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LP cond.	GBP	Decca SXL	COMPOSER	WORK - ARTIST(S) - REMARKS - PRESSING MATRIX - etc.
M	80	SXL 2001 w.b.	Tchaikovsky:	1812 etc; Lso Alwyn
E-	29	SXL 2001 w.b.	Tchaikovsky:	1812 Etc; Lso Alwyn
E	75	SXL 2003 w.b.	Beethoven:	Sym 5 Egmont Ovt; Osr Ansermet P: 1 C: V-/Bb
E-	75	SXL 2008 w.b.	Adam Auber Herold	Overtures In Hi-Fi; Pco Wolff C: Bb
M	140	SXL 2011 w.b.	Stravinsky:	Petrushka; Osr Ansermet, P:2/3, C:Bb,
E-	95	SXL 2016 w.b.	Various Composers	Vienna Holiday Vpo Knappertsbusch P: 3 C: Bb
E	39	SXL 2034 w.b.	Rachmaninov:	Pno Cto 1/Tchaikovsky: Fantasia; Katin Boult C: V-/Bb
E	195	SXL 2045 w.b.	Schubert:	Sym 9; Lso Krips P: 1 C: V-/Bb
M	85	SXL 2057 w.b.	Various Composers	Stereophonic Frequency Test Record P: 2/1
E-	69	SXL 2060 w.b.	Mendelssohn:	Midsummer Night's Dream; Lso Maag P: South Africa
E-	29	SXL 2076 w.b.	Rachmaninov:	Pno Cto 2; Katchen Lso Solti P: 4/2 C: E-
E	9	SXL 2076 w.b.	Rachmaninov:	Ditto Side 2 = E- Few Ticks Mvmt 3 P: 5/4 C: V-/Bb
E	115	SXL 2084 w.b.	Delibes:	Coppelia; Osr Ansermet 2 Lp's C: Plain
E	145	SXL 2097 w.b.	Liszt:	Pno Cto 1 2; Katchen Lpo Argenta P: 4/3
E	15	SXL 2115 w.b.	.Handel:	Organ Ctos 1 2 3 4; Richter P: 1
M	95	SXL 2157 w.b.	Beethoven:	Septet; Vienna Octet P: 1/3
E	75	SXL 2157 w.b.	Beethoven:	Ditto P: 2/5
V	9	SXL 2157 w.b.	Beethoven:	Ditto P: 1/2 (Some Surface Noise)
M	30	SXL 2159 w.b.	Operatic Arias	Sutherland, Santi, P:2
E	49	SXL 2167 w.b.	Verdi:	Aida; Bergonzi Etc; Vpo Karajan Box 3 Lps 1 Lp = V-
E-	49	SXL 2170 w.b.	Puccini:	La Boheme; Tebaldi Bergonzi: Asc Rome Wallet 2 Lps SOLD
E	145	SXL 2172 w.b.	Brahms:	Pno Cto 1; Katchen Lso Monteux  P: 2/1
M	35	SXL 2173 w.b.	Grieg/Litolff/Franck	Piano Cto Amin, Variations etc: Curzon, BoultP:4
M	19	SXL 2173 n.b.	Grieg:	Pno Cto +Litloff +Franck; Curzon P: 5/8
V	19	SXL 2177 w.b.	Wolf-Ferrari:	Music Of Wolf-Ferrari; Pco Santi P: 2
E	20	SXL 2184 w.b.	Wagner:	Tristan and Isolde Excerpts; Nilsson Vpo Knappertsbusch Britten, P: 1, Cover: E-
E	19	SXL 2189 w.b.	Britten:	Nocturne 4 Sea Interludes; Pears Lso Britten P: 4/2
M	25	SXL 2199 w.b.	The Instruments of the Orchestra	Sargent: P:2including original Decca booklet
E	25	SXL 2200 w.b.	Schubert:	Die Schoene Meullerin; Pears, Britten
E-	9	SXL 2201 w.b.	Handel:	Organ Ctos 9 10 11 12; Richter Chamber Orch P: 2
E-	6	SXL 2201 w.b.	Handel:	Ditto P: 2 +4 Ticks
M	19	SXL 2219 w.b.	Bach:	Organ Recital Bwv 565 542 548 582; Richter P: 2, one slight mark but no ticks !!!
M-	50	SXL 2223 w.b.	Schumann:	Symphony 1 +4; Krips, Lso
M	19	SXL 2230 w.b.	Wagner:	Rheingold/Walkyre Hlts; Flagstad Solti Etc. P: 2/3
M	30	SXL 2234 w.b.	Bach/Handel	Ferrier,Boult, P:1
M	45	SXL 2250 w.b.	Srauss/Weber	Graduation Ball/Rose Spectre; Boskovsky,Vpo, P:1
E-	12	SXL 2256 w.b.	Various Composers	Art Of The Prima Donna; Sutherland  2 Lp's  C: V
E	29	SXL 2259 w.b.	Bach:	Italian Cto Toccata Dmaj Etc; Malcolm P: 2/1
E	25	SXL 2264 w.b.	.Britten:	Spring Sym; Vyvyan Procter Pears Rohcg Britten P: 2
M	19	SXL 2266	Rossini:	Overtures; Lso Gamba  P: 3/2
V	6	SXL 2266	Rossini:	Overtures; Lso Gamba  P: 2/3
M	100	SXL 2268 w.b.	Rimsky Korsakov/Borodin:	Scheherazade/Polovtsvian Dances; Osr AnsermetP:1
M	19	SXL 2276 n.b.	.Mahler:	Sym 4; Coamst Solti P: 6/7
E	150	SXL 2279 w.b.	Tchaikovsky/Dvorak:	Vln Ctos; Ricci Sargent Side 2 = E-But No Ticks at all !
M-	70	SXL 2280 w.b.	Offenbach:	Gaiete Parisienne+Faust Ballet; Roho Solti  P: 2
E-	40	SXL 2280 w.b.	Offenbach:	Gaiete Parisienne+Faust Ballet; Roho Solti  P: 2
M-	19	SXL 2285 n.b.	Tchaikovsky:	Swan Lake Hlts; Coamst Fistoulari
E	45	SXL 2288 w.b..	Strauss:	1001 Nights; Vpo Boskovsky P: 6/4
E	75	SXL 2303 w.b.	Faure/Debussy:	Pelleas+Mellisande Etc/Petit Suite; Ansermet C: V
M-	60	SXL 2305 w.b.	Holst:	The Planets; Karajan Vpo, P:1/3
M	15	SXL 2308 n.b.	Tchaikovsky/Grieg	Nutcracker Suite/Peer Gynt; Karajan
M	195	SXL 2312 w.b.	Debussy/Ravel:	Prelude/Pavane Etc; Lso Monteux P: 1/3
M	50	SXL 2313 w.b.	Herold:	La Fille Mal Gardee; Rohcg Lanchbery P: 2/3
M	9	SXL 2313 n.b.	Herold:	Ditto

According to The Guiness Book of Recorded Sound by Robert and Celia Dearling (1984), the "Decca" trade name was first used in 1914 for a portable gramophone manufactured by Barnett Samuel and Sons Ltd. The machine was called the Decca "Dulcephone" and many of them were used in the trenches by British soldiers in World War I. The origins of the word "Decca" are described as "lost." The Decca Record Company began producing recordings in England in 1929. The American Decca label dates from 1934. Edward Lewis, who bought Barnett Samuel in 1929, was chairman of British Decca until his death in 1980. "Half a century ago, there was a programme broadcast every Sunday afternoon from Radio Paris preceded by a call sign played on tubular bells or vibraphone--a five note phrase on the notes D, E, C, C and A, in that order. There followed a show involving sixteen of the latest records isued by the newest arrival in the British gramophone industry, the Decca record company." This would tie in with the original Decca logo, which was a musical stave with a treble clef and the notes D, E, C, C and A written in crotchets with the letters underneath to spell that magic word, followed by another treble clef. This is interesting but does not help to find were the word came from (unless the fanfare was behind the invention of the word, but I think the fanfare came from the already thought up name). But, I now quote from the last paragraph of Rust's article revealing all that he knows of the origination of the word: "To this day, no-one seems to know what the word Decca means, if anything. We might well shrug and ask, 'What's in a name?' In the case of Decca, the answer seems to be, 'As a word, nothing; as a record label, quite a lot'" The trademark DECCA was made up by Wilfred S. Samuel of Barnett Samuel and Sons, in 1914, when he patented the newly invented portable gramaphone. He told me that he wanted a word for exports, which be could easily recognised by illiterates and which would have the same pronounciation in all languages. It seems to have been a merger of MECCA with the intial D of their logo "Dulcet" or their trademark "Dulcephone." Decca was originally a company that started off distributing musical instruments and manufacturing watches and steel pens. Several times they tried getting into the record business (which even included the launch of a portable gramophone called Decca), but the year 1928 saw the record company getting its feet off the ground. Some years after this, the American division of the label was founded by a man named Jack Kapp, but the only difference was that the American Decca label was more pop-based than its parent. Its artists throughout the years included Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Danny Kaye (the American comedian and singer who recorded a transatlantic version of the Lord Chancellor's nightmare song in Iolanthe) and the Andrews Sisters (who inspired the "Three little maids" sequence in the Hot Mikado spin-off on the most popular G and S opera.) In the USA the British Decca recordings were distributed by London Records. In Britain the original Decca label concentrated more on classical recordings despite some pop forays, with a golden age of recordings coming after the introduction of stereo. This was the time of fruitful contracts with Pavarotti, Solti, Sutherland and of course D'Oyly Carte. The Beatles auditioned for Decca on January 1st 1962. In one of the most embarrassing business decisions in music history Decca rejected the band, on the grounds that guitar music was "on the way out". The American division of Decca dissolved itself in 1973 after it was purchased by MCA Communications Group. This incorporated the Decca recordings into the MCA catalogue.