Editing Cast recording (section)

===RCA Victor===
[[RCA Victor Records|RCA Victor]] entered the cast album field in 1947 with two hits and a miss: ''[[Brigadoon (musical)|Brigadoon]]'', ''[[High Button Shoes]]'', and Rodgers & Hammerstein's ''[[Allegro (musical)|Allegro]]''.  ''Brigadoon'' was a big seller and remains in print on CD today. ''High Button Shoes'' was a hit show but the album did not do well. RCA's budget label, Camden, reissued it on LP in 1958 and Victor re-released it in 1965. At that time they also did the first LP transfer of ''Allegro''.

As the LP era dawned, Victor competed with Columbia for cast album rights. Their first LP release was Irving Berlin's ''[[Call Me Madam]]'' but because the star Ethel Merman was under contract to Decca, she was replaced on Victor's album by Dinah Shore. The album was a failure and was out of print until Red Seal reissued it in 1977.  Victor did better with ''[[Paint Your Wagon (musical)|Paint Your Wagon]]'', and ''[[Damn Yankees]]'', but had their share of flops: ''[[Seventeen (musical)|Seventeen]]'', ''[[Make a Wish (musical)|Make a Wish]]'', ''[[Hazel Flagg]]'', and ''[[Pipe Dream (musical)|Pipe Dream]]'', along with minor hits ''[[Me and Juliet]]'', ''[[Happy Hunting (musical)|Happy Hunting]]'', ''[[New Girl in Town]]'', ''[[Jamaica (musical)|Jamaica]]'', ''[[Redhead (musical)|Redhead]]'', ''[[Take Me Along]]'', ''[[Do Re Mi (musical)|Do Re Mi]]'', ''[[Wildcat (musical)|Wildcat]]'', and ''[[Milk and Honey (musical)|Milk and Honey]]''.

In the 1960s, Victor did better with the Tony Award winners ''[[How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (musical)|How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying]]'', ''[[Hello, Dolly! (musical)|Hello, Dolly!]]'', and ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]''.  They hit the top of the charts with ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]'' in 1968. During this time it also released five of the cast albums from the [[Music Theatre of Lincoln Center]] revivals, ''[[The Merry Widow]]'' with Patrice Munsel, ''[[Show Boat]]'' with [[Barbara Cook]], [[Constance Towers]], [[Stephen Douglass]], [[David Wayne]], and [[William Warfield]], ''[[Kismet (musical)|Kismet]]'' with [[Alfred Drake]], ''[[Annie Get Your Gun (musical)|Annie Get Your Gun]]'' with [[Ethel Merman]], ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]'' with [[John Raitt]], and ''[[The King and I]]'' with [[Rise Stevens]] and [[Darren McGavin]].

In 1976, [[Thomas Z. Shepard]] left Columbia Records for RCA's Classical division and under his guidance RCA Red Seal eclipsed Columbia as the dominant label for cast albums. Shepard recorded Sondheim's scores for ''[[Pacific Overtures]]'', ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street|Sweeney Todd]]'', ''[[Sunday in the Park With George]]'', and ''[[Merrily We Roll Along (musical)|Merrily We Roll Along]]'', the 1977 Broadway revival recording of ''[[The King and I]]'', as well as the hits ''[[Ain't Misbehavin' (musical)|Ain't Misbehavin']]'', ''[[42nd Street (musical)|42nd Street]]'', and ''[[La Cage aux Folles (musical)|La Cage aux Folles]]''.

In 1985, Shepard staged an all-star concert to make a complete recording of Sondheim's ''[[Follies]]''. When pre-production costs escalated, label president Jose Menendez wanted to cancel the recording. Shepard held his ground and won the battle. The 2-LP set was a bestseller and made profit within a month of release. Early in 1986 Shepard resigned and went to MCA.

With the rise of compact discs in the late 1980s, RCA was bought out by BMG. At this time Bill Rosenfield used RCA Victor to re-release the label's vast catalogue of show albums on CD and to record new shows including: ''[[Into The Woods]]'', ''[[Jerome Robbins' Broadway]]'', ''[[Grand Hotel (musical)|Grand Hotel]]'', ''[[Kiss of the Spider Woman (musical)|Kiss of the Spider Woman]]'', ''[[Titanic (musical)|Titanic]]'', ''[[Steel Pier (musical)|Steel Pier]]'', ''[[Ragtime (musical)|Ragtime]]'', ''[[Fosse (musical)|Fosse]]'', ''[[The Full Monty (musical)|The Full Monty]]'',  ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]'', ''[[Urinetown]]'', and ''[[Avenue Q]]''. During this time RCA Victor also released the cast recordings for the Broadway revivals of ''[[Anything Goes]]'' (1987), ''[[Guys and Dolls (musical)|Guys and Dolls]]'' (1992), ''[[Chicago (musical)|Chicago]]'' (1996), ''[[Candide (musical)|Candide]]'' (1997), ''[[Cabaret (musical)|Cabaret]]'' (1998), ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' (1998), ''[[You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown]]'' (1999), and ''[[Man of La Mancha]]'' (2002).

Many of the older, more obscure titles were deleted in 1999–2000 but the catalogue remains active. The merger between Sony and BMG in 2004 has resulted in a new label called Masterworks Broadway and now that Sony has taken over the entire operation they have started allowing outside companies such as DRG to re-release many of the rarer cast albums from the combined Columbia and RCA Victor catalogues.