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For many years, Decca was the official record label of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. In the 78rpm era, the Company had recorded with HMV. But, after the war, D'Oyly Carte signed a new deal with British Decca. The first few recordings came out in 1949 (Trial By Jury being the first), and the relationship remained in place for thirty years, ending with Company's last recording in 1979, The Yeomen of the Guard.
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Decca, named for the British company that introduced it in 1946, is a hyperbolic system related to loran. Its primary and secondary transmitters broadcast different harmonics of a common frequency as continuous waves, rather than pulses.
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Esmond lined up a job as a reporter for the Loyalists, and he and Decca sneaked off to Spain together, using her running-away money as a bankroll. Her father, a member of the House of Lords, sent a British destroyer to retrieve her, but she refused to cooperate. These events, combined with deep political disagreement, permanently estranged Decca from most members of her family. Her father cut her off completely from the family fortune.
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Decca did not restrict themselves to the top end of the market and were equally at home producing lower cost models. This is probably just as well as none of the upmarket manufacturers made it through to the end of the 1950's. Whilst Decca outlived many of it's rivals, it funally succumbed to the disease of the British electronics industry, being taken over by Tatung in the 1980's (1984???)
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The 1970s were disastrous for Decca, apart from Dana's 1970 two-million selling single, All Kinds of Everything, issued on their subsidiary label, Rex Records. The Rolling Stones left the label in 1970, and other artists followed. Decca's deals with numerous other record labels began to fall apart; RCA Records, for instance, abandoned Decca to set up its own UK office in 1971. The Moody Blues were the only international rock act that remained on the label. Although Decca had set up the first of the British "progressive" labels, Deram Records, in 1966, by the time the punk era set in 1977, Decca had become known primarily as a classical label which had only sporadic pop success with such acts as John Miles, novelty creation Father Abraham and the Smurfs, and productions by longtime Decca associate Jonathan King. Decca sadly became a label of last resort, dependent on re-release of its back catalogue.
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