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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Klepsie ● 31st Oct 2013		78 RPM Freddie Bell And The Bell Boys - Giddy-Up-A Ding Dong / I Said It And I'm Glad	Mercury were distributed by Pye (Nixa) at that time, and Pye were late into the 45rpm stakes (though not so late as Philips) -- first 45rpm July 1957 (though that may be the date of the 78 release as the next ones aren't till November, which would fit with the Mercury dates) If you really want it on UK 45rpm, Old Gold did it...
Klepsie ● 19th Oct 2013		78 RPM Humphrey Lyttelton - Melancholy Blues / The Thin Red Line	Label needs differentiating from the subsequent London Jazz sub-label of (Decca) London. As the notes say, this was Humphrey Lyttelton's short-lived label prior to his contract with Parlophone.
Klepsie ● 19th Oct 2013		78 RPM Rev. J. M. Gates - Need Of Prayer / Death's Black Train Is Coming	I think Square should be the label name and that "Race Records" is a descriptor rather than a label name. It was normal practice in those days for record companies to use that term for records targeted at that ethnic community.
Klepsie ● 18th Oct 2013		78 RPM Dave Barry With Sara Berner - Out Of This World With Flying Saucers (Part One) / Out Of This World With Flying Saucers (Part Two)	Not the Miami Dave Barry, former member of the Federal Duck (no matter what the YouTube description claims -- he would have been aged 9 at the time -- though the thought of him making a break-in record is not without appeal.)
Klepsie ● 13th Oct 2013		78 RPM Mr. Gervase Elwes - Absent, Yet Present / To Daisies	Oddly, "Nipper" is in colour on the A side but monochrome on the B side (the monochrome version being the older label which was replaced by the colour one circa Sept 1919 according to this page -- which may help date this pressing.)
Klepsie ● 13th Oct 2013		78 RPM The Band Of H.M. Coldstream Guards - O Sole Mio / The Rosary	Although the labels thus far uploaded look like a mid-1920s repressing..
Klepsie ● 13th Oct 2013		78 RPM Reginald Foort - Overture "Poet And Peasant" -- Part 1 / Overture "Poet And Peasant" -- Part 2	Biographical page for Reginald Foort here.
Klepsie ● 13th Oct 2013		78 RPM Black Dyke Mills Band - Light Cavalry Overture -- Part 1 / Light Cavalry Overture -- Part 2	First entry to 78rpm for this band, but there will be more; they recorded vast amounts before Paul McCartney was born or thought of, often popular-classical pieces such as this one.
Klepsie ● 13th Oct 2013		78 RPM The Band Of H.M. Coldstream Guards - Down South / Teddy Bears' Picnic	An oddity -- the A side label is 3.25" across while the B side is only 2.75". Apparently the small labels were used to allow for the pressing of a longer track than normal on a 78 (see here).
Klepsie ● 13th Oct 2013		78 RPM Paul Robeson - Dear Old Southland / Nothin'	Some interesting facts about the A side song here; according to that page it was based on the spiritual "Deep River" (which Robeson also recorded, in 1927).
Klepsie ● 12th Oct 2013		78 RPM Billy Cotton - I'll Walk Alone / Rock Of Gibraltar	Release date from here.
Klepsie ● 12th Oct 2013		78 RPM Lee Lawrence - So Ends My Search For A Dream (Addornientarmi Cosi) / Gipsy Lullaby	One of the many British crooners who found themselves out of favour when the rock era dawned. Died aged only 40 in 1961.
Klepsie ● 12th Oct 2013		78 RPM Besses O' The Barn Band - Besses O' The Barn / I Passed By Your Window	Brass band founded in 1818 and still going strong today (see here). Dear Sir, is this a record?
Klepsie ● 12th Oct 2013		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful) / Silent Night, Holy Night	The chart hit must have been a belated one; the CT tax code means this copy is 1950 at the latest. It was probably one of those records that sold by the cartload every Christmas, like Slade some decades later... (Of course the only charts prior to '52 were sheet music, not recordings)
Klepsie ● 12th Oct 2013		78 RPM The Five Smith Brothers - The Shoemaker's Serenade / When It's Evening	Added date from here
Klepsie ● 12th Oct 2013		78 RPM Joyce Frazer - I Went To Your Wedding / Moon Above Malaya	Date from this listing, which shows that no less than ten versions of the A side, including Patti Page's US #1 version (on Oriole), were released by UK record labels in October and November 1952 (though the tax stamp shows this copy was still in dealer stock as of April 1953). This high level of competition may explain why none of them hit the newly-created pop charts.
Klepsie ● 11th Oct 2013		78 RPM The Five Smith Brothers - The Shoemaker's Serenade / When It's Evening	Circa 1947-48 (LT tax code, A side centre)
Klepsie ● 11th Oct 2013		78 RPM The Five Smith Brothers - Back To Donegal / In Dear Old Glasgow Toon (Hearts Of Glasgow)	Given their choice of songs you'd expect them to be Irish or Scots, but they were in fact Geordies. Date circa 1947-48 (LT tax code, side B centre).
Klepsie ● 11th Oct 2013		78 RPM Al Jolson - My Mammy / Sonny Boy	Added label scans (1947-48 pressings) for what is probably a pairing of his two best known songs. A side from "The Jolson Story" (1946); B side from "The Singing Fool" (1928).
Klepsie ● 11th Oct 2013		78 RPM Al Jolson - Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody / California, Here I Come	Added older pressings with LT tax code (1947-8).
Klepsie ● 11th Oct 2013		78 RPM Al Jolson - Avalon / Anniversary Song	A side had been a hit for Jolson as far back as 1920, though the matrix numbers suggest this must be a re-recording as the B side is definitely from 1946, both sides coming from the film "The Jolson Story" released that year. Speaking of which, I suspect the Brunswick discography needs some attention, as the records either side of this one in catalogue order are both dated as 1943; the credit to the aforementioned movie shows that this one cannot predate 1946...
Klepsie ● 10th Oct 2013		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Careless Hands / Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend)	Added clean label scans.
Klepsie ● 10th Oct 2013		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Lullaby (Cradle Song) / Ave Maria	A side had been in the US charts for Crosby as early as 1941, but for whatever reason it looks as if the UK didn't get it till after the war?
Klepsie ● 10th Oct 2013		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Out Of This World / June Comes Around Every Year	Both songs from "Out of this World" (a 1945 movie starring Veronica Lake).
Klepsie ● 10th Oct 2013		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Ridin' Down The Canyon / San Fernando Valley	A side from "Tumbling Tumbleweeds", a 1935 Gene Autry film. TT tax code (1943-46) signified 100% purchase tax! and we complain about VAT...
Klepsie ● 10th Oct 2013		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Love In Bloom / Straight From The Shoulder (Right From The Heart)	Added label scans. Not sure if these are the originals or a later pressing.
Klepsie ● 10th Oct 2013		78 RPM H. Charrington - Piano By H. Charrington, Pueblo 1952	Since I now own a deck that will play 78rpms I gave this curio a spin. Turns out there are two tracks each side, all unaccompanied piano; A1 sounds classical, the other three sound popular, but I recognise none of them. The pianist was a pretty decent player.
Klepsie ● 5th Oct 2013		78 RPM Ozzie Nelson - I'm Looking For A Guy Who Plays Alto And Baritone And Doubles On A Clarinet And Wears A Size 37 Suit / Make Believe Danceland	One letter shorter now I've corrected it :p
Klepsie ● 4th Oct 2013		78 RPM Cliff Richard And The Shadows - Twenty Flight Rock / Please Don't Tease	B side was "Please Don't Tease" according to Cliff's overseas discography here, so have added it.
Klepsie ● 4th Oct 2013		78 RPM Donn Reynolds And The Texans - Swing Low Sweet Chariot / Ramona	And it's perhaps worth noting that these came from 45cat originally; this was one of the very last Pye issues to come out on 78rpm but not 45.

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