RCA Camden was a budget record label of RCA Victor, created by 1953 to reissue recordings from earlier 78-RPM releases. The label was named after Camden, New Jersey, original home to the Victor Talking Machine Company, later RCA Victor. Early RCA Camden reissues were mostly of historic classical and popular recordings from the extensive Victor Red Seal and RCA Victor catalog. The long play albums originally sold for $1.98 retail and consisted of strictly monaural recordings, mostly drawn from 78-rpm masters. RCA Victor originally reissued its older classical symphonic recordings on the Camden label using the real names of the orchestras involved. But soon, to avoid competing with recent recordings by the same orchestras, a series of pseudonyms were used, drawn primarily from the names of hotels in nearby Philadelphia. Here is a partial listing of the real orchestras and their pseudonyms: • BBC Symphony Orchestra - Thames Symphony Orchestra • Boston Pops Orchestra - Festival Concert Orchestra • Boston Symphony Orchestra - Centennial Symphony Orchestra • Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Century Symphony Orchestra • Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra - Star Symphony Orchestra • Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra - Sussex Symphony Orchestra • London Philharmonic Orchestra - Stratford Symphony Orchestra • London Symphony Orchestra - Jewel Symphony Orchestra • Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra - Marlborough Symphony Orchestra • National Symphony Orchestra - Globe Symphony Orchestra • Philadelphia Orchestra - Warwick Symphony Orchestra • Paris Conservatory Orchestra - Seine Symphony Orchestra • RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra - Regent Symphony Orchestra or Golden Symphony Orchestra • Henri Rene and his Orchestra - Cosmopolitan Orchestra • San Francisco Symphony Orchestra - World Wide Symphony • Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra - Savoy Symphony or Schuyler Symphony Orchestra • Toronto Symphony Orchestra - Dominion Symphony Orchestra • Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - Danube Symphony Orchestra • Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra - Cromwell Symphony Orchestra During the early- to mid-1970s, as the fame of another RCA artist, Dolly Parton, grew, the label reissued much of her earlier RCA Victor material in a series of budget compilations to capitalize on her more recent success. The Camden label continued into the compact disc era and was still active in Canada and the UK and other countries until at least the early 2000s. (Rondo DB)

Parent label	Sony Music
Labels
Wikipedia	RCA_Camden
Country	United States of America
Started	1953