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HISTORY Camden, New Jersey was the historic home to the Victor Talking Machine Company, later RCA Records. Building History The label specialized in reissuing historic Classical and popular recordings from the RCA catalog. The albums originally sold for $1.98 retail and were strictly monaural recordings, often drawn from 78-rpm discs. RCA Camden originally issued some classical recordings using the real names of the orchestras. Then, to avoid competing with modern recordings by the same orchestras, they adopted a series of pseudonyms. Thus, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra became known either as the Savoy Symphony Orchestra or the Schuyler Symphony Orchestra, the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra (a New York "pickup" orchestra, drawn from players in the NBC Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra) became the Golden Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra became the Centennial Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra became the Stratford Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra became the Cromwell Symphony Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Orchestra became the Warwick Symphony Orchestra.Jack Gottlieb, www.leonardbernstein.com The New York City Symphony Orchestra, created by Leopold Stokowski in the 1940s, recorded for RCA Victor and some of its recordings were issued on Camden under the name "Sutton Symphony Orchestra," not to be confused with a British orchestra with the same name. EARLIEST RELEASES Some of the earliest RCA Camden releases included:Robert Plante, www.gravediggervideo.com/rcacamden.html
LATER RELEASES About 1958, Camden began releasing stereo albums. The label continued onto compact discs in the 1980s and the 1990s, focusing more on popular and country music. There were a series of recordings with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra . The Living Strings and Living Voices albums were particularly popular. Even some of Elvis Presley 's recordings were reissued on Camden. Some of these recordings are still available, especially online. With the 2004 merger of BMG (RCA Victor's parent company) and Sony (Columbia Records' parent company), the Camden label, as well as the RCA Victrola and Gold Seal labels, were abandoned. SEE ALSO FOOTNOTES |
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