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Today, Decca is a leading label for both classical music and Broadway scores; its most recent hit was Wicked (2003), which reached #140 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. It is ... the parent label of Point Music, a progressive music label. Ironically, the American Decca classical music catalogue is managed by co-owned Deutsche Grammophon.
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Romilly was killed in a bombing raid on Hamburg and Decca married the Oakland-based labor lawyer Bob Truehaft, who survives her. Both Communists, they survived the McCarthy period intact. In 1963 came Decca's first big literary success, "The American Way of Death." At least half of it was written by Truehaft, who, as a labor organizer, had urged her to investigate the funeral industry. Other books followed in a steady stream, on Dr. Spock, on prisons, on Grace Darling.
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During the 1950s, American Decca released a number of soundtrack recordings of popular motion pictures, notably Michael Todd's production of Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) with the music of veteran film composer Victor Young. Since Decca had access to the stereophonic tracks of the Oscar-winning film, they quickly released a stereo version in 1958.
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A compilation of a systematical listing and cross-referencing of all relased recordings in the Decca 5000 series (hillbilly), the 17000 series (Cajun), plus the Champiom 45000 and Montgomery Ward recordings. Listed are a total of 1514 discs include major 'hillbilly' stars like Sons of the Pioneers, Ernest Tubbs, Tex Ritter, The Carter Family, Roy Rogers, Red Foley and dozens of other famous and not so notable performers. Each Series is listed in a separate section and includes recording date, master number, unissued titles, issued song titles, writer credits and release dates. There are five indexes, cross-referenced for artist, matrix and location, release dates, composer and title. Researchers in American country and folk music will find much resource material in this meticulously assembled discography, once all included under 'hillbilly' classification.
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