Why Does EMI and RCA Have Same Logo?

Apparently it is more than just those two labels - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipper

Phil A said:

Apparently it is more than just those two labels - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipper

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Wow! Very interesting read .... thanks for sharing that.

Thanks for the link. I remember when buying EMI classical records imported to the US, that there were always stickers (with the Odeon label) on all the pictures of the Nipper which were on the covers and labels of the records. Of course, this was to avoid the conflict with the RCA Victor copyright in the US of the Little Nipper. Sometimes the stickers on the labels were black and covered over the entire label of the record, while others, issued a bit later, just covered the picture of the dog. Similarly in the UK, the RCA records issued there (for a long time pressed by Decca with many of the best recordings engineered by Decca) had only the name RCA Victor and no dog.

There were similar issues with the Decca name, which started in the UK and continues to this date. Before WWII Decca started a subsidiary in the US, also called Decca, but was forced to sell it during the war. Since they no longer owned the Decca name in the US, they started a label called London which they used for their usually British pressed records which were issued as Decca in the UK. A similar story was for the Columbia label, which was owned by Columbia records in the US, but EMI in the UK. However, for both Decca and Columbia there were no dogs involved.

Larry

Great info Larry. As usual, you are a wealth of historic information related to Decca and other labels! Thx


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