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Does anyone have a list of all the recordings made by Decca for RCA and which reverted to RCA and which reverted to Decca? -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Gray" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 3:01 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Decca/London phase 4 stereo series > The relationship ended when RCA established its own pressing plant in the UK, thus violating the > terms of the RCA/ Decca relationship. Turns out that RCA got the raw end of the deal - most of the > best records thereafter became Decca's property. Not George Marek's finest moment. > > Mike Gray > > Goran Finnberg wrote: >> Tom Fine: >> >> >>> Not the case with Decca recordings released >>> by RCA and later released by Decca. RCA >>> would master and press these in the US >>> >> >> I hope the following explains why the above happened. >> >> From the autobiography of DECCA producer John Culshaw: >> >> "Putting the Record Straight" >> >> The following from the end of the 50�s when EMI lost the right to distribute >> RCA records in Europe and DECCA took over the same role. >> >> Page 134: >> >> "Certain RCA recordings, although made by DECCA technicans and producers, >> were to be paid for entirely by RCA and would remain RCA�s property in >> perpetuity; others were to be paid for by DECCA although they would appear >> on the RCA label - the difference being that if any time the DECCA/RCA >> partnership broke up (which it eventually did), the second category of >> recordings would become DECCA�s property and be reissued with a DECCA >> label." >> >> In those days computers were not in use, and it is generally true that the >> larger the company the more likely it is that a piece of paper containing >> seemingly unimportant information will get lost, which is exactly what >> happened when, years later, it became necessary to sort out which recording >> belonged to which company and which label to stick on it." >> >> -------------- >> >> End qoute. >> >> When the partnership started almost all RCA recordings in Europe was done by >> DECCA for RCA as part of the deal. >> >> This continued right up into the 70/80�s in the RCA classic film score >> series by RCA producer/conductor Charles Gerhardt and recorded by DECCA >> engineer Kenneth Wilkinson. >> >> >> >> >