* A 2007 recording was released by Decca Broadway in honor of West Side Story's 50th anniversary.

In 1943, American Decca ushered in the age of the original cast album in the United States, when they released an album set of nearly all the songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma !, performed by the same cast who appeared in the show on Broadway, and using the show's orchestra, conductor, chorus, and musical and vocal arrangements.

But Decca had made history by recording Broadway musicals, and the influence of these releases in the recording of theatrical shows in the U. S continues to this day-in Decca's home country, the UK original cast albums had been a fixture for years.

In a reversal of the usual situation, in which American Decca had released original Broadway cast albums of three Rodgers and Hammerstein shows, this was the only film soundtrack album of a Rodgers and Hammerstein show ever released by Decca, while the Broadway cast album had been released by Columbia Masterworks.

Today, Decca is a leading label for both classical music and Broadway scores although it is branching out into pop music from established recording stars: its most recent hit was Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA ( 2007 ) by Boyz II Men, which reached No. 27 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart.

* Decca Broadway

* Decca Broadway official site

* Burl's Broadway ( 1967, Decca DL 4876 / 74876 )

MCA's musical theatre catalogue is managed by Decca Records on its Decca Broadway imprint.

** Decca Broadway, a musical theater record label

* 1946 Original Broadway Cast: an original cast recording was released by Decca Records in 1946, featuring the cast of the original 1946 Broadway production.

Amazingly, when Decca started up in late 1934 / early 1935, among the early ( unsuccessful ) labels they produced was Champion and Broadway.

The few Broadway / Decca records were an L-1200 series and masters came from Champion ( Gennett )!

The ARC Broadway quality were the same as Melotone, Perfect or Oriole and the Decca Broadway quality was the same as Decca.

The musical theater cast albums are now released by Decca Broadway.

He recorded Sowerberry's feature number " That's Your Funeral " for the original London cast album ( released on Decca Records ) and reprised the role when the production moved to Broadway in 1963, where it became the first London stage musical to be transplanted to Broadway and receive the same critical and audience reception it had received in Britain.

They had the support, however, of Decca A & R manager Hugh Mendl, who had been instrumental in the recent establishment of London / Decca's new subsidiary imprint Deram Records.

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

Decca is not the only large commercial company to impart instruction.

Aeschbacher's work is very much akin to Schnabel's, but the sound on his Decca disc is dated, and you will have a hard time locating a copy of it.

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.

* 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 second range culminates in the mountain of Santi Jeca, or Santa Decca, as it is called by misinterpretation of the Greek designation Άγιοι Δέκα ( Hagioi Deka ), or the Ten Saints.

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.

This company, formed in 1997 from three well-known brand names in the marine industry — Sperry Marine, Decca, and C. Plath — is now part of Northrop Grumman Corporation.

Decca is now routinely mastering new recordings in these formats.

Decca Special Products was spun off, and is now known as London Decca.

The Decca label is currently in use by Universal Music Group worldwide ; this is possible because Universal Studios ( which officially dropped the MCA name after the Seagram buyout in 1997 ) acquired PolyGram, British Decca's parent company in 1998, thus consolidating Decca trademark ownership.

The Decca Label Group is the US label whereas the London-based Decca Music Group runs the international classical and pop releases by such world famous performers as Andrea Bocelli and Hayley Westenra.

Ironically, the American Decca classical music catalogue is managed by sister Universal label Deutsche Grammophon.

The American Decca rock / pop catalogue is managed by Geffen Records.

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.

* Dalida is rejected by Decca in the UK again.

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

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.

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.

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.