DeweyGill SUBS 28th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMChecker Box Boys - You're The Cream Of My Coffee / I Never Knew How I Cared For You | Very nice arrangement of Cream Of My Coffee and a well balanced recording
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DeweyGill SUBS 28th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMBen Alley - Call Me Darling (Call Me Sweetheat, Call Me Dear) / Cuban Love Song | Added earlier labels
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DeweyGill SUBS 28th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMIrving Kaufman - There's A Trick In Pickin' A Chick | Some ok guitar pickin’ on side A. Ed Lang?
The flip laments the over saturation of “Crazy Words, Crazy Tunes”. This song, and “The Stein Song” were no doubt an annoyance to some in this era of phono records.
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DeweyGill SUBS 27th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMGus Van - Mindin' My Bus'ness / Promise Me Everything Never Get Anything Blues | Budd’s Music Shop was located in what is now the historic Atrium Building in Lansing. In 1924, it was, like many music shops, next to the primary tenant, the Strand Theatre. As the “talkies” made their introduction in the late 1920’s, music shops reaped the benefits of patrons wanting sheet music and records from the show or movie they just saw. In Milwaukee, my hometown, I’ve found many record shops were located next to theaters and stayed open late to catch the customers. Sometimes the music store and theater had the same owner
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DeweyGill SUBS 27th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMGus Van - Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On / When Yuba Plays The Rumba On The Tuba | Gus Van continues as a solo after his longtime vaudeville partner Joe Schenck died of heart failure in June 1930. (Only 39)
Gus uses his dialectician skills on the top side.
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DeweyGill SUBS 27th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMFred Astaire With Johnny Green - They All Laughed / Slap That Bass | I just came back to ask for a correction. I knew better. Thanks. Gotta stop doing this late at night
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DeweyGill SUBS 26th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMMae West - I Like A Guy What Takes His Time / Easy Rider (I Wonder Where My Easy Rider Has Gone) | Decent jazz backing by a Victor Young group including Manny Klein or Sterling Bose, possibly both Dorseys and Joe Venuti
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DeweyGill SUBS 26th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMBillie Holiday - What Is This Thing Called Love? / Don't Explain | @ Mike Gann-Not sure how I missed it. It was getting quite late…
Juke Jules’ comments from wikipedia are quite interesting. When I played the B side originally, the lyrics seemed so personal, I had to stop the record to see if she had a hand in the lyrics. What a sad tale of the state of her relationship and the acceptance of the unhappiness that would characterize her life.
The song seems to have touched many an artist judging on the amount of remakes of the song.
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DeweyGill SUBS 26th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMMarion Castello - O Sole Mio / Sleep Baby, Sleep | Ahh. Explains it. Didn’t see the Operaphone listing, I know Empire used them. My knowledge on acoustic recordings isn’t that great. DAHR won’t let me access them for some glitch in my phone it seems.
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DeweyGill SUBS 26th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMMarion Castello - O Sole Mio / Sleep Baby, Sleep | Thought this might be an Emerson matrix, but that number seems to be assigned to the Six Brown Brothers.
If this matrix is Emerson, this would date to March or April 1920
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DeweyGill SUBS 26th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMSpike Jones And His City Slickers - Hi Mister! / This Song Is For The Birds | Images added
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DeweyGill SUBS 25th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMGene Krupa - Chickery Chick / Just A Little Fond Affection | Yep. Anita could make nursery rhymes sound hip and groovy
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DeweyGill SUBS 25th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMJohnny Hamp - Mr. Ghost Goes To Town / The Gonna Goo | Hamp trots out a swing band for 1937. Sax man and singer Johnny McAfee is probably the best talent in the bunch, making his way briefly to Eddie Duchin before landing a steady in Tony Pastor’s band.
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DeweyGill SUBS 25th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMElla Fitzgerald - Come On-A My House / Mixed Emotions | Added sample copy set.
Version rocks pretty hard. No Chipmunks here
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DeweyGill SUBS 25th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMThe Happiness Boys (Billy Jones And Ernest Hare) - Giggling Gertie / Must You Wear A Mustache? | Cropped and enlarged han enderman’s images
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DeweyGill SUBS 25th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMThe Happiness Boys (Billy Jones And Ernest Hare) - Giggling Gertie / Must You Wear A Mustache? | Added dealer inventory sleeve review
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DeweyGill SUBS 24th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMHarry’s Melody Men - Just Once Again / What Do We Do On A Dew Dew Dewy Day | I agree, Rust isn’t always accurate. I’ve found many discrepancies and omissions and questionable entries. Rust was, however, able to talk to many bandleaders and sidemen during his research. Granted, you are relying in many cases on their memory which may have lost accuracy over time. Some company ledgers were available to him. I seem to remember reading that when Rust met with Sam Lanin, he found Sam had kept very detailed notes on his many sessions.
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DeweyGill SUBS 24th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMArtie Shaw - Deep Purple / Pastel Blue | Added earlier label set
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DeweyGill SUBS 24th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMBen Pollack - If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) / Because I'm Lonesome | Over the last 40 years, I’ve slowly created a cross reference for these department store labels from the 20’s and all the pseudonyms. It isn’t complete by any means, it is just a self serving list for items I own from this period encompassing several thousand titles. PM me if anyone is stuck on one of these, I may be able to help.
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DeweyGill SUBS 24th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMBen Pollack - If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) / Because I'm Lonesome | Imperial D.O. In this case IS Adrian Schubert’s Orchestra. Recorded June 17, 1930. Also on Banner 0737. Sounds like Scrappy Lambert to me
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DeweyGill SUBS 24th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMThe Melody Twins - (When The Pussywillow Whispers To The Catnip) The Whisper Song / I've Got Something In My Eye (And It's You) | Not much info on this one, outside of an Oriole release not yet posted here is another Cliff Friend composition
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DeweyGill SUBS 24th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMEarl Hines - Rosetta / 'Deed I Do | I’m not sure if this or any of the other discs in this package were available individually. Sometimes they were, sometimes they weren’t. Set includes 39260 through 39263
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DeweyGill SUBS 24th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMChet Mauthe And His Kentucky Aces - Schneider Polka / Jungle Town | B side vocal- Arnel Krenkel
Although a Wisconsin native, Mauthe apparently spent part of his life In Kentucky. He was born and died near Appleton, Wi; so I’m not quite sure where he was living at the time these sides were pressed, most likely by King (220 is the client code?). I seem to recall finding an archived newspaper ad listing of a gig in Wisconsin using this name.
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DeweyGill SUBS 23rd Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMJohnnie Ray - Cry / The Little White Cloud That Cried | Added promo set
Pressed on hard plastic. Unlike Columbia’s paper centered commercial copies, this has no “rumble”
This copy dates back to my Dad’s years in radio and my earliest memories of hearing music. Fortunately for this particular disc, I was not allowed to touch Dad’s collection. (I had my own 45’s that he brought home for me to play on my little RCA 45 player.
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DeweyGill SUBS 23rd Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMHoagy Carmichael - Rotation Blues / Flap Your Elbows, Spin Your Ears, And Fly Away | “Rotation Blues” addresses the mindset of a Korean war soldier
Side 2 with Six Hits And A Miss
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DeweyGill SUBS 22nd Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMHarry’s Melody Men - Just Once Again / What Do We Do On A Dew Dew Dewy Day | My notes didn’t transfer on the upload:
Mx 7367 [Plaza] recorded June 29, 1927 “Harry’s Melody Men” aka Sam Lanin Orchestra
Mx 7381 [Plaza] recorded June 6, 1927 “Sheridan Entertainers” aka Al Lynch’s Orchestra
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DeweyGill SUBS 22nd Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMHarry’s Melody Men - Just Once Again / What Do We Do On A Dew Dew Dewy Day | Rust lists Red Nichols snd the Dorseys in Lanin’s group that day
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DeweyGill SUBS 22nd Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMJo Stafford - Warm All Over / Big D | With Paul Weston and His Music From Hollywood.
I omitted the prefix titles, it makes them confusing. Rosabella, Cleo and Herman were characters in Frank Loesser’s Broadway musical score for “Most Happy Fella.”
In the original production “Warm All Over” is sung by Jo, but not Jo Stafford, it is soprano Jo Sullivan.
The storyline has an older man “Tony” marrying a younger woman “Rosabella” who is played by Jo Sullivan. Ironically, in real life, an older Loesser married the much younger Sullivan in 1959. Loesser was 49, Sullivan just 32.
“Big D” has nice guitar breaks.
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DeweyGill SUBS 22nd Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMGene Vincent And His Blue Caps - Race With The Devil / Gonna Back Up Baby | Like most 78’s issued after the introduction of Hi Fidelity, this one has superior sound quality. I have the 45, the LP, and a remastered digital CD, but nothing comes even close to the “standing in the studio” sound a clean copy of this and some of the other late period Capitol and Columbia 78’s produced. They perfected the media, then killed it off. I wonder if any experimental stereo 78’s were ever made?
I’ve played this over the air (compression and some automatic equalization added of course) and people were still amazed at the purity of the sound, especially on “Gonna Back Up Baby”
BTW, the youtube video below does it no justice.
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DeweyGill SUBS 22nd Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMJo Stafford - Bells Are Ringing / On London Bridge | Added images
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