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unusual facts about RCA Victor



A Date with The Smithereens

As another reference to older albums, the cover includes the RCA Victor logo with Nipper the dog on it and it also included a logo saying "Living Stereo."

Aerial Pandemonium Ballet

With the successes of Everybody's Talkin' and The Point! creating demand for Nilsson recordings, a reissue of his first two RCA Victor albums (Pandemonium Shadow Show and Aerial Ballet), then out of print, was considered.

Any Bonds Today?

Barry Wood introduced the song (along with another Berlin composition called "Arms for the Love of America") on Arsenal Day, June 10, 1941, at the War College in Washington, D.C.; he also recorded the song in the same week for RCA Victor.

Chance Records

Porter's rendition of "Tennessee Waltz," a much-covered hit in 1950, sold well enough that Sheridan's pressing plant, Armour Plastics, couldn't meet the demand and many copies were pressed by RCA Victor.

Charlie Monroe

Charlie signed with RCA Victor in 1946 and with Decca Records in 1950; he wrote and recorded a large body of material and continued to tour relentlessly until he announced his retirement in 1957.

Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar

Chet Atkins' Gallopin' Guitar is the title of the first release by American guitarist Chet Atkins on the RCA Victor label (see 1953 in music).

Chick Corea Elektric Band

In 1996, the band teamed up with Steve Vai's Monsters to record a version of "Rumble" from West Side Story for the RCA Victor tribute album called The Songs of West Side Story.

Children's music

Such companies as RCA Victor, Decca Records, Capitol Records, and Columbia Records (among others) published albums based on popular cartoons or nursery rhymes.

Ernest MacMillan

In 1942, MacMillan conducted the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) in a recording of the orchestral suite The Planets, by Gustav Holst, recorded on 78 RPM phonograph records, for RCA Victor.

Jack Lathrop

Jack Lathrop was an American vocalist and guitarist who recorded for RCA Victor as “Jack Lathrop and his Drugstore Cowboys” and had a couple of minor hits, in part because of the Petrillo recording bans.

Mario Lanza Sings Songs from The Student Prince and The Desert Song

This RCA Victor CD features most of the songs recorded by Mario Lanza for the 1954 MGM film The Student Prince.

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.

Obina Shok

Soon they'd sign with RCA Victor and released their first, eponymously titled album in 1986, which was successful and very well received by critics.

Oscar Ravina

In a career spanning more than four decades, Mr. Ravia recorded solo and chamber music for many record labels, including: Orion, Orion I, RCA Victor, Columbia, Vox, Serenus, Nonesuch, CBS, Spectrum, Crystal Records, New World Records, Sony, and Centaur Records.

Savannah Churchill

From 1949 she recorded with Regal, RCA Victor and Decca Records, recording the original version of "Shake A Hand", later a big hit for Faye Adams, and also recording with the Ray Charles Singers.

Season's Greetings from Perry Como

Season's Greetings from Perry Como, originally released in 1959, was Perry Como's sixth RCA Victor 12" long-play album and the fourth recorded in full "living" stereophonic sound, as well as his first full-length Christmas album.

Stu Davis

He was also known in the United States for his early Sonora and RCA Victor recordings (late 1940s).

The Standard Sonny Rollins

The Standard Sonny Rollins is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, his last recorded for the RCA Victor label, featuring performances by Rollins with Herbie Hancock, Jim Hall, David Izenzon, Teddy Smith, Stu Martin, Bob Cranshaw and Mickey Roker.

Wanted! The Outlaws

The Outlaws is an album by Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser, released in RCA Victor in 1976, and consisting of previously released material.

We Will Never Die

He also wrote propaganda songs (some for broadcast in Germany); incidental music for Your Navy, a radio program written by Maxwell Anderson and jointly commissioned by CBS Radio and NBC Radio; music for Salute to France, a U.S. propaganda film directed by Jean Renoir; and four patriotic melodramas for Helen Hayes, recorded by RCA Victor under the title Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory.


see also

After Bathing at Baxter's

After Bathing at Baxter's, the third album by the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane was released in 1967 as RCA Victor LSO-1511 (stereo) & LOP-1511 (mono).

Alec Templeton

A set of three 78rpm records called "Musical Portraits" was issued by RCA Victor as catalog number P-19; it continued in the catalog until the late 40s, and included "Mozart Matriculates." He also did six sides for Columbia in August 1940, including an instrumental entitled "Redwoods at Bohemian Grove" (he had been accepted into that organization).

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.

Baxter Taylor

1973- "Marie Laveau" - recorded by Bobby Bare Sr, found on BOBBY BARE SINGS LULLABYS, LEGENDS AND LIES (AND MORE), (RCA/RLG/LEGACY Records), RCA Victor CPL2-0290

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.

Criollísima

Criollísima is the name of a 33-RPM LP album by Venezuelan composer/arranger/conductor Aldemaro Romero, released in 1957 (see 1957 in music), under contract with RCA Victor and distributed by Grabadora Venezolana de Discos.

Crown of Creation

Crown of Creation was released in 1968 and is the fourth album by the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane, released as RCA Victor LSP-4058 (stereo).

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.

Dru Masters

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

Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts

It was premiered at Westminster Abbey in London, United Kingdom on October 24, 1973 and released on LP in 1975 but has only been issued on CD as part of the 24 disc The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973) collection.

Finger Style Guitar

The four Frank Loesser tunes on the re-release are from the 1956 musical The Most Happy Fella with vocals by Eddy Arnold, all released on an RCA Victor EP.

Jaye P. Morgan

She joined MGM Records in 1959 after spending the previous six years with RCA Victor.

Jefferson Airplane Takes Off

Jefferson Airplane Takes Off is the debut album of San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane, released in August 1966 as RCA Victor LSP-3584 (stereo) & LPM-3584 (mono).

Li Jinhui

Though a controversial figure in his time, Li Jinhui contributed hundreds of songs to the musical community released by many major recording companies, including Great China, Pathe-EMI and RCA-Victor.

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 Glenn Miller Carnegie Hall Concert

The live album was released in 1958 by RCA Victor as LPM-1506, featuring Glenn Miller and his Orchestra with Ray Eberle and Marion Hutton on vocals.

To You

Glenn Miller also performed the song at the 1939 Carnegie Hall Concert, which was released in 1958 by RCA Victor on the album The Glenn Miller Carnegie Hall Concert.

Venezuelan Fiesta

Venezuelan Fiesta is the name of a 33-RPM LP album by Venezuelan composer/arranger/conductor Aldemaro Romero, released in 1956 (see 1956 in music), under contract with RCA Victor.

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.