I love the name “Decca” because it came from Wilfred S. Samuel, a linguist who thought most languages could easily announce the word ‘Decca,’ and it came from the word “Mecca.” Sir Edward Lewis headed the company for decades and issued a series of remarkable recordings and albums throughout the various eras. I have permanently been attached to the Decca record label design. It has a sense of seriousness that we are not messing around. Its physical presence says that this is a high-quality recording. And since my beloved (and early) Rolling Stones, Marianne Faithfull, and Billy Fury recordings are on this label, even to this day, looking through a used singles bin, the Decca label stands out for me, and I must pick it up because chances are this will be a masterpiece of some sort. Decca made a considerable dent in the classical music world and is often considered an excellent label for that type of music. For me, it’s the British Invasion world of pop, and here is a land that I dwell on for many hours. Decca, it seems, is an excellent gateway to the unknown (to some) world of psychedelic pop, Beat-rock, girl pop, and the Freakbeat sound.
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