WARNING: The RCA Camden
Label was established in 1957 as a value-for-money "budget"
compilation release. The label was purposely designed for sale at very low
"affordable" prices. While it was claimed that the quality of these
releases were not being compromised, the facts clearly show this not to be
the case. Common sense clearly suggests that it's impossible ( pardon the
pun ) to maintain the same engineering standards for a budget release
label such as RCA Camden as compared with the premium RCA Victor label. In
1957 this may have been reasonably possible but with the advent of stereo
recordings, and higher technical standards, this claim became increasingly
difficult to maintain. By 1960 the number of tracks contained within the
average Camden album was reduced from 12 to 10 and for stereo Camden
releases it wasn't uncommon for some tracks to be reprocessed from
monaural masters to simulate stereo. In general, Camden releases are
remastered from second generation sources and that continues to be the
case even today within compact disc compilations. While some RCA Camden
compilations can be very good, as were a number of Perry's original Camden
albums, it is an unusual occurrence.
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