Recordings, Inc.

Note: Recordings, Inc. records with the "Ram" graphic logo are often incorrectly described as being by "Ram Recordings, Inc.". Even the Library of Congress makes this error. Recording studio and transcription service formerly located at 5505 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California. It was established no later than 1934 with Elmer Avery, a long-time director of Canada-based The Compo Company Ltd. and recording engineer and factory director for Brunswick, as president. The very first Decca recording session by Bing Crosby was done here in 1934, as well as Judy Garland's first Hollywood demo recording in 1935. Its location near major movie studios such as Paramount, R.K.O. and Twentieth Century-Fox, and the National Broadcasting Company was ideal for its business of producing soundtracks and promo records for the movie industry and transcription records for the radio industry. When Recordings, Inc. went out of business in 1940, Decca took over the building at 5505 Melrose Avenue, installed all new equipment,and became Decca Studios, Hollywood.