Editing RCA Records (section)

===Other notable events===
[[File:Rachmaninoff.jpg|thumb|right|[[Sergei Rachmaninoff]]'s studio master recordings were believed destroyed in the demolition of RCA Victor's Camden warehouse.]]
In the early 1920s, Victor was slow about getting deeply involved in recording and marketing black jazz and vocal blues. By the mid-to-late 1920s, Victor had signed [[Jelly Roll Morton]], [[Bennie Moten]], [[Duke Ellington]] and other black bands, and was becoming very competitive with Columbia and Brunswick, even starting their own V-38000 "Hot Dance" series that was marketed to all Victor dealers. They also had a V-38500 "race" ([[race records]]) series, a 23000 'hot dance' continuation of the V-38000 series, as well as a 23200 'Race' series with blues, gospel and some hard jazz. However, throughout the 1930s, RCA Victor's involvement in jazz and blues slowed down and by the time of the musicians' strike and the end of the war, Victor was neglecting the R&B (race) scene, which is one of the reasons so many independent companies sprang up so successfully.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.elvispresleymuseum.com/RCA_Victor.html |title=RCA Victor |work=elvispresleymuseum |access-date=May 2, 2017 |archive-date=June 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611122601/http://www.elvispresleymuseum.com/RCA_Victor.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In the early 1960s, RCA Victor demolished its [[Camden, New Jersey|Camden]] warehouse. This warehouse reportedly held four floors' worth of Victor's  catalog dating back to 1902 and vault masters (most of them were pre-tape wax and metal discs), test pressings, lacquer discs, matrix ledgers, and rehearsal recordings. The company retained some of the more important masters (such as those by [[Enrico Caruso]], [[Arturo Toscanini]], [[George Gershwin]],
[[Glenn Miller]], [[Fats Waller]] and [[Jimmie Rodgers]]; why the masters of [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]] apparently were not saved is a mystery), but it is uncertain just how many others were saved or lost. A few days before the demolition took place, some collectors from the US and Europe were allowed to go through the warehouse and salvage whatever they could carry with them for their personal collections. Soon afterward, record collectors and RCA Victor officials watched from a nearby bridge as the warehouse was dynamited, with many studio masters still intact in the building. The remnants were bulldozed into the Delaware River and a pier was built on top of them. In 1973, to celebrate the centenary of Rachmaninoff's birth, RCA planned to reissue his complete recordings on LP; according to [[R. Peter Munves]], director of [[RCA Red Seal]] at that time, RCA was forced to obtain copies of certain records from collectors because the RCA archives were incomplete, as documented in an article in  ''[[Time Magazine|Time]]'' magazine.