[78-L] Decca blue label

[David Lennick]

> From: stevenc at interlinks.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 23:09:11 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Decca blue label
> 
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> From: "Banjo Bud" <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
> > Can someone on the list tell me the date when Decca discontinued their 
> > blue label, and began the familiar brown label? I would further like to 
> > know, if possible, the title and artist on the last blue label offering.
> >
> This is all covered in my Dating Guide...!
> 
> Anyway, the blue-label 35-cent series was finally dropped in 1945; my DG
> gives the last number, but I don't have it immediately to hand. There was
> a single-digit revival/reissue of the 35-cent blue-label Deccas shortly
> thereafter, though.
> 
> Decca, rather than raise its list prices, simply kept issuing pop hits on
> more expensive series! Their first was the 35-cent blue-label series;
> this was supplanted by the 50-cent 18xxx series (which ran to 18921)
> and then the 75-cent "Personality" series which started at 23001. This
> latter series ran into the mid 30000's.
> 
> Steven C. Barr 

 

I think Dobie Gray's "Drift AwaY" (33057) was the last Decca single, in 1973.

 

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