http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/update-universal-fire-burns-music-history/
Universal Music, which is a completely separate company and owned by
Vivendi (which owns 20% of NBC Universal), rents space in the huge video
vault housed on the studio lot. But one source tells me that, as a
consequence, inside the video vault that was billowing thick black smoke
were 1000's of original Decca, MCA, ABC recording masters from the last
century including a wide range of music from Bing Crosby and the Andrew
Sisters to Judy Garland and The Carpenters. "This is a tremendous loss
in music history. A very sad day indeed. It's too bad they saved the
videos that they have backups on instead of the master recordings in
which they do not, although they may not have had a choice since the
fire had already engulfed much of the music side of the vault," a source
just told me. Universal Studios can't confirm what has been damaged or
destroyed music-wise at this point because it doesn't yet know what
exactly was housed in the storage rented to Universal Music.
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