RCA Victor Argentina S.A.

Argentinian subsidiary of Radio Corporation of America. Operated the labels Victor and RCA Victor. Legally renamed from RCA Victor Argentina, Inc. around jan. 1941 Renamed again to RCA Victor Argentina S.A.I.C. between march or april. 1950. Latest known #cat is 60-1916 perforation (master) date: 1950-02-02 Important: Victor is replaced with RCA Victor circa #cat 60-1300. Any RCA Victor record with a previous #cat is a reissue. Important: Due to printing asset oversight or reuse, the legal suffix S.A. returned to use for early 60s black label RCA Victor (ex.) and RCA Candem (ex.) records. Which was fixed somewhere in 1965/66. In this period credits may be contradicting between covers and labels, and logotyped RCA Candem labels release in the same years (comparison). Use RCA Victor Argentina S.A.I.C. in such cases. Important: Perforation (Recording) date of songs found online do not represent the release date. Information on early Tango recordings has been compiled in multiple books and it's availability online often leads to misinformation. From the point of recording the tracks may be pressed and released as little as a one or two months later, delayed, shelved permanently or assembled ecletically in 78RPM records years after. While the studio of Victor is unknown and the label does not use matrix numbers, Victor releases follow an orderly catalogue number with little room for misinterpretation. However the perforation year will not always align with the release year. Recordings may be: 1. Released (on average) within two months, depending on pressing & distribution related factors. 2. Released with delay some months or years later. These delays are clearly noticeable due to asyncronic label design that doesn't fit the inmediate period recorded. 3. Arranged with tracks from other recording sessions and released later. Easy to notice due to asyncronic label design and mismatched peforation dates. 4. Shelved permanently and never released on 78RPM, they usually appear on 60s EP/LP compilations or CD collections many decades later. This is admittedly more common on Odeon recordings. Label designs on chronological order: From an RCA Victor Argentina, Inc. black label and golden print (latest known date 1941-01) (ex. 1) 1941-1947/05 - beige / off-black label and golden print; semi-circle encasing company name (earliest known date 1941-01) (ex. 1) - 3XXXX #cat scheme is dropped (earliest known date 1943-02 (ex. 1) - On 1946 recording location starts appearing on all releases (date somewhere in 1946-11) (ex. 1) 1947/05-1950 - Re-design: beige / off-black label and golden print; Victor gets replaced with RCA Victor and circle with RCA logo at bottom (earliest possible date 1947/05) (ex. 1) - SADAIC starts appearing on original compositions in 1948 (earliest possible date: 1948/02) (ex. 1) - General re-fit of the design. "His Master's Voice" logo is shrunk, fonts are finer, Industria Argentina is moved from center to below RCA logo (earliest possible date 1949/12) (ex. 1) - Latest known design: 1950-03 (ex. 1 - ex. 2 (68-00XX green label)) Catalogue Logic RCA Victor Argentina S.A. #cat follows a sequential scheme arranged by genre and place of origin: It's continued from Victor Argentina, Inc and rooted on the original Victor scheme. YYXXX where YY is determined by origin and genre. 1YXXX - European Recordings 2YXXX - USA Recordings 3YXXX - Broadly Argentinian Recordings with some foreign assigments 14XXX - Red Seal Classical 22XXX - Jazz & Ragtime 24XXX, 25XXX & 26XXX - Popular Music 29XXX - Popular Music 30XXX - Spanish speaking foreign Folk 32XXX - Guitar Folk & Tango // Some foreign recordings 37XXX, 38XXX & 39XXX - Dance-Hall, Popular Music & Orquestrated Tango - 39XXX runs roughly 1940-1943/02(approx) After 1943/02 approx #cat is reworked - Earliest known number little after 43/04 YY-XXXX where YY is determined by origin and genre. 1Y-XXXX - (Presumably) European Recordings 2Y-XXXX - USA recordings 6Y-XXXX - Broadly Argentinian recordings with dedicated numbering to foreign Spanish speaking and broadly foreign 8Y-XXXX - Brazil recordings 60-XXXX - General Argentinian, Orchestra Tango, Guitar Folk & Tango - Runs 1943/02 to 1950/03(approx) ; discontinued in favour of 63 and 68 62-XXXX - Foreign Spanish Speaking Folk & Popular Music 63-XXXX - Orchestra Tango, Popular Music, Folk & broadly foreign music - 68-XXXX - 68-01XX - Popular Music & Orchestra Tango with some foreign music - Runs on 1950; last S.A. #cat After the shift to S.A.I.C. the #cat loses cohesion and by the turn of the 50s and dissappears into 1957, the year the LP format is introduced.