In seven days a Giant dies:
http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/090204-NL-decca.html


Being a prog collector foremost, this was an important 70s label for me.
It released prog on the Deram label and (much rarer Deram-Nova subsidary, lasting but a year.)

Man the Good labels are all going by the wayside!! That is Sad!

RIP Decca!

Some fav Deccas:
BREAD, LOVE AND DREAMS -Amarylis

END -Introspection

ROLLING STONES -Their Satanic Majesties Request

SPRIGUNS -Time will pass

T 2 -It will all work out in boomland

MOVE - same



Fav Derams:

AARDVARK - same

EGG - same


KHAN -Space Shanty


MOODIES - in Search of the Lost Chord


PROCOL HAREM - same





Canadian press Derams that are quite difficult to snag:

WEB - Fully Interlocking (only ever found one copy - and that was in Detroit)

PROCOL HAREM - Same (just try to get mono/stereo in orig textured cover WITH POSTER)

CHIM KOTHARI -Sound of Sitar

WORLD OF OZ - same


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Your favorites???

...fav Decca...

...Fav Deram...

...fav Canadian Deram:

Your favorites?


I'll confine my picks to psych & prog titles.

Deram:

David Bowie - David Bowie [1967]
Bulldog Breed - Made In England [1969]
Coast Road Drive - Delicious & Refreshing [1974]
Giles, Giles & Fripp - The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles, Giles & Fripp [1968]
Igginbottom - Igginbottom's Wrench [1969]
Mellow Candle - Swaddling Songs [1972]
Room - Pre-Flight [1970]
Zakarrias - Zakarrias [1971]

Canadian Deram:

Dionysos - Same [1976]

Decca:

Artwoods - Art Gallery [1966]
Black Cat Bones - Barbed Wire Sandwich [1970]
Bread, Love & Dreams - The Strange Tale Of Captain Shannon & The Hunchback From Gigha [1970]
Caravan - If I Could Do it All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You [1970]
Help - Second Coming [1971]
Human Beast - Volume One [1970]
Leafhound - Growers of Mushroom [1971]
Matthews Southern Comfort - Later That Same Year [1971]
Q65 - Revolution [1966]
Sauterelles - View To Heaven [1968]
Spriguns - Revel Weird And Wild [1976]
V/A - Extremes: Excerpts From The Soundtrack [1972]

Yeah. How could I forget Room-Preflight or Caravan -Land of Grey & Pink for top 5.

Also the incredible Camel - Snow Goose!


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Whats that Coast Road Five????
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Didnt know that the Dutch Q65 were on Decca.

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Matthews Southern Comfort & Bowie = psych????? (Sure are not Prog)

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Mellow Candle probably the rarest of the lot.

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I had the Dionysos- same (red & blue & white cover) on Canadian press. Got rid. Now I regret it. (Still, it was nowhere as good as the first two titles by them.