Decca

Decca Record company and label founded in Britain in 1929 by Edward Lewis; it also owned the Brunswick and Vocalion trademarks in Britain. An American Decca label was inaugurated in August 1934 by Jack Kapp, who had previously been director of Brunswick’s Race series. Another former director of that series, J. Mayo Williams, was brought in to supervise the Decca 7000 Race series. In June 1935 the new company launched a second Race series, the Champion 50000 series, using mainly reissues from…