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41 unusual facts about RCA


14th Test Squadron

The detachment operated AN/FPS-49 prototype radar; maintained by RCA under contract to the Air Force.

Broadcast News

Broadcast News (magazine), a broadcasting trade publication once published by RCA

Charge-coupled device

Several companies, including Fairchild Semiconductor, RCA and Texas Instruments, picked up on the invention and began development programs.

Digital Video Interactive

DVI was was developed around 1984 by Section 17 of The David Sarnoff Research Center Labs (DSRC) then a division of RCA.

Dinner in Caracas II

Dinner in Caracas II is the name of a 33-RPM LP album by Venezuelan composer/arranger/conductor Aldemaro Romero, released in 1966, under contract with RCA Victor.

Dorothy Love Coates

The group first recorded for RCA in 1949, but without Dorothy Love, after appearing on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts television program.

Edgar Bolden

After graduation, he worked at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, the Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C. and later at RCA in Princeton, New Jersey where he worked on communications satellite systems.

Elford Albin Cederberg

After his resignation from Congress, Cederberg lived in Alexandria, Virginia and was a consultant for United Technologies, RCA, and Grumman Aircraft.

Gary Barlow discography

After Take That split up in 1996 Gary Barlow signed with RCA records and began to write his first solo material since the band had formed.

Harvey Sachs

Harvey Sachs has written over 600 articles and other pieces for periodicals that include The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Times London Literary Supplement; record companies that include Deutsche Grammophon and RCA/BMG; and many radio and television programs.

Here at the Mayflower

Manilow had left Arista Records after a span of over 20 years there (with the exception of two years at the RCA label between 1985-1986).

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

The film was released on VHS/NTSC videocassette in 1991 by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video under the shortened title "Teenage Frankenstein" which was the alternate title also used when released in the UK by Anglo-Amalgamated.

International Solid-State Circuits Conference

The first conference consisted of papers from six organizations: Bell Telephone Laboratories, General Electric, RCA, Philco, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania.

Iwatsu Electric

Iwatsu signed a patent license with RCA and began research and development of what was seemingly unrelated to Iwatsu's then-existing technologies.

After years of research in Europe and the U.S., Iwatsu took notice of RCA's electrostatic printer and copier technology (electrofax).

Kell factor

The Kell factor, named after RCA engineer Raymond D. Kell, is a parameter used to limit the bandwidth of a sampled image signal to avoid the appearance of beat frequency patterns when displaying the image in a discrete display devices, usually taken to be 0.7.

KWEX-DT

KWEX-TV began as KCOR-TV in 1955, named after its radio sister station, which itself was named for Raoul CORtez, the owner and pioneer of the first full-time Spanish-language radio and television stations in the United States by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).

Lawrence Jenkins

After the war, he attended Jackson College and Albion College before embarking on a 30-year career as electronics technician for RCA.

Le cose della vita

Le cose della vita is a music album by Italian singer-songwriter Antonello Venditti, released by Rca Italian in late 1973.

Limping for a Generation

Formed in 1981, the group, after a one-off indie single, signed to RCA, and released Limping for a Generation, an album that in retrospect is considered a masterpiece but which did not attract commercial success at the time.

Liquid crystal

Liquid crystal materials became a topic of research into the development of flat panel electronic displays beginning in 1962 at RCA Laboratories.

Little Brother Montgomery

The 2 LP Set Little Brother Montgomery - Crescent City Blues (AXM2-5522), published by RCA in 1975, featuring many of his Bluebird records from the mid-1930s also has comprehensive liner notes giving an overview of his musical career.

Logic gate

For small-scale logic, designers now use prefabricated logic gates from families of devices such as the TTL 7400 series by Texas Instruments and the CMOS 4000 series by RCA, and their more recent descendants.

Marotta

Early manufacturing sub-contracts for prime contractors such as General Electric Corporation and RCA enabled Marotta to gain experience in what was to become a particular area of expertise – precision valves and machined components for the rocket and guided missile industry.

Michael Wycoff

He signed a solo contract with RCA and released three albums between 1981 and 1983, scoring a few hit singles on the U.S. R&B charts.

Moss Park

These include the 25 Field Ambulance, the 48th Highlanders of Canada, the 7th Toronto Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery, and the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada.

Nothing Wrong

Nothing Wrong, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry's third album, released in 1988, was their first LP on Beggars Banquet off-shoot Situation Two in the UK; in the US it was released via Beggars Banquet/RCA.

Peter J. Moore

The album was released in early 1988 on Latent Records in Canada, and re-released worldwide in 1989 by RCA New York.

Private Parts and Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion

The album was released at a time when Phillips was between his Arista Records and RCA recording contracts, but still had a distribution deal with U.S. label Passport Records.

Ralph Flanagan

By 1949 he formed a very successful orchestra which is credited with re-popularizing the Glenn Miller "sound," and which made many records, among them "Singing Winds","Rag Mop" and "Hot Toddy." The Ralph Flanagan band was managed by Herb Hendler, an RCA A&R man who had signed Glenn Miller to his final record contract before Miller's fatal plane crash in the English Channel during World War II.

Ray Forrest

Forrest hosted New York City's earliest and one of the most distinctive children's TV variety series called Children's Theater, which was seen on Saturday mornings on New York's WNBT/WRCA TV Channel 4 (even before it became WNBC) from 1949 to June 1961.

RCA/Jive Label Group

Instead, both the RCA Music Group and the Jive Label Group operate as standalone units, but shared back-office functions and reported to CEO Barry Weiss.

Rudolf Hell

He kept on working as an engineer and invented machines for electronically controlled engraving of printing plates and an electronic photo typesetting system called digiset marketed in the USA as VideoComp by RCA and later by III.

Skypath

Its main hub consisted of East Coast, West Coast, and affiliate feeds located on the RCA Satcom K2 satellite, with one C-band transponder located on RCA's now-defunct Satcom 1R.

Steve Swindells

Relocating to London in 1973 and living in squats, he recorded his debut solo album, Messages for RCA in 1974.

Stuart William Seeley

From 1915-1924 he was an amateur radio experimenter and commercial operator, then worked at General Electric 1925-1926, Sparks Withington 1926-1935, and the RCA License Laboratory, starting in 1935.

The Nails

Hotel for Women, an EP recorded in 1981, contained an early version of "88 Lines About 44 Women", a song that caught the attention of RCA.

The Wichita Train Whistle Sings

The album was made over a two-day session on November 18–19, 1967 at the RCA studios in Hollywood, and featured the best musicians in Hollywood (including most of the key members of "The Wrecking Crew"), including ten trumpets, ten trombones, ten saxophones, 2 drummers, five percussionists, four pianos, eight basses, seven guitars.

Westinghouse H840CK15

The Westinghouse H840CK15 was the first consumer all-electronic color television set sold in the USA in March 1954, beating the RCA Victor CT-100 to market by only a few weeks.

WPTV-TV

At sign-on, the first words heard on-air were from Control Room Director Vern Crawford: "The power has just been turned on for WJNO-TV channel 5 by Frank M. Folsom, President of The Radio Corporation of America."

Zulema

After a second Sussex album, Ms Z (produced by Bobby Taylor), the singer signed to RCA records, where she released three albums: Zulema, R.S.V.P. and Suddenly There Was You.


2002 RCA Championships

The 2002 RCA Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Indianapolis Tennis Center in Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States and was part of the International Series Gold of the 2002 ATP Tour.

Alfreda Benge

Benge studied painting at Camberwell Art School, Graphics at the London School of Printing, Film at the RCA, worked in film, and served as an assistant to the editor of Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973).

Almost in Love

The song "Stay Away, Joe" (the theme from Elvis's 1967 film of the same title) was included in error (it was already released earlier in 1970 on the compilation Let's Be Friends); when RCA reissued Almost in Love in 1973, it replaced it with a different song, "Stay Away", from the same film.

An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri

An Evening With Belafonte/Mouskouri is an album by Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri, released by RCA Victor (LPM-3415) in 1966.

Angel Records

In 1967, as RCA Victrola reissued numerous recordings of Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Seraphim reissued some of Toscanini's British recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, made in London's Queen's Hall from 1937 to 1939.

Are You Ready for the Country

The original record had no liner notes; the 2004 reissue on RCA Records contained extensive liner notes by Rich Kienzle, who provided a song-by-song summary of the album, along with background information on the latter's creation.

Best of the Cowboy Junkies

All songs are drawn from the band's RCA Records albums: The Trinity Session, The Caution Horses, Black Eyed Man and Pale Sun Crescent Moon.

Bless Its Pointed Little Head

Bless Its Pointed Little Head is a live album by Jefferson Airplane recorded at both the Fillmore East and West in the fall of 1968 and released in 1969 as RCA Victor LSP-4133.

Come Dancing with The Kinks

Come Dancing covers the nine-year period during which the Kinks were signed to Arista, and includes some live versions of hits from the band's Pye and RCA years.

Cowboy Junkies: The Platinum and Gold Collection

It is the second compilation of the band's singles released by RCA in just three years, following 2001's Best of the Cowboy Junkies, and is part of the label's Platinum and Gold Collection series of discount-priced singles anthologies.

Deborah Allen

In 1987, encouraged by her label, RCA, to explore and expand her musical horizons, Allen released a single penned by Prince (musician), under the alias Joey Coco, called "Telepathy."

Doyle Bramhall II

Following the 1999 release of Jellycream, Bramhall's solo debut for RCA, he received phone calls from both Roger Waters and Eric Clapton.

Dru Masters

Artist: Amici Forever Title: Jupiter (album track) Year: 2004 Label: RCA Victor BMG

Eddie Cano

He found an appreciative audience for a series of albums under his own name released in the '50s and '60s by labels such as Atco, Reprise, and RCA, his following similar to that of vibraphonist Cal Tjader and bandleader Les Baxter.

Eleonora Aguiari

In order to do this she needed clearance letters from the RCA Rector, a professor, the Victoria and Albert museum conservation department and the RCA conservation department, bronze tests, a scaffolding license, indemnity insurance, and permission from English Heritage (who own the statue), the City of Westminster, the Boroughs of Chelsea and Kensington (their boundary bisects the length of the horse) and the present Lord Napier.

Elton Britt

He recorded over 600 sides and 60 albums for RCA and other labels in more than a 30-year span, and is best known for such hit songs (several of which he wrote or co-wrote) as "Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)," "Detour," "Chime Bells," "Maybe I'll Cry Over You," "Pinto Pal," and the million-selling wartime hit There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere.

Elvis' Christmas Album

All the album's songs are also included in the 1992 RCA boxed set The King of Rock 'n' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters.

FILECOMP

The VideoComp was developed by Dr. Rudolf Hell of Kiel, Germany, as the Digiset, and marketed by RCA GSD in the U.S. in the late 1960s and early 1970s as the VideoComp.

Final Scratch

All versions of Final Scratch 1 use the same Scratchamp, a USB and RCA device in a round plastic shell.

For LP Fans Only

It is a compilation of material from an August 1956 recording session at 20th Century Fox Stage One, a September 1956 session at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, sessions on January 10 and 11 at RCA Studios in Nashville, two more at RCA Studios in New York, and multiple sessions at Sun Studio.

Ira B. Bernstein

He was a research consultant with the research laboratories of United Technologies and RCA, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Naval Research Laboratory.

James Hillier

(Note: RCA Laboratories, located in Princeton, NJ, became independent of RCA as a result of the corporate take-over by General Electric in 1986 and became Sarnoff Corporation, a subsidiary of SRI International through 2011, when it was absorbed by SRI.) Hillier spent many years refining the electron microscope and marketing it to research laboratories and universities, receiving a total of 41 patents for devices and processes.

Jess Klein

Klein's second solo effort for Ryko, Strawberry Lover, was produced by RCA recording artist Marc Copely.

Johana Harris

She made over 100 solo recordings, working with such labels as Columbia, RCA, Capitol, MGM and Contemporary Records.

Keith Gattis

Since being dropped from RCA, he has written songs for George Jones, Kid Rock, Randy Houser, Charlie Robison, Gary Allan, Ashley Monroe, Waylon Payne, Sara Evans and the Eli Young Band.

Los Indios Tabajaras

Throughout this period, they had a steady stream of releases on RCA in Mexico and one of these, a Mexican popular tune named "María Elena" (Lorenzo Barcelata; named after the wife of a Mexican president and recorded in 1958), became a steady seller, a success throughout Latin America and was finally released on a single in the U.S. in 1963.

Max Schönherr

A well-known 1963 LP from RCA Victor (Dynagroove LSC-2677) featuring Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra entitled Concert in the Park, features a Wedding March not found on HMV C. 2905; whilst that recording contains two dances not recorded on the RCA LP.

Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band

It is volume 33 of the "Mosaic Select" series and includes the complete contents of the previously released RCA / Victor recordings, Kogun (1974), Long Yellow Road (1975), Tales of a Courtesan (Oirantan) (1976), Insights (1976), and March of the Tadpoles (1977).

RCA Camden

During the early- to mid-1970s, as the fame of another RCA artist, Dolly Parton, grew, the label reissued much of her earlier RCA material in a series of budget compilations to capitalize on her more recent success.

RIM-113

The designation XRIM-113A, indicating an experimental ship-launched interceptor missile, was allocated to the SIRCS project in May 1976, and contracts were awarded to three separate teams of contractors - RCA/Martin-Marietta, McDonnell Douglas/Sperry, and Raytheon/Lockheed/Univac - for initial studies of the SIRCS missile concept, in anticipation of a competitive evaluation.

SugaRush Beat Company

In November 2007 they released their first record "SugaRush Beat Company EP" through the UK-label RCA.

Tanglewood Festival Chorus

They can also be heard on the RCA Victor disc "A Splash of Pops", as well as on three Christmas albums — "Joy to the World" on Sony Classical and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" on Philips, both with John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra, and "Holiday Pops" on RCA Victor with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra.

The Mundanes

They recorded a demo at RCA Studios, produced by Mick Ronson, that attracted record label attention, but the band remained unsigned and ultimately broke up in mid-1983.

The Sound Factory

In 1969, former RCA recording engineer and Warner/Reprise producer, David Hassinger purchased the Moonglow Records/Studio building and renamed it The Sound Factory.

William R. Robinson

In 1986, RCA Corp. was acquired by General Electric (GE) in what was at that time the largest non-oil merger in history.