I am guessing a lot of the Kapp masters,like say,Ann Schein,or White Goddess by Frank Hunter were long destroyed before Universal got ahold of them.I do imagine quite a few Decca lacquers have survived.Even in my limited experience I have found a couple I have resold,like Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr.

Roger

 



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Suriving vinyl may well have been destroyed. There seems to be a blood oath of silence between those who paid damages and UMG. I have never gotten straight answers about Command and Kapp master tapes that may or may not have been on the soundstage.

-- Tom Fine

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> Thank you Ted for this important notice about Decca metal parts. I always thought they were destroyed in recent Universal studios fire.
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>> Couldn't agree more, Tom. The pressings were done around 1960, when Decca decided to scrap most of their 78 metal. Intelligently, however, they struck a few vinyls from each stamper before scrapping it, and these have trickled out over time.
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