Word: rca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memorialized on a less moderate scale. This is the sort of occasion that is best honored simply, with fond memories and the playing of some choice sides. But when a record company has product to sell and an estate has merchandise to move, the date suddenly gets writ large. RCA has just released four compilations of Presley material with scrupulous "audio restoration": The Top Ten Hits, The Number One Hits and, most crucially, The Complete Sun Sessions, recorded at the start of his career, and The Memphis Record, recorded in 1969, when all the anger and antic experimentation of rock...
Porter says companies either chose the wrong businesses or overspent for them. He gives low marks to CBS, which had shed 87% of the businesses it acquired in the 30-year period; and RCA, now a unit of General Electric, which had dropped 80%. Why do so many executives diversify? Porter shrugs, saying, "They're drawn like moths to the flame...
Deutsche Grammophon, RCA, CBS, London, Philips, L'Oiseau-Lyre and Angel are among the labels whose main line recordings you can trust for sound and disc quality. You should expect to pay in the neighborhood of $8 for a top-quality main line record or tape that is not on sale...
Most of these companies also have bargain lines that generally have worse sound and are made with lower quality raw materials. Among the best lower-priced lines--great ways to get to know music--are RCA's Gold Seal (as opposed to its high-priced Red Seal), CBS's Great performances Series, and its Masterworks Portrait series. These often cost in the neighborhood of $5 and include generous quantities of music...
...home Kemp relaxes in his book-lined den with football trophies and framed family photographs crowding the mantle. A giant black satellite dish ! connected to his 20-inch RCA television allows him to watch most of the games of his eldest son Jeff, a backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. He hates the campaign travel, hates being separated from his family...