An explanation: Decca and Columbia

Posted by Bruce on February 6, 2010 in Comments with No Comments

As I’m due to be going on holidays on Monday morning, I have two posts that will appear on the blog during next week (a labels gallery and a childrens rarity, I might do an explanation of releases made by a different branch of a record company. In this case, Decca and Columbia (the story of Columbia records is explained at this post)

Whenever I refer to a recording that was released under EMI’s Columbia label, I will refer to this as a “Columbia EMI” release, while anything that was released in the U,S, will be described as an “CBS Columbia” release (in all cases except for imports, I’ll be calling these CBS releases anyway.)

Any American Decca record release that appears on this blog prior to 1952 would be released by EMI. After 1952, Festival would release all American Decca titles until the latter 60′s (after which the label was re-branded MCA records.) Astor would distribute these titles until 1982, after which WEA (Warner Music) would release their releases until around late 1992

Incidentally American Decca releases from the early 50′s onwards were never released under that label (only under the Festival Label)

British Decca releases (the label above is from the late 1950′s) would continue to be released by EMI until 1979, after which these titles would be released theough PolyGram until 1998 when Universal Music was founded. Later in the year, I’ll post the Decca label from a later era.

That’s all for right now. I’m now on hols. My next post here will appear on Tuesday morning.

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