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...signing to RCA Victor and producing a handful of fairly traditional country albums. Eventually, he left Nashville and RCA, heading out to the West Coast. It was here Hartford produced some of his most important musical efforts, beginning...

In this article: John Hartford, Nashville, Sam Bush, Norman Blake, Bluegrass, Trademark, Beverley Hills, and Mississippi River

...recording in 1925 allowed for better reproduction of music. In 1929, Victor was purchased by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and the company became RCA Victor Records. RCA Victor's Red Seal series continued its preeminence from the...

In this article: RCA Red Seal Records, Arturo Toscanini, Enrico Caruso, Victor Talking Machine Company, RCA Victor Records, Columbia Records, Gramophone Company, and Eldridge R. Johnson

Skip Miller dies at 62; former Motown Records president The L.A. music industry veteran also worked at RCA and managed Lionel Richie's solo career. Skip Miller, a Los Angeles music industry veteran who rose from stock clerk to president of...

In this article: Motown Records, Lionel Richie, R&B, SWV, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and Billboard magazine

Velvet Revolver Cuts Ties With RCA Velvet Revolver has cut ties with RCA Records, which released the group's two studio albums. According to the band, the move was made at its request, to allow "complete freedom to go through whatever process...

In this article: Velvet Revolver, Billboard, Scott Weiland, Slash, Spacehog, Loaded, Duff McKagan, RCA Records, and Libertad

...one of four corporations that jointly formed RKO Pictures. Finally, in 1929, RCA acquired the Victor Talking Machine Company (maker of the famous "Victrola") and became RCA-Victor. In 1928, Harbord took a leave of absence to campaign for...

In this article: James Guthrie Harbord, John J. Pershing, Distinguished Service Medal, World War I, Battle of Chateau-Thierry, Battle of Belleau Wood, and Kansas State Agricultural College

...hits from the 1960s. This was virtually impossible to find on any Dottie West album up until 1996, when RCA records released a compilation album of all her hits under RCA titled The Essential Dottie West. No other major artists have...

In this article: Dottie West, Paper Mansions, and RCA Records

...on the show in 1961 and stayed for six years. Jean toured and performed across the country with Wagoner, and RCA producer Chet Atkins signed her to a recording contract with RCA Records. In 1963, Norma Jean released her first single with...

In this article: Norma Jean Beasler, Porter Wagoner, Wanda Jackson, Dolly Parton, Billboard, Oklahoma, RCA Records, and Kitty Wells

...Surround albums for both the RCA Red Seal and RCA Victor labels. Among his principal projects in Dolby Surround were the remakes of RCA's Victory at Sea (Volumes 1 & 2), Motion Picture Classics (Volumes 1 & 2) with Arthur Fiedler and the...

In this article: Nathaniel Johnson, RCA Red Seal Records, Arthur Fiedler, RCA Records, Boston Symphony, WGBH, and Grammy Award

...played a showcase for RCA Records in New York City in hopes of getting signed. RCA passed on the band, but the president of Octone Records was very interested. They waited for two days in their van at a truck stop for a phone call about an...

In this article: Flyleaf, Lacey Mosley, Memento Mori, Sameer Bhattacharya, Stone Sour, Nightmare Revisited, Again, Again, and Itunes