Originally a fan-funded project from ArtistShare, Two Shade makes its major-label jump to Decca Records next week.

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Decca, at a young age, had instructed her bank, Drummonds, to set up a Running Away fund, which it duly did.

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The two would become one of the most popular duos in gospel music throughout the 1940s, and recorded several hit sides with Decca.

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Decca and other companies built the first portable record players for the trenches of the Great War and created an explosive domestic market.

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Of getting lost at night in the snow near Wolverhampton as he drove the band to their first big audition at Decca, which they failed.

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Although now recording for the Mariinsky and LSO Live Labels, he has recorded extensively for Decca (Universal Classics), and appears on the Philips and Deutsche Grammophon labels.

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It is on Decca Classics, and features singers Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Galina Vishnevskaya (who was invited to participate in the actual premiere but was prevented from doing so by Soviet officials), along with the London Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of the composer.

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