Re: [ARSCLIST] Decca/London phase 4 stereo series

["Steven C. Barr" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel@xxxxxxxxx>
> From: Roger Kulp <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>
> > I have read that Decca had a special pressing plant,in England,
> > just for US London label records.
> If you have, you are probably the only one.  Everyone else I've talked
> to about this have first-hand accounts (with names attached, such as in
> the posting below) saying that Decca and London were pressed in the same
> plant on the same presses by the same operators using the same stampers
> and press settings, with the only difference being that they put
> different labels on the spindles for feeding the machines.
> > I don't think they pressed them for that many other countries.
> > I have some 60s Decca releases from Australia/NZ,and these were
> > pressed by EMI.The ones I have from Canada were pressed there. Roger
Some London records for sale in Canada were pressed by Compo
in Montreal! As well, there seems to have been a DLG/DLGC-prefixed
matrix series(es); the former were recorded in the US and the latter
in Canada...!

Steven C. Barr