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Member	Item		Review/Comment
danceband91 11th Jun 2024		78 RPM The Rounders - Rio Rita / Sweetheart, We Need Each Other	The Rounders is here a pseudonym for Harry Reser's band with vocalist Scrappy Lambert (mx 8985-2 recorded 30 Aug 1929) La Palina Broadcasters is here a pseudonym for Fred Rich's band with vocalist Smith Ballew (mx 9009-2 recorded late Aug 1929) Source: Brian Rust's American Dance Band Discography
danceband91 28th May 2024		78 RPM Harry Bidgood And His Broadcasters - Persian Rosebud / Gonna Get A Girl	Added better quality label images. Side A recorded 21 Dec 1927, vocalist Cavan O'Connor Side B recorded 30 Dec 1927, vocalist Ramon Newton
danceband91 28th May 2024		78 RPM Original Havana Band - My Angel / Because My Baby Don't Mean "Maybe" Now	Added better quality images. Vocalist on both sides is Ramon Newton.
danceband91 1st May 2024		78 RPM Brooklyn Broadcasters - Happy Days Are Here Again / The Man From The South	Some copies of this apparently contain a different recording on the A side - the same tune but by Len Fillis & His Hawaiian Orchestra with vocal by Al Bowlly (mx 1718-2). My copy however contains the California Ramblers version matching the matrix number (3857). There also appears to be a third version of the A side on some copies - a non-vocal recording by Cecil & Leslie Norman's studio band (see here).
danceband91 27th Feb 2024		78 RPM Boston Promenade Orchestra - Ballet Egyptien	Although the catalogue number for this might suggest a mid-30s release, the main HMV B series did not appear to use the 7000s. These instead seem to have been reserved for automatic couplings, although from what date onwards I do not know. There were likely to have been few of these, since the B series did not include many classical recordings of length. The matrix numbers for this record (D9-RB-1685 and D9-RB-1673) indicate that it was recorded in 1949 (from the D9 prefix). It was reviewed in the March 1951 issue of The Gramophone and listed under the new records for that month. It was released solely as an auto coupled set along with B-7031 (which contains Parts 2 & 3 of the ballet). I suggest March 1951 is therefore used for the release date.
danceband91 13th Feb 2024		78 RPM Al Jolson - Someone Else May Be There While I'm Gone / When The Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along	This was reviewed in the December 1948 issue of The Gramophone, so I suggest the date is changed to that, agreeing with the Missing Charts book (which does indeed have errors, but this is not one of them!). [Thanks, reference added and date corrected. Mod.] Brunswick seem to have made a habit of releasing records out of catalogue order, and especially so from 1948-1949. Records with cat nos. from 04100 to 04237 seem to have been pre-allocated to artists in batches (e.g. 04108-04137 are all Bing Crosby records), which were then gradually released between Oct '48 and Aug '49. This ran in parallel with the standard releases (which were roughly in numerical order from 03945-04099). This confusion continues to the end of 1949, when a 'special' Brunswick release of 86 records was provided to dealers, these filling in the gaps in the subsequent releases from 04282 to roughly 04400. The Gramophone speculates that this was due to contractual obligations to the American Decca company.
danceband91 14th Oct 2023		78 RPM Raymond Dance Band - When Do We Dance? / That Certain Feeling	Pseudonym for Stan Greening's band Both sides recorded 24 Aug 1926
danceband91 27th Aug 2023		78 RPM Sydney Raymond And His Commanders - Dreaming / Wanderer	According to Rust & Forbes British Dance Band Discography, 'The Fifteen Crimson Dominoes' is here a pseudonym for Tommy Kinsman & His Band.
danceband91 27th Aug 2023		78 RPM The Midnight Minstrels - On With The Show	Pseudonym for Debroy Somers band.