sentences:  ", also from Decca Records, released in 1943, the 1955 album configuration has been continually in-print longer than any other album in the history of the United States.After the introduction of the LP by Columbia Records in 1948, its competitors in the music industry began switching over to the new format.Decca reissued the eight song "Merry Christmas" album in the form of a 10-inch LP in 1949, catalogue Decca DL-5019 with its standard brown label.