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Member	Item		Review/Comment
DeweyGill SUBS 30th Jul 2024		78 RPM Joie Lichter's Strand Symphonists - After I Said I'm Sorry / Slippery Elm	Cropped han enderman’s images
DeweyGill SUBS 30th Jul 2024		78 RPM S. S. Leviathan Orchestra - Nightingale / Sunrise And You	1931 handbill for a Milwaukee engagement shows this band was still active in the ‘30’s
DeweyGill SUBS 30th Jul 2024		78 RPM Coon-Sanders Orchestra - We Love Us / Talk Of The Town	Added 1931 handbill for the Wisconsin Roof
DeweyGill SUBS 30th Jul 2024		78 RPM Troy Floyd And His Plaza Hotel Orch - Shadowland Blues (Part 1) / Shadowland Blues (Part 2)	Added 1931 handbill for The Modernistic Ballroom In Milwaukee
DeweyGill SUBS 30th Jul 2024		78 RPM "Wild Bill" Davison And His Commodores - Clarinet Marmalade / Original Dixieland One-Step	Leaving Chicago after the Frank Teschmaker incident in March of 1932, Wild Bill found an accepting city In Milwaukee for the next decade. Around 1943, he was lured to NYC by Gene Schroeder, a Madison native who had been jamming around Milwaukee with Bill, but had left for NYC a bit earlier. Handbill for a local engagement in 1933. Five miles out in the sticks, Gesell’s Grove was a good place during prohibition to get your groove on. Word has it the local Sheriff was on the take.
DeweyGill SUBS 30th Jul 2024		78 RPM Joie Lichter's Strand Symphonists - After I Said I'm Sorry / Slippery Elm	Added small handbill for a Milwaukee appearance in 1926 at Playland Ballroom
DeweyGill SUBS 30th Jul 2024		78 RPM Chick Webb - On The Sunny Side Of The Street / Blue Minor	Taft Jordan doing his best Louis Armstrong imitation on vocal and trumpet. Louis had recorded Sunny Side in Paris a month earlier, but that issue probably wasn’t available easily in the U.S.. He would finally record it in the States during a 1937 Decca session
DeweyGill SUBS 30th Jul 2024		78 RPM The Washingtonians - Take It Easy / Mississippi Mud	Both Mx 2946 A and B were issued, above copy just happens to be the B take
DeweyGill SUBS 30th Jul 2024		78 RPM Chick Webb - Just A Simple Melody / Holiday In Harlem	“Holiday” is not a Christmas song per se, but the lyrics could be applied. The release timing would almost make it a given.
DeweyGill SUBS 29th Jul 2024		78 RPM Jane Jarvis - Stardust / Post Chords	Born in Indiana, Jarvis worked In Milwaukee post war as a staff musician at WTMJ, later hosting her own TV program “Jivin’ With Jarvis.” When the Braves moved to Milwaukee in 1953, she was hired as the stadium organist for eight years before accepting a job in NYC as staff arranger and composer for Muzak. This job spanned the next two decades. She also became the Shea Stadium organist for the Mets starting in 1964. Highly regarded as a fine pianist and jazz historian, she later worked the jazz club circuit with Milt Hinton and other jazz luminaries in New York City.
DeweyGill SUBS 29th Jul 2024		78 RPM Swing And Sway With Sammy Kaye - Here You Are / Johnny Doughboy Found A Rose In Ireland	Added images. First time a female singer appeared on a Kaye disc, and it was a one time shot. Elaine Beatty was the the winner of a talent contest held by the Cincinnati Coin-Op Association. The prize was a Kaye recording date. Blessed with good material. great pipes and excellent phrasing, she pulls the date off nicely. This didn’t seem to bud an expected career, though, and she was really not heard from again. Petrillo’s ban locking musicians out of recording studios after July 31 probably didn’t help.
DeweyGill SUBS 29th Jul 2024		78 RPM Harold Menning - Avalon Town / I'll Get By	Forgot I had this variant. The newspaper clipping (Appleton Post-Crecent) suggests the vocalist is Elmo Tanner
DeweyGill SUBS 29th Jul 2024		78 RPM Charles Mitchell - Jersey Side Jive / The Sun Has Gone Down On Our Love	Oklahoma steel guitar player Mitchell backed Jimmie Davis on most of his Decca releases co-writing “ You Are My Sunshine” The Jefferson Hotel was one of the top hotels in Dallas. Built in 1917, it was demolished by the city in 1974 as part of a revitalization project. It remains a parking lot. The photo was taken during demolition
DeweyGill SUBS 29th Jul 2024		78 RPM Curly Hicks And His Taproom Boys - Russian Rag / Scotch Twist	Artist appears to be based in Atlanta. There seems to be little info on the net about this group, despite having numerous releases
DeweyGill SUBS 29th Jul 2024		78 RPM Hoosier Hot Shots - The Poor Little Country Maid (Or The Streets Of Cairo) / Okay Baby	Also Vocalion 05809 When The Stevens Hotel opened in 1927, it was considered the World’s largest hotel. Described as a city within a city, it sported a large movie theatre, a ballroom, a 27 chair barber shop, a bowling alley, a pharmacy, a candy store and many other amenities. Despite being a big attraction, it struggled to turn a profit, the depression magnifying its woes. The insurance company magnates the Stevens family tried some unethical practices to keep it afloat, but the city seized the hotel shortly after these sessions, selling it to the US Army. During WW2, it served as housing for military recruits. Conrad Hilton purchased the property in 1945, refurbished it, and it still stands in Chicago as one of that city’s fine historic hotels, still under the Hilton banner
DeweyGill SUBS 28th Jul 2024		78 RPM Victor Military Band - At Uncle Tom's Cabin Door / Tango Land	Extremely loud and clear for an acoustic recording. Better than many companies early electrics
DeweyGill SUBS 28th Jul 2024		78 RPM Leroy Carr - The New How Long How Long Blues / Love Hides All Faults	Straightened out the repress image. It was driving me nuts
DeweyGill SUBS 28th Jul 2024		78 RPM Jack Denny - Just Friends / Oh, What A Thrill (To Hear It From You)	When I see a session of consecutive matrix numbers spread over two days such as this example, I’ve often wondered if the situation was that the session started at (for example) 10:30 PM and ended at 2:00 AM?
DeweyGill SUBS 28th Jul 2024		78 RPM Jack Denny - Just Friends / Oh, What A Thrill (To Hear It From You)	Alternate source (DAHR) gives a January 8, 1932 recording date. Probably a more reliable source.
DeweyGill SUBS 28th Jul 2024		78 RPM Peter Dawson - Pick The Winner (A Horse Race Game For Parties) / Ring Dem Bells	This appears to be the first release of this Hampton side.
DeweyGill SUBS 28th Jul 2024		78 RPM Hotel Pennsylvania Music - So Sympathetic / Alone With My Dreams	Albin’s band also recorded under fictitious names Frank Auburn, Webster Moore, Louisiana Collegians, Lloyd Keating, Edgewater Beach Orchestra, Rudy Marlowe snd others
DeweyGill SUBS 27th Jul 2024		78 RPM Arthur Godfrey - Slap 'er Down, Agin, Paw / I'd Give A Million Tomorrows (For Just One Yesterday)	Famous Gleason quotes: “Pow! Right in the kisser!” “Bang! Zoom!” “To the moon, Alice!” Oh, and don’t forget CB Savage- Rod Hart
DeweyGill SUBS 26th Jul 2024		78 RPM Arthur Godfrey - Slap 'er Down, Agin, Paw / I'd Give A Million Tomorrows (For Just One Yesterday)	@ edlongus: I have had to eliminate many songs from my playlists as the years have gone by. Any song from the 20’s that uses the term “darkies” of which there are many, like “Mississippi Mud” . People used to take in consideration that these terms were not considered derogatory when the records were made. Other titles are more obvious- “Get Cannibal” -Joe Haymes (mx 73032-1), Tommy Dorsey- If The Man In The Moon Were A Coon” (what were they thinking there? It was 1940 already), Clarence Williams “You’re Bound To Look Like A Monkey When You Get Old” . These do illustrate how far we’ve developed as a society, and I’ve never thought such history should be erased as it serves as a reminder of our cultural development. Even as recent as the 1960’s, we had songs like “Dumb Head” by Ginny Arnell, Jack Jones’ “Wives And Lovers”and plenty of teeners and country records that put women in a subservient role. Others from the ‘50’s like Jimmy McCracklin’s “Get Tough” and Sugarboy Crawford’s ”Watch Her Whip Her” seemed to promote spousal abuse.
DeweyGill SUBS 26th Jul 2024		78 RPM Joan Hager - I Feel Like Cryin' / Teardrops Won't Stop Falling	Joan gets the Patti Page multi- track vocal treatment on the top side. “Vocal by: Joan Hager Joan Hager Joan Hager” Scant information on this singer except that she was based in Nashville during her recording career. Shortly after this release, she was granted a divorce, her husband stating her music career ruined the marriage. They were married In Kentucky sometime in the late 1940’s. I found no death notice or obituary, so there is a chance she is still living. Her daughter died recently at 72, that 2023 obit states she was survived by her mother. Maiden name Bell (?). Joan was a rather prolific songwriter, her songs recorded by Patsy Cline, Hank Snow, others.
DeweyGill SUBS 26th Jul 2024		78 RPM Eddie Heywood - Sunny Sunday / Love For Love	Seems to be hard to find in the 78 format. (not that anyone is really looking)
DeweyGill SUBS 26th Jul 2024		78 RPM Sarah Vaughan - Make Yourself Comfortable / Idle Gossip	Added YW prefix. Sorry to mess everyone up…
DeweyGill SUBS 26th Jul 2024		78 RPM Arthur Godfrey - Slap 'er Down, Agin, Paw / I'd Give A Million Tomorrows (For Just One Yesterday)	Over the 43 years that I’ve hosted a radio show, this was a listener favorite. At least it was for the first few decades. Over the last dozen years or so, I’ve played it much less frequently, being wary of the PC crowd , maybe once a year or two. People were missing the social satire of it. I dug it out again about 18 months ago, as I had a request for it. This time an angry listener complained loudly to the station manager, and in turn I was told to never play it again (and apologize!). No one has a sense of humor any more. Sheesh! Slapped down again.
DeweyGill SUBS 25th Jul 2024		78 RPM Sister Rosetta Tharpe And Marie Knight With The Sam Price Trio - Look Away In The Heavenly Land / Stand The Storm	Both uptempo, Price, piano, presumably Tharpe electric guitar (sounds like her), bass (?) drums, unknown organ added side B
DeweyGill SUBS 24th Jul 2024		78 RPM The Rockers - Down In The Bottom / Why Don't You Believe	Apparently The Rockers vocal group led by Art Lassiter and backed by Ike Turner’s band
DeweyGill SUBS 24th Jul 2024		78 RPM Arthur And Booker - You're Near Me / Heavenly Angel	@ Mike Gann- Not so obscure after all!

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