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

[Don Tait <Dontaitchicago@xxxxxxx>]

  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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