[78-L] An American Decca query

[Harold Aherne]

MCA was founded as a talent agency for musicians and bands in 1924, but I don't 
believe it had a direct stake in the record business until it acquired Universal (and
therefore Decca) in 1962. Hamblen was probably among the first to sign a contract
with Kapp; his 3 August 1934 recordings have matrix numbers of DLA1 and 2--although
I'd have to do more research before I'd feel comfortable asserting that he was
*the* first, especially in a published work.
 
-Harold

--- On Tue, 12/16/08, RAY KILCOYNE <kil at roadrunner.com> wrote:

From: RAY KILCOYNE <kil at roadrunner.com>
Subject: [78-L] An American Decca query
To: 78-l at 78online.com
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 3:36 PM

This is a quote from the Wikipedia article on Stuart Hamblen, "He was the
first artist signed by MCA Records in 1934."
Obviously wrong since there was no MCA at that time, but is there any truth at
all here?  Was he the first or near first to be signed to Decca?
RayK
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