jet Corp. teamed up to release the first stereo 8-track tape music Cartridges ( Stereo 8 ) which were first used in the 1966 line of Ford automobiles and were popular throughout the late 1960s and 1970s.
When GE later bought RCA and broke it up MCI purchased the RCA Global Communications division.
They recorded a demo at RCA Studios, produced by Mick Ronson, that attracted record label attention, but the band remained unsigned and ultimately broke up in mid-1983.
In the 1990s, he had teamed up with RCA / Thomson Consumer Electronics and Hughes Electronics Corporation to come up with a practical digital satellite service capable of 175 channels.
# To be effective, RCA must be performed systematically, usually as part of an investigation, with conclusions and root causes that are identified backed up by documented evidence.
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" After his death, a friend of Armstrong estimated that 90 percent of his time was spent on litigation against RCA.
After her husband's death, Marion Armstrong became extraordinarily wealthy as a result of successful FM patent litigation against RCA and other companies.
The 2004 season, the tenth season of the Jaguars franchise, resulted in a winning record of 9 – 7 with road victories against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field and the Indianapolis Colts at the RCA Dome.
In 1930, the U. S. Department of Justice brought antitrust charges against RCA, General Electric and Westinghouse.
RCA marketed the Spectra 70 Series ( models 15, 25, 35, 45, 46, 55, 60 and 61 ) that were hardware, but not software, compatible with IBM ’ s 360 series, and the RCA Series ( RCA 2, 3, 6, 7 ) competing against the IBM 370.
( The introduction by IBM of the 370 series required RCA to make a substantial new investment in its computer division, and the Board decided against making that investment.
The SelectaVision videodisc system, not to be confused with the same trademark that RCA applied to its VCRs, never developed the manufacturing volumes to substantially bring down its price, could not compete against cheaper, recordable videotape technology, and was abandoned in 1985 for a write-off of several hundred million dollars.
Among other findings, the FCC claimed RCA used NBC Blue to suppress competition against NBC Red.
The 1er and 4e RCA ended the war in the Middle East fighting against the Turks, while the 5e RCA detached squadrons to serve in the Balkans.
The 6e and 7e RCA, involved in heavy fighting against Allied forces in 1941 Operation Exporter, were equipped with 90 tanks ( mostly Renault R-35 with a few Renault FT-17 ) and a similar number of armoured cars.
* 9 January: Blue Network Company, Inc. was incorporated by RCA to hold the assets of the NBC Blue Network, in case NBC would lose their case against the FCC in court to maintain ownership of two networks.
She also, against all odds, enjoyed some of her greatest recording success in her later years with a series of outstanding albums of contemporary music on RCA Victor.
As a result of a 1943 Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) action against anti-competitive practices, the Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ) was forced to sell off its broadcast subsidiary the Blue Network, the sister network of NBC, and Blue was purchased by the American Broadcasting System, Inc.
Some examples of this are the addition and subsequent destruction of Rivera's Man at the Crossroads in the RCA Building ( 1933 – 34 ), the Italian invasion of Ethiopia ( 1935 ), labor strikes against Little Steel ( 1937 ) and the Dies Committee ’ s assault on the Federal Theatre Project ( 1938 ) ( Weales 2000 ).
A civil suit was filed against NBC and its parent company RCA, on behalf of Westinghouse in December 1956.
Unfortunately by the time the Game Brain was finished, dedicated consoles were becoming obsolete against consoles with programmable ROMs, such as the already released Fairchild Channel F, the RCA Studio 2, and Atari's own 2600.
Later units used a color wheel ( equivalent to the color television standard CBS tried to bring to the market against RCA / NBC's FCC-approved NTSC system, and today's DLP projection system ) to produce red, green, and blue fields.
She was also an active participant of the Anti-Ugly Action campaign, a group of RCA stained glass, and later architecture, students who protested against new British architecture that they considered offensive and of poor quality.
A sum of £ 25, 000 for one studio album was payable for the year of 1986 in an Advance against royalties deal, so RCA decided to split up the money to the two concerned parties.
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