TELDEC »Telefunken-Decca« Schallplatten GmbH

Also printed as: TELDEC »Telefunken-Decca« Schallplatten-Ges. mbH. or TELDEC »Telefunken-Decca« Schallplatten G.m.b.H. or TELDEC GmbH or TELDEC Schallplatten G.m.b.H (not to be mixed up with TELDEC Schallplatten GmbH). Is a German record company founded in 10.03.1950 as a joint venture between Telefunken AG and Decca Record Co. Ltd. The company also operated two recording/mastering studios (TELDEC-Studio, Hamburg and Teldec-Studio, Berlin) as well as a vinyl manufacturing plant Teldec-Press GmbH in Nortorf, near Kiel. In 1983 the company was renamed to TELDEC Schallplatten GmbH. Apart from releasing records on its own TELDEC label, it also manufactured and distributed records from various other labels: Ahorn (LC 6054) A&M Records (from 1964 to 1966) Big Mouth (LC 5521) Buddah Records (LC 0971) Chic (2) (LC 0405) Decca (LC 0171) Jive (LC 7925) Line Records (from 1979 to 1983) Lollipop Records (from 1978 to 1983) London Records (LC 0253) MCA Records (from 1970 to 1976) Nova (6) (LC 3311) Numero Uno POOL (LC 6339) Reprise Records (from 1965 to 1972) RCA (from 1956 to 1975) RCA Victor (from 1956 to 1975) RCA Red Seal (from 1956 to 1975) Stiff Records (LC 4764) Strand (LC 5830) Sugar Hill Records (LC 6916) Telaeg Records Telefunken (LC 0366) UK Records Vanguard (1960) Warner Bros. Records (from 1960 to 1972)