Re: [ARSCLIST] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] Exactly how many labels did RCA press records for in the 50s/...

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

London LPs were pressed in Canada in the fifties and sixties, split between RCA 
and Compo. Compo got the ten-inchers (most of them, especially the LD series) 
and pop titles, RCA did the red labels from about 1957 on, although we still 
got the odd import. Richmonds were mastered and pressed by Decca in the US and 
Compo in Canada (on styrene at first, blechhhh, eventually on better stuff). 
Phase 4s were ALWAYS domestically pressed here until the early 70s, almost 
always by Compo, although I have one Phase 4 Mono (don't ask me why!) of Munch 
doing Gaite Parisienne which is an RCA pressing.

And late 70s Londons and Richmonds always seem to be imports, and fabulous 
pressings. Even better are the ones pressed by Philips, like my last copy of 
the Karjan "Planets". (Talking classical here, not pop stuff.)

dl

Don Tait wrote:
>   I don't mean to be argumentative about this -- I so greatly value the good 
> manners of this list as opposed to others -- but I'm sorry, in my experience 
> RCA did not press American London LPs in the 1960s. I own a lot of them. All 
> are labelled "made in England," and the matrix numbers bear that out. As for 
> Stokowski's Phase 4 Scheherazade, USA London SPC 21005, the matrix numbers on my 
> copy are 
>
>   ZAL 6481-3L
>   ZAL 6482-5L
>
>   These are UK Decca matrix numbers.
>
>   London LPs were pressed in the USA for a brief period around 1954/55. I own 
> some. I'd have to look at them to know whether they were RCA pressings.
>
>   Don Tait
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> The US DGGs are marked on the labels,as being pressed by RCA.I can't be the only one here to own any.
>
> The rest have multiple markings to designate them as RCA pressings.The two most obvious being:
>
> *They are marked,as being from one of the three  RCA pressing plants "R",for Rockaway,NJ,"I",for Indianapolis,or "H",for Hollywood.
>
> *They bear the distinctive US RCA stamper number designation 1s,2s,etc.
>
> *The look and feel of a US RCA Lp pressing from 1955-70,are like no other records on earth,with that thick,rounded rim.There is no mistaking one,even if you never heard it,and they sound better,too.
>
>
> A 60s US RCA pressed London,or DGG,is something every serious classical collector/audiophile/listener should hear.The DGGs,and CS Londons,are as different,and unique as you might imagine,not better than their European cousins,just different.
>
> There is as much a distinctive "RCAness"about them,as there is to the more "official" RCA-Decca joint ventures,in their original LSC/Reader's Digest incarnations.But the Phase 4 Stokis,on the other hand,are even BETTER than the Decca pressed "originals".Especially the "Scheherezade".
>
>
>                                         Roger
>
> Dan Nelson <dnelsonone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: What is being used to identify an RCA pressing?
> 1) Dyna groove format with raised outer edge and label
> area?
> What about before RCA introduced this format ?
> 2) Distinctive engraving in spiral area, numbers.
> lettering, etc ?
> thanks 
> dnw 
>
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