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Decca Records Artists
Decca may refer to: Music * Decca Records or Decca Music Group, record label * Decca Gold, classical music record label owned by Universal Music Group * Decca Broadway, musical theater record label * Decca Studios, recording facility in West Hampstead, England * London Decca, maker of turntable tonearms and cartridges * Decca tree, microphone recording system * The Deccas, guitar-based band from Medway, England People Given name * Decca Aitkenhead, English journalist, writer and broadcaster. Surname * Grace Decca (born 1966), Cameroonian singer and producer * Marie Decca (1859-?), American opera singer * Mpundi Decca, Congolese guitarist Other * '' Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford'', 2006 book by Jessica Mitford * Decca Navigator System, defunct marine and aeronautical navigation system * Decca Radar, later Racal-Decca Marine, a defunct marine electronics manufacturer * Decca Sports Ground, cricket ground in London, England * Decca, old spelling of Dhaka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis (Decca), Edward Lewis after his acquisition of a gramophone manufacturer, The Decca Gramophone Company. It set up an American subsidiary under the Decca name, which became an independent company just before the Second World War. The American spin-off became a subsidiary of MCA Inc. in 1962. Known for its technical innovations, the British parent company grew to become the second most successful recording company in Britain and celebrated fifty years of existence in 1979, shortly before being sold to PolyGram. Both Decca and its former subsidiary were subsequently acquired by Universal Music. Decca and its American spin-off both built up strong catalogues of popular music. In their first two decades their artists included Gertrude Lawrence, George Formby, Jack Hylton and Vera Lynn in Britain and Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, the Andrews Sisters and the Mills Brothers in the US. Later performers in their popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mpundi Decca
Mpudi Decca was a Congo music recording artist and guitarist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He was once a member of the Congo music band TPOK Jazz, led by François Luambo Makiadi, which dominated the Congolese music scene from the 1950s through the 1980s. See also * Franco Luambo Makiadi * Sam Mangwana * Josky Kiambukuta * Simaro Lutumba * Ndombe Opetum Ndombe Opetum (March 3, 1944 – May 24, 2012), popularly known as Pepe Ndombe, was an Odemba recording artist, composer, and vocalist, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He was once a member of the seminal soukous band TPOK Jazz ... * Youlou Mabiala * Mose Fan Fan * Wuta Mayi * TPOK Jazz * List of African musicians References Democratic Republic of the Congo musicians TPOK Jazz members Democratic Republic of the Congo guitarists {{DRCongo-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladda Decca
''Ladda decca'' is a species of butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ... in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Subspecies *''Ladda decca decca'' - Ecuador *''Ladda decca doppa'' Evans, 1955 - Peru References Butterflies described in 1955 Lepidoptera of Ecuador Lepidoptera of Peru Hesperiidae of South America Taxa named by William Harry Evans {{Hesperiidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; , ), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, formerly known as Dacca, is the capital city, capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the list of largest cities, largest and list of cities proper by population density, most densely populated cities in the world with a density of about 34,000 citizens per square kilometers within a total area of approximately 300 square kilometers. Dhaka is a megacity, and has a population of 10.2 million residents as of 2024, and a population of over 23.9 million residents in Greater Dhaka, Dhaka Metropolitan Area. It is widely considered to be the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world. Dhaka is an important cultural, economic, and scientific hub of Eastern South Asia, as well as a major list of largest cities in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member countries, Muslim-majority city. Dhaka ranks list of cities by GDP, third in South Asia and 39th in the worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decca Sports Ground
Decca Sports Ground is a cricket ground in Tolworth, London (formerly Surrey). The first recorded professional match on the ground was in 1973, when Surrey played Northamptonshire in a List-A match in the 1973 John Player League as Surrey used a few one-off grounds from 1972 to 1974. Decca sports club disbanded on the collapse of Decca Radar. The company's rugby union team Racal Decca RFC of Tolworth continues and uses this ground once a year. References External linksDecca Sports Groundon CricketArchiveon Cricinfo ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a Sports journalism, sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including Liveblogging, liveblogs and sco ... Cricket grounds in London Surrey County Cricket Club grounds Sports venues in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames Sports Ground {{London-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decca Navigator System
The Decca Navigator System was a hyperbolic navigation, hyperbolic radio navigation system that allowed ships and aircraft to determine their position by using radio signals from a dedicated system of static radio transmitters. The system used phase comparison between pairs of low frequency signals between 70 and 129 kilohertz, kHz, as opposed to pulse timing systems like Gee (navigation), Gee and LORAN. This made it much easier to design receivers using 1940s electronics, and operation was simplified by giving a direct readout of Decca coordinates without the complexity of a cathode-ray tube and highly skilled operator. The system was developed by Decca Radar, Decca in the UK. It was first deployed by the Royal Navy during World War II for the vital task of clearing the minefields to enable the D-Day landings. The Allied forces needed an accurate system not known to the Germans and thus free of jamming. After the war, it came off the secret list and was commercially deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Letters Of Jessica Mitford
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Decca
Marie Decca was the stage name of Mary Smith ( Johnston; after first marriage, Chrisman; after second marriage, Smith; 1859-unknown), an American lyric soprano operatic singer. She became known as the "Jenny Lind of America". Loomis (1898) described her voice as having the remarkable range of three octaves, reaching to the phenomenal pitch of A natural in alt, while Willard & Livermore (1893) described her as a soprano of flexible and remarkable range, reaching F natural, with exquisite tone and strength. Her stage name was rendered as her veritable cognomen was Johnston, but Johnston and Italian don't mix well. So her music teacher made her sing a piece beginning ''d, e, c, c, a'', and that "deccarated" her with a mellifluous name. Early life and education Mary Sanders Johnston was born in Georgetown, Ohio. She was the only daughter of Judge Sanders Walker Johnston and Amanda Malvina Hamer, of Washington, D.C., and a granddaughter of General Thomas L. Hamer, who served in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decca Gold
Decca Gold is a United States–based record label focusing on classical repertoire. It falls under the umbrella of Verve Label Group, owned by Universal Music Group. The label has a new roster of classical artists and partnerships, and was inspired by the historic Decca Gold Label Series established in 1956 that featured artists such as Andrés Segovia, Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Arrau and Dave Brubeck. The label's first album, Emerson String Quartet's ''Chaconnes and Fantasias: Music of Britten and Purcell'', was released on April 21, 2017. Decca Gold partnered with the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition to release recordings of the Gold, Silver and Bronze winners. That album reached No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Traditional Chart. Although the group's primary focus is on Western classical music, it also has subsidiaries dealing with jazz and musical theater. The main Decca label also issues some pop and country releases. Universal Music Classical *Decca Classics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Decca
Grace Decca (born Ndom'a Deccah Grace on 23 September 1966) is a Cameroonian singer and producer from Douala, the country's economic capital. She is the younger sister of Ben Decca, a well-known Makossa singer, and she worked alongside him and other musicians like Jean Jacques Goldman before establishing her own career in 1989 with the album Besoin d'amour.. Her five other Makossa albums are ''Le Duo D.K'' (1992), ''Doï La Mulema'' (1993), ''Appelle-moi Princesse'' (1998), and ''Donne-moi un peu d'amour'' (2001). She returned to the Cameroonian music scene in 2014 with a gospel album, ''Mouna''. She has also started her own label, GNS Productions. Early life and family Born in Cameroon, in the city of Douala, Decca is the sixth child in a family of eleven children. Her father was an automobile expert and her mother a teacher. With four famous artists including her elder brother Ben, her younger sister Dora and her younger brother Isaac, her family is well known on the Camero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decca Aitkenhead
Jessica "Decca" Aitkenhead (born 1971) is an English journalist, writer and broadcaster. Early life and education Aitkenhead's family lived in Wiltshire when she was born; she has three older brothers. Her father was a teacher in Bristol before becoming a builder after the family moved to the country. Her mother was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer and died when Aitkenhead was nine. Many years later, Aitkenhead discovered that her mother had killed herself. Aitkenhead studied Politics and Modern History at the University of Manchester, where she worked for the ''Manchester Evening News'' as a columnist and feature writer."Decca Aitkenhead, the Monday interviewer for G2, the Guardian" Student media awards, 2012, ''The Guardian''. After moving to Londo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
